Show ACTIVE AT MINERS BASIN The Work of Opening the Claims Is Progressing Well Basin Grand County Utah Dec 20 The Iowa property upon which a crosscut tunnel Is now being run into Gold Hill mountain has at last reached a point where Its values are of sufficient suffi-cient Importance to guarantee the La Sal country a midwinter boom on the eve of the now year Yesterday the miners broke Into a large cave similar to the one found some time ago on the IndianaTornado property The cave was opened at a depth of ninety feet near the point calculated to cut from the granite wall Into the contact formation at which paInt a large vein is known to exist as shown on the surface The cave is about forty feet long at right angles to the tunnel and about tea feet wide It is lined Ith a fluorinestained mineral and the sedimentary material Is a talcy substance sub-stance almost blue with fluorine stain indicating the Tiear < approach to a fine body of telluride ores The deposit matter pans small particles of gold and in many instances small crystals of amythystic quartz in perfect crystallization crys-tallization As soon as the wall is broken bro-ken into across the cave on the tunnel line to the south it Is expected that the big vein will disclose something of value as a New Years gift to the Iowa owners The Iowa group consists of seven claims ° on the north side of Gold Hill mountain and adjoins the IndianaTornado properties on the west The Iowa Is owned exclusively by Gld R Propper and Iowa J Smith with Mr Proppot Incharge of the development develop-ment work The vein when cut will have a tunnel outlet of 100 feet and a vertical depth of about ninety feet When this vein Is crosscut they begin to enter the porphyrltlc quartz contact which has proVeh tho values of the Tornado property as a freemilling gold proposition and now In the handsof Judge Burton n other Salt Lake menThe men-The big tunnel enterprise now being vigorously pushed on the Grand View property tocutihe Lincoln vein has reached a depth of 100 feet For the past fifty feet they have been constantly con-stantly cutting small veins in the formation for-mation from which lh yget assays of from 3 to S10 In gold but will push ahead to the Lincoln vein 200 feet distant dis-tant when large vein will be opened up at a depth vertically of 500 feet The Skylark tunnel under the dlrec tion of the Wolf boys Is on the south side of Mineral mountain near here They now have from five to seven feet of fine gold and copper ore and are saving every pound of it They are going Into the mountain In a direct line toward tile OIlgli Ore blowout and as they gain depth the richer their mineral and the larger their vein Heports from International operations opera-tions In Beaver Basin are of the most encouraging nature and as worlc goes on they arc opening up two wonderfully wonder-fully rich properties In the ChimneySweep Chimney-Sweep and Fortune Teller mines In addition to their Beaver Basin possessions posses-sions they have the IndianaTornado properties on Gold Hill adjoining the Towa property to the east and will work this quite extensively after the New Year There Is but little doubt left as to tile certainty of our having a 100ton smelting plant in here next summer The proposition is working very satisfactorily satis-factorily with Eastern parties and their local agent here has been Informed In-formed to close up all ste deals and be ready to start work on the ground fioor about March 1st The plant beyond be-yond any and all doubt will be situated at Porcupine Springs In Round Mountain Moun-tain valley five miles from hero giving giv-ing everything a downhill pull from the mines Another feature of confidence In regard re-gard to the smelter project Is that they will have over 1000 tons of ore on hand already mined for a starter Those who own property on Wilson Mesa are prepared pre-pared to guarantee this amount of rich float rock from the mesa on a guarantee guaran-tee of Its value at 50 per ton ThlR float Is found scattered over an area of two miles In boulders elghlng from 100 pounds to ten tons Samples of the reck hae been aent them or to J J Young the promoter who wns out here last season as everything In connection with tho proposition Is clear and satisfactory satis-factory Thoie Is considerable speculation also regarding he I building of a new town as the supply point as woll as the commercial center of this country and that will he where the smelter locales now pointed toward Porcupine Springs Basin will Inevitably remain the mi ningcamp town while the new point will be tho base of supplies nnd market mar-ket for the ores also the county srat of Grand count now located at Moab The D R G Western Railroad company com-pany will then have the keyfranchise to the railway station |