Show in n the alta cottonwoods it is said that a little selfishness once in awhile is a good thing that being so there can he be no objection to the frequency with which important strikes are made in the workings of the old maxfield property in big cottonwood cotton wood now being developed by the boston development company under the management of fred vahrenkamp the latest strike made a short time ago is at a point about feet from the portal of the main tunnel and between the alligator extension and corkscrew fissures from three to four feet of ore was opened there sampling from 85 to per ton in lead and silver shipments are going forward regularly from the property notable among them being the ore from the alligator extension fissure a recent carload of this being settled for on tile the basis of 32 ounces silver 22 per cent lead 1 per cent copper and 10 gold to the ton wal which ich is about a fair sample of the ore now coming from that section the emma copper an ali important deal one which has been pending for several months was bonsu mated early in ill the present month when the emma copper mining company purchased the north star south star lucky star and silver star fractions from moylan 0 fox this gives the company a total of about sixty nine acres in the heart of what was once the most productive part of tile the district before work is resumed at tile the property it will be examined thoroughly by engineers and all ore marked and map ped fed the new operations will probably ba 13 carried on through tile the tom moore tunnel arid and important developments are looked for during the present year the south hecla general manager george H watson reports that shipments from the south hecla have been kept up fairly well despite tile the heavy snow about sixteen four horse outfits have been engaged in keeping the roads open pen and few days have passed that from forty arty to ninety tons of ore have not left the property for the smelter it was re ported early in the month that the level had broken into the downward extension of tile the wedge fissure but this has not been verified at this writing dinzes are now being sunk in the ore from the level the deepest having reached a depth of fifty feet all these are in solid ore the yearly report of the company just issued shows the following sinking during 1915 feet drifting 1353 feet crude ore mined 6 pounds value net profit after all expenses and including receipts from lessees lessels les sees the total underground development in the property is 10 feet of tunnels feet of drifts and crosscuts cross cuts 1943 feet of raises and feet of shafts the company had cash in ill bank january 1st ast the sells the great of the sells has been opened for a distance of feet varying in thickness from five to fifteen feet the drift in this ore is being pushed to tile the southwest toward the lime quartzite contact tile the no 5 raise feet east of the no 1 in which the big showing was first opened is now up a distance of feet and ore developments are expected at an early date no 6 raise feet southeast of no 5 is up a distance of about ninety feet and streaks of ore are showing in ill the roof the work of driving to the southeast toward the intersection of the kate hays fissure with tile the con contact thet has been stopped temporarily pora rily and the work is now concentrated in tile the raises shipping from the property lias has been practically at a standstill because of the snow but general manager A 0 jacobson states that otherwise conditions are very satisfactory the albion it is reported that tile the main tunnel on the albion has cut the grebey fissure at a vertical depth of 1300 feet the management expects that this fissure will prove at least eighty feet thick and that it wilt will contain much good ore the breast of the tunnels elois is now several feet into it and is heavily mineralized with at least one streak of high grade ore opened the main ore development in n the property at present is in the raise on the porphyry limestone contact now at a point about fifty feet above the quincy tunnel level this raise has passed through two layers of ore one five feet thick and one two feet and is now entering another which is evidently of a good shipping grade the property is under the management of george watson the michigan utah the preliminary work of opening up tile the copper prince tunnel of the michigan utah property is now finished and everything is ready for starting the machine drills in the face the air line was run from the receiver at the alta consolidated property this tunnel is to be extended to cut at depth the now being mined by the triangle leasing company in the old grizzley workings of the mine the leasing company is shipping a carload recently settled for netting 2493 or at the rate of per ton A 0 jacobson is manager for the michigan utah company and norman AV haire of salt lake is president the alta consolidated the management of the alta consolidated states that ore is now ready for shipment at the property which will go forward as soon as the roads can be opened raising is being done on both the showings of