Show W F baker a prominent denver promoter has secured a bond and lease on the rice group of eight claims on rice hill stateline Stat eline district iron county utah the bond price calls for the payment of within a period of two years while work in the development and operation of this promising and valuable property is to begin with in sixty days at least in work is to be done on the property during the first year of the option and the second 1 year mr baker spent a week or more recently in examining stateline Stat eline properties accompanied by charles M shaw his expert a mining engineer of well known ability both gentlemen made the mining review an agreeable call the first of last week and expressed themselves as being highly pleased with stateline Stat eline as a mining district and predict great things for its future and they are at a loss to know why so many attractive propositions there have not long ago been secured by mining men and capitalists the probabilities are that work will soon be commenced in the extensive and systematic development of the rice property 0 the wolf creek mining development company of portland oregon held its annual meeting recently and elected a new board to serve for the ensuing year as follows dr E H thornton president hon john hahn first vice president dean blanchard second vice president M B D Doz bozorth orth secretary and manager E J wright treasurer scott bozorth A V pendleton J H deforce N bosler bosier and E A clem A descriptive article illustrated of the com banys property near grants pass oregon appeared in the march issue of the mining review the company is a strong one and its property is gilt edged |