Show nllGIIAMo I V I there was aught upon which the I energies of the Blngham miner were trained in 1000 that failed o accomplishment accom-plishment there Isab ndant assurance t that it Mil be achieved in 101 for I never In the mpt history has It started l on an anniversary so well equipped lndeedth53 wOrk of 1JOO was i largely < preparatory preparatory In I that it contemplated and had In view i I the harnessing of forces with which toe I to-e moTC 11 the ensuing sea son i a tonnage of ore unprecedented In the story of Utahs diggings Nor from this campaign of preparation was I I the Highland Boy robust ward of the I Utah Consolidated Mining company excluded for while its output reached I total of over SOOOO tons during the I I year all the while its equipment was L I devel being enlarged and Its sinews oped that double that tonnage may be I I handled tho present year Then there I way the Incessant roar and blast of energetic en-ergetic preparation on the widespread domains of the United States Mining company that the year previous to their withdrawal from the market produced 1 pro-duced 11000 tons ot ore while at the j properties of the Bingham Copper and Gold Mining company tho blocking out J of enormous bodies was continued I oJ and not until October was the moving I of ore to the bins of the companys independent in-dependent r > Iant commenced All the while however that these preparations were progressing the ores of the great camp were being opened up hundreds I of thousands ot tons of the value of I mighty millions exposed and hundreds I of persons afforded continuous employment employ-ment Then there was the part played I by J the railway builder always vigilantly I vigilant-ly alert that the most economical outlet out-let possible might be provided over ties I and t racks while those enterprises that I were not equipped with mills during I the same period have arranged or arc arranging for the necessary plants in I 1UOJ With this work now practically at an end Bingham will experience no I i dlfllculty in making a new record for itself the present season With the exception I ex-ception of the tonnage put forth by the I Highland Boy the record at the samplers sam-plers shows that the camps production I last year consisted mostly of silver and I lead ores although many of these carried car-ried irregular percentages in copper and I characteristic values In gold Along I tho copperbearing porphyry zone the campaign was u conservative one tho owners of ground among whom are Included Capt J R De La Mar ColE Col-E A Val Samuel Newhouse W S McCornlck with an army of Eastern I and some foreign talent devoting their energies to the development of means with which to extract the inctal or tho metallurgic feature of their undertakings underta-kings rather than to the further prospecting of In this considera peeling territory ble success Is reported while added to the results obtained by i the metallurgists metallur-gists were demonstrations made at the concentrators In the meantime the Interior department at Washington began be-gan a StIle of the camp which was concluded last month and which promises prom-ises much of Interest to the miner as well as the student the report to make its appearance in the autumn of 1 01 And so the curtain was rung down on 1900 at Bingham With the new year it rises upon a panorama full of prom iso One thing Incontestable the ores are blocked out tind in readiness for the < reimbursemenl of those whose many millions made itpossible to open them up The tory of the camps future fu-ture must be written largely in bronze for every prediction that Bingham would develop into one of the most productive of copper camps has been or is being fulfilled To perfect It the mill and furnace only are required The metal t is f hero I HIGHLAND B9Y I The Highland Boy In 1900 produced 5S09SSC pounds of copper gold and sil ver bullion of the value ot 1U7S1712 and this from daily output of 215 tons of ore When Samuel Newhouse began the exploitation of this wellknown bonanza bo-nanza In the East and among the investors In-vestors of London he admonished them I that the day of dividends the hour of I reimbursement was as much as live I years distant They took him at his word and for nearly that period they I j I have been waiting This season the promise implied In UrL candidlyre I freshing admonition will be redeemed The day has not been announced but it Is not difficult to sight it To no I undertaking Is Bingham so largely Indebted for its present measure 01 thrift for the millions that have poured in and made it generously possible I pos-sible for Its miners to rear n camp or copper upon one that In former times I had few rivals as one of silver and II lead Nor was the undertaking to I which the camp if not the entire commonwealth I com-monwealth is so largely indebted to i the retiring figure of Mr Newhouse a I simple one The people of Utah now realize It and while some grew impatient Impa-tient and demanded to know more of the companys business than It was inclined I in-clined to divulge every apprehension was quieted with the appearance of the I first published statement by the managers man-agers The blocking out of Its ore Ibo I-bo les the devlslnc and construction of an aerial tramway with which to convey at least possible cost the material ma-terial to market and the erection of an Independent smelter with which to onlivftrt It Into fonnor irnld mirl silver bullion was not to be accomplished in j a day When It was however the entire en-tire world was impressed with the possibilities pos-sibilities of Utah as a copper producer The performances of the Highland Boy Cilice it was surrounded with all these advantages are the performances of a bonanza that has grown with eV I L1 shot andshift until today I compares not unfavorably with any proposition vlihIn the copperbearing domains of I the Nation Compared with some of i those from which large profits aro an nuully derived the ores of the bonanza I show a grade considerably better than I the average and In such abundance I that many years oC productiveness are promised the company These ores occur oc-cur In three main channels all traversing tra-versing the east half of the companys property and that have beun opened up by i the driving of five tunnels the I lowest of vhlrh Is known as No7 and not Including two that wore driven into the goldbearing zone above the copper In the production of over ILO 000 tons which have been mined since the company was rounded very little sloping has been done below No r tunnel I I tun-nel although sbme ore was removed In tho running of drifts crosscuts etc f that went aboard the tramway and on Ito I I I to the furnaces in the valley Connection f j Connec-tion during the year was made with i two of the main orebearing channels I through the No 7 tunnel which was driven a distance of 2000 feet and the I opening up of them discloses as much I I strength at that depth us in any other I portion of the territory In