Show new dividend payer the south hecla mining company under the management of col george H watson entered the long list of dividend payers of utah on august when it disbursed 15 cents a share or a total of 39 the company was a heavy shipper early in the year before the spring thaws broke up the roads but during the summer had to be contented with about fifty tons daily owing to the general orders of the smelters shelters sm elters to all properties to curtail shipments the early storms of the winter also interfered with the movement of ore and it was found necessary to store enormous quantities until the roads could be placed in condition again the company has several times had as much as tons in its bins and slopes awaiting a chance to get it to market the ore has come mainly aro from the and levels on each of which the companas comp anys famous wedge fissure has haa been opened extensively the two main ore shoots on this fissure have been developed for hundreds of feet along their strike and to a width up to more than fifty feet no 1 has been followed more than 1000 feet showing an average width of eighteen feet and average assays essays of IS 18 ounces silver 10 per cent lead 7 per cent zinc and 60 cents gold no 2 has been opened feet along its strike and proven to a depth of more than feet averaging about twenty feet in thickness it carries 28 ounces silver 8 per cent lead 5 per cent zinc and 70 cents gold the ore is a carbonate another important body is on the kate hays fissure on the quincy tunnel level where the ore has been opened for a distance of more than feet averaging fifteen feet wide and giving average assays essays of approximately 20 ounces silver 11 per cent lead 6 per cent zinc and some gold the company has let several leases during the year all of which have opened shipping ore the principal ones are fields stewart alta michigan mines company and the international ter national exploration company all on the kate hays fissure and curley brain on the skipper fissure the property is now undergoing an extensive campaign of development work the expectation of the management being that by early spring there will be a dozen or more places in the mine from which direct shipping ore will come the company owns about acres nearly all patented and it is estimated that less than 10 per cent of it has been prospected and developed south hecla extension during the spring the south hecla heck i extension mining company was formed by the interests back of the south hecla to develop a group of claims lying to the south of the latter property the work is under the direct management of col watson who is a heavy stockholder in the new company it is I 1 being developed by means of a tunnel I 1 from the west no 3 drift off the quincy level of the south hecla with the jones paddock and other fissures as the objective of the work the company has prosecuted development steadily since incorporating in a quiet way and evidently without any wish for publicity ore hay has been opened on the ground and it is reported at this writing that the company will begin shipping in the near future and that consignments consign ments of ore will be sent out regularly after they are started this is regarded as one of the most promising groups in the entire district michigan utah in good shape j the michigan utah consolidated mines I 1 company owner of the greatest estate ilij in the district in point of 0 area was the sec J ond heaviest shipper of the ye year ar from the thea little cottonwood sift side the south hecla taking the lead this company the director 1 ate of which contains such well known names as norman W haire H R M macmillan acmillan C A gillette L H farnsworth and duncan macvichie owns about 1200 acres or seventy three claims more than naif of which are patented and covering the entire eastern part of the alta section up to november the total shipments were slightly more than tons valued at transportation troubles were encountered during the last two months of the year but during a large part of that time the company managed to send out about sixty tons a day over its aerial tramway to tanners flat and from there by team to the railroad at wasatch practically all of the ore shipped has come from the lease of the triangle leasing company which is working the ground above the old city rocks and grizzly tunnel levels another lease of note is that of douglas C despain and associates who are working in the solitude tunnel on the big cottonwood side of the property mr air despain despalj is an experienced operator in the district and has opened a showing of exceptionally high grade ore in his lease it is probable that he will install a hoist on the city rocks level and send out his ore by that ave avenue n ue and thence over the tramway which will enable him to ship throughout the winter most of the company work has been confined to the copper prince tunnel which is about feet below the older workings which are now under lease this tunnel has been extended 1200 feet since last spring and is now in a distance of more than 1700 teet it has opened a good showing of high grade copper ore which has already been drifted upon for a considerable dis distance tance and which is expected to prove an important source of revenue to th the e company it is said