Show in the alta cottonwoods an announcement which may result in far reaching consequences for the extreme eastern end of the alta cottonwood district in salt lake county utah is contained in the official notice that stockholders in the great western gold copper the mountain lake and the thor mining companies will meet in provo on april to consider plans for merging the various holdings of the companies under the name great western mines company it is considered certain that the consolidation will go through the new corporation will have shares 10 cents par which will be exchanged for holdings in the old companies at the rate of one share of the new for two shares of mountain lake or great western or for tour four shares of thor this will leave shares in the treasury the holdings of the mines company will comprise 1700 acres crossing big and little cottonwood and extending over into american fork canyon the great snake creek tunnel to the south of the park city district cuts through a portion of the proposed merger ground and it is the intention to drive from this tunnel into the new group and to explore it at great depth another new project for the district Is contained in the announcement that K C woolley of salt lake has secured the right to ship the old tailings dump at the mouth of little cottonwood canyon this dump resulted from the operation of the small smelter which stood there in the early days of the camp of alta the backers of the scheme say that it contains about tons and that it is of a commercial grade at the present price of metals boston development company the boston development company operating the old maxfield mine in big cottonwood under the management of fred H vahrenkamp received settlement tor for a shipment of ore aggregating a little over eighty tons on the which netted the company a ton or for the lot the following week a lot of tons from the property passed through the sampler which is said to have carried over to the ton two new underground hoists have recently been added to the mine equipment underground n der ground development averages in the neighborhood of feet a month and the company is giving emlu employment ent to s ev enty five men the canyon roads are still soft a s ifil imenes aa have ve not yet reached alie the volu volume m e which is expected later b dimensions 1 7 M en si ons of of C ardiff dimensions of the great in the cardiff property are still unknown it has been developed along its strike for a distance of feet has been crosscut for distances up to fifty feet and raised upon for feet A has proven it to 0 o a depth of feet below the main tunnel and it is stated that the ore is still strong in the bottom and that the values are higher A drift has been extended forty feet from the bottom of the and is still in the ore is the which has caused a a rise in the cardiff stock during the past year fromi 7 cents to above 87 7 and which probably ly did more than any other single agency jace a u s e th present favorable interest in afie the mines of utah ezra thompson of salt LE lake e Ts is president of the company sells has high grade at this writing the sells property has several carloads of shipping ore broken and stored in the mine waiting for road conditions to improve before the attempt is made to send it to market two feet of exceptionally tio nally high grade lead silver ere cre has been struck running through the nine foot body of shipping grade this body is at the top of a thirty foot raise from a drift run feet out from the top of no 1 raise which itself is at a height of feet above the tunnel level at a point in this raise fifty feet above the tunnel the miners are breaking about six mine carloads of shipping ore each shift no 6 raise now up about feet above the main tunnel level shows from six to eight inches of good copper sil ver ore two shifts of men are also driving to the west along the east west fissure with machine drills alta aita consolidated ore val S snow secretary of the alta consolidated soli dated mining company following a recent visit to the property stated that there 4 is a four foot face of good shipping ore exposed in the drift to the south of the raise on the brain fissure which was mentioned in these columns two weeks ago the man argement is still unable to state whether this ore showing is an extension of the old matilda ore shoot which was lost in the upper workings years ago or an entirely new body it is reported to be growing la larger as development work progresses progress es it is also considered possible that it is the old hoboken ore body which was followed a distance ot of feet in the early days and then lost through the same fault plane which cut off the matilda body the alta consolidated has taken over the K P property which was also a shipper in the past under bond kand a and lease but has not started development work v ork there yet because of the deep snow it is stated that there is considerable ore exposed in the old workings of this property developments at south hecla general manager george H watson of the south hecla reports that shipments during J march have been greatly curtailed because of the breaking up of the roads which have been practically impassible a large part of the month the ore bins and workings of the property are now congested with ore broken and ready for market when conditions improve fifteen feet of ore has been opened in the no 2 body on the level this level has been extended feet from no 3 raise along the strike of the ore the no 2 was first struck at a depth of about feet from the surface and beyond a porphyry dike to the west of the famous no I 1 body which first took the property from the prospect class and proved that it was to rank with the big mines of the district south hecla stock has been steadily advancing on the salt lake board during the past month logger shipping mine manager R D maxfield of the logger property is authority for the statement that shipments from the mine started last week the ore is from an eighteen inch vein which is being followed with a below the main tunnel and at a distance of feet from the portal the has reached a depth of twenty two feet and the ore has widened from a foot at the tunnel level samplings give values running from to 94 in gold silver and copper the main tunnel is now in a distance of practically feet and between the and the present face four other ore shoots have been encountered the company is now planning to start a new tunnel farther down the mountain as soon as the snow leaves in order to mine the ore showings in a more economical manner this proposed new tunnel will give an additional depth of approximately feet vertically conditions favorable at tar baby president C R greene of the tar baby mining company states that specks of galena and a much greater percentage of iron are now showing in the breast of the long tunnel being driven by the company miners from the property state further that the country rock in the breast is stained with copper and that the water is steadily increasing the tunnel is now well beyond the 2000 foot point and it is believed that the contact for which it is being run cabino cannot be far ahead lying immediately beyond the contact is the dolomite lime which is the same formation in which the great ore body of the cardiff occurs in the same section of the district president greene of the tar baby formerly had charge of the cardiff development other properties the cottonwood atlantis mining company at a recent meeting of the board of directors decided to resume operations at the property about april alth the crosscut to cut the downward extension of an opened in the moltke tunnel above is to be continued as the first work to be under undertaken talc the companas comp anys engineer estimates that it will require about feet of additional work to do this R 0 dobbs is general manager for the company D J williams general manager of the Mone taire and canton group adjoining the wasatch mines columbus extension and west toledo properties states that lie he has perfected arrangements to resume work at i the canton immediately the toledo fissure fiss u re crosses this ground and mr williams claims to have one of the best ore showings in the camp he expects to make a creditable production from the haskell on the L Monet alre claim this season it has been rumored for some little time that the west toledo has cut the famous toledo fissure but the management has refused to give out any information the story is that the fissure was cut and drifted upon for a short distance and that ore was encountered the stock doubled in price following the report but nothing definite has been learned at this writing |