Show mn THE STATE 5 fair price advocate at the copper globe mine below perron development work is going steadily on fugate and curtis have the work in charge and state that they are finding some good ore most of which is enciu encountered in kidneys park record G D B turner superintendent in of the J L I 1 C reached the park thursday on his return from a trip to europe mr turner went to the british isles last november and informs the writer that quite a number of scotch capitalists havo have become identified with the J I 1 C bingham bulletin yampa tunnel is likely to become an important outlet for carr fork ore aside from the campas product A contemplated extension and branches of the tunnel if constructed will go considerably under present workings of the highland boy and tap several other properties at depth stateline Stat eline cor cedar city record george E teasdale manager of the blue jay extension properties at the west base of indian peak took out a couple of miners and a wagon load of supplies the past week manager teasdale says they intend to install a gasoline hoist and do some extensive prospecting the coming season park record L A jeffs and manager effinger of the wolverine with a party of eastern capitalists and mining men came out thursday and went over to the mine they did not make either their intentions or opinions public but it was easy to see that they were well pleased with what they saw oyer over in that section of this district st george advocate mat wicks the inveterate miner of southern utah was in town today he is just from the iron mines near cedar city and reports that about 60 men are now employed there himself and an associates the jones brothers are procuring patents for ten or eleven claims which they are turning to the colorado fuel iron iroil company park city miner work was resumed this week on the main tunnel of the copper gold company at big cottonwood after a short interruption by the which however did little damage the tunnel is in feet and it is expected to wt cut the vein at the foot level in the shaft which has cut the contact the ore carries 13 per cent copper ten ounces of silver and gold bingham bulletin according to survey the long tunnel of the bingham eastern is now DOW less than 60 feet from the I 1 X L 0 bedded vein following the jersey blue fissure it if is running in a good quality of milling ore that superintendent dugan has season to feel confident conf ident will make into a i large rge body of better quality at intersection of veins vein A shaft was formerly sunk on the I 1 X L that went into fine mineral but water prevented farther sinking without pumping machinery the tunnel has now drained the I 1 X L it ran into a large pocket of water the other day that caused a couple of days suspension of operations ore already in sight bight and the immediate outlook suggest that the bingham eastern people may put a concentrating mill on their splendid site in carr fork this season Marys marysvale vale free lance after a hard struggle with snow and frigid temperature the packers succeeded in getting pounds of ore down from the wedge mine and shipped it to salt lake yesterday it was a sample shipment for the purpose of determining its bulk value and best method of treatment the ore was forwarded at the request of dr franklin who is working the mine under a bond and lease bingham bulletin the mountain gem adjoining boston con is making a fine showing and is in shape to produce 50 to 60 tons per month of lead silver gold ore that nets an average of about 28 per ton its main tunnel is in feet exposing a considerable ore area on dump are now about 50 tons of ore that will be hauled when the roads are passable mountain gem group consists of four patented claims and is under bond and lease to dunn co mammoth record shipments of ore recently made from the bonanza property in west tintic gintic showed values of about 50 60 per cent iron and three ounces silver which netted the company about 30 a ton work is still being pushed at the mine and superintendent in vet whiting is now taking a party of mining men to the property to investigate its merits more thoroughly and it is probable that additional capital will be secured to push the morer acidly price advocate superintendent bossert of the raven mining company has thirty five m miners iners and eight or ten teamsters on his payroll at this time the properties are shipping about tons of monthly to the refinery and factory at chicago twelve dollars a ton is being paid for the wagon haul to the willow creek spur of the rio grande western but this can be reduced with the disappearance of the snow an increased output is figured on this spring and summer the product is worth about 65 per ton on the cars and the demand greater at this time than the supply tintic gintic miner L E riter jr was at the dragon iron mine yesterday the old quarry has been worked as deep as it is practicable and within a short time the iron ore will be hoisted through the foot shaft which was sunk two years ago by thomas weir the shaft which was destined to prospect the big mountain of iron at a depth search of more precious us metals of 1000 1 feet in has been connected with the big iron deposits and equipped with a steam hoist arid aid self dumping skips with a capacity of nine ine hours mr riter has tons ons every n bothin nothing g to ito say about a possible search for other ores than the valuable fluxing flexing deposits of iron but it is fair to presume that superintendent hickman will be instructed to follow any good indications that may be encountered milford times last tuesday the cave mine commenced the shipment of a carload of iron ore daily to the salt lake smelters shelters sm elters this ore carries over 50 per cent iron and the smelters shelters sm elters pay 2 per ton at the railroad in addition to all of the gold silver and lead values that the ore may contain some of it runs as high as 10 per ton in gold in making connections from the tunnel level with some old workings in order to get at this body of iron ore one of the eaves caves that have made the mine famous was broken broken into but it has not been sufficiently explored to determine whether it is as rich as some jf if those worked out in the early milford times the owners of the beacon near Shaun shauntie auntie Sh tle are feeling elated over the developments at that property during the past week the tunnel that is being biven for the old workings has gone into the vell vein opening up a nice body of carbonate ore this ore carries about 45 per cent iron with good values in gold aud and silver and is a most desirable flux for the smelters sm elters the tunnel will be pushed ahead to the old incline twenty feet further which will give it a depth of eighty feet during the early days day s the beacon produced some very high grade ore and there is abundant evidence that it will become a bonanza proposition it is owned by john fotheringham john forgie john leyshon garrett reynolds and charles smith 46 castle dale progress the san rafael mining company owning the sorrel mule group and other mining claims in emery county together with a large acreage of oil land in sinbad basin is on the point of reorganizing it is understood that colonel thomas H mckee clerk of the national house of representatives will head the new company colonel mckee is widely known as an energetic pusher and a man who generally succeeds in all his undertakings with such a man at the helm of a new company the sorrel mule which is regarded here as a good property soon ought to be developed into a producer it is quite likely that colonel mckee will put a rig to work on his companas comp anys oil property this land is the cream of the richest oil lands in sinbad valley |