Show in n the alta cottonwoods our old friend fritz used to tell of a farmer friend of ills his who kept cows I 1 in little cottonwood canyon all winter he explained that it was a simple matter to make them believe that they were grazing on oil grass when there was ten feet of snow on the ground by merely fitting the eyes of each with green glasses teamsters and mine operators in the alta cottonwood district of utah located about twenty five miles southeast of salt lake city have been making use of another branch of farming far liling this month about twenty teams with plows and scrapers have been engaged in breaking up the treacherous snow packs in little cottonwood in a more or less successful effort to open the road for hauling A great deal has been accomplished in this way and it is believed that by the middle of the month a big tonnage will be moving down the canyon big cottonwood transportation over in big cottonwood ane transportation problem is said to be solved by the incorporation of the mine laine transportation company which has signed a contract to handle the product from the cardiff and boston development properties the two contracts calling for about a month the transportation company is capitalized for and has ordered about worth of equipment including five caterpillar tractors and sixty trailer wagons of six tons capacity each about 2 will be paid for supply stations shops and other necessities it is planned to start ore hauling about june and the backers of the enterprise state that they will make five round trips daily J B austin is president of the company abe is vice dent and treasurer and james ingebretsen is secretary the new departure is being watched with a great deal of interest by all who are acquainted with the canyon ore in alta consolidated developments in the alta consolidated property have caused the stock to double in price within a very short time the ore body opened in the raise above the east easi no 2 crosscut was raised on for forty feet thirty of which was in ore of an excellent grade at a height of forty feet a porphyry dyke was encountered which was drifted on to the east for about sixty feet where between four and five feet of cult tir ore has been opened up A 0 jacobson president of the company states that it looks as though this is in the bedding plane which dips about 38 degrees to the northeast he stated further that the company has five feet of silver lead ore in no I 1 raise showing a gross value of a ton and about eighteen inches in the no 2 raise carrying ounces silver 25 per cent lead 76 per cent copper and gold per ton the company also has abou Mn tons of ore broken from the great beadi b ali vein running in the neighborhood of 0 i ton but nothing will be done with this 1 ua 11 til the camp secures cheap south hecla trying to ship general manager george H watson 0 the south hecla property has been hayl havi i his share of troubles in trying to get oret ore i market he has been able to send leq yen little out during the past few weeks states that after about may alay he elpe expects to keep a steady stream of ore outfits MOT any ing down the canyon the mine 1 lg 19 9 reporter reported to be in splendid condition to produce heavy tonn nage just as soon as the product can be moved crosscuts Cross cuts on the level lerel where the ore has been opened only recent ly show that the body there has an ayer aye age width of eighteen feet on the level the exploratory work is being pushed abeal rapidly and geological conditions are sud such that the management expects to have tit at ore opened and under development in ti ats very near future campaign at the sells A vigorous campaign of develop development mei work is under way at the sells where rethe tie force was increased early in the monti miners are now engaged in cleaning up tie K P workings recently acquired by tie company from which a considerable ton nage is to be shipped the coming summer the management feels assured that the te work done during the winter ci on the sells proper has opened ore showings which will assure a steady ton tonit ge through out the present season the ore zone has been followed for a distance ol 01 feet the ore varying in width from fromme N to fifteen feet and raises have reached height of about feet in the ore oren body owing to the fact that the ore showing r the old skipper shaft about 1000 feet above the present workings is of the came char chap acter as that now found in the new work the management considers the possible of 0 the ore going up to that point as exceptionally tio nally good in this event it mean ezra E at least tons in the shoot of tl th thompson of salt lake is president company south hecla extension the first month of work done by a shift of miners working a pov dwer drill and in driving for the jones paddock other fissures on oil the property of the r ly organized south hecla axtens extension on sla of 0 I 1 company resulted in an advance fostof feet another shift was put on cn the the present month and the mana geme feet a inon pacts that at least be maintained the work is bel beino lc t from the west no 3 drift off the and is tunnel of the south hecla mine der the supervision of manager george watson of the latter company who is a heavy stockholders in the new corporation the objective of the work is the point of intersection of the east west fissures with tho the over thrust contact work resumed at cardiff extension work has been resumed on the property of the cardiff extension mining company just north of the reeds peak group in big cottonwood president M E price of the company states that last season a tunnel was driven feet on the property which opened a fissure showing values in lead and silver at a point about feet from the portal the new work will consist of a on this lead where the ore is making in white quartz near the limestone wall there was a ten inch streak of ore at one place assaying up to 40 a ton the management expects to install power this season michigan utah shipments from april to may ane michl michi gan utah will have shipped twenty five carloads of ore to the valley smelters shelters sm elters the aerial tramway from the mine to 0 o tanners flat in little cottonwood canyon la is reported to be in running order again and is handling a carload of ore daily the corn com pany has contracted with walter G and associates for the handling of the output of its mines when shall have completed his electrically operated surface railroad from alta to wasatch interest in peruvian A reat deal of interest is being taken at the present time in the peruvian mine in peruvian gulch and adjoining the holdings of the south hecla and other noted alta properties the peruvian is now being operated under a five year lease and bond by the miller investment leasing company of salt lake of which E C miller a veteran and successful mining man is manager in the development of the peruvian it is stated a huge fissure has been cut that is all of thirty feet in width and which carries values ranging from 8 to 25 per ton with a general average value of 20 per ton while in a crosscut drift from the fissure another vein from twelve inches to three feet in width has been cut that goes 48 per cent in its lead content with accompanying compa nying values in gold and silver ore from the latter vein is being mined regularly and is being stored in the mine workings until the roads become passable when regular shipments will be made to the valley smelters shelters sm elters under present market conditions the large volumes of second class ore in the mine workings should be handled at a profit by the company work resumed at logger general manager R D of the logger mining company reports that work at that property which was suspended recently because of the poor condition of the roads has been resumed with two shifts of men the tunnel is now in a distance of feet and has reached a vertical depth of about feet the ledge at the breast of the tunnel has been crosscut for a distance of seventeen feet between walls and shows stringers of excellent ore the company has just let a contract for an additional feet of tunnel work will gain depth rapidly from now on ore is being sacked at the property for shipment tar baby in porphyry charles R greene general manager of the tar baby states that the main tunnel which has now reached a total length a of 1100 feet has entered the porphyry and is showing a little lead and quartz some of which is highly stained with copper the work is being driven toward the limestone which is thought to be not more than fifty feet ahead conditions are reported to be satisfactory at the property strike in alta tunner general manager fred V bodfish of the alta tunnel transportation company has just reported an important strike in a raise above the companas comp anys long tunnel at a point about feet from the portal the find is about thirty feet above the tunnel level and the miners are now sacking ore for shipment but the extent of the strike has not yet been determined the ore is in a bedding plane of the limestone and Is dipping to the northeast and striking southwesterly the contractors in the main tunnel are making excellent progress in driving through the black limestone the breast is now showing a broken condition and is considered to be approaching the flora hagen vein which will be cut at a vertical depth of about 1200 feet from the surface this great undertaking is reacting an interesting te stage in its development work of alta aita central al manager alex colbath of the alta central mining company owning eight fractional claims in tile the heart of the productive section of the alta district states that since the company commenced operations last fall a total of feet of crosscutting has deen been done the main tunnel is ny nv v r sn nt a distance of 1650 feet and about feet within alta central ground A raise near the face has been sent up eighty five feet in the dolomite lime following a promising lead which is thought to be the famous braine fissure from which millions have been taken on adjoining properties the new raise is about feet vertically under the surface and feet on the dip of the formation the of the famous old emma mine are estimated to be about feet to the west of the central lines |