Show in the alta the question of the transportation of ores from the little cottonwood cotton wood side of the alta cottonwood district of salt lake county utah seems to have now resolved itself into tile the length of time required for the laying of rails to alta W K of the aaa cottonwood transportation company states that twenty seven men are now employed on oil the grade of the proposed railroad into tile the camp and that the work is so far advanced that the laying of steel will commence before the middle of the present month tile the money for tile the road which will be of from to tons daily capacity comes from eastern sources several of the mining companies have signed shipping contracts with the transportation corporation ore in copper prince tunnel interest in the camp has been largely centered on developments at the michigan utah property since drifting on the grizzley fissure commenced last month this has now been followed for a distance of nearly feet and has varied from nine inches to three feet in thickness an average sample taken at intervals of five feet for a distance of fifty feet returned values of ounces silver per cent lead 12 per cent iron and gold giving an average value of about 30 a ton to the ore the object of the present work outside of the development of tile the ore showing is to reach the point of intersection of the grizzley and lavinia veins the latter is one of the strongest leads in the district and important developments are expected when it is opened by the copper prince tunnel the company plans to sink a at the point of intersection to a depth of about seventy five feet where both veins should cut the limestone granite contact judge norman W I haire of salt lake president of the michigan utah consolidated mines company states that the miners drove the copper prince tunnel a distance of feet during june working two shifts carbonates at maxfield general manager fred H vahrenkamp of the boston development company states that the ore coming from the recent strike of carbonates in the companas comp anys maxfield property is averaging around 90 a ton A recent carload showed returns of gold ounces silver 17 per cent lead per cent copper and per cent iron which is a fair average of the ore mr vahren kanip mp says that the ledge is showing from LL to eight feet wide and has been followed for over teet on the 1800 level 1 the ore is making 61 0 ff f effit inter d the Inn estone beddings and geologists conversant with the e district figure that it is possible that the e company is opening up another cardiff ore body A number of fissures have can con adur ate din that block of ground showing in big iron blowouts blow outs above the workings the blowouts blow outs are forty feet wide and as long as feet and are well shot through with lead A peculiar fact connected with this big show showing ing of carbonated 11 es in tile the tat fact aliat if u 1 s feet feer belaire V permanent ir says that development work has interfered somewhat with shipments but that they can be increased at any time south hecla shipments shipments from the property of the south hecla mining alining company have been reduced to about fifty tons per day owing to the recent order for curtailment from the smelt ers this rate is easily maintained from the wedge ore body the ore coming from the above the and levels george H watson general manager for the company states that the production could easily be doubled if it could be marketed development work in the lower levels of the property has also slowed up perceptibly owing to the great amount oi or surface water coming in from tile the mel melting snow As soon as this condition clears up the work of development will be pushed as in the past extension will develop ore body surface water is impeding operations at the south hecla extension property also to a certain extent however good progress is being made with tile the crosscut which is being extended toward ane companas comp anys property from the quincy tunnel level of the south hecla mine the ground beyond the ore body recently opened by this work is in a condition and timbering is necessary preparations are under way for the development of tile the ore body according to the terms of the right of way held by the extension company all ores encountered in south hecla ground may b be e mined for a distance of seventy five feet on each side of the tunnel the body was cut at a vertical depth of feet from t the surface and perhaps feet under the 0 contact where important ore d developments are expected general manger manager mand george H watson of the south hecla fining company is managing operations at the extension property also sells cuts wedge assure officers of tile the sells mining Coni company pany of which A 0 jacobson is manager last information that the week gave out tile the sells workings have opened ane wedge fissure in the crosscut it w was as encountered to the northwest from the no 5 raise and shows about twelve feet wide all heavily mineralized A raise has been started on t this ills fissure to reach the bedding planes in which the ore is known to make ship ments from tile the K P workings recently acquired by the sells company are expected to commence before the middle of the month old emma transferred A ja jacobson has disposed of his option on the old emma property to charles W be belser ser of new york who probably represents the eastern interests back of the emma copper the ground embraced in the deal comprises about sixty acres and the mine wh which ich is one of the most famous in the west is credited with a past production d i of the jacobson interests have been carrying on development te work v ork in a small way with two men who have been retained by the new management outside of this the mine has been idle for years but it is stated that the new n ew owners plan extensive operations the deal was handled by dern thomas of salt lake lease operations at albion R S witcher and J IV hennessy les sees in the wellington workings of the albion expect to have their new milling plant in operation by the middle of the present month it is designed to handle about forty tons daily from which eight or ten tons of concentrates will be secured all of the necessary equipment of the plant is now installed and the mill is to be started as soon as the connection is made with the power line to the property the installation of which is practically completed the leasers leaders have shipped a considerable tonnage of high grade ore since the roads were opened in the spring and to this they expect to soon add shipments from the milling plant this will consist of two products one zinc and the other lead silver A large tonnage of mill dirt is opened up in the old workings of the mine reeds peak promising president W D lewis and director frank andrew of the reeds peak mining ning company have just purchased additional equipment for the property inci including machine drills rails and pipe the motor and compressor which were recently delivered have been installed as has a water line 1500 feet in length the main tunnel is now in a distance of practically feet the formation in the face is changing and the management looks for ore developments within another fifty feet of drifting the work in this ghisi property is being tone done in the modern and thorough manner characteristic of the operators of the park city district where most of tile the stock is held wasatch mines tunnel started the wasatch mines lines A company has started its long bore d designed to cut tile the companas comp anys property at a depth of feet under its present lowest workings superintendent T wi blake says that work on the big adit is to be rushed and he ex expects pacts to be able to finish the tunnel the total length of which is to be from to feet within eight months A study of the geology of the country has convinced the com banys engineers that the drainage of the property will commence when the tunnel has been advanced 2500 feet yo io that it may inay he be possible to commence deep development work within the present year A large and profitable tonnage was shipped from the lower workings of the property years ago when it was known as the columbus con solidad soli dat so that the driving or the long tunnel is not a blind venture two men have been put to work on the old free coinage property located west of the peruvian and adjoining the gladstone some very rich ore was shipped from this ground in the early days of the camp but little has been done there since it was patented about twenty yeara ago the ground is opened by a foot tunnel which was run to catch an east west fissure at depth A forty foot shaft on the fissure is said to have produced a shipment of ore worth a ton the present force at the property is soon to be increased and the tunnel is to be extended to the fissure still several hundred feet ahead J B F darmer and C W king of salt lake are interested in the ground president charles R greene of the tar baby IN mining company states than an incline raise is to be started from the breast of the companas comp anys tunnel as soon as the new compressor and drills are installed it is figured that the contact between the schist and limestone will be reached within awen ty five feet by the raise with the breast showing an increase in and considering that the contact will be cut near where it is intersected by a porphyry dike the management is confident of encountering ore in paying quantities when the contact is explored the old woodlawn property in big cottonwood ton wood adjoining the michigan utah on the northeast has just come forward with a shipment of zinc ore the lot comprised twenty seven tons and assay returns showed per cent zinc 16 oun ounces ces silver and 7 per cent lead the property is opened by a main tunnel feet in length and by dinzes to a depth of feet from the surface it is reported to have a good showing afore 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