Show around the state the black jack tintic gintic district is preparing to resume shipments the sheep rock mill with its new cyanide annex has gone into operation in beaver county it is expected that the crown point mining company of tintic gintic district will resume operations in the spring the utah consolidated of bingham has posted a dividend of 1 a share or which is double its regular dividend the tunnel which is being driven to the north in the dragon con at has connected with the old shaft at about feet ir ip depth the cliff mining company has taken a lease on the city rocks mine of the michi gan utah mine at alta and will work the ground above the cleaves tunnel the beaver carbonate property in beaver county has been sold under the sheriffs hammer to foreclose a mortgage held by the horn silver mining company the first shot in the new work being done in the snake creek tunnel near park city struck a large flow of water which the company regards as a valuable asset i from nevada northern points the rates on ore to the salt lake valley plants have been reduced by 1 on 30 ore and by on ore the rate on 25 ore remains at 3 a ton the beaver mines company operating near marysvale Marys vale has 9 ore at a depth of feet and in a distance of feet from the portal of its main tunnel the vein is said to be a large one I 1 william mitchell and john kitt leasing on the may day at tintic gintic recently struck a full face of silver lead ore on the upper tunnel level which will carry about 40 per cent lead and 35 ounces of silver E J and lennie wild report that the wild dutchman property in american fork canyon is looking fine about sacks of excellent ore are piled on the dump to await hauling weather it is expected to net about 60 a ton three feet of first class shipping ore shows in the main drift of the thompson quincy at park city this drift is above the daly west destruction of the daly west surface plant has interfered with maximum production from the quincy the west drift on the 1550 foot level of the silver king consolidated at park city is inore on all sides which will probably run over 50 to the ton developments in this mine are rapidly showing it to have a large amount of first class shipping ore furnace of one copper the international smelting smelling Sm elting refining company at Infer international national has been shut down two now being in commission the stock pile has been pretty well cleaned up and the two furnaces will handle the utah con ore the lead plant is running to full capacity and has a large stock of ore on hand the yankee consolidated of district in sending out its recent assessment notice stated that it had excellent prospects in three directions and would pursue the work with speed the company is attempting to get the old beek beck ore channel near its lines but has more work yet to do to strike the point where it is supposed to be 1 1 the michigan utah recently sent to the united states from its alta mines 37 tons of ore which averaged 65 cents in gold per ton 2576 silver and values in copper of lead 1122 or a total of the company is now employing cloying about twenty five men most of the usual slides in this district have run this year with little damage an auto truck freight service is to be established between wendover on the western pacific and deep creek the latter part of the month according to edward president of the western utah butali transportation company A 6 ton truck with 4 ton trailer has been purchased it is expected to have a passenger service established by the first of june R W katz H C mcdonough H lindberg W D katz and john S R nelson have incorporated the silver wedge mining company to operate in the silver island district seventeen miles northeast of wendover the gethin leroy and silver slipper adjoin the property of the company there are now eight incorporated companies in the district which first started real operations a year ago in the stateline Stat eline district tyrone buel and wicks in doing assessment work on rice mountain property have encountered what they believe to be the jumbo vein not less than to feet deep they followed a fissure which was cut by the vein showing free gold at the intersection in the ophir property dillard lancaster has made one shipment and has another ready the value in the ophir ore is mainly silver the iron blossom of tintic gintic district has issued its 1913 report which shows a production of tons of a gross value I 1 of 2476 p per er ton and a net of 1562 per ton from no 1 workings and tons of a gross value of per ton and a net of 2365 per ton from the no 3 workings the ore reserve is about the same as at the end of 1912 but considerable low grade has been left to await the successful issue of the experiments at the knight mill the tunnel of the santaquin San king min ing company at santaquin San is now in feet feet of which is ore assays essays from the face show 51 per cent lead with some gold and silver and about 9 per cent iron drifts in the bedding planes cut by I 1 the tunnel have shown good ore one of J them following it for feet the corni pany has signed a contract with the utah sl industrial transportation company which will haul its ore for 1 a ton over a 5 V 2 f mile monorail mono rail road to be ready for opera tion july 1 the report of the chief consolidated of tintic gintic district for the year ending de cember 31 1913 shows a larger tonnage of ore handled and lower grade with a disappointing drop in profits resulting in a i reduction in the third semiannual semi annual dividend but the mine is expected to respond to future development in a satisfactory manner there were shipped in 1913 51 tons of ore yielding arter aner the payment of smelting smelling sm elting transportation alad sampling charges net profits were the average gross value of the ore per ton was 1629 the mines of tintic gintic shipped cars or about tons of ore in january mammoth led the list with cars closely followed by the centennial eureka with cars other shipments in cars were as follows chief con 91 iron blossom 68 eagle blue bell 61 grand central 60 gemini 44 victoria 26 gold chain 14 beek beck tunnel 7 may day 7 scranton 6 colorado 6 sharp 5 dragon con 4 lower mammoth 3 Opo hongo 2 bullion beck 2 carisa lease 2 uncle sam 1 godiva 1 showers lease 1 united tintic gintic 1 tesora lease 1 it is expected that the old glencoe mine will be reopened soon and a mill installed a new group of salt lake men having re bently taken over the property the ore is similar to the daly judge and runs about 12 per cent lead and 12 per cent zinc with 11 ounces of silver B S hanauer and J V of the union assay office if W kline of the mountain states telephone telegraph company J E stine of park city B E russell of park city B G call J of garfield A P mayberry superintend ent of the centennial eureka at eureka and A hanauer jr compose the syndic j cate 0 |