that the breast of the tunnel is all ore at this writing assays essays running as high as to the ton the ore is thou thought glIt to be the downward extension of a body opened in a crosscut from the lavinia tunnel above president norman W haire of the com coin pany reported an exceptionally notable ship ment in december he stated that the ore carried values of 1427 ounces silver per cent lead 1931 per cent C copper OPP r and an d 67 cents gold to the ton netting approximately a ton at the smelter the work at the property is now under the direel direct supervision per vision of R W brown who for eighteen years was superintendent of the great centennial eureka at eureka utah the mich igan utah closes the year in the best financial condition of its history and promises to make great strides during 1917 I 1 boston development prospering th the boston development company fred H VE vahrenkamp of salt lake general maniger manager which in 1915 began the thorough an and d s systematic development of the old maxfield fi eld mine I 1 in big cottonwood and which expended more than in modern machinery and equipment for the purpose has advanced its development work to a remarkable degree during the year at the same time extracting and shipping ore to the gross value of about a month from the famous old p pro ducer ar the com banys property consists of forty four claims not counting options and rights of way and under former owners was developed by a tunnel to a vertical depth of 1200 feet from the surface and to a point feet under the tunnel by means of a working shaft the smelter returns from this work showed a total of worth 0 of ore shipped but the 0 operators P er ato r s ive were e forced to suspend v 0 rw i ah heavy a v Y ho now of f water was open e in 11 6 lowest the electrical by mr vahrenkamp and associates has ha handled the flow of water without any 9 great r eat trouble and has effs enabled the new owners to open up and explore sev several ral large an and japort important ant ore afe ibbots iE bots altis rl jt as now said by engineers eliat alre t h old time operators although they shipped an enormous tonnage fro inThe re prop property did not find the largest farge A b odies bodies and that the the oi ones ie s in inea by them will appear small in contrast when the presenT fissures ayer 5 followed into the lim e s ton e i qu a contact co the afi 0 wil ore makes in tee the bed ing planes of the black and white limestone and no attempt was made to follow the fissures to the contact the im importance importer portar ace of the latter was not appreciated until the fall of 1914 when the cardiff southeast of the maxfield maffle ld opened its enormous on the contact the present work in the maxfield is largely devoted to develop developing ilig along similar lines and engineers and geologists familiar with the district predict enormous ore developments when the contact is reached the ore above the main tunnel level in ill the property was a lead silver carbonate below the water level it is a heavy galena carrying from 25 cents to 18 gold 2 25 to 72 ounces silver 10 to 60 per cent lead and 15 to 7 per cent copper the ore as mined is exceptionally clean and practically free fron from waste progress of alta tunnel tile the long tunnel of tile the alta tunnel transportation company under the management of fred V bodfish of salt lake has reached a total length of more than 20 2300 00 feet during tile the year the company has installed new machinery and equipment including a new air supply system and has cut a waterway the full length of thelong the long bore new ground has been acquired and good progress made in the driving of the tunnel president john C D dark clark of the company explains developments and purposes of the work as follows we acquired acres of ground as a tunnel site purchased power machinery constructed roads buildings and electric power line and have driven a transportation and drainage tunnel more than 2000 feet the work has cut one ore bearing fissure of proven value and several other fissures of great promise les sees have mined about tons of good ore 4 1 1 A V vt dx al old ZA A f mimi yr y W ie 4 in scene at the maxfield mine of the boston development company big cottonwood district utah photo by will C higgins approximately feet more will carry our main tunnel through the prince of wales alta consolidated michigan utah and other famous producers at least feet lower than tile the owners can call now drain or mine them we have not however been able to close satisfactory contracts with all of 0 these companies for the service we are preparing to render them hence we deeni deem it advisable to acquire more property of our own along the line of tile the tunnel east hecla at work the east hecla mining company was organized luring during the summer to develop a group of claims lying between the south hecla on the west and the mountain lake on oil the east and extending close to the albion on the southeast corner J B taylor is president and general manager and lie he and H H green willard hansen jr imer pett and E J broberg make up the directorate david J cook formerly of bing liam ham and a mining man of wide experience throughout the west is superintendent at the mine ore carrying copper lead silver and gold has been opened in a