Show DIPS AND ANGLES james long jr of kimberley one of the stalwarts stal warts of gold mountain district is spending the holidays with his daughter in this city it is reported that there is a very fine showing in the workings of the ingot mine at mercur and that the ifie drifts ar are e in a large body of oxidized pay ore fred brown of boise idaho with the boise national bank was in zion christmas and transacted some important business here before returning home manager A L copeland of the taylor brunton sampling works company made each of the companas comp anys forty salt lake employees a nice christmas present on monday of this week the sacramento of mercur shipped flasks flacks of quicksilver to the new york market the consignment being valued at and over R W of beaumont texas oil driller for guffey galey arrived in salt lake on christmas and will soon begin sinking for oil in the near vicinity of farmington C S short one of the pioneers of fay nevada was in the city the first of the week mr short states that fay is booming and that the outlook for this camp is all that could be desired desfred ralph watson assayer and metallurgist who has charge of the west companas comp anys mine near palisade nevada is in the city for the holidays his many friends here are giving him the glad hand the lio holiday liday number of the daily herald was a splendid issue containing as it did a review of the resources and industries of utah and adjoining states the mining section was especially good and its preparation denotes care ability and experience on theeart the part of those in charge of this department the catawba mining company of salt lake held its annual meeting last week and elected a new directorate as follows judge bodkin president and man manager ager thomas F chantron secretary and treasurer oscar potter axed ered A smith S S martin R B hall and elbert stewart the company owns promising property nea near r frisco utah the iron county record published at cedar city utah utah has enter entered ed upon the eleventh year of its existence the record Js one of the best of our exchanges and is a credit to its publisher and to the town I 1 C S wilkinson editor and publisher is a born newspaper man and is making a most excellent paper out of the record J LP LF hittle of rawlins wyoming vice president of the venus mining company operating at stateline Stat State eline lifie was in the city last week weak from a visit to this promising gold property mr hittle states that the working shaft is now down a depth of feet the shaft is being sunk on an east and west vein in which there are seams carrying high values at the foot level drifts will be run both ways the intention being to cut the north and south contact with the west drift the surveyors survey ors for the moffat road are now in hobble creek canyon near provo jesse knight several years ago surveyed and still holds a right of way for a railroad through the canyon which may prove profitable to him in the event the moffat people decide to come down the canyon price advocate reports from loon creek bring very encouraging cou raging information from the crackerjack group of mines owned by C E eddy and others A strike in this property was made z t few days ago that resembles the lost packer of which it is a neighbor it was in iriving driving to tap the ledge 1 I at a vertical depth of eighty feet that twelve inches of ore was uncovered and while no assays essays have been made on it bannings pann ings have revealed the presence of many colors while a previous test revealed eve aled as much as 14 per cent copper messenger challis idaho the henry mountain mining district some ninety to miles southeast of cas tl edale hs again been brought prominently before the public by reason of the work ind some assay returns obtained by kimball turner who have done considerable work down that way the past eighteen months these gentlemen decline to live ive the public the assay figures t but those in n their confidence state that the ore runs high and will pay to mine and ship robert forrester the geologist of the utah fuel company is to be sent into the district to make a thorough examination of the property and if his report is as favorable as his employers anticipate there will be no unavoidable delay in getting down to the work of extensive and scientific development progress castle dale utah considerable excitement exists among some of our people in relation to the shirts canyon coal prospects and a number of filings have been made within the last ten days mr hopkins has eight men at work making road and opening up the country andrew corry is interested interest etl in the prospects though not associated with mr hopkins who is away at salt lake city mr corry in speaking of the coal said it gives off very little if any smoke in burning another gentleman whose name we do apt feel at liberty to mention expressed himself of the opinion that the harmony coal measures are only a bit that has been een broken off by some of the great upheavals of the past from the main body which is to be found in the neighborhood of shirts canyon measures be this as it may there is evide evidently fitly something worth looking after in these comparatively ively now new coal fields record cedar |