Show around the state eureka reporter hans J hassell and joseph bush of mammoth this week secured a lease upon the southend sout hend of the old colony property which adjoins the black jack it said that there is some ore exposed in the south end of this ground and that the lessees lessels will either handle this ore from some of the old workings or sink a new shaft A number of local people quite heavily interested in the old colony the lease of hassell and bush will run for one year eureka reporter visitors to the beek beck tunnel mine during the week state that there has been an improvement in the showing is the face of the main drift which is being pushed out toward the south the uncle sam people have already followed the ore body opened near the line by the beek beck tunnel for quite a distance and while the present indications lead to the belief that this ore is making out toward the west the beck tunnel management expects to eventually open this ore from the south drift eureka reporter hank bates and lyman dodge who have a lease upon the old property at silver city this week sent out a twenty ton shipment of copper ore the ore was of a very nice grade but owing to the fact that the deposit from which it was taken is a small one the lessees lessels will not realize a very large profit from their work they are now operating in the old workings of the mine at a depth of about feet and have a very good showing of ore the is one of the old time producers of the south end of the district park record encouraging reports continue to come down from the silver king consolidated there is no question in the minds of those who have inspected the property of the future greatness of the mine and that long before the year is out it will be put in among the dividend payers thursday of this week ore hauling was commenced from the mine and from now on two wagons will be kept employed bringing down to the sampler the high grade steel galena ore that is daily being raised to the surface in large quantities A big producer is the king con and from present indications it is going to make future financial history for park city park record H G mcmillan general manager of the daly west properties was in park city wednesday and thursday of this week he spent his time at the mine and inspected the various workings he is highly pleased with the vast bodies of ore already uncovered and the exceedingly promising prospects of uncovering more in the virgin ground now being developed surface water at this time is causing some trouble but not sufficient to impede work to any great extent commencing nien cing this week the capacity of the mill was increased by the installation of more tables etc and the present heavy tonnage will be materially increased the daly west is all right with a future that is filled with promise moab times oil in large quantities was struck at a foot depth in the newhouse well near court house the last of tile the week when the second oil sand was reached it is stated by the dr illers that the well is now capable of producing afif fifty ty barrels of oil a day the illers drillers dr are enthusiastic thusia over the outcome of the well and the field in general and say that with the next sand a gusher will be struck the newhouse company has three standard rigs on the road to the field which will arrive within a short time the rig now being used is a keystone no 5 prospecting machine and was installed simply to test the field the rig has demonstrated beyond a doubt that oil in great amounts exists in tile the field and the company will now start drilling on a large scale |