Show operations in grand county TIMES MOAB UTAH despite the recent financial flurry the outlook for a grea great t deal of development work on the mining property of the la sal mountains next year is extremely good work during the last season has been going along steadily and while individual owners have attempted little more than their regular assessments several companies have been spending large sums of money in the improvements necessary to properly work the claims the greatest amount of work by any one outfit has probably been done by the rio dolores copper company this concern is managed by thomas W crawford of denver with jeremiah nolan as local sup superintendent brinten dent the company owns the little dot high ore bryan gold standard japan dewey green mountain and home stake claims in bachelor basin it has spent about in building a road to the camp has built a large barn a commodious boarding house and a thoroughly equipped blacksmith shop it has opened up a good store in the old antles building at castleton while most of its force has been engaged in building roads and getting things in better shape for next years work yet something over feet of work has been done on the little dot mine it has a couple of cars of s shipping hipping ore on the dump in beaver basin the boston utah copper company with geo G heath as manager has been working all of the men it could get this summer it has put up a number of buildings and recently made a shipment of five tons of ore for a test the amount received for this ore has not been made public but that it was satisfactory is evident from the fact that the company has since put in winters supplies for at least fifteen men work will go forward during the winter without regard to cold weather the thomas W lawson brokerage company of boston has been acting as fiscal agent for the boston utah and this would indicate that its property was considered all right in financial circles J W beasley local manager of the grand la sal company has had four men at work during the summer on his companas comp anys claims which adjoin those of the rio dol ores the grand la sal is owned principally by provo capitalists it has recently made a survey for a patent of its claims L antles of grand junction for the victor mining company of which he is manager has put up commodious quarters purchased a new assaying plant and run a sixty foot tunnel crosscutting cross cutting the main contact some fine specimens have been shown from this tunnel but the main body of ore is not expected for at least thirty feet more in august the R J X thomson stamp mill in miners basin was used to make a run of 2800 pounds of ore taken from the dump of the tornado gold mining company the ore yielded 1240 per ton in gold on the plates and since that time by crosscut cross cut ting the company has developed a body of ore that averages 16 in gold the tornado company has done a great deal of re timbering this year has put in new tracks and snow sheds and has done about feet of crosscutting cross cutting three or four men have kept at work on the property all summer and a large force will be put on about february 1 on wilson mesa where the placer gold comes from several small outfits have been working during the summer and their work has resulted very profitably to them from present indications there will be at least eight or ten placer camps working on the mesa next year it has been demonstrated beyond a doubt that the dirt contains an abundance of gold and that the only thing necessary to work it profitably is water while it will require a considerable outlay to get the water on some of the ground yet there is plenty of water that can be secured and the profits derived from the claims will more than pay the expense of getting the water H E blake of denver has during the summer organized the lisbon valley copper company which is operating properties in lisbon valley on the south side of the la mr blake has bought outright a number of claims in the valley and has paid several thousand dollars in cash for them A number of men have been kept at work during the summer building quarters for the men and as soon as spring opens some kind of a reduction plant will be put in fifteen miles of road have been built by this thil company during the summer within the past month it has secured a lease on the toni tom daly property in lisbon valley the daly property is considered among the richest claims in this section A heavy cash payment was made on the lease and regular monthly payments will be made hereafter ter THE SMELTER SMOKE SITUATION IN UTAH 1 tacy 0 v I 1 VIN ilk N Z all sorry about the smell sir ant I 1 dont smoke for pleasure the doctors of metallurgy prescribed it from denver mining record |