Show IS K SENATOR CLARKS ENTERPRISE I r j L HS I iWill Put His Ophir TTilT c ntr test tes-t c IntO Matte 1 From most reliable authority it is i learned that Senator Clark of Montana has decided to provide his properties f in Ophlr canyon Tooele county with furnaces that will enable him to reduce re-duce the big tonnage of concentrates I that is now coming to the valley smelters smelt-ers to a matte and to forward the output out-put of the properties in the future In that form Just at what point it Is proposed to locate the plant could not f be learned I has been suggested that I j bo at Stockton where water is abundant and into which fuel etc I can be economically placed Again at Stockton I could be made to serve the requirements of the neighbors when the life of the Ophir Hill shall have been spent I Will not be an expensive expen-sive undertaking a projected unless Senator Clark should consent to Its enlargement en-largement for custom uses and can be His said completed within eight months at the most At present the owner Is required to haul from the mines in Ophlr canyon to Stockton at considerable expense after which there Is the tariff over the Short Line and finally the working charges at the smelter so that the earnings are seriously se-riously Invaded With Independent furnaces fur-naces this will all be overcome Strike in the Stockton A telephone message from the superintendent su-perintendent of the Stockton Gold Mining Mi-ning and Milling companys Stockton properties brought news to Manager J J Tronnm during the afternoon that on the 300foot level oft the shaft ns much as four feet or ore has been opened up for n distance of eight feet along Us strike with everything indicative in-dicative of permanency The ore Is characteristic of the camp and Is divided di-vided between galena and carbonate oC lead While no assays had been obtained ob-tained when the message came there is no doubt concerning Its quality and commercial properties For thirteen months the company through Manager Mana-ger Trenam has bene persevering and that the ore body has been encountered encoun-tered the camp throughout will rejoice re-joice Manager Trcnam who has the advantage of much experience in the locality feels that the battle has been won and the slopIng and marketing of ore will begin as sOon as possible Good Ben Butler Ore The management of the Ben Butler yesterday marketed a lot of ore con siHtingJsijthlrtyone tons from Its Blng ham property upon controls showing as much as 54 per cent lead 95 ounces silver and SltJO gold with an excess of C5 per cent Iron From the consignment consign-ment Manager Jacobs realized about 525 per ton net A message from camp during the afternoon brought the news that another lot of thirty tons had been r forwarded to market during the day the ores of the same class as those I Bold yesterday The output at present I Jo coming entirely from the old ore bodies although the upraise is now entirely en-tirely in ore and sloping from that point will follow in few days The management and the shareholders are to be congratulated on conditions at the Ben Butler which never looked as well as at present Intercst in Dewey Mil The interests lot Messrs John T Ho son and J H Stalllngs In the Dewey mill Bingham canyon have been purchased by the Messrs Rol and Fred Bemis who will continue to operate I op-erate It a in the PDt The Interests Involved in the transaction represented about 32 per cent of the stock at which the plant Is capitalized and were purchased pur-chased for 55000 The concentrator has 0 been running during the week on orcy from the Northern Light of Bingham I and will start in few days on a lot of over GPO tons from the Nest I has done i great deal for the amelioration of that class of mines at Bingham In whlchthe lowgrade ores preponderate I and with reasonable working charges I has been of great good to the old camp |