Show thos fergusson of salt lake has obtained a lease on the old dumps at the raymond ino nd ely mine at pioche nevada said to contain tons of zinc bearing ore much of which will be of shipping grade after careful sorting mr air fergusson will scon begin work with a force of experienced ore sorters and expects to begin shipments in the near future the new york news letter says A utah mining engineer who is very familiar with the utah consolidated property informs us that on the foot level of that property the management has drifted for over feet on the strike of ore and when crosscut the ore body was sixty feet wide the ore is of lower grade in both copper and precious metal contents than in the upper levels averaging about three per cent copper but it is a large and valuable ore body and none of this ore has ever been counted in the reserves he also informs us that the resignation of general manager risque was due primarily to disagreement with the new york management who refused to permit mr risque sufficient ledwa leeway y in development expense to properly open the property 0 the neva mining company operating in the south fork of big cottonwood canyon salt lake county utah and adjoining the baby mckee and cardiff mines is reported to have cut a five foot vein in its tunnel workings which carries excellent values in silver and lead with some gold present |