Show AROUND STATE tintic gintic miner reports from the star cons are to the effect that the recent strike on the level is opening up big and the management meni feel elated at the showing being made washington co news an elegant piece of copper ore weighing pounds and which averages about 58 per cent copper is on exhibition hibi tion at john store it is from the apex mine in the dixie group richfield reaper W F mitchell the mining man came down from salt lake sunday and has returned to his colorado river placers he purchased a new lot of supplies while in the city to replace those lost by the sinking of his boat a couple of weeks ago washington co news john S ferris returned from bull valley recently bringing with him a number of samples of ore from that rich region mr ferris has been prospecting out there for some time he left for his home at bellevue the same evening stockton correspondent tooele thoele times the het hercules cules is working quite a force and shipping regularly a fine quality of galena ore for which that mine is noted the west argent and no U dont mines are working a small force each and hope to soon be shipping again bingham bulletin manager hill shipped about forty tons from the fortune in june and will soon have a similar batch on the market the fortune lower tunnel is now in 1850 feet mr hill says that aside from the dump he has ore to keep a ton mill running steadily for a year and september may see a mill going up on the fortune mill site st george news twelve hands have been temporarily laid off at the apex mine owing to the furnace giving out caused by fireclay fire clay of poor quality the fireclay fire clay was obtained locally and contains an excess of lime which makes it unfit for the work A shipment of bf firebricks fire bricks was received from salt lake this week and new furnaces are being erected As soon as they are tested the men laid off will resume resume work A new foundation has been put under the engine which is now working good the assay outfit has arrived sanpete democrat interest in the potassium and saltpetre salt petre mines located southwest of manti is growing this week a german expert was in the city and went out to inspect the claims he pronounces them as fine as adv in the world the locations comprise six claims and are owned by william H peacock and john patten of manti the edwards 9 brothers of Si sterling erling and john patten of baltimore md mention of which was made exclusively clu in this paper some weeks ago two of the claims have been bonded to a german company for the foreign capitalists taking a 90 day option on the property our prediction a short time ago that in the near future a prosperous mining camp would be established down by the banks of the san pitch is being fulfilled gintic tintic miner S E Cra crager gerand and charles harris are pushing work on the quo vadis under the management of william harris with most gratifying results the ground adjoins the old lancaster now being worked by the hope mining company on the north and consists of two claims the lone and howard the gent gentlemen leme n have reached a depth of feet with their incline shaft where they encountered a body of quartz heavily impregnated with iron iron pyrites and galena at this depth the ledge has widened out to thirty five feet the shaft will be continued for sixteen feet when a drift will be started for the ore |