Show around the state slate bingham press the yampa is employing more men each day they have completed their head house and are now putting the ore buckets together to be in readiness for the tram which is nearly completed richfield reaper the Drad bradburn burn mining company under the direction of J W sargent is working a number of men on the companas comp anys property in horse heaven ore assaying 2000 in gold has been found mr sargent believes he will soon have a shipment of rich ore park record the american flag property is again on the shipping list this week and though owing to the reluctance of the th e management in discussing such affairs for publication it is i s understood that the shipment is a heavy one and of the high grade for which the flag is famous american fork citizen the citizen i is authorized by the surprise mining company to state that owing to the lateness of the season and the uncertainty of metal markets they will not ship ore to the smelters shelters sm elters until next spring teamsters however will continue to haul ore to be stored here until them richfield reaper the old clyde mine in which phenomenally rich ore was struck early in the fall and from which shipments were made has temporarily ceased working because of the refusal of the smelters shelters sm elters to buy the ore there is a large body of ore in sight but no encouragement to take it out unless it can be sold richfield reaper milan packard the banker of springville Spring ville utah has just let a tunnel contract to dana gibbs and sidney black of marysvale Marys vale on his property a quarter of a mile from tile the bully boy considerable rich ore is shown on the surface of this ground and the owner is driving the tunnel to tap the vein at greater depth park city record the coming of spring will probably see some action taken in tho the silver king consolidated property it being tile the desire of those in a position to understand conditions up there to resume operations as soon as possible at present except for the two watchmen tile the consolidated is deserted and after this storm will be just about snowed in eureka reporter A N holdaway Hold avay of the th e sioux con says that the drift from the foot level is now in a distance of about fifty feet and that the showing is in every way encouraging considering the several delays which have interfered with the work splendid time has been made in running this drift and within with in a very short time the sioux should encounter the ore park city record an entirely new innovation for park cites mining equipment is the new automatic mucking machine re thursday by the daly judge company from the salt lake engineering works the big machine when placed will do the work of several men and operates on the steam shovel principle though somewhat of an experiment in this camp the new machine will doubtless prove successful compressed air is the muckers duckers muc kers motive power eureka reporter john R vance states that the assessment work has just been completed upon the orient property in west tintic gintic in doing the assessment work this year the miners opened up a two foot body of silver lead ore and it is quite likely that arrangements will be made whereby work can be continued upon the property this ore carries about fifteen ounces silver 10 per cent lead and some copper judge 0 W powers of salt lake is one of the heaviest owners in the orient eureka reporter superintendent charlie limbaker baker states that the leasers leaders are acre taking out considerable ore from the eureka hill mine these days but of course the copper ore is not bringing them near as much money as in the past the eureka hill company has a good contract with the smelter and the only thing that has ha s affected the mine is the slump in the price of metals particularly copper mr baker says that about sixty five men are now at work upon leases in the eureka hill and that the mines output for the last month was awen ty three carloads the shipments for the present month will be about the same as during november eureka reporter H F gear who was in during the week from the property of the great easter mining company in north tintic gintic says that an open fissure has made its appearance in one side of the shaft this is a splendid indication in that section as it was beneath one of these open fissures that ore was first encountered in the old Bal hinch mine which lies between the great easter companas comp anys ground and the scranton the shaft at the great easter is now down to a depth of about feet the company may decide to put pui a small block of treasury stock on the market and thus raise money with which to continue the development work bingham bulletin it is said that in dis mantling the bingham 1 consolidated smelter at bingham junction that a find amounting to nearly has been made in ore furnaces flues and pots of the plant this it is said to have been recovered from the the sifting of lost values incident to smelting smelling sm elting operations in which a portion of 0 f the more valuable metals has from time to time dropped out of sight and become deposited in the furnaces and flues in breaking up the old plant it is said that these savings have been collected and show the enormous values given above most of these savings was made in collecting the flue dust which had alcum accum accumulated d in years past when the I 1 4 plant was treating high grade custom ores as it is a well known fact that rich values in in gold and silver accumulate in the plant during the smelting smelling sm elting operations din dinham bingham ham bulletin the copper glance shut down temporarily friday this was not because the copper glance was not making its usual good showing but in order that the available cash supply of the company might be directed to the development of the old illinois mine which is one of the bingham amalgamated group as is also the copper glance superintendent E J saw yer in an interview friday declared thai tha the illinois was the most promising property in the bingham zone the vein is nine feet in diameter with an average of per cent copper which is far above the general average of the product of the bingham mines two feet of this vein runs f per cent copper two shifts are at work driving a raise on oil the and foot levels when the raise is connected with the shaft the property will be in condition to work to the best advantage |