Show DIPS SPURS AND ANGLES word icom comes es from silver city tintic gintic that a nice body of copper and lead has been exposed of late in the workings of the elrey mine the elrey years ago ago was one of the leading wealth producers of that section the little pittsburg mining alining I 1 company has secured government patent to its group of six claims a few miles north of mercur and just across the canyon from the chloride point mine on lion hill I 1 it t is linder understood stood that the little pittsburg is in excellent physical condition with an encouraging showing of good milling ore in sight in its wor workings kincs at a meeting the stockholders of the morgan gan mining company held in this city on tuesday night of last week it was decided to accept colonel theodore brubacke Bru backs offer of for the property of the company which is located squarely on the great min mineral belt of park city it is the prevailing impression that this valuable ground is to be added to the holdings of the daly west mining company in which event the daly west will take rank as one of the greatest mines in this intermountain inter mountain region claim holders on antelope island have filed a protest ir in the local U S land office against the issuance of patents to certain portions of the island as agricultural land as they claim that the ground is more valuable for mineral than for the raising rai sino of corn wheat lucerne or potatoes s with the magnificent showing of copper ore in in the hol holdings dinas 1 of the mineral claimants it looks as if it would be an outrage on t the part of the government to bar them out and to give th this 1 s barren section to individuals who merely want the island as a 11 grazing place for their cattle the annual report of the ontario mining company but recently issued discloses the fact that this old bonanza and divi dividend dand payer is in fine condition for further and profitable operation in this report the statement statement is made that the ore sales for the fiscal year upon which the report is based amounted to and the bullion sales from ontario mill tailings treated at the marsac mill while the operating expenses footed up to leaving a cash balance of in the treasury of the company on december st george news W W old returned from the dixie group of mines thursday and in conversation with a representative of this paper said the mines were showing up better all the time as development progressed A carload of ore and bullion is now being hauled from the mine to st george whence it will be shipped to salt lake via modena for treatment the new furnace was started up wednesday and is working very success fully from ten to twenty tons of ore will be run through each day with this furnace another furnace of the same size is contemplated and excavation for it has commenced it is intended to increase the force of hands employed and run two shifts when the two furnaces are arc running 0 |