Show 9 around the state I 1 shipments of manganese ore from the property of J A elmer and J W mcwilliams located near moab are going forward regularly the ore goes to new york and is of an unusually rich grade manager theodore nicholes has started a force of men to work on the alpine empire ground in american fork canyon the new work is a drift from a foot tunnel on the granite limestone contact at a point where a vein of copper and iron carbonates is bedding off into the soluble limestone carbon county interests are back of the enterprise H W owen of salt lake a director of the silver gulch mining company states that ore has been encountered in the tunnel now being run from the bottom of the sixty foot incline shaft assays essays from an eighteen inch streak giving values of a ton in gold silver and lead the aroun ground is in beaver county and adjoins the cedar talisman on the east richard jones of heber who is interested in the lucky shepherd mining company operating in the south end of the tintic gintic district states that ore is now being mined from the strike made on the property a short time ago and that hauling to the railroad has commenced the ore is a lead silver product and is reported to be opening up in a promising way the management of the beek beck tunnel consolidated mining company eureka has started a campaign of development work on the level and will crosscut the quartz formation at that point A great deal of low grade ore has been opened in the upper levels of the property during the past few months and this will be taken out and sent to the new plant of the tintic gintic mining company the property is under the management age ment of jesse knight ight of provo reports from the property of the mammoth copper company located a few miles northeast of milford are that the which is b eing being worked on the surface has now been opened to a width of twenty one feet a depth of fifteen feet and along its strike about fifty feet ore from the ground is now being shipped by way of opal on the salt lake route the work is under the personal management of edward bardsley president of the company f P stockholders of the mountain lake the great western gold copper and the thor mining companies at a meeting held at provo on the dinst ratified the action of the directors of the companies in consolidating soli dating their holdings under the name of the great western mines company the new corporation owns 1700 acres at the head of big cottonwood canyon and will proceed with development through the snake creek tunnel the proposition is backed by the knight interests of provo E C mcgarry of salt lake reports that the mcgarry hodges lease at fortuna on the lumry moore ground has opened ore on the second level in the shaft which is at a depth of sixty feet from the surface the find was made at a point twenty feet south of the shaft and the report is that the vein shows seven feet of ore picked samples of which carry as high as 2 a pound the leasers leaders are now making a ton run at the sheep rock mill on rock which came from above this level reports from the silver shield at bingham ham last week regarding the opened by leasers leaders lea sers there early in the month were that the ore was showing from forty to forty five inches wide and that a raise had been put up to a height of thirty five feet in the body one carload had been shipped at that time and another was ready for the sampler estimates of values were 40 per cent lead and 10 ounces silver to the ton harry S joseph of salt lake is president and general manger of the silver shield mining company an important strike is reported from the pacific property in american fork canyon but details are lacking to date the report from the mine is that the miners have crosscut the fissure from a drift arif t oft off the lower tunnel showing eighteen feet of ore fourteen inches of this along the hanging wall carrying ounces in silver to the ton G C H doolittle general manager of the utah metal tunnel company of Bing bingham liam is a heavy stockholder in the fissures development company which is operating the pacific property under a ten years lease |