future this I avenue Is to t be made the main outlet I for the entire production of the mine I and to that end loading talon is nov i being reduced from the mouth of No I I to the mouth oC the former Under the i J direction of n n cimnnlng suporin I i I S lendciH of the property the cave sys 1 I i tern of extraction has been introduced I at the mine and all ores below No f Umncl will be drawn from the prop 5 erty by that means In this way 1 I I the extraction is reduced to the lowest possible cost while the mining I of BOO tons or more dally becomes 0 dnly avery a-very simple undertaking I During the year the enlargement oft I I of-t the companys smeller to a V capacity 1 t l > V k V V VV t > VV 1 double that with which It was origin ally equipped was completed and before the expiration of the present morith It will berecelving and reducing an average aver-age of about 450 tons daily Theft enlargements en-largements that were made under the direction of George 1C Fischer consist of a set of eight MfDdugall I furnaces that have been In successful operation V at Anaconda and GreaLFallo Mont fOlsom fOl-som time According to Mr Fischers cntlmate these furnaces will afford a j I saving over the old ones of 30 cents n I ton or yearly OOOO on a dally handling hand-ling of 150 tom With these enlarge j meats at the smeller the work of equipment equip-ment by 1 the Highland Boy reaches an I end and save for the expense of opera Is left to which V lon there nothing lef to apply tlit > magnificent earnings of BlnghamK great copper produce pro-duce but dividends The management manage-ment throughout Is u most efficient one Uobcson T While serving H I suporlntendenl of the smelter depart I l nt while the financial affairs of ihe I epmpany are under the supervision of I II J Poland with operations the I mine in charge V of Mr Channlng who has nov blocked out and ready for extraction ex-traction over 1000000 tons of ore I What the value of this enormous tonnage ton-nage is has nol been divulged by those who have sampled rind measured It up and were 512000000 put upon it the I < rough estimate might Incur V the djs V pleasure of those In possession of the I actual figures THE UNITED STATES I In no portion 1 of the vast empire of copper and gold bearing ores has a I management lolled more assiduously 1 01 more Intelligently lor their development devel-opment and economical extraction than 1 at that embraced In the possessions 9f the United Stales Mining compmy I and for which the owner paid a Mule more than two years ago 2100000 Upon this mignlficiiil area In which Is included what was formerly known as the Old Jordan and Galena the Old Telegraph and Niagara mines a campaign cam-paign ot development and of preparation prepara-tion the like of which has few parallels par-allels has been prosecuted And with at least 1500000 tons of ore blocked out the management Is ready lo respond re-spond with almost any tonnage f smelter already projected by the company com-pany may require Underground the results achieved under the direction of Tlcrt Ilolden the companys managing director and Andrew Mayberry Us experienced ex-perienced superintendent with Rlchuid A Parker as consulting engineer hae Indeed been a revelation In the aggregate aggre-gate It shows no less than fifteen miles I of workings or which lCn feet of It I was performed during the past year I Of this work at least CO per cent was prosecuted in arc and while its extraction ex-traction was entirely suspended I u lot marketed now and then by lessees Is taken Into consideration thcrp It I languishes the positive JSQUJVAI13NT OF DIVIDENDS that must begin to pour Into the pockets of the shareholders with the complellon of the proposed smelter In Old Telegraph ground many astonishing aston-ishing changes have been wrought Under the old regime the management simply ploughed Us way through the great one removing the better class and permitting tho indifferent to remain I re-main and ye with all that was mark eted It had attained a tioptn nine ueiow the grass roots when the company relinquished re-linquished Its hold and allowed It to I < pass into the lap 9f the purchasing company Since then the forbidding labyrinths through which the old t om pany and the lessees who paid tribute to it cut and wormed their way have been straightened levels have been run with minerlike precision and the ore I bodies in old workings as well as In new put In shape for economic extraction extrac-tion In the opening up of the territory terri-tory It is shown by recent measurements I measure-ments that as much as 1000000 tons of ore has been exposed and made ready for the cave system of extraction this I < ore consisting entirely of copper and I goldbearing sulphides of an average value that must afford good margin To more economically extract these ores a tunnel was begun In October that will penetrate Old Telegraph ground a distance of about 7oO feet gIound connection to be made with the ore bodies early the present year This rivenue it I Is surmised will ultimately be made the outlet for the entire pio matter from duction of the company no mater what ground SI Is mined Beginning in main Bingham canyon which Is to be traversed by locomotives of the and possessing a Copper Belt railway anc a fine elevation from which to pass the vast output of the mines into the ore cars below it would certainly commend itself to the management as the eG est and cheapest outlet To project xo it levels emcnatlng from Niagara Old Jordan and Galena ground will be no difllcult undertaking and that done the handling of the ores through a common outlet is made most inexpensive inexpen-sive The campaign upon Old Jortlail and Galena ground in the mountains has been equally interesting and hire so large an area has not been opened up the results have corresponded corre-sponded In all the essential features with those accomplished In Telegraph ground According to the measure men Is conducted In the territoiy there is now exposed as much as 500000 tons I of ore of the commercial quality of doubt whatever In which there Is no 1 Niagara ground the campaign of development de-velopment was less energetic although some ore was opened up that will be drawn upon when the reduction works shall have been completed and the signal Is raised to begin the moving of United States ores THE PROPOSED SMELTER Just when active construction on tho proposed smelter with which to treat the ores of the company will egln has not been announced by the management man-agement although the preliminary plans have been approved by the ofil clals In Boston while the money with which to pay for It is now in the companys stocking V Certainly there is everything to Justify an early beginning be-ginning for in the mines Is the substance sub-stance of which dividends arc 1fw and the distance between thorn and the shareholder Is to be measured only by the time requiicd to put up the plant and the extraction of the metals No person conversant with the com panys