Show AROUND THE STATE richfield reaper john dark clark of salt lake visited the B W H property last week and returned to the city well satisfied with the work that is now going on for the development of the property richfield reaper dr W H has returned from a trip to the colorado river where he has been looking atter after his mining property there he says there is some talk of resuming active operations in the placers along the river at no distant date tintic gintic miner N N brown returned to west tintic gintic monday to continue the work on the prairie bell group of claims there is a fine showing of ore in this property and needs a small amount of development to make it a paying mine tintic gintic miner the scotia mine started development work this week and it will be continued indefinitely the last work done in the mine developed some very fine ore and is supposed to be the continuance of the rich taken out several years ago wasatch wave encouraging lepor reports ts are coming in from the elkhorn mining district the nelson boys of park city have recently cut a four foot vein of high grade ore in their property harmon cummings is so much encouraged over the indications at his property that he has put on another gang of men making three eight hour shifts there are other promising prospects in the district and mining men are looking forward to lively times this season bingham bulletin work in the great strike in the silver shield which was reported several weeks agoras ago has been partially suspended owing to the large quantity of water from the upper workings this has now been overcome by another upraise tunnel to the level of the ore body and the ore struck by a cross drift the ore body at this point was found to be equal to the first find the trouble from water is now nearly overcome and the outlook from now on is very bright park record manager john G rhoden of the american flag property went to the city afternoon to look after a shipment of six cars of ore made from his mine the fore part of the week when asked regarding the condition of the american flag mr rhoden stated that it was looking as good as ever and is perfectly satisfied with the showing being made mr rhoden has conic come to the conclusion however that the machinery now in use is not t beav heavy y en enough ough to do the work as depth is attained and a larger quantity of ore is being raised so that in the near future a new plant for this property is among the probabilities mr rhoden had nothing to say regarding the mill which the company may build on the roadside below the mine but we do not doubt that the matter has been duly considered by the company and that construction work may begin this summer president is in salt lake again after a prolonged absence in michigan where he has been for the benefit of his health price advocate two oil drilling concerns are arranging for business on the lower san juan not far from bluff city the district has been thoroughly prospected and the indications are said to be excellent cel lent the deep erosions ero in san juan canyon show at least six distinct oil sands of varying thickness of from thirty feet to feet of sufficient porosity to allow a high degree of oil saturation As oil has been found in the fifth sand as well as in the first it is generally surmised that the intervening sands will also be well saturated castle dale progress the copper globe property southeast of df ferron promises to be a shipping mine soon after the litigation that now hangs over it is lifted the property is opened up by three tunnels one about feet in length another close to feet and the third one about 60 feet A shaft or two has been sunk and crosscuts cross cuts and drifts run and ore ore is in sight in all of them in some places the mineralized body is from 12 to 15 feet wide three men are now at work for one of the owners and dr snyder is soon to let a contract for sinking the norma shaft now down 94 feet an additional dit ional 50 feet |