Show around the state A sanitary survey of the smelter town of tooele thoele utah has been made by the united states bureau of mines encouraging knowings owings sn of ore have been exposed in the property of the utah silver lake mining Z company in the silver island district fifteen miles northeast of wendover according to james harrison who with manager W W fowler made a visit to the mine william B dornacher and G W swanson both of massillon ohio were in moab recently conferring with miners they are touring the districts of western colorado and eastern utah making a study of the fields and getting authentic information regarding the outlook for future production they are connected with a company which is contemplating either the purchase of properties or the purchase of ore in large quantities utah metals company is preparing to join the b general mining resumption here says a recent bingham dispatch A force of men are at work in the mine cleaning up power has been connected up and mine operations will soon be underway improved price of makes it possible for the company to operate the resumption of activity in the camp to date has been on a broad scale all of the deep mines are pushing production to the limit due to the good prices obtained for metals one carload of ore shipped last week by the american leasing company operating properties in the mary ellen gulch american fork district gave a net smelter return after treatment railroad and sam plying charges of 2354 according to Ma manager madaffer 6 C B ferlin A second carload of ore of the same character was shipped a few days ago the body of silver gold copper mineral which was opened up last fall in a raise from the main tunnel level is yielding b in a gratifying manner to development an important strike was made recently at the property of the victoria mining company a subsidiary of the bingham mines company when the crosscut from the seventy foot raise connecting with the 1875 foot level encountered a fine bunch of silver ore in which there are gold values and some lead A few days ago more than ten feet of excellent ore was exposed and it is quite evident that the work of the next few days will add greatly to the present showing superintendent william owens states that approximately feet has been added to the known ore bearing territory bein being about that distance below the next nearest ore bearing tn lev level el |