Show in the alta cottonwoods nature often has a string attached to the good things she prepares for forman man when big and little cottonwood canyons were made storehouses for her treasurers treasur ers she attached the string in the form of winter the man or the company shipping ore out of those canyons during the time from now to april generally has a plentiful supply of troubles shipments from there at present are greatly curtailed by the recent storms probably totaling less than half what they were six weeks ago this condition however will be greatly improved with the arrival of cold weather when the snow will pack and freeze solid enough to give the horses something akin to solid footing in the line of developments the sells property now holds the center of the stage general manager A 0 jacobson reports that he is convinced that the strike in the no I 1 raise from the northeast crosscut is the downward extension of the old skipper ore body opened in the early days to a depth of feet and from which a considerable tonnage of high grade silver product was shipped the new ore body has been opened along its strike for a distance of ninety feet it averages ten feet in width and is apparently growing larger ethree raises have been run on it respectively twenty twenty five and thirty five feet and all in ore it is a white silver chloride similar m ir appearance to the high grade silver in other properties in alta mr jacobson reports as says as high as ounces on the ore A considerable tonnage is broken and ship merits are to commence com mence when the conditi condition or of the road permits manager george 1 I watson of the south hecla states that the ore bins are filled at that property and a very large tonnage stored in the mine shipments have been reduced to only two or three carloads per pel week but as soon as transportation condi eions improve sufficiently it is the intention to send out two forty ton carloads daily and to keep up to this figure all winter mr watson says that the mine should enter the dividend class early in the new year mine superintendent sol snyder of the albion recently reported a full face of ore in the raise being sent up on the contact in that property assays essays have not abeen re ported at this writing tout but it looks like a shipping grade the crosscut from the caved area through the big vein formation has passed through sixty feet of good concentrating product good progress is being made with the drift being run toward the martha fissure and interesting developments are looked for soon ray witcher and associates operating a lease on the wellington portion of the albion report steady pro with ore in several places they have recently opened up three feet of galena ore to the south of the point where they made their first big strike the original chimney is ds still holding out and the leasers leaders expect to continue shipping all winter president N W jaire haire I of the michigan utah mining company states that lessees lessels in both the grizzly and city rocks workings of that mine are taking out a good grade of ore there are now about 1000 tons stored awaiting shipment the aerial tram is ds temporarily out of commission A portion of the cable is to be replaced and until this is done the ore will be stored at the mine as broken brikei n from thirty to forty tons are being mined daily by the leasers leaders lea sers encouraging reports are coming from the secret mining company owning ground lying between the albion and pittsburgh A tunnel is being driven in m a westerly direction in line with ore recently discovered by albion leasers leaders lea sers and feet from the albion sidelines this tunnel has now reached a length of feet and changes in the face lead the management to believe that it is nearing tile the contact shipping ore was taken from the surface workings several years ago and larger bodies are expected at the deeper level attained by the new work the company is incorporated for shares 1 par value and shares remain in the treasury for development purposes burp oses officers are W walliam im minor homer W sherwood isherwood I jarry harry S harper and R P WC W dough lough the E emma mma copper company well financed and prepared for aggressive work throughout the winter is pushing developments in a drift along the fault plane and in tile 0 raise above the from which ship sinning Plug ore was vas taken during the summer A A raise is to be e put ut up on the fault plane at a point feet from the no 2 north crosscut this company has one of the best locations in the entire district and with geological conditions that are most favorable for ore deposition shipments of ore from the old maxfield nonbeing now being operated by the boston development company fred H vahrenkamp general manager have leen been resumed but not to the extent hoped for because of the unfavorable condition of tile the roads it is stated that there are from to toas toi as in the bins of a value from 50 to 75 the mine is now dow completely and visitors to the property state that the new ore revelations are truly remarkable fred schrott leasing in the long tunnel being driven by the alta tunnel transportation por tation company reports that he has tons of ore vi iia the bins after raising on the ore a distance ot of sixty feet porphyry was encountered the ore appears to make into beds under this air schrott is now drifting from the main tunnel toward a point where he expects to cut this contact where he be hopes to encounter a permanent ore deposit the main tunnel ou on this property being run by the company is now in a distance of about 1700 feet and great depth is being attained president C R oreene greene of the tar baby mining company reports that the tunnel being run cwi on tile the companas comp anys ground is now in a distance of approximately 2000 feet tile the breast abreast is showing heavy sulphides sulp hides and lime spar and a big flow of water has been encountered it is figured that the contact between the upper black rock formation and the limestone the objective point of the tunnel cannot be far ahead general manager Ilaa ager frank boyer of the baker mining company operating on ground adjoining that of the boston development company states that zinc and lead sulphides sulp hides are beginning to show in tile the breast of the tunnel which is now in a distance of about feet it is being driven to cut at depth a large contact deposit of iron ore showing on the surface which also contains some high grade silver lead ore this contact should be cut within another forty feet superintendent R 0 dobbs of the cot conwood atlantis mining Com company whose property is almost surrounded iby by the possessions of the south hecla albion and sells reports having cut the ore making lime in the crosscut being driven from the lower moltke tunnel for tile the of reach ing the contact the indications are said to ibe be most favorable though the survey made showed that the ore should not be encountered for another fifty feet the shoot for which this drift isi being run has been opened in a tunnel above |