riches and the easy method of converting them into gold dollars can discount Its future Some have spoken harshly of the proposition but they cither ignored conditions ur are deliberately de-liberately unfyir for the earning capacity ca-pacity of the proposition can bo lImited of the ited only by the capacity smeller furnaces less the cost of extraction smelcI traction transportation and treatment Lrlcton trlnsport ton of its ores DINGHAM COPPER AND GOLD After an area of development comprehending com-prehending a period of nearly three years and during which nearly 503000 ions of copper and gol bearing ores have been blocked out the management manage-ment of the Bingham Copper and Gold Mining company IB ready to open up its mints1 and begin the earning of dividends In a variety of ways the undertaking Is one of the most instructive instruc-tive of the many that have been launched In the rLrra led camp and affords a lesKon on the diggings from which the rollectivc cannot but prollt Thoterritory on which it is founded began its career as a goldproducer l So did the Highland Hoy for which a most pretentious mill was erected and that would have yet been in operation had not the red metal appeared lo is fell Its preponderance Indeed It was while Co Henry G Hoffron was leachIng leach-Ing the yellow jnetal from the aurifer ousbearing stratum that covers the surface of entire Blngham that Col Oliver P Posey and associates who had been prospecting the camp for a foothold scented the presence o copper below and without delay the group was purchased by them The acquisition acquisiton It is said by good authority involved about 525000 but thai was In reality renly looked upon as a fancy figure for I the old Commercial and half the old timers predicted anolllor disappoint 0 I mont With abundant means with which lo give it a chance however the prospecting of the ground was begun be-gun H was not lonE until tho theory on which It had been purchased was verified and from the I GOLDBEARING STRATUM the management drove Into a streak of I copperbearing ore that afforded the most sensational percentages From this streak the ore developed Into a chute UM well defined as any on tub zone and since that time one ore body tme has been added to another until today < the property of the Bingham Copper I and Gold Mining company for which the old Commercial was thC foundation Is I recognized as one of the most pro ductlve In camp From a simple pros j V poet worked In 1 desultory way only It has been listed upon the Boston exchange I l el Jsted I change and upon orders dispatched 1 froin Salt Lake sold on n basis of 6000000 for the whole But It has I been a phenomenon from Inception and if at any time it has been out of ore V tme the record without and the enormous wlhou tl vein within does not disclose IL During 1 Dur-ing the greater portion of the lime that I It htts been under development the zone was followed down with an Incline every Inch of vlilch was in copper and V goldbearing ore with the argentifer ous values at Intervals rising to heights that were almost sensational The ultimate ulti-mate need of ar avenue through which V to get these ores into the furnace at the lowest possible cost soon became apparent and so It was that a tunnel was begun In Copper Center gulch and driven to tap the orebearing channel I on Us dip This connection was made at a distance of IlOO feel and from that station an upraise was begun to the I incline above Thc o workings united and daylIght streaming from the mouth of the Incline above to the I portal of the tunnel below a permanent outlet for everything was established In the meantime the company had begun the I erection of a pyrltlo plant upon the banks of the lordan river and in the shadow of the great stack that towers above the Highland Boy smelter with whichto treat its ores This plant Is now rapidly I APPROACHING COMPLETION and In a few days will be In active commission I I com-mission Its capacity reaching 100 tons 1 I daily Through this all the ole of the Blngham Copper and Gold Mining ccrn i puny are to pas and that the process i Is perfectly adapted to their needs was demonstrated before an order for its I machinery was placed Those familiar I with pyrltie smelting contend that It I I is by far the most economical method V that can be applied to the treatment I I of the copper sulphides with which and the V Bln hum abounds certainly I management has satisfied itself upon I that point Mr W I Nutting who was for many years with the pyrltlc plant at Leadvilie has had the Bingham I Bing-ham compan > s smelter under construction con-struction and has no doubt that its work will afford perfect satisfaction I With this equipment its bins full of ore and almost measureless bodies in place at the bonanza the Bingham Copper and Gold Mining company begins its era of productIveness with the new year and that It will soon begin the payment of dividends is an assurance I that the management should experience experi-ence no trouble I In I redeeming During nr I me jjruviuiiti 1 huiiimur Lit tiumpuiiy aa fOItunate enough to secure the services i of I all Duncan McVichio ns active manager of the mines at Bingham i and with n corps of competent c assistants assist-ants around him there need be no up prehension concerning ore from which to derive the cherished bread moneys for the shareholder 1 COPPERBEAHING PORPHYRY I I Operations upon the copperbearing I porphyry bolt at Bingham during the past year were not prosecuted with as much energy as during the previous one perhaps In thai those who have exploited It were confronted by an undertaking un-dertaking in metallurgy rather than I in development The presence of copper cop-per In the porphyrlesof the camp that were us eagerly Inquired into by the representatives of the Interior department depart-ment at Washington in their survey of the district as by 1 the prospector had already been demonstrated and so Ihe talent found Itself employed In devising methods with which to economically extract That It can be done at a profit The Tribune has the testimony I of not a few and thai It will be demonstrated before the close of the year Is most I likely Interested in this one Is talent I powerful rough to put through anything any-thing I has hitherto undertaken and I In this It recognizes nothing but a plain proposition to be soled In the laboratory labora-tory Certainly a11 Do La Mar ColE Col-E A Val Samuel Newhouse W S McCornick Victor Clement Thomas Weir Hartwlg A Cohen Senator Clark of Montana and others equally experienced experi-enced in the diggings have not brayed b-rayed themselves and thai the great porphyry belt will be 1 made to surrender surren-der Us wealth of copper appears ascertain as-certain as anything that has been hitherto undertaken by l this array of talent During the year hundreds of ton from the properties of the Boston Consolidated Mining company of the Columbia and De La MarWall 1lar Val group have been put through the local mills