Show around the state A new zinc strike is reported from near hyrum cache county twenty five tons shipped from the surface brought returns of 42 per cent zinc two shifts are pushing work on the crosscut tunnel which the new quincy mining company of park city is driving from the raise above the level the camps camp of ophir and dry canyon in tooele thoele county are making new records in the way of ore shipments during august ophir sent out carloads of ore and dry canyon shipped thirty one the ophir hill consolidated mining alining company of ophir has tons of concentrates cen stored at the mill the company is shipping only enough to fill contracts waiting for a better price for copper and zinc four salt lakers howell tibby johnson and wade who are working the eu eurska roka ophir mine at ophir under lease report the shipment of another carload of silver lead ore settled for on a basis of about 27 per ton the iron blossom property in the gintic tintic district is averaging about twenty five of ore weekly the company is opening up new ground in the north end of the mine where the is being put down from the to the level the ore bodies in the croft mining company Q property located in the lincoln district beaver county are becoming stronger according to general manager R R tanner three feet of galena ore is now showing in the bottom of the foot incline shaft the st clair lease on the lion hill ground at ophir was in the market on the 9 oth with a carload of ore giving returns of ounces silver and 40 per cent lead since last december the lease has shipped three fourths of which has been settled for since may not including alt carload of last week it is reported that another potash plant will be erected in the vicinity of marysvale Marys vale on the farm of J W kelly the utah potash company has lumber on the ground for the plant and has completed surveys for a tramway from its mine a distance of about ten miles the company expects to have plant arid and tram in operation early in the year charles A peet of salt lake consulting engineer of the montana bingham company at bingham states that the deep tunnel on that property is now in a distance of feet arid and has just cut another vein showing about two feet of and gray copper the face depth of the tunnel on the dip of the vein is estimated at 2 feet the M P gold mining lining milling com the west dip camp pany op operating aerating on floyd district will soon start work this company owns the omaha daisy helvetia and snowstorm groups of claims together with mills and pipelines also the mercur power plant all on the west dip A murphy is president and george dern and prof L S austin directors N T porter of salt lake director of the mount nebo marble company recently returned from new york where he closed a contract with the tompkin kiel company of that city whereby that concern is to handle the product of the utah quarries this is the largest marble house in the united states and the deal just closed will mean much to the utah company the recent strike in the pacific property in american fork canyon is improving steadily this ore was struck while running a raise from the tunnel level for ventilation state senator john if wootton of provo and H C johnson secretary of the pacific mining company are endeavoring to have the united states geological people make a survey of the american fork district work has been started on the ground of the earl eagle mining company recently incorporated in lehi with C W earl of lehi president J F friel of salt lake vice president and W E evans secretary the company owns the clipper and silver king groups on silver glance hill in american fork canyon and has a bond on the adjoining steele group of eight claims two shifts of four men have been put to work |