number of places on the property and it is said that one shaft contains four feet of good ore the company is now engaged in running a new tunnel to get under these showings it had reached a length of feet late in december and had but a short distance more to go to reach the first fissure vein this will be drifted upon southeasterly the worx work prospecting the vein at a depth up to feet it will also open the junctures of the main north south system of fissures with the cross fissures which have produced high in the surface workings and which will undoubtedly mean important developments at depth the ground is well spoken of in the district and is said to be the making of another mine hellgate Hell gate gets ore another company which has every chance to make good is the hellgate Hell gate mining company which was incorporated in salt lake on february ath and finished its organization and commenced work on its claims late in august the company owns tile the hell gate group located west of the wasatch mines ground and undoubtedly crossed by the same vein system as this famous producer it also contains in its environs a section of the cardiff lime quartzite contact and is probably crossed by the cardiff fault plane tile the company started a tunnel on the ground as tile the first work of development the work being let to john mattson under contract this thi s tunnel opened a vein within a short distance and was turned to follow the ore work had to be suspended at tile time the contract was finished owing to the fact that the company has no suitable buildings for the winter months but the feet completed has opened a good showing and entirely justifies the management in its high hopes for next summer work will vill be resumed in dj the spring the company is incorporated for shares of a par value of 25 cents each dr hugo of new york city is president hon E 0 leatherwood Leatherwoo cl of salt lake is vice president john montgomery of salt lake is secretary treasurer and these with charles P and charles A walker form the directorate cardiff developments the cardiff mining company owner of the great cardiff mine in big cottonwood the discovery of whose enormous in the fall of 1914 was the opening gun in the mining prosperity which has existed in utah ever since that time has gone ahead with the development of its property and the payment of dividends without making any great noise the management has expressed a desire to avoid publicity and though the mining review has received several inquiries regarding developments there it has been difficult to learn anything definite it was announced early in the summer that the had been developed along its strike for a distance of feet had been crosS crosscut CUL for distances up to fifty feet and raised upon for feet A whize had proven it for a distance of feet below the main tunnel level and a drift at the bottom of the had been extended forty feet all these workings were still in ore during october it was reported that another great deposit had been opened in tile the property and officers of the company were quoted as saying that in their opinion ion tile the new would prove to be of as great dimensions as the first one the new shoot was stated to be at a point about feet west of the alie main body the company has had many and varied troubles with mu transportation of its ores to the valley and a great many difficulties have been thrown throw in its way which are unusual owing to the fact that tile the road down big cottonwood canyon is the main highway to brighton the and to the further big summer resort of utah fact that the water from the canyon is a part of salt lake cites water system horse drawn vehicles cause pollution and that in turn causes open war between tile the mining interests and the city A large part of tile the problem is said to have been solved of quad trucks for the by the recent use hauling the company has paid three dividends during the year each of 25 26 cents per share or making the total for 1916 tile the company paid a similar amount in october 1915 bringing the grand total to a half million dollars it is truly a great mine and so far as known to outsiders its reserves are scarcely touched as yet other properties other mines and prospects of the district which have joined in the great era of development during the past year include the albion alta consolidated alta prince alta central alta tiger alta germania american consolidated copper baker big king cardiff extension cottonwood atlantis cottonwood metals cottonwood king evergreen howell kennebec last chance logger miller peruvian Mone Monet taire alre canton pittsburgh consolidated prince of W wales ales price mining reeds peak sells south cardiff secret tar baby west toledo woodlawn the columbus extension and rexall now con consolidated soli dated under one directorate and the mountain lake and thor now consolidated under the name great west G gold old copper mining company campal ly these are all good properties and most of them are under able management they are each wort worthy y u ui extended review if space permitted the new railroad construction of the new salt palt lake alta railroad which is being put in by the little cottonwood transportation company backed in 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