with satisfactory results To make this method a very profitable one however how-ever plants of enormous tonnage are Implied and It is lo overcome this that the metallurgist Is just now and has been for some time prosecuting his experiments ex-periments the results to be announced In a short time BINGHAM PLACERS V The placers of Bingham have not been operated with glittering success during the bat year On the contrary they have been I disappointment Not that the gravel was not honeycombed with the yellow metal but that to reach it greater depth was required This required more heroic methods methods that took Its votaries 100 feet or more into the channels underlying Bingham canyon The West Mountain Placer company with admirable effort dug its way into these channels after elaborate equipment and demonstrated that gold was there In sensational abundance but the water drove It out and the attempt to mine It after repealed I re-pealed assessments had been called for I was abandoned I will I I I be revived this season according lo an officer of the company when more powerful I pumps I will I I I be Installed I I The BIngham Placer company made no effort to undermine I Its portion of the canyon during the year although Manager Schenck the I previous season demonstrated that gold existed in the ground The owner of the Castro placer which has generally I responded during the summer season to his needs allowed the year to depart de-part without turning a yard of gravel so that the anniversary in the placerrf went by without a record However there are not a few competent miners who believe lhat with modern equipment equip-ment they will yet be made very productive pro-ductive DALTON LARK Tho Dalton Lark which bus alI al-I ways occupied a most prominent posi I lion among the producing propositions of Blngham and thai has been productive produc-tive of many millions of dollars from workings comparatively superficial was not owing to negotiations Involving Involv-ing Us transfer permitted to market much ore In I 1900 although It I wns shown after expert measurement that I I ores of the value of over S3000000 arc now exposed in the properly Again i tho presence of ater in the mine has I made the extracton of ore unnecos sarlly expensive and so active produc lion was temporarily suspended that means for the draining of terrltorv i might be devlsed To accomplish this a tunnel is to be driven a distance of 000 feet into the great copperbearing one this to tap the vein at greatly Increased depth Wihllo allowing the wa ler lo dIscharge itself In ihe valley below without the cost of a ton of fuel The undertaking while one of splendid magnitude is not such as tihi Involve enormous expense for the rock alone the projected course is generally easy and with proper equipment excellent V V ex-cellent progress should be made That the breaking of ground for the avenue V V which means so much for the future of the Dalton Lark will occur the present pres-ent month Is very likely Indeed arrangements ar-rangements looking to It have already been made During time past year an opllon on the property was executed In favor of Phllo T Farnsworth and WM lard F Snyder who In October purchased pur-chased the Lead mine and Brooklyn with Its tramway for which 55000 was paid In addition to these groups containing con-taining twentytwo claims the Antelope Ante-lope group had been acquired while options were secured on the Samson and Miners Dream time whole aggregating aggre-gating about forty patented locations along the backbone of the great min eralbearing zone at Blngham No one conversant with the record of these properties will discount their possibilities possibili-ties The only thing required lo placo them among time most productive In lie State Is energetic development and that Messrs Farnsworth and Snyder will succeed In the undertaking thereIn there-In hardly a doubL That time ores now V exposed In the mine justify It Is well known At the Dalton Lark the output out-put In the past has boon largely confined con-fined lo silver lead and gold As levels below the water werc rcached however copper began lo rfSscrt its prominence and not it smaljjlonnage in which very high percentages In tho red metal were shown has been sent to the local market Jn a general way these occur as in the ultra coppergold I properties at Blngham and with time large area embraced In the proposition there IK no reason to believe other than that the Dalton Lark will Lake lla place in Vial category ins greater depth Is reached THE COLUMBIA Upon the property of time Columbia Mining company consisting of tim What Cheer and Alls Well groups and embracing 120 acres energetic development develop-ment was continued throughout the year and with such results that the company will in 1901 proceed with time erccilon of a mill capable of handling a largo daily tonnage In opening uptIme up-tIme territory which IK bounded by that of the Do La MarWall group Boston Consolidated and Fortune a tunnel with which to crosscut both tho What Ihoer and yVHs Well veins wan put Into the group a distance of 1200 feel The What Cheer vein opened up JL through avenue and Manager Frank B Cook drifted upon It a distance oC fifiO feel the ores showing along that stretch an average of I per cent copper cop-per with small values In gold and silver sil-ver In addition to this there was 100 feet of crosscutting on time vein which revealed an average width of about fifjy feet while the ores along this showed an average of Ufi per cent copper cop-per with characteristic values In silver and gold A winze sunk to a depth of fifty feet on the vein disclosed the sumo average while along an Incline which was run a distance of U20 feet assays show from 2 to G5 per cent copper with bunches yielding as much as 10 per eerie in the red metal Jn addition to this a drift was run from the Incline for eighty foot In which ores carrying from J to 7 per cent copper wore opened up At a distance of GOO feet from the mouth of ihe main tunnel of 1500 feet from and at a vertical depth V the outcrop the Alls Well vein was encountered Upon this a drift WHS run both ways from the tunnel with a total of ITO feel In addition to this a fourtcenInch streak of ore was followed fol-lowed for the entire length of time drift the ores in which showed an average Of 2C per cent copper with the usual values In gold and silver A drift was run on the Elvina or Fortune vein which also traverses Columbia ground for a distance of 200 foot but It never got below the carbonate zone and time copper was practically leached out leaving milling values in gold and silver sil-ver The work of the year on the Columbia was most satisfactory throughout and while some ore was produced by lessees in old ground the company made no attempt to do other i than block out for future extraction V THE FORTUNE As at many others the year upon tha properties of tim Fortune Mining company com-pany through which no less than half a dozen distinct veins arc traced was devoted