ore found last month the silver lead product giving values of 35 per cent lead 45 ounces silver and 2 to 3 per cent copper and the other body averaging about 35 in ill copper the statement recently issued for 1915 shows that during the year feet of tunnel feet of raises feet of crosscuts cross cuts and feet of shaft work was done the company commenced tile the year with an indebtedness of and closed it with all debts and expenses paid arid and cash on oil hand the directorate elected for the ensuing year is as follows A 0 jacobson president arid and general manager R S lewis vice president V S snow secretary and treasurer W H weyher and ray van cott the south hecla extension mining company organized recently by george H watson and associates to develop ground lying to the south of tile the south hecla has order ed the alie necessary equipment and will start operations as soon as it arrives tile work will be prosecuted through the quincy tunnel of the south hecla the logger superintendent R D maxfield of tile the log ger mining company operating ground ad joining the maxfield reports that assays essays of the ore in the face of the tunnel on that ground shows values of 11 per cent copper 12 ounces silver and 16 gold there is about a foot of this ore the tunnel is feet in length eighty nine nille feet back from the face a whize is being sunk on oil the ore which at a depth of ten tell feet shows fourteen inches of the same character of ore and which carries values running from 70 to 90 per ton reeds peak president W D lewis of the reeds peak group in big cottonwood announces that he has purchased power equipment for the property and that it will be installed and in working order within a month power will be secured from the utah power light companas Comp anys line chih passes near the tunnel william J neill who is contracting tr the driving of the tunnel at present reports that he is making good progress ore has been shipped from the birthday fissure on the ground in the past and the management expects important developments when the new long tunnel cuts that fissure at depth which is expected within another feet the tar baby general manager charles R greene of the tar baby group reports that the long tunnel on that ground has now reached a length of 2070 feet the breast is still in the schist which has been driven through gli over 30 0 feet it is expected that the schist lime contact will be cut at any time now at which point mr greene is confident there will be a showing of ore A drift to the north is to be run along the contact to the place where it is intersected by a porphyry dike paralleling the tunnel the dolomite limestone beyond the schist in this property is identical in character with that in which the cardiff has its great in the same section other properties superintendent G W malmborg of the american consolidated copper company reports that the long tunnel on that ground is now in well over 1100 feet in the last fifty feet several stringers carrying high grade ore have been cut the last one giving assay values of ounces silver 14 per cent lead and about 2 gold the management considers these stringers offshoots off shoots ot the silver king fissure the objective of the tunnel when this vein is cut it will bs be followed to the northward to where it cuts the limestone quartzite contact where an important is expected the tunnel being driven at the head ot of silver fork in big cottonwood by the alta tunnel transportation company has entered a white dolomite lime formation and better progress is now being made the tunnel is beyond the 1800 foot point it if is expected to cut the cooper fissure within the next feet president fred W price of the price pric mining company states that the tunnel on that big cottonwood property is now in about feet and has entered the solid formation in another sixty feet it should intersect the fissure in which high grade ore was opened on the surface by the preliminary operations several months ago the long tunnel on the alta prince prop the prince of wales erty which adjoins and the michigan utah has cut the contact between the white and blue lime at a point drift is to ba A 1035 feet from the portal sent out along this contact until it reaches the prince of wales fissure which is one of the district bearing veins of the famous ore C W frees is president of the company is in charge at the and J F warner mine the great copper king mining milling company owning five claims at a point a mile and a half south of the mouth of little cottonwood canyon is driving along a fissure on its ground toward a point where high grade ore has been opened by shallow I 1 workings on the surface the ore occurs 0 at a point where the granite quartzite contact is cut by the fissure two feet in the pi bottom of a thirty five foot shaft showing values of per cent copper and 54 ounces silver to the ton the tunnel is now in a distance of feet and is expected to I 1 1 cut the contact at about feet it will I 1 i give a vertical depth of about feet I 1 henry harker of taylorsville Taylors ville is president 1 of the company and J E smith is managing director |