Show LA SAL REGION A Year of Preparatory Work With Rich Nines Certain In the great mineral bearIng regIon ot the Ia Sals the season ot develop meat has been prosecuted ns energetically energeti-cally as In other parts of the State and the results unfolded Ina serIes or most important disclosures In nearly all the camps Looking over the pMt rear and comparing Its achievements with thosp those who have or the prcous one to pinned their faith to the region the change Is an extremely gratifying one Indeed not a few expresUt conviction convic-tion that the district will attain a production pro-duction and f prominence eQual to any In the West unl to that end arc bepd Ing their energies I A year ago the International Copper company and the Colorado Mining com I pany one In BearcI and the other In Mill Creek were worJcng short shift getting Into an adverse suit which tlnaly kept both companIes fom doIng do-Ing anythln oC note all sUmmel In Miners basin one lone prospector provisioned I provi-sioned himself for the winter to drive I a 100Coot tunnel Many good pros fleetS were mowed In bu not u single shipper among the Jotnot over sIx I men among tle wages on account I I of mining Today the region has three shipping mines In Miners basIn the High Ore IndIana and Tornado The tlrst buge a saYing or 1 to the ton l raw amal1amaton and lost 2 In the taingsno table In use The econd saved 13 per ton and lost 20 and the I third saved S2i and lost 25 These re suits are from several days run on each mine hy a fv stump mill which I run through the present winter upon j ore from the Indiana vjere a nice lot Is blocked out iere I Vllin the past ten days in the Tornado Tor-nado ore has been encoimtered that yIelds sever thousands OC dollars per I ton whie In the High Ole group the body of Ole is over thIrty feet between wails and known to be ocr sI feet at I n vertical depth of 100 feet where IL crosscut was started in the vein a short time ago but upon which work was suspended for the winter In both Ue Indiana and Torn do the ore bodies are velY large but the real extent oC tlieip has not been determined even lW their owners In additIon to these the Cossme encountered ore In the shaft during the season showing G per cent coppel with from S5 to 10 In gold The I tunnel by which the Mineral Mountain I group Is being opened up has broken Into u good body of line ore at 250 feet o and supplies for continuous work I through the winter me now headed for r the eaml and under the management of Jack Mahan excellent results are looked forward to The conflict between the Internaton al and Colorado companies has been practically adjusted so that both com panics are at Ibert to resume early in the spring while WT H Muller writes that he will return 0 the region ns soon as the trail Is open and reopen the campaign on the S B N mine In Bea er basin which suspended on account of snow and when three feeL of ore In a 15foot shaft was exposed the sampling or this ore disclosing as much as 455 ounces Kohl and 0 per cent copper per toilAt vAt v-At the Grand Vie lhlne a distance r or two and a hal miles from Caslrton I I a force of men Is steadily emllloycd in sinking on a big copper vein In this Is exPosed four feet of ore that shows I I I from 7 lO 23 per cent copper and 20 to o In gold n Is the intention to sink upon lhls vein to n ccnth of 200 feeL and wih salsfacto1T conditions at that depth a tunnel wJ foftoy to tar ta-r the vein at a depth of 500 feet on the vein I Is the Intention of the owners to erect a mill atSpring brnch a mile above Castelon while the tunnel Is being driven and te gel to handling the I ores as soon as possible At Hound mountaIn two miles below work Is I being prosecuted during the wlntel by two crews of men On the south side one of these Is crosscutting a thirty foot ledge of ore that cyanldes readily I and which shows an average of about 5 In gold per ton while on the 10rth the force has driven into a body o ore carrying uranium At present however how-ever the miners are cutting into an ore body in which the miners report I some telurfe of gold and develop ments are accOdlngI being followed with keenest Interest by the Inhabl talHs of the entire district At Richardson which Is another very promising locality in the great La Sal region Smith Eastman Brown are Putting the copperuranium deposit opened up b3 them during the fail Into shape while the od Huntsman which proved such a fiasco while It was being exploited as a bonanza by Colorado parties in the East Is being prospected again by a small party At the Big Indi1n which has long been so Ilomlnent before the milling mining world the season has been devoted largely to the procurement of patenls patent that are now In the hand or Col C B Lyose and his associates associates While but a snml nurnier of men have been work a ing at the mIne the company has been making most xhaustve experiments on the ores oC whIch It is productive and the most effective method of leating the ores IHYinS been deter mined un i Is expected that the ownels WilL lUS season proceed with the cree lon of a plant oC argc capacity 1n the IHoperly Is already exposed nn enormous tonnage or ore that will average better than 1 per cent copper with some values In gold and silver and the lroPOsltion is looked siver proposIIon upon most fa yorably by mllln men throughout the country The controversy In the King toll road has been settled to the sails faction of all live sats ot al Jye enterprisIng ciii zens as wel as llr King to whom too much credit cannot be given for his perseverance and enterprise In OPening up this country and the country Is now assured the bestoutlet possible un t the toil road has to give way to the railway and the horse to the locomo lve i lveGie It Proppcr left last week for I Domer being called there by the Jose nhine comUL3 for which l Is mann ger to provIde for continuing work winter on the contnuing properties all He left l crew pushing the Iowa tun nel in Millers basin The summary would show over twenty men at work in Miners basin twenty more In and around Casteton ten In and around Hlchardson where not Over six were employed a year ago Three pay ship j pers and a least a dozen embryo ship pers sLx new companies and the town I of Casteton as the gain for 190 j I |