| Show DRUM MOUNTAIN Ito Prospect of Revival in Connection Conneton With the Leamington Smelter Ibapnh Nov 11Mr A M Laird recorder of Drum mountain district and August Meier a propertyowner In the same district spent Friday andS and-S tlca last In Ibapah Your correspondent corre-spondent has been familiar with the values of this district for several years particularly so when the Lea llngton smelter was the recipient of Its ores While Us radius Is not as extensive as many others the mineral zones arc rich rch In copper gold and silver JJevcrnl advantageous ad-vantageous sales wore made during the life o the smelter named but after It closed down the district reverted back to Inactivity on account of the expense of extended railroad transportation and long wagon haul During these years the propertyowners have not been Idle Frequent reports of rich strikes have been made the last being on the Busby Chive properties known as the Charm and Copperhead groups A part of these I properties are reported to have been recently bonded for 150000 The Charm has thousands of tone of ore blocked out L and from tests made the l average Is 20 in gold with Its high grade copper ores Adjacent to this I Mr f 11 Laird and M J C Webb own the Klondike group which is considered to bo among the best In the district While their copper ore is 1 equal la value to time average their I gold product runs from 60 to S100 per ton Several assays have been marc showing this Mattering t result re-sult On the same zone August Melee Is the owner of two groups representing represent-ing ton l claims known as the Cnraboo an EnJoy He reports fifty fenl of development de-velopment work a vein thirteen feet In width with on average gold value of 12 and copper S per cent Mr Meier I has deVoted seven years of his life In prospecting Ulahs hidden wealth In the mountains und Is an earnest worker In this direction Wise Cropper of Descret and P Er rlckson own the Good Templar group Joining time Charm mine They have plenty of ore in sight but are reticent In slating values Their ores are characteristic char-acteristic with those of the balance of the district but not developed to the Mime depths Chris Ovcrson and R B Giles of Leamington continue to be the owners of the Fat Maltan group No 1 2 nand 1 n-and 4 This ih i one ofHie groups which wore sold undtr bond during the days of the Len mln ton smelter and by reason rea-son of Us shinUng down reverted back to Its original owners At that tlmo the gold values were f2 I per ton with copper varying from to 20 per cent The Rattler group owned by Alf Mlk sell George A Lowe and W A Ray Is on the enrne strike with this group and represents the some values K P Pack of Deseret has developed a group of four claims on the south end of this district known as the BlueBird Blue-Bird which Is I a cyanide proposition and la reported as catrylng an average value of S gold per Ion Mr Font Robinson has sold his ranch at Ibapah to George Black of Deseret This Itj i the properl referred to a few days ago as being surveyed for a town sIte Mr Robinson slates lhat the proc pro-c fronvthe sale will be expended In developing his mining property In the Deep Creek l country The coyotes and wolves ore giving tho sheepmen a great deal of trouble in this part of Utah this fajl They have never been known to be so plentiful or so disastrous tr the herds before Poison rifles and traps do not seem to reduce their numbers cry much Anew A-new and more vicious variety of the wolf family has appeared They are larger of a bluish color and carry a shaggy coat of hair from the cars back to the shoulders with feet about twice the size of our ordinary wolf The mane or heavy growth of hair from the back of the shoulders to the cars Is black What species arc they Mining Notes Flattering reports continue to arrive from the Inalcy croup ai Park City Manager Cook o thin Columbia Is prc parIng molhcr lot of highgrudo ore for the market The miinaKomPiil of United Binglmm will begin loading for another trip to market today J l Cobb of Juneau Alaska Is down from time North and with his wife and son Is tit thc Knutsfnrd hotel Broker Pac made his usual Ill to the mines of ParK City yesterday and Is lond cd with titus > for the present week i The Lower Mammoth his another consignment con-signment of ore In transit and will It Is said add iOCO the J10COO to surplus this month J M 1 BoutWLll and J 1 D Irving of the geological survey now progressing at Tark City spent the diiy among frlcndo In the city Superintendent KIrbv of the Daly West buying Interviewed the management Is back i > at camp again to turn out the December De-cember dividemi Col Jame A Murray left for Montana ycalerdiiv morning and will I eonllnuo lo California whore ho will watch the finishes ishes In the Mcaaon of winter races Manager IeVry of UK S unp v > n la mov ing1 a luinilaumo inunaRo of Ore these dnys und I making Hint I Blncham pruposUlon l pro vldo time rile nM for Uj own dev lopmoiit PiTnldnt Hamburger of time big Do LaMar La-Mar company which barx his nann left I for camp fiRiln ivst l nlplu In inquire Into conditions at bonanzas and Inspect the pro rcsB of work on the < now equipment With the now cleetric hoist fo the Manhattan Man-hattan of Tliitlc In operation the management manage-ment hopct 10 soon record Imporiant channel Th < maclilnirj la now at camp and true I aettlnp up of It will begin at once Frank Jnnnor snporlntndent n construction con-struction the stnlVof Bjnibcrcor Do La Mar Mines goirpn Is back trom the ian south If skit r rt m the scrap bciwcen Copt Do La Mar and J the Tctlurtdo Power comrany The conviction or Balllot the mining Icing who employed the mails fn exploiting exploit-Ing the sale of worthless mining stock has started a good deal thinking among Investor and not a few damage suits are under consideration The market Is at a loss to know what Black Brfn of Big Cotton woo has done to provoke that lou htblc cbulllilon In the columns of a morning publication D by a mighty dizzy defense wore the profane pro-fane words of one bewildered reader Tliore IH not a little speculation among the talent an to what the size of lie Silver King dividend In 1003 will be Thai sovereign sov-ereign 0 the hills appears to bo pretty generous with the proscnt one although Jt would require no effort to udd a llcurc or two |
