Show AROUND THE STATE eureka reporter the victoria gold mining company of north tintic gintic is preparing to secure a united states patent upon four claims which are included in the group mrs R S robertson will probably let a contract for fifty more feet of drifting moab times ed wolfe has got his burro train started he is packing ore from the michigan group of claims owned by and peavey they expect to make a mill test of ten tons of that ore and then make another start on the tornado eureka reporter the new machinery at the star con which was started up for the first time a couple of weeks ago is jiin running very smoothly and superintendent turner is now placing the mine in proper shape for the campaign of development work which has been outlined bingham bulletin six carloads of concentrates cen from the red wing mine which were treated at the walls mill were shipped to salt lake the latter part of last week the concentrates were tried out at the dewey for the purpose of determining the best method of separating the ore values bingham I 1 bulletin L R morser manager of the mystic shrine returned from denver early in the week and left immediately for oregon where he has gone to inspect some mining property the local manager will be absent about two mo months and upon his return a campaign of development will be inaugurated at the mystic shrine it is the intention of the management to sink on the vein which was opened up some time ago bingham bulletin three cars of ore from the montezuma property at bingham were at the smelters shelters sm elters monday and another car is being loaded for market manager peter porter says that no less than tons of ore will be sold this month nearly that much was marketed in august though the first car was not ready until the ath of the month and there was several days that it was impossible to get teams to do haukas gaultn from the mine to the railroad eureka reporter the leasers leaders who have been conducting a cleanup clean up at the eureka hill mill have about completed their work which will give them about pounds of mercury and two bars of bullion the mercury is said to be worth about 50 cents per pound while the bars of bullion are valued at each the machine of irvine spriggs which was invented by that gentleman for the purpose of separating gold from sand was used to good advantage in the cleanup clean up of the old mill park record manager W J lawrence visited the scottish chief the fore part of the week and found conditions there to be most encouraging material for a shipment of ore is being piled up the same averaging 35 per cent lead and 25 ounces in silver the ore is being followed from the level with a and on the the lowest level in the mine the contact is being followed and bunches of ore are encountered regularly it is thought that twenty five feet further will bring them into the big ore shoot park record at the st louis magnolia the hoisting works is being stripped of its ma machinery chinery 1 and equipment and being made ready to receive the new steam plant to be installed there very soon excellent progress was made with the old machinery gasoline engine etc until the work became too heavy for it on account of depth in the shaft water etc when it was decided to replace it by a new and heavier plant within a month if all goes well the new equipment will be ready for the resumption of work moab times manager dark clark of the in ter state mining and milling company of gold basin who was in town this week stated to the times that the mine and mill at that companas comp anys property in gold basin will begin work at the beginning of the coming month this is good news to the country on account of a misunderstanding elstan ding among the stockholders of the company it has been hard to go ahead and considerable 0 money has been tied up in the mine and mill there there is some good low grade ore there and it should be one of the best camps in this section eureka reporter the new compressor of the yankee con is now furnishing sufficient power for the work at the mine in fact the company will have power to sell to some of the other mining companies contracts were recently let for drifting upon the and foot levels the contractors who were at work upon the foot level found that they had taken the work at a figure that thai was too low to admit of any profit and consequently gave up the work good progress is however being made upon the foot level professor B N lehman states that the company may decide to sink a main working shaft this shaft will probably be put down to much greater depth than any of the present workings bingham bulletin an excellent and very rich body of copper sulphide was opened up the latter part of last week at the ohio copper the fact that the rich mineral was located in unexplored territory is sufficient evidence the management declares of the unlimited resources of the mine it was opened up on crosscut C no 8 on the foot level the drift being fairly f peppered with fine ore and wide stringers pierce the face in every direction containing the ore in shipping grades the disclosure of copper sulphide in such generous quantities is considered to be significant and the management is elated over the strike work on the new shaft for the mine was started the early part of the week and will he be rushed along as rapidly as is practicable ti eureka reporter six blocks of ground in the upper workings of the uncle sam mine were turned over to leasers leaders last laft saturday these leases are all above the foot level and while the company has taken out a great deal of ore from these old workings there are still many small stringers of ore which the leasers leaders believe will lead them into something good it was in the upper workings that the company found some of the richest ore shipped in recent years and it will not be at all surprising if sonic some good strikes are made superintendent C C griggs has given the leasers leaders a more liberal form of lease than exists in most of the tintic gintic mines where the leasing system prevails and this will enable them to mine and ship the lower grade ores at a profit under the contract which the uncle sam mining company has with the smelt ers richfield reaper manager J H nelson and al rowley came down from gold mountain monday to attend the annual meeting of the stockholders of the signal peak mining company they brought a very encouraging report of conditions at the property the new formation struck in the tunnel is the same as that which cases the vein followed for over feet in the upper workings it is not known how thick this casing may be extended but according to the report of an engineer who has recently examined the ground should not be over feet and possibly not over fifty feet at the meeting the old board of directors were reelected elected re as follows D D hanks president al rowley vice president E E hoffman secretary and treasurer J H nelson and W C dodge it was decided to continue work right along to tap the veins the company is in a good good healthy condition and the outlook is very hopeful with the prospect of some very important news coming from that property within the next few months st george advocate that the utah f S eastern copper company is not built of the kind of material that lays down when over takei with misfortune is evidenced by the expense being undertaken for the repair and improvement of the road from the smelter smeller to acoma A fairly good road had been constructed 0 ver over this route prior to the heavy rains of a few months past but at that time an immense amount of damage was done since that time quite a force of men have been maintained on the road and some thirteen or fourteen miles of the road have been gotten into very fair condition over this stretch of road the companas comp anys freight is hauled by a fine new traction engine and a train of three or four cars but from that point to shem the freight frell ht is hauled by the old team method at a high expense now the company has decided to complete the road clear to the smelter just as rapidly as possible and isaac C macfarlane has been employed to super superintend intend the work at a cost of nearly 9 in addition to this a force will be on the east end of the route by the company |