largely to equipment This resulted re-sulted in the erection of a concenlra V tot with a capacity for handling over 100 tons of crude ore daily although this must be governed largely by the volume of water on which the company is dependent The plant was completed V in June V but It was August before U began to work obediently and to discharge dis-charge its work as desired Since that time It has been taking care of the milling ores and sending a nice class V of concentrates carrying silver and lead copper and gold lo the market In addition to this product the company com-pany has been marketing crude ores running very high in lead with some silver and gold In the meantime the supply of water at the mill has been gradually lessened until the output of concentrates has for some time been reduced to about twentyfive tons daily The property of ho Fortune Mining company which consists of about 120 acres with options on adjoining territory terri-tory making a total of J75 acres shown over two miles of development The main tunnel under the direction of Aianagcr Oil iCCI r 11111 I I uiiei neen iinveii In a distance of nearly 2000 foot at which station the workings attain a vertical depth of SOO feel A largo amount of ore has been uncovered and V with the mill turning out concentrates V while a nice quality of shipping ore Is finding Us way to market the proposE llon should Ibis season begin the distribution dis-tribution of dividends The management manage-ment at the head of which Is Mr Hill is a most experienced one and the outlook out-look for time year Is most encouraging SILVER SHIELD The Silver Shield Mining company V V with its modest beginning and In which on a plan thai was largely coopera llvo properly adjoining that of the V United Stales Mining company was acquired for SfiOOOO was advanced to a position among the dividendpayers during the fading hours of the year when It passed around a halfcunt a I share or 30 per cent on the subscription subscrip-tion price of the shares The property has boon a most Interesting one from Its Inception and has each month since Its acquisition provided the means with which to pay for developriicnt During 1000 tIme shaft from the tunnel level by which the ground was originally opened up in sunk to a depth of 120 feet and two levels run on the eiiu In each of these ore was opened uPtime up-time pay streak varying from a fev Inches lo two feet and affording a quality qual-ity of ore from which nice profit was derived Accompanying this was a class of ore which was successfully concentrated at the Rogers mill Another An-other piece of ground was also added lo the companys possessions during the season while arrangements luio been practically closed with the United States Mining company limit will enable en-able tIme management of the Shield to open up the hilteis ground through u drift from time formers workings and that will tap the Shield V I 11 vein al a depth I of 100 feel from the surface With this V privilege exorcised the condition of tile property should be greatly Improved whllo the fear of water is entirely overcome over-come The management of the mine 1M now in charge of George B Sessions with Superintendent Mayberry of tin1 United States serving it in a consulting capacity THE SHAWMUT That the Shawmut Mining company owner of the Cuba group and other productive territory was not added to the column of dividendpayers during 1900 was due to no infirmity of the mine Certainly no Bingham proposition was ever launched under more favorable circumstances The founders of lie parent company the Cuba had opened I up Its ground most Intelligent and exposed not a small amount of high grade ore while blocking out large I of milling in which bodies milng copper predominated pre-dominated To gel the best results from these ores the purchasing company provided t1CS Itself with a mil the energy I for which was contracted for with one of the electric companies whose cur I Fonts had been extended to the camp I proved a most uncertain source of power however and after repeated I I trials in which frequent Interruptions 1 occurred It was decided to suspend operations op-erations altogether With that the mill after an ephemeral run In which some concentrates were marketed was I closed down the management determining j I deter-mining to put in machinery and to resort re-sort to steam In the meantime the I development of the ore bodies has continued I con-tinued underground and the proposition I proposi-tion promises a better account of Itself at the next trial The shares of the i Shawmul are divided between Salt i Lake and Boston holders LAST CHANCE I The Last Chance which has a bullion bul-lion record a yard long and that in times past has presented its owners f with all kinds of money was again put in active operation In 1SOO The mill was also put into commission after some alterations by Charles J Hodge who now exercises the control of the pioperty and the marketing of concen tiates t resumed while new ground was being prospected The company owns c large area between the properties of the Highland Boy and United States Mining companies and already some ery tempting bids for 1 have been I n JcledDAVIS > DAVIS GEBHARDT < 1 The Davis Gebhardt group adjoining l adjoin-ing the Highland Boy was secured on I lease and bond bv Carl Hayden and 1 associates during the year the pUP I chasing crowd binding Itself to pay SloOOOO for i on or before the expiration expira-tion of the option I was under this that active development was begun vJlh Mr Hayden directing it and while the main ore bodies have not yet been reached the outlook for the un dei taking Is I filled with promise Mr Hayden has had the advantages of along a-long school of practical experience throughout the West and mining circles cir-cles generally will rejoice in the success of the Davis Gebhardt group AST BENTON The Nasl Benton another of Blng hams pioneer propositions from which a large I amount of ore has been mined in the past continued to go to market a Irregular I Intervals during the year with silver and lend ores that yielded about 10 per Ion The properties were tied up on an option during the season by Salt Lake talent represented by Dan Fergusson who has since been superintending the work wllli veil good results The Nast Benton has always been highly esteemed by mining mi-ning men who look upon it as a property I prop-erty of more than the ordinary possibilities possi-bilities THE NEPTUNE The output of the Neptune during L the past year was Irregular and of milling t lug quality although several lots of high grade were sandwiched in between the concentrates The property is being i be-ing operated on a lease by H P j Sampson and Harry Sherman who experienced t ex-perienced no rouble 1 In handling their lowgrade silver and ead ores uL the t Dcwcy miL and who derived C nice c < profit from the product They will continue It con-tinue developments through the seasonS season-S hoping to reach a body of highgrade 1 orc