Show around the state slate nearly feet of timber were sold to one purchaser at the sale of sevier forest timber conducted recently according to information received by dana parkinson supervisor per visor of the wasatch national forest bidding was spirited the chief consolidated in the tintic gintic district has commenced doing annual assessment work on a large number of claims owned by it in the north and northeast portion of the district two big shafts will be put down and other individual claim work will be performed as well A splendid ore showing had been developed to the northeast from the obrien in the silver king coalition mine according to mine manager M J daily the strike is on the 1100 level and is of utmost importance in that it shows a fissure system which strikes for five or six thousand feet through the coalition ground to be ore bearing giving the company a large area of virgin territory to explore at the property of the eureka lily company the operations are confined to the 1800 level where considerable prospecting has already been performed under conditions which are highly encouraging for the past two months superintendent york hat been following the south fissure which widened out and was intercepted by an east and west break carrying some very good ore it is the intention of the management to continue work on the main fissure james mchugh a miner of eureka tin tic returned recently after spending several days in wasatch county where he has an interest in a valuable phosphate deposit the ground which carries a large deposit of phosphate is located but a few miles from midway and while it has not eyt been developed to any extent mr mchugh has opened the deposit sufficiently to know something of its value together with his partner he has filed application for a lease on the ground phosphate deposits not being open to location like other mining lands |