Show AROUND THE strate STATE eureka reporter con J and joseph hannifin have a nice body of ore in their lease at the eureka hill mine and will soon be able to make a shipment john eva is also taking out some good ore from his lease near the centennial eureka road and will soon have a carload ready for the market st george eorge advocate george webb came in from the dixie mine sunday to spend a day or two with his family he reports that they have put the shift back on to the tunnel now and the full force of three shifts are again being worked some of the machinery for working the burleigh drills is now on the ground and the balance is expected within a few days good progress is being made in the tunnel and some high grade ore is being taken out of the old workings two teams are on the road hauling ore and supplies and the bin at the mine is nearly full moab times the future of la sal district seems to look brighter than ever before interests in the district have been obtained by men who realize that it takes money and plenty of it to develop a successful mining camp that it takes deep mining to open up the veins and turn a good prospect into a paying mine men also who do open clean work and are not ashamed to show their work to competent mining men A season with such men working in these lines will in all probability bring the long looked for results to the district richfield reaper J H nelson superintendent of the signal peak mine was in richfield the past week hi he brings good tidings from the property after resuming work the fore part of last month the difficulty which was caused by the slipping ground was overcome and a fine vein of ledge matter thirteen feet in width was uncovered since passing the slipping ground solid formation was again encountered and this has been entered sufficiently to give room to turn back and drift f for or the vein in solid ground it was expected to strike the vein this week splendid values have been tak taken en from the ledge mater this is a blind lead it is not expected to tap the main ore lead for another feet the strike is very gratifying however and adds to the value of the property and gives all the more encouragement to go ahead with the development work green river correspondence castle dale progress the outfit to prospect the colorado river bars from halls crossing down arrived in town a few days ago it con siss elsts mainly ly of a carload of lumber a ten horse norse power power keystone drill mounted on a traction car pipes casing tools etc to the extent of three or four carloads all this will go to the colorado river overland charley gibbons of hanksville Hanks ville has the contract for the freight freighting irig the prospecting will consume about three months and should the results be favorable half a million dollars worth of dredges and other machinery will be put in to work the bars systematically this is the austrian outfit and seems to have unlimited capital richfield reaper another good strike is reported from the bradburm properties east of the railroad in the canyon north of marysvale Marys vale A party who saw some of the rock says it was handsomely rich price advocate D came in last week from the fariette Pa riette mines and after a trip to salt lake city on business connected with the properties of which he is superintendent will return to camp considerable sid erable trouble has resulted at the pari ette lately owing to bad air in the main shaft and lower workings however this will soon be remedied and the usual output sent out to market by way of price the output of the fariette Pa riette is to be ma maintained in right along at tons a month but later on may be increased as the market for gilsonite grows there are at this time twenty four miners employed while the main shaft is down something over feet As more depth is attained the vein vein is is widening its width now is over five and a half feet with every indication of getting bigger the fariette Pa riette is having but little trouble with water which for a time last fall and winter bothered considerably mr thinks he has the greatest gilsonite mine in the world |