while the new year Is yet young L 1 1r r THE STOREY 4 Upon the Storey located on the main copperbearing zone between the properties prop-erties of the Bingham Copper and Gold T fining company and the Niagara developments > de-velopments were resumed during the j r > oir by its owner Moylan C Fox The r course which opened before the undertaking under-taking was a plain one and driving i into the veiii the development of cop ppr gold and silverbearing ores as In I neighboring ground was soon begun b Some of this was extracted and placed n J ipon the dump the assays showing I air i values Identical with thoe that are a j being derived from other portions oreo o-reo I the copper belt r fer I The Alamo Group Irh A iPC i of work which has already lh f been product of most gratifying results my I re-sults and hat promises to add another wl bonanza to Blnghams list was that It undertaken by John T Hodson at the ds j Alamo group during 1900 Fortunately hat l for the present owner of the property th a tunnel had been driven on the vein h3 l distance of over 300 feet and from nol t which some sensationally highgrade kcl L ropper ore had been marketed by on lessees Cleaning out this avenue Mr r Hodson was astonished to find copper J I bearing ores with characteristic values the In gold and silver exposed for over 150 beta feet along the strike of the vein with It o from three to fourteen feet for the en Luce be lire distance Indeed It was at this lal point that the frmer owners appear 111 to have deliberately quit the ore bodies l 1 1 and driving on through the quarUlle t r began the prospecting of a cross fissure ht from which they were finally driven M by water Air Ho sons purpose was m c to get back onto the ore however and riTa in December he again broke Into the t 3t copper sulphide at s point 200 feet distant aiim I dis-tant from that at which they had been an ln I abandoned A sampling of the ore body j aZ I t In the Alamo shows from C to 31 1 percent rate t per-cent copper Y5th an excellent gne aloe al-oe I average and the blocking out of the poi I bodies will continue steadily until such c p time as means are provided for their JD3C treatment Conditions at the property I arc identical with those that have made e Ql the Highland Boy famous tho ores are git identical In appearance If not In mc n t hll nrmtfml nnrl thf KPIXSnil at Ulnir ham dawns upon i no brighter prospect I i I ni1n1 Bingham and Eastern I 11vn On the properties of the Bingham and opt13 Em tern Mining company during theo the-o 1k year the driving of the tunnel was I j1 continued steadily and at this lime it ItC l is I approaching the 1100foot station jiiyT Pome oiv has been encountered at inC i in-C J fr torvnls f but it was Irregular ard the C1li Kcaivh for the main body will continue Ibsfljj In 1UD1 as It has since the purchase of JbSe rOPrtXJ IhrfHcrpey Blue group and others by tl0company about two years ago ie Cr tl tblI1ct is THE BUTTERFIELD Dur1t ieV pur t1 The management of the Bull rfell lec I Mining company having routed the ad 11nln r orI vjrsary In IL series of lawsuits and I Cn cleared the Utle lo all Its acreage while I iwd establishing the right to waters that IHluLllshlnr rlghl I l rcc poured from its long tunnel opening 11VlH qU onButterfield canyon began the erection VlH erec-tion ol a conecntraior late in the sca s1i5 son and begins the new year with I eefUlhi ovory equipment for the steady milling flU 1 of Us ores Few companies operating dde at Binglmm have prosecuted as much IHO l 60 l Il Bingham unr work in opening up the country and I itS dOre 1 while doing this Manager Keel has rL 1IUr placed on the market almost every variety IC will I va-riety of oro From portionsof the com Sh1id L j panVs territory ores have been cx imr0h1 truclfd that yielded mon thousands I I I hfOL1g of dollars per ton in gold while not a 1 111pi l small amount of silver and lead ore I il a lil t Ih With a new mill I Whim t hns bell produced Vih 1 mi Wit JI 1f adapted to the treatment of lie low I Ion 1 iofl improc ° grade ores however the year begins rpf with every assurance o Increased earnings r1 I irC I earn-ings while the result will be awaited I inre with keenest Interest by the neighbors S Jr of the I3utlerfleld consul The Congor Development upon the properties of the Congor Mining company during the affording r year were prosecuted with results 0in ° fording abundant assurance that it col OJ must lUltlmalely become one of the ard 3de i most productive of Blnghams mines dG The main incline by which the territory etbcJ f tory JM 1 being opened up was put to a I htiom r further depth of 200 feet while at 500 C3ol i 11 d o V feet a level was established and drift big begun To thc south a drift crlf run for 200 feet along the strike of the strite vein This was In ore that maintained a good average In cl > per with some values In gold and silver At the same I time n drift was run too feel to the north to Intercept another wellknown i i copperbearing chute thai will lo i lapped early the present s wi I is I i estimated that in the workings of the I CongO Is now exposed as much as j 7oOCO tons of ore that will afford an 1 average of f i per cent copper 3 In gold and i ounces silver Upon this Ihc > aelh production of ore will begin In V A wi il 1901 the management having practically practi-cally closed an arrangement for the i smelling of it The Midland On the properties of the Midland Mi propellcs ldlall l1 0 l nInE l company of which Rol Bemis is 1 l the manager work was pushed steadily durin the year and an excellent qual i 1 ity of ore encountered In each of two I tunnel by which the territory Is being lIlnt I developed In the upper tunnel the mamigcmenl drove Into a fine body of I ore of commercial quality while associated asso-ciated with It is a large amount that can be profitably treated at the Dewey mill with which an arrangement has I already been made In the lower tunnel I tun-nel some highgrade ore was encountered encoun-tered In a chute o ore running parallel with the main one but It Is for the hatter hat-ter that the search will continue tho present year From the Midland very highgrade copper ore in small quan Lily has been taken and the lly beln proposition proposi-tion Is looked upon as one of the most promising In the old camp I The Frisco Upon the properties of the Frisco Mining company during the ytftir about 1000 feet of development work was done this consisting of drifts crosscuts cross-cuts and upraises and while considerable consider-able ore was exposed but little was marketed The efforts of the management manage-ment were concentrated largEly on the projected connection with the main ore chute Jn Maggie giound from which the company was driven at a time when the entire shaft was in ore Connection Con-nection was finally made with the vein upon which a drift Is now beIng run and tho management is now expecting to brock into the chute daily The ores in the bottom of the shaft 500 feet above the level l o the present drift