Show lda D dips IP s spurs and angles I 1 in august the miami copper company of 0 arizona produced pounds ot ol copper the may day of tintic gintic utah will resume zinc shipments the middle of this month the interstate mine in the idaho coeur calenes dA lenes is shipping 45 tons of zinc ore daily the independence mill near halley hailey idaho has been started under direction of george allen alien better than feet was done in the snake creek tunnel in park city district utah in august the jumbo extension ceased shipments from goldfield nevada for a week while rc repairing pairing the main shaft the lower mammoth shipped a car of zinc ore from tintic gintic district utah on the eighth the first in several weeks the sandstorm and kendall dumps at goldfield nevada are being sampled and plans are being laid to develop the properties the american sisters mines company is preparing to resume work on its properties on columbia mountain clear creek county colorado A proposition is on foot to develop the snowshoe property in the idaho coeur daifenes dAI enes through the no 4 tunnel of the snowstorm the humboldt mine in the sneffels els district of colorado has made arrangements to have its ore treated in the smuggler union mill at pandora J A brown has secured a lease and bond on the iowa copper property in park city district utah and has put two men at work on development the suit of the butte ely mining company to prevent the merger with copper mines company at ely nevada has been overruled by the court the snake creek tunnel up in the park city section of utah is in feet and progress is being made at the rate of three to four hundred feet a month the amaryllis and compromise Non mining claims in american fork district utah have been conveyed to the cleveland trust company cleveland ohio it is reported from seward alaska that a new placer gold field has been discovered at the head of the Nel china river A stampede is on from knik alaska I 1 dr T 0 duckworth and Q C S are vigorously prosecuting development on the lynden property at pioche nevada they will drive a tunnel to connect with the shaft the raven mine at butte montana is to be closed down orders having been received by manager george A packard to pull the pumps and cease work charles chares R hancock reports that the tunnel on the reeds peak property in the cot ton woods near salt lake is now in feet and expects to get the contact soon the property of the lucania tunnel mines company at georgetown colorado has come into possession of samuel stern burger of philadelphia under sheriffs sale A strike has been made on the 1500 foot level of the old ontario at park city utah there being twelve feet of ore in the face on that level and the showing improving steadily lou merriman superintendent of the yankee cons mine of tintic gintic district plans to sink a from the 2000 foot level of the mine to open a cave into which the shaft broke L J tjernagel of storey city iowa and P F D of springfield illinois have taken a bond on the esmeralda group at rico colorado A milling plant has been contracted for the united mine workers called a strike against the colorado fuel iron companas comp anys colorado mines on the reports differ as to the number of men who walked out mccornick company bankers of salt lake have finished the renovation of their quarters and now have a beautiful plant their savings department will be opened on the first of october chris bernhard has announced from the frederick mine on tiffany mountain near conconully Conco nully washington that he has made an excellent strike he has been following the lead for feet dell overton has announced that he has struck oil on his ranch five miles from weiser idaho at a depth of feet and that a flow of three or four barrels a day has been encountered the grand central mining company of tintic gintic utah paid a dividend of five cents a share on september tle tie amount paid was the total to that date being the pine canyon coal mining company operating near helper utah is now outputting from to tons daily and 1 it t is expected that the regular dally daily tonnage will soon be at least 1000 tons the ely consolidated has made settlements on a car of ore from the morgan mine of the baltimore group in elko county nevada on a basis of 33 per cent copper ounces of silver and per pel cent lead the company received 2165 a ton net another car is going f orward forward which is expected to contain more copper and silver and little lead the station on the 1700 of the silver king consolidated at park city utah has been completed and the three compartment shaft has been timbered five sets below on its way to the 1800 the american radium company has been incorporated at ogden utah with the following officers J 0 roberts president F A dark clark vice president N W icher wood secretary and treasurer the acme mining company has been incorporated corp orated to take over the holdings of the hoosac mining and tunnel company at idaho springs colorado J C sturdevant is to be manager for the company the shamrock mining company of marysvale Marys vale has just shipped twenty eight tons of 35 ore to salt lake this is the fifth car of like grade for the year george F dalton is manager for the company the nay aug mine eleven miles northwest of hailey idaho has been bought