Show it is stated that a merger proposition is on between the columbus consolidated and the columbus extension of alta utah the old maxfield mine a few miles up big cottonwood canyon east of murray utah is reported to be in hl a most satis fao tory condition with more good ore showing in its workings than for several years past considerable interest is being manifested I 1 in rl operations at the tintic gintic central I 1 near eureka utah on the foot level in the east drift there is a goodly godaly showing of gray carbonates and the company believes it is in the near neighborhood of a large ore body the utah wyoming consolidated oil company of salt lake whose field of operations erat ions is located in the big horn basin in wyoming has encountered a gas flow at a depth of 1530 feet it is estimated that the flow amounts to cubic feet daily the company will continue to sink with the expectation of soon striking a big oil bearing horizon |