afforded from 35 lo 00 m per cent lead 20 to 40 ounces silver with an average of about 2 in gold For some time the Frisco Mining company with Charlie Lash broole has been negotiating for a consolidation of the Morning Star group with the formers holdings and with this foundation will have been laid for one of the most valuable propositions propo-sitions In Bingham I Is I almost conclusive con-clusive that the Morning Star is an extension ex-tension of the Highland Boy while the No7 tunnel on the lallcr were It projected pro-jected a sufficient dieancc l would open Into Frlsuu territory The Petro The Pctro Mining company sent lo market during thc year 811 tons of ore from which there was produced 374 tons of lead 7209 ounces of silver and 2ISF ounces of gold of the value of over 510000 The company did not claim Its I old position in the dividend column during the year but applied Us earnings to the further opening up of the territory Ores were encountered in some places I and from thc COOfoot level the management Is now extracting extract-ing a nice quality for shipment the present year In workings 00 the 500 I foot level another disclosure consisting of highgrade lead ore was made but water prevented the management following fol-lowing I down and from the main tunnel tun-nel an upraise lo the body Is now being made The company will undertake to market no more ore until the road from the mine has been opened up this season sea-son but will continue with development develop-ment for which there are moneys In the treasury During the previous year the Pctro paid a number of dividends while the management expresses the hope that it will be able to puss around a little breadmoney this season The York I Operations on the properties of the I York Mining company adjoining those of the Pelro during the year were all subordinated to the driving of time main drift by which connection is to be made with workings of the Petro This done the company will have entirely overcome over-come any such thing as bad air and will be In H position to much more economically eco-nomically handle Us output In 1900 some crude ore and concentrates were marketed but the clergies of the company com-pany were devoted to development rather than to the extraction of ores Bully Boy Webster At the Bully Boy Webster adjoining adjoin-ing the Silver Shield and owned by Manager Jones of the American Smelt ing and Refining company work was resumed during the year by lessees who have succeeded In the development develop-ment of some ore In former days the ground was quite productive an old record disclosing that ores of the value of 380000 have been sent to the smeller In the same locality Is the Unlimited owned by l G S Holmes of the Knuts 1ord and in which a very nice cla soC s-oC ore was recently encountered I is not unlikely that the owners of these mines will agree on a consolidation this afee discussion season as terms are already under cussion United they should constitute a very likely proposition Dana and Agnes At the Dana and Agnes the control of vhlch went lo Eastern investors during the season work has been progressing pro-gressing steadily under the direction of I David Scovlllc whose effort has been to cut the veins of the country through a tunnel and thus afford easier outlet for the ores Some very highgrade 101 lead and silverore has been mined from the claims in former years Ben Butler Duter The Ben Butler company has prosecuted i prose-cuted Its researches steadily through the year and opened up considerable milling ore while driving for the high grade which has been encountered by 1lle its neighbors To that end the company I com-pany has called for assessments quite I frequently believing that the ground fully justifies the expenditures that arc being made The Red Wing The Red Wing Mining company during dur-ing the year marketed C37 tons of ore that netted 10368 this the oulput of leases Ihat were In operation and closed It with shipping ores exposed in no less than four different places within with-in the companys possessions The ores are of very desirable quality carrying values In leath silver and gold with some copper and sufficient Iron lo commend com-mend them to the smelter The development devel-opment work consists of about 0 feet of tunnels and upraises with which the territory has been opened up at a cost of between 350000 and S7iiOOO during the past three years The outlook for the property PI is now very encouraging and there are many thing to Induce the belief be-lief that It will be ultimately very productive pro-ductive Indeed William A Parish the eminent mining engineer stated pome time ago that 30000 expended InJudicious In-Judicious development work on the RedWing Red-Wing ought to make it worth 2000000 To Us original holdings the company in 1S9S added nine claims embraced In the Markham group and on which the final payments were made lost year upon the sale of SMOOO In 6 per cent fivcvear gold bonds that wore all subscribed sub-scribed for at home The properties of the Red Wing have been producing for a number of years large quantities ore some of that which came from the hill on which they are located selling hf Is for over 500 per ton The company preparing for very active work the present year Montezuma The Monlejcuma group consisting of four claims and owned by the Messrs Strlcklcy took outdurlng the year ores 00 J I T < > t c S = i 1ij 1 V W = E J ij ± Kv xgii tf i e m s y r rivtTTTTiry yiV rf i r pp i 44 gim I I 0 BirdsEye View of Mercur I i of the value of over 30000 while prose j J outing extensive developments Tn I I fact the property his been productive I from the grass roots some of the ores showing as much as 48 per cent lead I ILO ounces silver and 330 in gold per ton while settlements on car lots afforded af-forded the owners from S1SOO to 3200 I per car The developments on the I ground comprehend several thousand I feet of workings Including two main I I h tunnels and a shaft oft which various j i levels have been run With a nice lot i 1 I of good ore in sight the Montezuma I under most favorable opens the year lider I auspices i The Puritan I I Having satisfied Itself of the merits I of the property and the productiveness of the vein the management of the Puritan Alining company whose hold I Purlan lnlng COmlany ings are situated between the Tlewau kee and Starlus suspended work and I began the patenting of its ground dui i Ing the year and now that its titles 1 are all perfected will begin active developments I de-velopments again The Puritan has already al-ready performed about COO feet of work I underground the vein having been opened up by a tunnel after which UI drifting upon I followed The location I of the ground Is very favorable to a profitable future Tho Liberal The territory embraced In the Liberal mine was bonded during the year by Carl Hayden and associates who have bound themselves to 22500 for It on or before the expiration of eighteen months from the cute of the option The Liberal