Show around the state since the installation of the big pump on the 2000 foot level of the ontario at park city important development work and prospecting have been in progress and ore bodies are expected to soon be uncovered work has been suspended at the property of the copper leaf mining company located in east tintic gintic the shutdown shut down is but a temporary one and it is understood that development of the ground will be resumed about the first of the new year the park utah was recently in the market with another shipment of ore and reports from the property are of a very encouraging cou raging nature the working force is being increased and two shifts are pushing developments in a satisfactory manner to the management As the result of the slump in the price of copper and the expiration of a smelting smelling sm elting pon contract tract things are pretty much at a standstill at the old mammoth mine at eureka utah although manager earl mcintyre is keeping his force together and using them in development work and in blocking out ore R D maxfield salt lake mining man accompanied compa nied by E M tripp of murray recently left for white pine county nevada to investigate a placer mining property in digging a well according to the information given mr maxfield several specimens which showed good values in gold were encountered on the level a nice vein of ore evidently a continuation of the ore body cut on the and levels has been opened up in the Nail driver at park city A good grade of ore is being mined and marketed every week there is a good surplus of cash in the treasury and the future of the property is decidedly encouraging at a distance of feet from the portal of the tunnel two and one half feet of silver lead gold ore is reported to have been struck in the property of the big cottonwood bonanza company about the end of last month supt bupt jim pritchard is quoted as saying that the discovery was made in a fissure crossing the lime quartzite contact according to edward sutherland who is managing the property of the pinion queen mining company of east tintic gintic there has been no new developments there within the past few weeks but nevertheless the mine is looking exceptionally good to officers of the company work is still being pushed in the bottom of the shaft with three shifts and a depth of feet has now been attained it is currently reported that the pittsburg mine on the divide between alta and american fork canyon has recently been acquired by new york capitalists through the acquisition of the controlling interest held by the late alexander tarbet A number of engineers have inspected the property recently and it has been known locally for some years to have an excellent showing of milling and shipping grade ore A report was brought here by J P merritt who has valuable mining property at six mile spring that the imperial lead has struck a body of good grade ore says the tooele thoele bulletin the strike consists of a shoot of ore cutting through the large body of low grade ore which lays blanket the shoot dipping at an angle of more than forty degrees the strike will make it possible to resume shipments at imperial notwithstanding the decline in the price of lead conditions at the utah apex mine according to recent advices advises from bingham are reaching a most satisfactory stage three hundred tons per day of ore are being put through the mill and about tons of concentrates cen are recovered from this tonnage shipments of first class ore to local smelt ers are averaging about tons a day the surface plant has been brought up in recent months to a high point of efficiency and an oil flotation unit recently installed is said to be giving satisfactory results park city record while the big smelter of the judge mining company is closed tight thanks to the unfair methods of the state utilities commission the superintendent head carpenter chemist and one or two others are still on the payroll to keep up experimental work and to keep things in readiness for resumption of operations when the smoke of battle of election is cleared away and normal conditions again exist all the employed emp loyes of this plant were given employment at the mine and mill of this company if the present progress can be maintained the new no 2 shaft of the chief consolidated mining company should be completed by the end of the present month or quite early in december for last month the contractor made 1319 feet of sinking and also placed concrete in forty feet of the shaft early last week the shaft passed the 1750 level and present plans call for a depth of 1888 feet before sinking will be stopped for some time the shaft has been in a solid shale formation and the con concreting cret of the last feet will be deferred until the job of sinking is finished the most important mining news of the week says the park city record of recent date is the starting of the drift on the of the ontario to drive over under the shaft of the Nail driver this drift will cut the latter property at a depth of about 1300 feet feet deeper than at present besides prospecting the Nail driver territory this drift will prospect virgin ground of the ontario and much is expected from this phase of development for both properties from those versed in the geology of this section of country this is considered one of the most important mining moves of the year settlement sheets have been received at the local offices of the louise mining company operating in the big cottonwood district for lot no 3 sent down last month from the mine while the values are not high enough to he be regarded as exceptional they are according to R 0 dobbs mining engineer and general manager of the company entirely satisfactory in that they demonstrate on strate something of what may be expected with the development of the ground the shipment showed values of 2223 ounces silver and 2995 per cent lead the ore values approximating 66 per ton this ore was taken from one of a series of leases which are considered as only a leader to the main body |