Show D dips ap a s spurs and angles angle S peter miller a well known operator of the american fork district utah has taken a fifteen years lease on the old bog mine there the property is said to have a five foot vein of ore opened up of both shipping and milling grade the spring lake mining company held its annual meeting at provo utah recently and elected R E knowlden president B H bullock vict president D H roper sec detary treasurer and J I 1 bullock L L 01 sen and C IF dixon additional directors the companas comp anys holdings are in the santa quin district utah it is the prevailing opinion among utah coal producers that the tonnage of the coal mined and shipped from utah mines during the coming summer will exceed the output of the winter just passed and that the coal companies of the state will experience a most successful and profitable operation for several years to come the garfield chemical company started up its new concentrating plant at garfield utah on the dinst and is now turning out thirty tons daily of 66 degree or 95 per cent sulphuric acid about april 1st ast the balance of the plant will go into corn com mission and this will produce about tons daily of 98 per cent sulphuric the baltimore mine located out from boulder montana is giving a good account of itself it is operated by the matson brothers who took hold there two years ago after the property had been turned down by butte operators since that time it has shipped steadily and is now sending out ten carloads weekly valued at about a car president norman W haire of the mich igan utah at alta utah reported last week the sale of five more carloads of ore netting about 30 a ton he states that the recent strike in the copper prince tunnel is proving highly important it has been proven to a width of twelve feet with average values of 28 ounces silver 65 per cent copper and 16 per cent iron twelve inches of sulphides sulp hides in the vein run per cent copper manager F V bodfish of the alta tunnel transportation company reported last week that another contact between the white and blue lime stones has been cut at the companas comp anys property in the big cottonwood district of utah at a point only thirty five feet from the one opened not long ago this is the ore making formation of that section and important developments should result general manager H G mcmillan of the famous old daly west at park city uth utah states that good mill ore is being developed in the mine from the 1400 to the 2000 level A new body has recently been opened on the ile 1900 and drifts are now bein being g run to open it on the 2100 shipments of crude ore in february totaled tons and in january tons the severe winter has handicapped the company badly manager E L newhouse of the garfield chemical manufacturing company a subsidiary of the american smelting smelling Sm elting refining company states that the new sulphuric acid plant at garfield utah is now producing at its normal capacity of tons per day A concentrator has just been installed which by removing the water from the product raises the acid produced to 95 per cent pure as against 77 per cent formerly thus adding correspondingly to its market value the cerro gordo mines company operating at keeler california under the management of L D gordon has declared another regular dividend of and an extra of the same amount to be paid in april P F J hagenbarth of salt lake who is heavily interested in the property has returned from a trip of inspection to the ground he says that from fifty to sixty tons of ore per day is being handled and that the company now has approximately in the treasury it was reported last week that the american can smelting smelling Sm elting refining company has taken over the great bunker hill sullivan mine near kellogg idaho and the big new lead smelter at that place at a price of it was stated at the time that anything official regarding the deal must be given out by simon guggenheim vice president of the smelting smelling sm elting company if the transfer has been made it gives the american control of the lead industry in the west the heavy snowstorms snow storms of the present month have interfered greatly with operations at the alta utah properties the south hecla michigan utah emma consolidated and sells have managed to send out a considerable tonnage but shipments from all but the michigan utah have been greatly curtailed manager A 0 jacobson of the sells states that the ore now coming from there is at a vertical depth of feet from the surface and it is considered probable there is a continuous shoot from there to the outcrops on the ground president C J of the pittsburgh utah potash company announces that his company will this summer construct an SO 80 potash plant on its ground comprising acres and located five miles north of marysvale Marys vale utah it will be of tons capacity producing thirty to forty tons of potash daily and a byproduct by product of aluminum oxide the company has extended a tunnel a distance of feet alongside a big vein of alunite said to average 7 to 9 per cent potassium oxide and 32 to 42 per cent aluminum oxide |