Show around the state slate R E davidson is associated with T C brooks who is an expert on fullers earth matters in looking up a deposit of this material in the immediate vicinity of price utah R G of salt lake has gone down into washington county to resume work at the bull valley gold mining com banys properties the bull valley mines produced considerable gold a few years ago J 0 A carper of denver was a recent visitor in salt lake utah on his way back to denver from lincoln inyo county california where he has become identified with one of the big gold propositions now attracting attention the assays essays and chemists of salt lake city utah as a result of the increased costs of labor and advance in the prices of materials which they claim is it in many instances from to per cent have been compelled to add about 30 per cent to their charges for assaying etc the new scale of 0 prices went into effect on april about two months ago the old upper levels of the centennial eureka mine at tintic gintic was opened to leasers leaders lea sers it now 1109 is reported that the company plans grant granting irIg leases in the deeper workings where it is said the chances of making good money are excellent the centennial eureka is owned all but a few shares by the united states mining smelting smelling Sm elting refining company henry barney who is in charge of the work out at the tintic gintic drain tunnel being baing run to un water and make pos possible still deeper mining in the district utah states that the big tunnel is being driven drivel forward at the rate of fully feet per month with the machine drills cutting through a solid formation which requires no timbering the tunnel is now in a distance of over a mile and while timbers were necessary for the first 2500 feet the formation afterwards changed and better headway was possible the face of the tunnel now haa a depth of about feet and it is under stood that it will gain depth quite rapidly during the next or feet no water has yet been encountered and none is expected for some time yet since the completion of the goshen valley railroad to the iron king property in the east tintic gintic utah district about a carload of iron ore a day has been going to the american smelting smelling Sm elting refining company it is expected to increase the shipments to tons daily in the near future superintendent N W roberts is reported as saying that his company has let a contract for a certain amount of drifting on the 1665 foot level which is the deepest point reached in the new shaft on this level two drifts are being driven through most promising formation showing aliza tion mr roberts is devoting his attention to the mining of iron ore and the prospect work on the 1000 level where an important break was recently cut and where he is confident he will be able to open commercial ore according to information recently released by the company the last hundred feet in the spiro tunnel of the silver king consolidated of park city utah has passed through two or more water courses and encountered there is said to be every indication that the bore is entering the fissured zone which strikes southwest through the old consolidated workings and the silver king coalition the discovery of ore is now a possibility at any round according to the officials of the company usual progress is not being made owing to the extreme scarcity of miners tor for some time past efforts to recruit an extra shift have been unavailing and the management has been compelled to do its ita best belt with a short crew on april 1 the tunnel was a little more than feet from rom its portal and within 2500 feet of the amstock comstock om stock shaft |