by salt lake capitalists and J J baker has been put in charge to inaugurate operations the mine has produced about the temporary injunction secured by john F cowan of salt lake preventing joseph nenzel and associates from disposing of treasury stock in the rochester mines company has been made permanent the argus mining company recently organized to work the old mines at taylor nevada has a churn drill at work prospecting it is planned to install milling facilities later H G mcculloch is in charge of operations 9 the mchatton mine which has been worked through the victor at mammoth utah entered the producing lists the middle of the month by sending out a car ot of ore morris anderson and M scott have a lease on the property thomas F keeley of the keeley brewing company of chicago and james ivers of the ivers ryan coal company of salt lake lahe have purchased acres of coal lands six miles south of sunnyside Sunny side utah this deposit of coking coal is to be developed at once to tap the ore bodies at a depth of 2000 feet and to provide facilities for developing adjoining properties the monitor mining company will run a long lower tunnel in its property in the mullan district of idaho according to announcement made from froin the spokane office the micawber Mic awber mining company capitalized at witti spokane as its principal place of business has filed its articles of incorporation with the secretary of state at olympia washington the incorporators are charles F krum arthur A booth a mining engineer and jerome L drumheller largely interested in mining properties ani and coal lands in washington british columbia and alberta all are spokane residents the company owns the micawber Mic awber mine in the republic camp lying east and adjoining the black tail and the last chance the property practically is undeveloped and the owners have made no definite plans but there is no doubt that the mine will be worked as soon as arrangements can be made the pacific gold dredging company has launched the hull of its new boat at mammoth bar on the middle fork of the american river california this is a seven cubic foot dredge capable of handling cubic yards of gravel daily machinery is now being installed J A mcalwee a denver contractor who is doing much development work for park city mines expects to have the work at the silver king consolidated completed complete d by tho the tenth of october the shaft will be 1800 feet deep and a sump and station will be cut at this level it is reported that the rocher de boule hazleton british columbia of which J E cowan of salt lake is general manager is to be reopened soon and a large amount of development work done A compressor is to be put in this fall to be run by gasoline power the eight roasters asters ro of the mines operating company at park city utah are in operation era tion and the plant is running at full capacity the company is said to have made a nice profit from its treatment of the ontario filling in august and should do better for september the phelps dodge companies operating in arizona made an excellent record in august they produced pounds of copper of which the copper queen contributed tri buted pounds the moctezuma zurna pounds detroit copper pounds and custom ores the reindeer queen mining company has been incorporated at wallace idaho to take over the properties of the copper queen and the reindeer directors are A P mcrae mullan I 1 E B crawford mullan S D lemieux black dear bear P P weber kellogg and J C glahe of burke vice president A K tiernan expects to be shipping ore soon from the revenue consolidated property west of newhouse utah the new tunnel on the tasso claim struck a body of ore at feet which is in places twelve to fifteen feet wide silver and lead are the principal values in stockton district utah ahr three mines are shipping from dry canyon these are the hidden treasure mona and eureka ophir the dry canyon consolidated and chicago and brooklyn are working the hidden treasure is getting enough high grade zinc ore to ship it to middle western spelter makers the recent cloudburst which caused much damage and some loss of life at goldfield nevada did little damage to the mines some of the water reaching the lower levels of the consolidated and some damaged the railroad and interrupted the power by united effort the town has come through a very trying experience A M wilson has leased some of his dumps of ore in the paradox valley colorado to charles morris who sub leased them to the standard chemical company of pittsburg mr wilson has now secured an injunction preventing the company taking all the ore as the original lease provided only for shipping ore the south utah mines smelter corporation po ration operating at newhouse utah produced pounds of copper in august and made a slight profit since the resumption of operations in april the company has produced pounds of copper the ore averages per cent copper and a recovery of 65 per cent is made electric power will begin to operate mines at the chewelah Chew elah camp washington 40 miles north of spokane in a few days the transmission line from colville washington to the united copper mine a distance of 28 miles now being completed conrad of spokane is president and general manager of the company it is proposed to construct a reservoir