Show around the state the radium company of colorado is having twenty three mining claims of the old kearns group in dry valley san juan county surveyed for patent this will be the largest group of patented mining claims in southeastern utah the work is being done under the direct supervision of J E weston i field superintendent of the company figures which were recently compiled show that the average earnings of the men engaged in leasing in the iron blossom mine have been running between and per month says the eureka reporter something like six ty five men have been following the leasing game in this property and as there have been no sensationally rich leases practically everyone in the mine must be making some money four inches of high grade ore are being followed in the howell mine in the south fork of big cottonwood adjoining the cardiff mine according to reports from the alta the showing is approximately ft above the tunnel level in in a drift from a raise made to get under the ore bodies productive in the old baby mckee mine work is being continued steadily it is said to reach the downward extension of the baby mckee shoot the recently reported new discovery of ore in the west toledo mine at alta is on the toledo fissure in the same limestone as the cardiff ore bodies were found in the opinion of D J lemmon mine manager for the company mr lemmon said the ore was encountered in a drift run to the northwest about 20 feet from the top of the raise the raise is about feet vertically above the main tunnel level and consists of two vertical raises that are joined by a short drift following a protracted illness due to cancer of the stomach don carlos robbins veteran field man scout and adviser for many utah coal companies and concerns interested te rested in iron deports de posts died saturday the ath at los angeles funeral services and interment was held at that city where a son and daughter of mr robbins reside mr robbins was born at salt lake february 6 ar 1852 being in the seventy first year of his age age at the timed time of his death A bill directing the secretary of the treasury to purchase 7 ounces of domestic silver over purchases now contemplated at 1 an ounce was introduced in the senate by senator william H king according to a dispatch from washington the treasury depa department rement informed senator king that the purchases provided for by the pittman act would at the present rate be completed about september the bill introduced by senator king is designed to require the purchase of sufficient domestic silver to continue the 1 an ounce price for at least a year after the pittman act expires it is a somewhat similar bill toone now under discussion in congress that would stabilize the wheat market by federal purchases |