Show THE STATE 1 51 lie it rog is mt 44 Bina bingham harn bulletin superintendent superintend ten ent roberts of the Tie G S INT co will vacate the Winn Winna amuck murk mill on the when the red wing company is to take possession and run it for a time on silver hill ore bingham bulletin after several years devoted to development work the congor codger property is showing an extensive area of first class ore blocked out and the company is arranging to soon begin a busy production much of the ore runs high in copper and will be sought after by smelters shelters sm elters moab times the grand view company have made a very promising strike on their ground I 1 above castleton and are working three shifts a day now now driving on the vein the company has done a large amount of work on this property and deserves the promising reward that seems to be in sight bingham bulletin A 50 ton shipment of first class ore running high in lead will be sent out this month from the parnell by the highland boy con co superintendent smith was planning to make the lot tons but had to partially suspend outputting on account of bad air piping has ha now been put in and remedies the difficulty price advocate G R potter of the greystone quarries at colton accompanied by J IN M miller of that place was here sunday and the next day went into the hills west of price to examine some gold and silver prospects which had been represented to him as good they returned monday afternoon with samples which will go to the assayer for testing beaver clipper geo E lane superintendent of the horn silver tunnel has commenced work the horn silver tunnel is located on the same lode as the horn alv silver mine and the ledge is a well defined one carrying lead silver and some copper the development work so far done on the mine has given the owners a great deal of encouragement as the rock assays essays high in silver and lead stateline Stat eline sentinel the iron mountain copper co have all of the material on hand for their new 80 h p steam hoist and are putting things in shape for extensive development work under the sup supervision e of T J frew this company own five copper claims at iron mountain and the ledge or deposit is immense one shaft is now down feet and another one 80 besides several drifts and tunnels aggregating feet more price advocate twenty residents of wayne county have located several hundred acres along a sandstone ledge the crevices of which are filled with a tarry substance commonly supposed to be some form of oil but which is now identified as the purest asphaltum similar in character to the gilsonite of uintah county the ledge is located near the center of wayne county not far from loa and has been traced for about ten miles it has a slight dip to the east but is almost in blanket formation the I 1 location of the ledge is miles from the rio rib grande western and the product would have to be hauled that far by wagon before it can be placed on the market there is a steady demand for all the gilsonite or pure asphaltum that is produced as it is very useful for the insulation of telea telegraph raph and other electrical wires and for other purposes moab times the bringing in of the machinery for a copper plant at court house rock indicates big things for the copper prospects of this section two oil drilling machines and a copper plant all on the desert now and work being rushed on every prospect in the la means that eastern utah will be in a boom next season the like of which has been seldom seen those who are in on the ground floor can look on antly st george advocate george B lund returned from silver reef last monday he was there on legal business excavating is in progress for the cyanide tanks of the new leac leacher ber which will shortly be erected with which to handle the tai tailings linas from the barbee and walker mill the lumber and machinery are expected any time now the work is under the supervision of benjamin hastings he says there are quite a number of new faces to be seen about the camp and that more life is noticeable than for some time 1 park record at the daly west workmen are employed putting a six inch pipe from the 1200 level up to the collar of the shaft the piped pipe will empty in a bin on the 1200 in the pipes the concentrates from the mill will be dumped and shot down to the bin from where they will be loaded into cars for transportation through gh the tunnel the work is all but completed and the pipe loader will be in operation in a day or two it will make a decided improvement and simplify the hundling handling of the concentrates park record supt bupt richard campbell of the wabash telephoned us last night that the shaft had reached the foot marks mark and that the gallows frame would be set up today I 1 the new permanent engine will also be placed today the bed being completed work on the new compressor pit was also started today and in a short time mining at the wabash will be going r along with increased speed the new gallows frame constructed ted by M H pape is said to be a fine piece of work and different in many features from any other in camp tintic gintic miner sam mcintyre sr came out from salt lake saturday night t to see that everything was in readiness for the dropping of the stamps at the mammoth mill mr mcintyre stated that terms had been agreed upon with the management of the star cons for the treatment of the milling ores from that mine but that operations are hung up because there is no crusher at the mill and he did nob consider it advisable to put one anat in at an e expense of probably 1000 until it was determined whether the plant would handle the ore profitably the presence of mu much chspar apar in the star ore is a ha handicap d to its concentration the break in the pipe line has been repaired and all the mines that draw water from that source have resumed work park record henry welsh made a visit to the wolverine and intervening properties the first of the week at the wolverine he be found a strike had bad been made in the upper tunnel tannel at a distance in of about ninety feet the ledge and ledge matter has been penetrated a distance of about fifteen feet and still they are not through it foreman cody says the rock gives satisfactory returns in lead silver and gold mr welsh brought down a piece of it which certainly looks well at the lower tunnel work is beina bein driven right ahead in the direction of the ledge and has reached the foot mark park record the wabash these days is the scene ot busy operations foreman wm win campbell was down to receive a large consignment sign ment of machinery arid and informed tb the record that new boilers air compressors engine and other machinery would soon be installed the hoist is nearly completed and other outside improvements under the diorec tion of M H pape are assuming a completed state the shaft is now dov down a distance of feet and is gaining depth at the rate or of about five feet a day E everything very thing has the most encouraging appearance and th the e operators art are well satisfied park record on the heels of the strike in the wolverine in snake creek comes the news of a similar strike in the st louis and vassar ground by the leasers leaders of this property the claims lie just beside the wolverine and the two men working there brought 11 in the news the first of the week tb that at in the lower locier workings at a distance of only eight feet in ore was encountered the extent of the body is as yet undetermined but as ore has been struck in three different places on the ground it looks decidedly encouraging A piece of the new strike brought over when submitted to assay returned ounces si silver 1 gold and 64 per cant lead |