Show I 1 ELMER HILLS FORTUNE bingham bulletin the fortune mines constitute a property to which the bulletin has frequently referred in notes touching its output development and prospects the reporter is partial to the fortune because it is one of those rare prop positions ions that from grass roots has been opened and put in shape for large outputting with its own product under careful management many a mine that never earned a dollar on which has been spent has never made as good a showing as can now be seen at the fortune within it has upward of two miles of development ore areas of indefinite extent read ready y or easy to be made ready for sloping while the places from which thousands of tons of ore b have ave been marketed are insignificant ant compared with that in sight without a glance at the dumps conveys some ide idea a of what has been going on within they contain over tons of milling ore say nothing of great piles of waste scattered about the company is to be congratulated on arriving at a time in its affairs when with the funds in it its treasury it ib can take up the work of building a mill and with its successful completion enter upon a career of dividend paying it is not unreasonable to think that within five years vears the company is likely to be mentioned among the wealthiest of utah this must be the reflection of any person qualified to pass an opinion who visits the fortune mines the group consists of awen tyone ty one claims containing div five distinct mineral veins nearly all the developments to date are on one of the smallest veins EMIR EZ 41 Z NT 5 na 5 A A z 4 NV AN N A 11 r am 41 7 r A 0 g 44 10 zt rw 1 I ile V ia UT 1 1 I ft li 4 WA mt m mv xa vez za Z q w w 0 o IV 3 A A 4 ey A W ra 7 M X A 0 42 z v a TKO MR N 4 1 ra v al g IN A A L THE FORTUNE MINES BINGHAM it having been comparatively easy to open it has enous enough h milling ore in sight to run the mill a year say nothing of dumps which latter would pay for building two mills as much of is said to be good enough for crude shipment that is is would pay expenses the mill efte will be graded soon as ti cable and manager hill hopes the mill will start its wheels early in december it will have tons capacity the machinery to include a rock breaker two sets cornish rolls 1 two double or four single filfly tables jigs 11 1 1 and devices for saving float copper and lead upon its completion mine and mill will be operated to their full capacity i in the same issue the bulletin says the highland boy is making history that seldom has had a parallel in mining about two years ago system systematic aVe development was begun on the prospects in carr fork originally acquired by the highland boy company the i following spring sufficient grou ground nd had been 5 opened to warrant erecting a mill for treating oxidized gold ore and it wasa was accordingly built afterman Af teran extended exploration of copper sulphide areas underlying the oxide it was determined to discontinue icya ding and erect a smelter that would require all the ores for fluxing flexing flu xing thus the cyanide mill was operated but a few months last may the smelter started up a bucket tramway two miles in length having in the meantime been installed to deliver ore to the railroad thence to be transported to the smelter bins now tons per month are 2 delivered and treated with results apparently parent ly diore more satisfactory than was or could reasonably haac b been anticipated last week tuesday a shipment of pig copper to the refinery valued at was made we do not remember the number be of pounds it was followed this week by two lots amounting to pounds valued at from present indications over pounds of pigs will soon be turned out weekly from weekly arrivals of ore that will foot up 1 1700 to 2000 tons all reports deac reaching hing the bulletin say the highland boy can beet meet this great drain indefinitely as large areas of new ground are being steadily added to its re so soirees vrees while has only fairly begun surely mate material rial for such a record as this mine is making is rarely found but a little over two years old asaline as a live property it is now making an output nearly as large la rge in tonnage n as the entire product of bingham of a year ago another new strike is reported in the redwing mine at bingham the new findring find being eing made in virgin ground in in a drift started some time ago through what had been supposed to be one of the walls of the vein in which the company is now working but little work being 11 required to expose a fine body of rich ore word comes from lehi district near bin bingham th that at a two foot body of go good 0 d ore h has as been disclosed in the mayflower mine |