Show around the state in the case of 0 the mammoth mining company of mammoth against juab county involving a question of the right of the board of equalization to tax the net proceeds of a certain dump on the companas comp anys ground the court has decided against the county the ore was mined prior to the enactment of the state law relating to the taxation of the net proceeds of mines shipments from the grand central at mammoth are now being made at the rate of about tons per day values running well in copper gold and silver the ore is coming from various levels from the to the 2300 the latter of which is just above the water level about fifty men are employed underground at the property under the management of W D loose H S joseph of salt lake general manager of the silver shield at Bing bingham liam has received word that the low grade showing upon which the company has been raising from the tunnel level has given way to solid galena the strike and pitch of the ore are such as to convince the officers of the company that it is a continuation of the miracle ore body from which worth of ore was shipped last spring in forty feet of raising superintendent C J graft graff of the paloma mining company writes from tile the property in beaver county that the mine is improving with every shift of development work he states that lie he is from a body of lead silver gold ore on the level the values running around 35 a ton the miners have also cut a station at the level and are drifting for tile the ore body which should be cut before we go to press M P braffett of salt lake is president of the paloma D C jackling managing director of the utah copper company announced just before the holidays that for the first time in tile the history of the company employees drawing salaries of more than a month would be given a bonus as a christmas present he would not name the amount but it is based on tile the yearly salaries of those effected and was paid to those who did not participate in the recently announced increase at the mine at Bing bingham liam and mills at garfield the contractors in the new shaft of the tintic gintic standard mining company in the tin tic district are now well below the foot point tile the new hoisting engine is in place and better progress wil be made from now on in the main workings the miners have finished cutting out for tile the sill floor on the 1600 level and sloping operations are under way superintendent john states that lie he expects to average about a carload a day in his ore shipments working three shifts the red bell mining company has been incorporated in salt lake to develop a group of claims lying about two miles east of the maxfield mine in big cottonwood S A perry is president and H H harris is secretary and treasurer the claims adjoin the old congor property from which lead silver ore was shipped in the early days of the district A tunnel on the ground is in a distance of about fifty feet and is expected to cut a contact and known fissures within another feet affairs of the ohio copper company of Bing bingham liam are still in an indefinite state local people in close touch with the company express the opinion that the lease of the general exploration company will not be renewed when it expires at the end of the present month and that the company will take entire charge of the property early in january it is stated however that alfred frank who is at the head of the leasing concern will be placed in charge of operations if his services can be secured manager E L newhouse jr of the garfield chemical company states that the new sulphuric acid plant at garfield which was constructed by the company to manufacture sulphuric acid from the smoke of the american smelter there has been put into active operation the smoke is taken directly from the roasting furnace passed through flues to remove dust and then subjected to chemical and mechanical processes to transform the sulphurous acid to sulphuric acid tile the final step being accomplished by the application of steam |