Show RENEWING TS YOUTH Signs of Mining Revival Manifest at Alta GRIZZLY AND LAVINIA BUSY Cost of Transportation a Great Drawback to t Camp Miners Believe That Their Iron Oxide Will Be Welcomed by tho Smelters Smel-ters for Fluxing Various things Indicate a great revival re-vival In the famous oldcamp at Alta and there Is a prevailing belief among mining men that this section oC the Stale will be the scene of great ac Uvlly before winter sets in Already the Continental Alta company com-pany is working about 300 men on the Grizzly and LovSnln claims and will hire more as soon as a boardinghouse In which to house them is finished No ore Is being shipped as yet but the mineral Is being blocked out and will remain until called for Down at the Albion tunnel airdrills are being used to drive the bore toward the vein which forms the objective point of the enterprise The Columbus Colum-bus Is making shipments from time to time and the company is planning extensive ex-tensive Improvements The great drawback now say the oldtlmerfi is the high price of ore hauling to the railroad Efforts to induce in-duce the Rio Grande to repair the old tramway have been fruitless the company com-pany l demanding a guarantee which the miners did not feel prepared to make Transportation by wagon costs about 350 per ton a prohibitive rate on the quality of ore which exists in such generous quantities on old dumps nnd in the workings of abandoned mines The Altaltes look for prosperity via the iron oxide which composes a large proportion of the native ores It is claimed that the smelters are importing Import-Ing ore from great distances especially to secure this important element for fluxing while almost Inexhaustible quantities lie right at their doors The miners believe that the smelters can well afford to treat the lowgrade orem for the fluxing material which they contain leaving the remainder of the metals for the producer |