| Show here and there around the state mining operations have started at the old jukes mine nine miles west of kanosh C D ahlstrom is working the mine under lease two feet of high I 1 grade has been struck 1 and about sacks of ore taken out for shipment it is reported topographic mapping of parts of the tintic gintic district including the eastern end and a section of the northern area has been completed ed C N assistant topographic engineer engineer in in the united states geological survey who has been detailed on this work since july left during the past week for sacramento cal headquarters he was assisted by albert smith and clare J peterson both of salt lake A vein of pay ore has been struck in the stansbury range anthe on the monarch claim of the falk mining 6 company twelve miles south of grantsville Grants ville according to the tooele thoele Tran transcript P t the vein has been proved for more than feet and an assay report of december 3 shows values of 46 ounces silver and per cent lead the property is located near the old third term mine developed in the early days davs I 1 high grade ore has been struck in the beaver grown crown mine situated near milford the vein which has been followed from the grass roots to a depth of about feet and which has already produced in lead and silver has been opened up to a width of two feet of high grade ore a sample of which assayed ounces of silver to the ton per cent lead and 2 gold according to jeremiah stokes salt lake attorney the nordberg hoisting plant at the gemini mine at eureka is being transferred to the shaft of the north lily mining company this hoist one of the larger capacity will replace the one with which sinking has been done at the north lily grading for the hoist has been completed and cement foundations put in place the north lily shaft is down about feet with the heavier hoist of the electric type sinking of the shaft can be accomplished more quickly george otis smith director of the united states 6 geological eo 6 survey will probably be the next president of the american institute of mining and metallurgical engineers the nominating committee head headed edby by R V norris has named mr smith as director and president W H bassett director and vice president george D barron barren director and second vice president other directors are H C bellinger robert E tally karl eilers J V W and PI G multon john roundy for many years connected with the knight mines of this district in the capacity of superintendent says the E ureka eureka reporter was back in tintic gintic during the week and in company with president A T madsen made a trip over the ground of the standard extension located on the eastern slope of the tintic gintic mountains work wa was taken staken up on this ground more than a year ago and since that time the shaft has been sent down a distance of feet machinery installed buildings erected and some drifting done on oil the level W J elliott ely mining and business man better known among utah and nevada mining nien men as ole E elliot I 1 was recently in salt lake looking after his ophir and other interests mr elliott did the dimond diamond drilling at ophir which proved on the lion hill side of the camp the lime stones productive of millions on the ophir hill side the dark clark interests owners of the famous ophir hill mine are now drifting from the 1400 level of their new lion hill shaft in an effort to locate the down faulted segments segment of ore bodies so productive in the ophir hill section of the camp production of the park bin bingham harn mining company for the month of november totaled 1593 dry tons an increase of tons over octobers total the previous high month for the organization decembers production total will show a corresponding increase over november according to manager F E porter during the first eleven months of the year the company produced tons of dry ore which gave cave a net smelter return of or an average net smelter return of 1411 operations at the park city property where important developments are expected at any time are making excellent headway royalties on utah coal lands collected by the government from october 1 1927 until september reached a total of it was stated by B W dyer district mine mine supervisor for the united states geological survey a few days day ago thirty seven and one half per cent of the total amounting to goes to the state school fund reclamation receives receives 51 per cent or while 10 per cent or is used by the government for supervision purposes mr dyer said that there were at present forty two coal leases embracing acres twenty eight coal prospecting permits covering acres have been granted and three licenses embracing acres also have been allowed by the department oliver ward in charge of the development campain campaign an which is is being Z conducted on the property of df the tintic coalition company the ground of which is south of silver city states that work is now confined to the main tunnel level two headin headings g s are being 6 driven one in the face of the tunnel and the ithe other a crosscut cross cut to the west recently the main heading cut a very promising ising deposit of quartz quart and mr ward says that officials of the company are expecting to encounter ore within the next fifty or one hundred feet the face of the tunnel now has a depth of feet during the time that prospecting was under way below beloN the tunnel level some large bunches of low gra grade de ore in in which there were small bunches of higher grade material were opened and at some future date the management will reno sume work there possibly finding a way of treating treatis the low grade ore |
