Show around the state slate milford news D C reese of milford who some time ago secured a lease on the copper mountain mine from samuel newhouse the owner is now starting work out there with two or three men this means renewed activity on this beaver lake property park record conditions continue exceptionally good at the new york Bon bonanza ariza notwithstanding standing that the stock remains stationery ti onery ore is being mined from the and levels and several cars are being raised to the surface another shipment is already for market and monday next teams will commence hauling to the sampler it surely looks very encouraging for the new york richfield sun it is reported from marysvale Marys vale that prospectors on gold mountain have discovered vanadium float in deer creek and have traced it to the copper butte group of mining claims where a ledge of the valuable metal is in plain view vanadium is a metal that is largely used for toughening touch ening and hardening the armor plate on war vessels and the output is very limited commanding a high price if it exists in considerable quantities in the copper butte it will mean a fortunate to its owners boston commercial the boston office of the majestic mines lines company reports receipt from the international smelting smelling Sm elting company of settlement sheet with check for another car of ore from the harrington hick ory mine the smelting smelling sm elting company settled on a basis of per cent lead ounces silver 31 of I 1 per cent copper and 78 per cent iron this car contained a little better than fifty tons and settlement was for 2121 per ton another car is on the way to the smelter the west drift manager moffat states is in ore showing assay values of 27 11 ounces silver and 89 per cent lead and is now in sixty seven feet deaver beaver press the stockholders of the oak leaf mining company held their meeting as scheduled last monday and voted to ti increase the capital stock of the company to shares this will give additional into the treasury for development purposes and with this amount judiciously expended the oak leaf should open out into one of the biggest producers and shippers in beaver county it is a pleasure to note this action of the stockholders as it denotes their faith in the property most of the new stock will be held by the present share holders the meeting was unanimous in the adoption of the proposition to double the stock vernal express reports from the green river gold dredging company camps dont agree the last drill hole put down this week almost in front of the steel bridge across green river and sunk twenty feet to bed rock according to one account did not reveal gold values in pay quantity in fact the dredging prospectors are discouraged on the other hand george billings who spent the first of the week in jensen told the express that while he was talking with the drillers drillars dr illers one of them was panning a wash from the hole do you find anything worth while billings asked for answer the man swished the pan around on a tilt so the questioner could see there on the bottom of the pan was a full ten inch streak of colors billings says the twinkle in eye spells anything but discouragement |