Show it IR IV AROUND THE STATE U 14 IV t A I 1 washington county news the st george deorge copper mining co s smelter resumed running yesterday upon arrival of slag pots which had been delayed on the road manager george 0 walker walker reports good success with the smelting smelling sm elting vernal express an old prospector called at this office before we went to press and showed shoved us some samples of copper ore that beat anything that has ever been brought into this office it was brought from jones hole and the man claims he has a twenty foot dyke of it park record A shift of four men is is now engaged drifting on the contact in the creole the drift is now in a distance of thirty feet and is pyo progressing gressing at the rate of about two feet each day the operators expect to encounter ore in place at any ilme time now as scattering pieces are being found throughout the stuff taken from between the walls iron county record the pare page bros of little pinto are busily engaged in developing their properties in the pinto iron mining district among other things that is attracting their attention at present is a threefoot three foot vein of true anthracite coal so far as known this is the only body of anthracite coal in the state and is destined to become very valuable vernal express the uintah milling flume company have secured the services of 0 D allan and have placed him in charge of the saw mill which has been running for some time cutting lumber for the settlers here the company is now in a better condition than it has been for years it has employed an attorney for a year to look after its legal affairs and delinquents will be pushed to the front gintic tintic gintic tintic miner del Roberts who has a lease on the upper workings of the carrisa is loading two carloads car loads of as pretty copper ore as ever left the district it is a carbonate and will sample about 45 per cent of the red metal the ore comes from froin the north drift on the foot level and there is quite a large body of it the company is steadily continuing prospecting from the bottom of the foot incline shaft bingham bulletin the drift started from ben butler lower tunnel at 47 5 feet from the mouth is now in feet and will be pushed on to the high grade ore body disclosed in upper workings at breast this drift is showing four feet eight inches of milling ore similar to montezuma product intersected by small rich streaks on the upper and lower dumps are nearly tons of milling awaiting facilities for transportation tintic miner the on the silver park level has been sunk to a depth of seventy five feet and is yet in ore there are large bodies of low grade ore both in the old and new workings which will run 20 per cent lead 6 ounces silver and from to in gold a splendid concentrating proposition and a plant is one of the certainties in the spring in the meantime sinking and the search for the high grade values which generally follow such a showing in tintic gintic district will continue provo democrat alma graves who in company with J W beesley is working the provo claim in slate canyon reports a most encouraging showing he favors the democrat with samples of high grade ore and shows assays essays from picked samples running as high as 85 per cent copper the provo is a mine and will be persistently developed while the formation is poc ketty it is most favorable for big returns when the vein is exploited as the owners advise us it will be richfield reaper john meteer and charles voight came home from salt lake last thursday john is vice president of the jessie B weimer weimer mining company operating at deep creek and has been very busy with office work in the city for the past month mr voight has been out at deep creek in the interest inhere A of the company they both are confident that that is a great coming mining section and just as soon as a railroad enters will have a startling revelation for the state the railroad now seems assured mercur mercury As in other of the old diggings stockton is having new life infused in its industrial arteries and several of the former producing mines that have laid idle for years are again being successfully worked and new properties are being opened opened that have not before received attention in the list of well known producers in tootles To pioneer camp which are again making a good record is the west argent bunker hill silver coin honorine catherine while others are scarcely less prominent and ere long the list will be largely increased park record the writer write r gets it from a reliable source that plans and specifications for a large modern sampler of the most approved pattern are under consideration by at least two large park city companies 9 and that at no far distant day work on the site would begin while the site has not been made public it will not be far from the camps limits another sampler for the park would indicate more than unusual activity in mining circles circled for samplers are only built when the demand calls for them not for experimental peri mental purposes and we hope there will be no hitch in the proceedings mercur mercury dick mcallister met with a painful accident last evening about 5 while engaged on assessment work on a mining claim for john green and partners up near the gladstone mcallister had put off some shots just at quitting time and one shot hanging fire he went back to ascertain the cause when the shot went off the rock badly cutting him about the head and body some men coming down the gulch later heard his hia calls for help and went to his assistance and brought him to town to 1 wn drs castleman robertson dressed the injured mans wounds and pronounced them not necessarily dangerous iron county record thompson frew the energetic mining magnates from from the sevier were in cedar monday purchasing supplies and arranging for an aggressive campaign in the interests of their mining properties in the pinto iron mining district they have been employed for some time in developing a promising body of anthracite coal a short distance southeast of pages ranch we are informed that they design putting on a good force of men in the near future besides their coal prospects they have some promising copper and lead propositions on the string and when the threatened boom strikes this sec section tion thompson frew will be numbered among the lucky ones |