Show around the state ground is being broken for a new building at the tintic gintic standard mine this structure to serve as an office for the company and it will contain store rooms for mine hardware and other supplies the new assay office which was recently completed is a very nice little building stockholders of the montana bingham consolidated mining company in annual meeting elected the following officers and directors H H green president charles E adderley vice president J R brain sec detary treasurer frank A G mackenzie A L headberg and harry dowman bowman north standard mining company has started a drift from the 1100 foot level of its shaft according tol to reports from the mine A station feet has been made on the drift level the station has been well timbered and space provided for all requirements such as motors fans etc the shaft is 1150 feet deep providing a large sump below the drift level reports from the king coalition are of the most encouraging nature and much first class ore is being mined work is progressing in steadily in cleaning up the ruins of the recent big mill fire and the work of construction st on the new will commence as soon as climatic conditions will permit and material is secured when work is commenced the mill will go up as if by magic park record preston G peterson of provo secretary of the dig big indian copper company was in moab on his return from the claims miles south of there he stated that the he buena vista copper company leasing the claims has made good progress toward the completion of the copper mill at present the company is not operating on account of the pipe lines being frozen up but within a few weeks operations will be resumed mr peterson was accompanied by T L ammon of provo a mining and oil man drifting has been begun upon the 1100 foot level on the north standard mine in the east tintic gintic district according to secretary john dorlus dorius for some little time preparation pa par ration alion V for this work has been carefully made A I 1 large arge station twelve by feet has been constructed on this level and sufficient space provided for the installation of a motor and a ventilating fan used in drifting upon the foot level and other purposes drifting was not started until the station was carefully timbered and adequate space for all purposes provided reports from brigham city dox box elder county are to the effect that charles E havene representing tho the utah mining 40 milling company of denver has closed negotiations with alonzo barker of willard whereby the utah mining company acquires the mineral rights of the barkers in certain mines on the hillside east of willard also including the lorenzo barker home in that city the company will take possession about may 1 when extensive operations will commence it is stated that the utah min ing milling company will erect a tramway and thereby convey the ore down to the foot of the mountain and from there trucks will be used to convey the ore to the hauling station mr havene secured an option on the property some time ago superintendent fred johnson says that the connection between the new no 2 shaft and the older workings of the chief consolidated soli dated mine at a depth of 1800 feet has been made and that the opening means much better ventilation in that portion of the property where so much work is in progress immediately after the connection was made the temperature in lower levels of the chief was lowered quite noticeably plans which are now being carried out call for handling quite a lot of waste material from the 1800 level through the new concrete lined shaft the force at the old shaft is always rushed in order to take care of all of the ore waste and supplies needed in the mine and by switching some of the waste over to the no I 1 shaft operations underground will be greatly facilitated |