is owned by the ChiagoS Bingham company and under the management man-agement of H C Edwards has developed devel-oped a good showing of ore some of which is of commercial quality while the remainder can be profitably milled The ground is now receiving the personal per-sonal attention of Mr Hayden and should give good account of Itself before be-fore the close of the year cose Bits of Bingham The Erie owned by Bert Raybould and partner was productive of some ore during the year that afforded DYer D-Yer nice margin Wlllard Snyder has the Louise S group under bond and is i systematically opening Itup The Kansas group owned by Capl Snyder and associates was made limo foundation for a new company during 1100 and will be actively developed the I present I year The ZelnoiM came forward with several sev-eral shipments of ore during the year and under Capl Cunningham has shown a steady hnl I > ovemen tAt t-At the Parncll whoch was purchased by Eastern talent In 1900 work was suspended In September after some silver rfhd lead ore had been sent to I I 1111 The Greek group of mining claims owned by i Nicholas Castro and upon which a large amount of work was done in previous ytais has been leased and Is putting out some ore The Julia Dean owned by Dan Clays made n number of shipments in 1900 as did also the Ashland under lessees At the Extra Sessions owned by Chan Gardanler E H Airis and others some devlopmenl was proseculed during I dur-ing the year and a good quality of ore was uncovered in small amoiinls The ground is looked upon very favorably by Blngham miners Lessees on the Burning Moscow made that property productive J of some ore I during the year as did those on the old Coramandel > 1 Mammoth that to The New came 0 grief during the year and that was closed out by its creditors will probably prob-ably be given another trial although President Knox of the Bank of the no public by which It was acquired in the sale has announced no definite plans as yet The Tlewaukee and Wlnncmucca mines both of1 which have been very productive in previous years were practically idle in 1900 notwithstanding notwithstand-ing the several efforts made to obtain control of them by outside aa well as local lalenl COPPER BELT RAILROAD Among other things undertaken In 1000 to simplify the handling of Bingham Bing-ham ores and to establish a more economical as well as a permanent outlet out-let for the product of Us mines was the launching of the Copper Belt railroad rail-road the construction of which is now being promoted by Joseph G Jacobs president and general manager of the company The new line which is designed de-signed to ultimately connect with every I producing mine In the camp begins at a point in main Bingham canyon I which the Rio Grande Western tracks stop and trill continue up this canyon along the elevated bed of the old tramway tram-way to a point near Its forks At that I station it will span the canyon and worming its way through Copper Center Cen-ter gulch will make Its Initial connection connec-tion with the big ore bins of the Blng ham Copper and Gold Mining company Later It will press forward n few lengths of steel lo the loading station I of the United States Mining company I to be aalablished at the mouth of the tunnel now being driven into that empire em-pire of riches through Old Telegraph I gronnll Connections made at these fround I points the line will be extended this season to the properties of the Highland I High-land Boy company notwithstanding tho tramway over which the cars of llul company arc now being delivered I Manager Jacobs believing it possible 1 to teach the Inventor even of that simple sim-ple contrivance a thing or two In the I economical transportation of ores As the founder of the Salt Lake t Mer cur railway Manager Jacobs has served his al > prente ship In time haulIng haul-Ing of ores over dizzy grades and heavy curves Active work upon the Copper Belt line was begun December 1st last and under the contract it Is to be completed to the bins of the Blngham Copper and Gold Mining company by January JOth To construct this portion por-tion of the linea distance of three inlles and equip It with the necessary rolub stock consisting of Shea engines en-gines and ore cars will involve a cost of SoOOOO The enterprise Is assured 0 I generous patronage however and its business should be as rapid as the growth of the great camp It Is penetrating pene-trating J THE AUCK This old property that was among the star performers an early day Is again In operation with C W Hot del conducting the work on D lease I December the lessee who has been prospecting territory which was opened Up many years ago by the company 1 and that was productive of large I amounts of highgrade ore through the Congress tunnel encountered a breast of ore about six feet in width and while It was somewhat broken up samples Indicate that he has overtaken one of the farfamed chutes Everything Every-thing around time old mine looks as If It would the present year afford employment men em-ployment for u considerable number of THE MYSTIC SHRINE Upon the properly of this company consisting of 12C acres of ground spread over the one southeast of the United Slates companys possessions work has been vigorously and Intelligently prosecuted throughout the year and wllh results which have Induced the management to believe ilself secure In looking forward to dividends at day by no means remote Like many of Its neighbors the companys property IK traversed by i tO veins one running conformably with the strata and a fKsuie unich cuts across It in well defined coures Inlo each of these veins a tunnel has now been driven and the management announces Its intention of beginning ncllve shipments early the present month The development develop-ment In 1901 promises to be as qncr gcllc as has it been since the property was taken hold of The west tunnel will be extended along the vein while time incline which Is now being run from the lowel crosscut tunnel will be continued for the purpose of opening open-ing the big vein along the contact between be-tween the limestone and porphyry I is the Intention to put down another incline from the picsonl lowest tunnel tun-nel on the property for u distance of ICO feet and to exhaustively prospect the ground along its courses Indeed everything at the property looks exceedingly ex-ceedingly assuring During the season sea-son Just closed the company branched out into Nevada where It Is now developing de-veloping a gold proposition under a lease and bond and with results that aro thus far very I gratifying j THE SCHLEY The Admiral Schley No 1 and 2 at BIngham were secured on a lease and bond In December and are now being operated by T N Jludgcns of Salt Lake who has inaugurated developments develop-ments on the main tunnel This avenue ave-nue has already been driven Into the hill a distance of 200 feet while at Its breast is a body of ore showing from J to G per cent copper eight ounces sliver and 2 In gold per ton |