| Show dips spurs and angles J 0 swift of baker idaho visited salt lake recently and paid the mining review a pleasant call mr swift has valuable mining holdings in the Sal salmon river see section and says that it is rapidly deve developing lopin 1 into a profitable mining territory he worked at the old emma eluma mine at alta utah when it was under the of marcus daly thirty nine years ago and has many interesting incidents to relate of the early days in that camp A big consolidation of the properties Ties of the south side of the alta utah district is being rumored it includes the south hecla albion alta germania hecla extension alta michigan and probably the secret sells and peruvian the plan is to make inake one powerful organization with the principals of the south hecla in control col george H watson is general manager of the latter company land and also of others in the proposed merger stockholders of the western utah copper company with holdings in the deep creek district of utah met last week and elected the following officers and al directors rectors harold R Sil smoot loot president duncan macvichie vice president and general manager edwin T jones secretary treasurer reed smoot frank A fisher imer pett and preston D richards the officers of the company are the men mea who handled the financing and construction of the new deep creek railroad now practically completed the western utah copper is equipped to handle approximately tons a day the silver side mining alining company backed by salt lake and pleasant grove people is developing a group of eleven claims located about five miles from the mouth of american fork canyon utah an eighteen inch vein has been opened by a thirty foot tunnel the ore assays essays per cent lead 34 4 ounces silver and 40 cents gold A lower tunnel now in a distance of eighty five feet is i being driven and is expected to open the ore shoot when the foot point is reached E IT culmer of pleasant grove is president of the company and william holmes of salt lake is secretary and treasurer following the recent meeting of directors of the inells mining alining company with holdings at alta utah it was announced that A 0 jacobson of salt lake was elected ejected president L R eccles vice president W H weyher secretary john pingree treasurer and fred W price K C woolley and dr F G flynn additional directors president Sac jacobson who has had probably more to do with bringing the alta district to the front than anyone else now living said there is nothing to report right now except that we are going to immediately send in considerable ore and carry on a vigorous campaign of development work |
