Show ar around oun d the state the pacific pacific mine has hauled a carload of galena ore to american fork assaying 36 oz silver and 70 per cent lead the force has been somewhat increased at the mine decision has been reached by the chamber of commerce mining committee to invite the american institute of mining and metallurgical engineers to hold its 1925 convention in salt lake the four mile railroad under construction from the milner iron properties at deseret mound to iron spring will be completed july according to A C milner As soon as this is completed shipments of iron ore to the salt lake smelters shelters sm elters will be bein begin b in the ore will be used in fluxing flexing flu xing mining operations at the gemini mine are now confined to the day shift the night force having recently been laid off As most of the work is being done under the leasing ing system the plan of working but the one shift will not slow up operations to any great extent the gemini is owned by the chief consolidated company while the new quincy is down in price as regards stock selling superintendent hurley does not feel a bit despondent as to its future says the park record conditions have improved wonderfully during the past month and the chances of developing 9 a mine are more promising than for two years past accordino according 6 to those in authority manager cecil fitch of the chief consolidated can see no reason why the in milling illing t plant which his company is erecting should not be in operation s some ome time in august early in the year the chief officials made the statement that the mill should be running in august and the construction st work has been kept well up to schedule word comes from west tintic gintic that glass and fuller lessees lessels on the old sharp mine are developing a fine body of ore recently encountered in a tunnel that carries 55 lead and 12 oz silver that a shipment or two has already been made and that the outlook for big production is excellent the lessees lessels started in with the idea of developing manganese ore and encountered the lead ore after running through the manganese deposit copper production jumped from pounds in 1922 to pounds in 1923 according to figures compiled by the united states geological survey and by reason of this advance utah became the third where it was fourth in last producer year largest copper in both 1922 arizona was the leading copper producer second each year but utah in 1923 years years and montana was p passed assed michigan which held third place two years ago late last week the campaign of development work which for a number of years has been handled through the main shaft of the north beck was discontinued says the eureka reporter however S bupt supt apt A donaldson is using a number of men in surface mining and there are reasons of the other workings working irs is but believe that the closing to the north beck property i is s con controlled controller trolle d by bye E temporary J president of the tintic gintic standard mining company A tract of coal land jn in the castle Castie gate district com 11 1818 acres was leased eased to lewis A lawyer by the register of the salt lake land office a few days ago the land one of the largest single units to be offered in in recent years was opened for lease on mr lawyers application and he was the only bidder under the terms lie he must spend not less than and bring the property to an annual production of tons in three years the governments royalty is 10 cents per ton M F jolley contractor at the alpine galena mine in american fork canyon has recently been busy transporting a small air compressed and gas engine to the mine the machinery has been used at the stewart mine in silver lake district samples of the wall rock and vein of the alpine galena show a rich iron carbonate and the management is much encouraged over this improvement in physical appearance later reports are that some high grade ore has been encountered and taken out J C dick and fred cowan salt lake mining men were in eureka during the early part of the week visiting a number of properties among them the may day and uncle sam now consolidated under the name of the mountain view mining co says the eureka reporter mr dick who is the president and general manager of the new mountain view company says that a couple of men have been put to work in the south end of this mineral tract A prospect heading will be driven in the uncle sam workings I 1 pending the launching of a more extensive development campaign supt bupt merriman reports that fine headway is being made in the sinking of the shaft at the apex standard property a af gintic tintic since the lime was encountered the work has been speeded up to some extent and at the present the shaft is going down at the rate of or feet monthly according to the eureka reporter last week the shaft had a depth ot of feet and according to mr Merri mans calculations about feet of sinking is about all that will be needed to connect with what is known as the level the work on the level was carried on from the old shaft and some ore was found surface work at the keystone mine goes forward unabated with only about 60 per cent of the contemplated improvements finished in addition to enlar enlarging in 6 the boarding house a twenty five room bunk house ha has s b been een erected a new assay office a change bromn a large carpenter shop and various other additions and improvements are under way in the mine conditions were never better according to superintendent andy hurley connections have been ma made de which will greatly facilitate the output of ore from now on and the future of the property is exceedingly bright three shifts are on in the mine and another shift will soon be at the mill the put on keystone is not ver very y far away from the dividend paying mark park record |