| Show around the state the utah apex mining company V S rood superintendent has brought suit against the utah consolidated mining company claiming trespass the wrongful extraction of ore and damages to the extent of the companies operate two of the heaviest producers of the great bingham section shipment has commenced from the old laurel mine in the dugway district operating under the management of J P larsen the ore is hauled to faust a distance of about fifty miles by motor truck it is said to run as high as 67 per cent lead and 15 ounces silver the company has a big tonnage of mill ore opened up the liberty manganese company reports that it has received settlement for a carload of ore from the olson debunce ground near marysvale Marys vale at the rate of 41 a ton it averaged per cent manganese A good tonnage of ore has been opened at this property the company is operating in the erickson or west tintic gintic district also the western utah copper company duncan macvichie general manager is deepening the main shaft at its property at gold hill to reach the foot point and to prosecute deep exploration work work is also under way in the older parts of the mine and regular shipments are being made the company is said to be planning concentrator construction at little salt springs eighteen miles south of wendover G W lambourne general manager for judge mining smelting smelling Sm elting at park city reports that work of enlarging the zinc smelter is progressing rapidly and that the new units probably will be ready for operation by december the new capacity will be tons per day or more than double the present size the grade of spelter being turned out is running better than government requirements a recent assay showing per cent zinc tile the main tunnel of the louise mining company in the little cottonwood district is now in a distance of feet and at a vertical depth of about feet it is expected to cut the lime quartzite contact before the foot point is reached this is the contact upon which the cardiff and columbus rexall developed their great ore bodies and important developments are expected in the louise in the near future R 0 dobbs prominent mining engineer is general manager for the company sinking has commenced below the 1300 level of the tintic gintic standard at dividend in the east tintic gintic district and the contractors report good progress with three shifts at work part of the machinery for the companas comp anys new electrical equipment has reached the ground but it will probably require from two to three months to complete its installation the new hoist will have a capacity of pounds at 1200 feet per minute and will be one of the finest surface equipments in the district the mine is shipping its regular heavy tonnage of ore E J is in charge the american consolidated mines company has been organized to operate the bog and earle eagle groups in american fork canyon capitalization is shares par value 1 each george E hemphill is presided pres president ideA and general manager J D blue vice president and C M beck treasurer the bog comprises twelve claims opened by a tunnel feet in length and which is about half way to its objective and the earl eagle has ten claims opened by an 1800 foot tunnel which is due to cut its objective within another fifty feet the two groups are in different sections of the canyon and both have promising futures the horn silver mines company operating a famous old dividend payer at frisco is now shipping about 1000 tons per month mostly crude ore it comes mainly from the upper workings some prospecting work is under way down to the 1200 the mine has been a producer to the 1600 level the recent meeting of stockholders held in salt lake elected the following president jacob vice president alexander B simonds and M S hirschberg secretary the directors are as follows and A B simonds E B critchlow sydney T perrin harvey N wadham W R britton charles brenneman nei iian william J barrette and H S young benjamin B lawrence is consulting engineer and william H hendrickson manager |