for the snake creek tunnel proposition in the park city section of utah to provide a more uniform supply of water for contemplated hydroelectric hydro electric installations the daly judge mining company of which G W lambourne of salt lake is general iman manager has a large interest in the proposition H W C anderson publicity man for the new hazleton district mines owners m british columbia recently visited the rocher de boule mine at hazleton he says it is already a mine capable of large production and promises with further development to prove as big a bonanza as any yet brought to light in this province the encountered feet south of the large on the 1200 foot level of the victoria in tintic gintic district utah continues to indicate that its discovery is of great importance to this property A small bunch of silver lead ore has been found on the 1000 foot level but not much importance is attached to it since the ore here is bunchy mail matter is being held up at rochester and lovelock nevada owing to the failure of the post office authorities to provide means of carrying it between these points rochester has had trouble with mail delivery since the camp was founded although the business men under guidance of the commercial club raised funds for a private route for some time A new steam shovel has arrived at ely nevada to be put at work on the ora claim of the consolidated Copp ermines company which is now being operated by tho the nevada con for the former company as outlined in past issues this oro ore is a very desirable one as it runs about the same in copper as the nevada con ore but gives a higher ex 1 traction in the mill the Copp ermines company still has two churn drills at work on development but has ceased underground mining three new stearn steam shovels have been ordered so this company will soon be among the steam shovel operators i A W johnson formerly with the american smelting smelling Sm elting refining company of salt lake well known in nevada and arizona was electrocuted on the alth at the gold road mine in arizona while trying to release a miner who had come in contact with a live wire although johnson was killed when he grasped the miner the miner himself escaped uninjured the new mill of the aurora con at aurora nevada is making good progress work has been hin hindered derea somewhat and made more difficult by the frequent cloudbursts the freight being carried to the mill site requires head of horses and three auto trucks two thirds of the cement work is done four large large boarding houses are up and other buildings are completed T H greenway and thomas R tate have incorporated their mining property near valley washington 40 miles north ot of spokane under the name of the admiral mining company with T H greenway as president thomas R tate vice president mrs T R tate treasurer and charles barsth secretary considerable development work has been done on the property which shows up a body of copper silver bearing ore on the surface the ore placer company has started operations erat ions at rich bar on the Simil kameen river near oroville washington dredging for gold the company is newly organized anji and proposes to work over the old placer diggings on the river which were the scene of a stampede afif fifty ty years ago at one time it is said men worked the banks and bars of the stream near Gr oroville oville sluicing for gold the region is north of spokane and near the canadian boundary I 1 hirschfeld of san francisco has secured a bond and lease on the victorine mine in kingston canyon twenty five miles south of austin nevada the victorine is an old producer of gold silver ores and was operated for many years by an english syndicate which purchased the mine from anthony phelps stokes through john W mackaye the english company built an elaborate mill near the mouth of kingston canyon which was operated by water power th tha utah leid lead and copper company has beer organized with a capit capitalization of Sl 1 shares and a six per ce cent ht coave biblo bond issue of and will issue one share of stock for four of the old bingham copper company and in bonds bearing interest from september 11 I 1 1912 for each of assessment paid and script for fractional amounts A bonus of one share will be given for each 1 ti l assessment paid the property vf of the company is located at binham bingham utah articles of incorporation of the surprise valley railroad company have been filed with the secretary of state of utah it is the announced attention of the company to build a railroad from reynard on the western pacific northwest to the surprise valley in northwestern nevada and northeastern california utah members of the company are EL L chas L rood H B lamb I H 1 morian W ar hunsberger geo W and edw W johnson capital stock of the company is placed at andrew raub and son arthur of spokane departed this week for the methow mathow valley in north central washington to perform for the seventeenth year their assessment work on two copper claims they are called the russia and japan group solely by their own efforts they have driven a tunnel feet and have encountered a face of copper ore five by seven feet in size the ore is said to average 17 per cent copper the property is fifty miles 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