Show frank mason of reno nevada of the western ore purchasing company was in salt lake the first of the week the silver island consolidated has been formed with a capital of by B L cutler and associates of salt lake A M perkins is president J E yenny secretary and treasurer work on the carrie mack macii claim in the silver island district utah will be pushed the company has a tunnel in feet and will continue this some ore has already been encountered which runs as high as a ton advices advises received this week at the spokane office of the granby smelting smelling Sm elting company from W A Wil williams ilams superintendent in charge of construction at hidden creek british columbia state that the entire mechanical ch anical equipment including the smelter hydroelectric hydro electric power plant machine shop and railway system is completed and began operations january 15 it will require not less than two weeks to get the machinery adjusted and superintendent william predicts that permanent operations will not be inaugurated before february 1 construction at hidden creek begun nearly two years ago represents an expenditure of approximately and the enterprise has been financed from granby earnings aside from the disbursed in dividends in 1913 |