Show DIAMOND DRILLING AT AMERICAN FLAG diamond drills are being used by the united states smelting smelling Sm elting refining and mining company to prospect the american flag property at park city utah which the smelting smelling sm elting company has taken under a bond and lease according to mining men from park city the drills are being sent down from the 1100 level besides the drilling operations the smelting smelling sm elting company is developing the american flag by following the leads of ore left exposed when the property was closed some years ago the american flag property is north of the ontario and east of the silver king coalition it contains twenty two claims approximately acres and has a production record of about in silver gold ore that was mined when silver was at a low price level the ore according to the records of the american flag company was a very high grade product nature of development two main fissure veins in quartzite cross the flag property the fissures intersecting both on their dip and strike most of the development work has been confined to opening the main vein in which a shaft has been sunk to a depth of 1060 feet with a sump sixty feet below this depth nearly a mile of laterals literals late rals have been driven on the various levels from the shaft on the eleventh level sixty feet below the 1000 foot level a thirty toot foot thick limestone stratum was encountered and from it some of the richest ore taken from the mine was extracted tr the ore from the limestone appeared to be higher in values than the ore mined from the fissure in the quartzite the american flag company had financial difficulties silver was low in price and the property was closed people who worked in the mine at the time it was closed say that the ore was going down strong from the lowest workings in the property to diamond drill other ground negotiations are now under way for the formation of a syndicate which will diamond drill prospect a large area of virgin ground in the park city district the ground adjoins the three kings property in which a strong and well mineralized fissure was found making into territory owned by the grasselle Grassel ll lt chemical company A thorough geological study of the ground has been made and it has been found that the park city limestone formation undoubtedly is traversed trave sed in the ground by the mineralized erali zed fissures the park city lime is the formation in which the largest and richest bedded ore hava hav hean beAul found folind in the district |