Show around the state manager AT R evans of the columbus rexall at alta reports that early in the month about eighteen inches of ore was encountered the strike is reported to be holding out well barney B quinn a awell well known bingham mining operator of lays days gone by and a prominent real estate man and politician of salt lake died at his home in this city on the at the age of sixty years F C calkins a member of the united states geological survey is at present organizing gan izing a party to survey the mines of the cottonwood district this survey which was begun last year will be resumed in american fork canyon diamond drilling in the three kings at park city is said to have definitely located the true ore bearing lime beds in the property and drifting and raising with good prospects of opening up substantial ore bodies has been resumed an important strike has been made in the keystone property at park city superintendent in andy hurley gives the news that on or the K K level no 3 a new ore find has been made since the vein was broken into it has been drifted on twenty feet and crosscut for twenty feet all in 75 ore and still going the earnings of bingham mines or its subsidiary eagle and blue bell this year have been consistently good for both companies the average monthly profit representing Bingha ginghams Bing hams own earnings and its 95 per cent equity in eagle and blue bell has been nearly whereas last year the company showed a deficit of some A strike of high grade silver lead leaa ore is reported by manager W E gordon in the property of the comstock silver M M company in american fork canyon the ore was tapped in the foot tunnel and assays essays run as high as ounces silver and 70 per cent lead jacob greenwood of american Anie rican fork is president of the company toni tom okeefe one of the best known nill H men in utah has taken the of the griggs huish haisli concentrating plant succeeding william deason mr okeefe 0 keete has been with the local company for or the past few months assisting in the tal lation of the machinery and he is thoroughly iho roughly familiar with every angle of the concentrating game shareholders of the zuma mining com dy have elected according to the eureka reporter the following officers and directors P J pennell president frank D kimal treasurer W F shriver vice dent t james knowles and rasmus nelson taking making up the board of directors harold has W F shriver as secretary of the company in an effort to bring the lower levels of the iron blossom of tintic gintic into the productive stage the development work which was started several months ago is being carried along in the usual manner with no important developments as yet the drift is being sent out from the 2200 level and is now in a distance of about 2500 feet its objective being a big quartz blowout which shows on the surface and which is still some distance ahead the tintic gintic drain tunnel which is being driven for the purpose of draining the district is now in a distance of nearly feet and there is no intention of stopping the work until the project is completed notwithstanding recent reports to the contrary A force of miners is now engaged in driving a raise to the surface for the purpose of giving better ventilation this raise being started at a point about feet from the portal |