Show in the alta cottonwoods Cotton woods the knocking of the alta cottonwood district situated about twenty miles southeast of salt lake city that was so freely indulged in a few months ago seems to be a thing of the past it is true that an all eastern journal devoted to the doings of curb brokers occasionally shows its teeth and snarls in a disagreeable way evidently because its owners were caught napping by the rise in cottonwood stocks but no one gives it any attention for the figures of production cannot be denied this district which was shipping probably less tha tal 9 an 0 tons per month a year ago sent 2014 tons toils of ore to the smelters shelters sm elters during ing AU augusta 9 u sr over the alta salt lake railroad 2987 tons toils in september and well above tons during october when it is considered that this ore is all high grade and that the figures could be practically doubled with adequate hauling facilities the sudden silence of the hammer brigade is easily understood the shipping problem seems in a fair way to be solved by the starting of work by the alta cottonwood transportation company of which mention has been made in these columns walter K president of the company has recently taken several parties of stockholders over the proposed route and all have expressed approval of the plans as outlined mr states that twenty men have been put to work grading at wasatch the present terminus of the alta salt lake railroad from which place the new venture is to follow the old tramway grade to a point near the present postoffice post office at alta a distance of about eight miles it is said by those backing the undertaking that the road can be finished and in operation within thirty days what promises to be one of the great strikes of the camp of alta is that made by leasers leaders in the albion workings this was made recently in virgin ground and at a point that will give about feet of backs to the surface R S witcher and J IV hennessy who made the find have sent three carloads of high grade to the smelter totaling about tons and are now engaged in opening the new body in such a way that the ore can call be removed in a more systematic manner it is thought that when this work is finished a carload a day can be extracted the ore shipped so far has been taken from a chamber twelve by sixteen by seven feet the body showing twelve feet wide the extent of the strike has not been determined beyond this good progress is reported by the management of the albion in the detour drift being run around the bad ground left by the rush of water when the water course was cut last month this drift is now out over eighty feet from the main tunnel and is following a strong fissure three feet wide with some good ore showing in the face work has been resumed in the caved area and after necessary timbering a raise is to be started on the big ore shoot the flow of water has receded to about gal gallons I 1 ons per minute and no longer causes trouble the sells mining company A 0 jacob son manager started shipping the past nat week by sending out a car canoed oad that r waa wa saved during development operations C con oil side sid rabie erable work vv ork is being done at this prop pron erty but the management will neither at firm nor deny reported strikes it is stated on oil good authority that a body of carbonate ore carrying vagues around 40 is being de I 1 in the northwest crosscut that a raise in the ore has been extended thirty f feet and a drift arif t run nineteen f feet beet all in the ore A great leal deal of interest is manifested in the report among mining men the opened up some time ago in the south becia property george watson manager promises to be one of the greatest bodies ever found in the alta alt camp the large amount of work al already readi done has not exposed its extremities no nor has the shape of the body been deter determined nain it is in the wedge vein on the dwyer tunnel level A drift has been run to the southward a distance of feet all in the same sam high grade ore and an incline raise feet in length is still in the ore the body ha has been crosscut a distance of sixty feet feel there is no doubt that the south hecla is to rank among the great mines of the fa old camp the great ore shoot of the cardiff mining milling company on the big cottonwood side is still responding to develop m 1 ment about tons per day going to the smelters shelters sm elters it is planned to continue this rate of production throughout the winter the ore oie is bringing an income of about 4 per day less mining expenses the cardiff management will probably pay a christmas dividend of 50 cents a S share hare athe the maxfield property near the mouth of big cottonwood canyon has shipped nearly worth of ore during the past month manager fred Vahren camp states that the production will amount to a month within a short time the ore is averaging around 80 and the company has over feet of backs to the tunnel level on the body from which the present shipments are j coming the long drain and transportation J tunnel which is contemplated by the management argement will be started in the spring J A maxfield president of the logger mining company adjoining the Maxfie li states that assays essays on the ore recently antly e en ell countered in that property give values run ning from 24 to 95 per ton the man tunnel is now in a distance of feet the tal pay streak averages about eighteen indis inches in width and tile the vein is heavily minera mineralized nera throughout A six inch stringer was recently enC in the tunnel of the alta development I 1 by 7 controlled company in the alta section tile the walker interests and colonel M moor of salt lake the main tunnel being driven by the cot the head I 1 conwood king mining company at of big cottonwood canyon is now in OR 1000 feet superintendent L T tj I 1 be CU states that a prominent fissure will point feet beyond the present face p at 81 a a of the ahe tunnel i the reeds peak mining company own jug ground near the cardiff reports its tun liel pi now low in more than feet and showing 1 heavy ay 1111 in the face it is expected vested to c cut ut the birthday fissure at any S round of shots now when important developments are predicted park city men own and control the property W D lewis jg is president henry welsh vice president and dr W J bardsley secretary and treasurer general manager norman W haire of it the michigan utah mining company said re bently that arrangements for the new tunnel project from the edge of the alta townsite have reached such a stage that work will probably be started immediately the old tunnel on the site is now in a distance of feet and it is estimated that 1500 feet of new work will be required to get under the known ore bodies in the city rocks and grizzly workings the tarbet tunnel which is to open the ore bodies of the pittsburg consolidated mines company at depth has been started and good progress is reported the pittsburg property is situated on the american fork canyon side of the divide but the new tunnel is going in from the little cottonwood side A good wagon road has been constructed to the tunnel site buildings have been erected and the work will be prosecuted during the winter months |