Show THE PARADOX REGION A Quiet Boom Is on ThereNew Smelter Is Blown In Basin La Sal Mountain Utah Dec 15 The section In the vicinity of the ParadoxLa Sal mines on the east slope of the La Sal range Is at present experiencing ex-periencing quite a boom Parties over from thorn recently report that the new smelter has been finished and was blown In on last Monday There are now about forty miners at work on the La Sal mine taking Out ore and there are about 0 tons of ore out and ready for reduction The party brought over with him fifty pounds of the ore that Is almost pure copper and also somo samples neatly I pure silver I Is beyond be-yond doubt the richest ore yet found In this country and carries with It from G to U i In gold The ore throughout through-out will average SCO to the ton and picked samples run as high as SOO to the ton Mr James C McBride the manager of the company has notified 1 the mineowners of this district that he will he prepared In the spring to market mar-ket all the ores that can be produced here and shipped to the smelter having aitavc rage value of 20 per ton At this rate there are at least four properties prop-erties In this locality able to furnish the ore such as Ir desired by the Para doxLa Sal company an oxide and sulphide sul-phide ore The new smeller Is of 100 tons capacity and said to be a success suc-cess In every l detail The DIrlgoLa Sal I company operating operat-ing on Deep crook Is I making excellent excel-lent headway with theft GOOfoot contract con-tract and are reported to be finding some rich stratas In their crosscut tunnel Indicating that before reaching the Mollie Gibson vein they will have opened numerous pay veins that can be worked profitably with reduction works on the ground rime company now has a carload of supplies and provisions pro-visions on the way Into the mine from Clfco purchased from Salt Lake City Mr S W West the manager la expected ex-pected lucre soon Alex Caldwell came over from the Automobile properly on Deep creek this week and reports having reached a depth of 100 feet In his crosscut tunnel and before the New Year will have cut the Automobile vein which If as good as shown on the surface he will be able In tho spring to begin shipping ore to the ParadoxLa Sal smelter llljtf ores are an oxide carrying car-rying good values in gold and a high percentage of Iron such as the smeller company will desire for shipping purposes pur-poses Colorado parties who have been quietly Investigating a peculiar dyke formation or blowout t near AIdri elms place on tho Grand river between Richardson Rich-ardson and Mqab claim to have found pay mineral there and have started work on a large scale to develop the property They claim to have what IH known aa n chronlum ore carrying gold unwell aa afair per cent of theo the-o rarer metal and with development can open a big property < Phil C tout or Moab IK l blf the head of the enterprise com A good supply of provisions fortablu cabins and all the necessary equipments for a winter oc energetic development work has been provided Jit the A pon group of mines In SohafJ for gulch on the south slope of Gold Hill mountain for the purpose of continuing con-tinuing the Gold Hill tunnel project whereby It Is expected to find the vein from which the Wilson mesa gold float came The project Is being carried out by Mesprs Merkins S Schuman hacked by Denver capital They will cut the Aapen vein tit a depth of 400 fcc fccOn the north slope of Gold Hill mountain Is the Iowa tunnel being run an near as possible on a line yUh tho south slope tunnel null iipon Which work Is nEO going ahead The Aspon and Iowa properties join at tho apex or Gold Hill mountain requiring a bore 1 of 3000 feet to the Intersection or 1500 feet required by each company to the point of connection When completed com-pleted a vertical depth of 1100 feet will be gained This will completely crosscut cross-cut the entire south contact belt now known to be the great gold zone of the La Sal mountains reaching from the ParadoxLa Bal region to the Grand View possessions on the western slope In this zone are such wellknown gold properties as the Gold Coin Indiana Tornado Iowa Gold Hill Prudential AspenChicagoLa Sal and Grand View properties and from which belt the rich gold float found on Wilson mca undoubtedly came In about fifty f < ct more the Iowa tunnel will have cut Into the first big vein In the contact a fluorine ore from which good results may be expected I successful then the key to the riches of Gold Hill will have opened the way to the future fu-ture development of every property on Gold Hill and capital will be more free to take hold and puph through the two proposed tunnels Surface Indications In-dications in the porphyrctlc quartz dykes of great gold values were nevermore never-more encouraging In any new camp and only depth is required to solve the problem of the wealth of the south gold belt and the future richness of theLa Snls The machinery for the Gold Basin mill has been purchased by Mr Clark and Is now on the way here ready to be hauled Into the basin while the enow Is on the ground and sledding Is good I is proposed to have the mill up and ready for operation by the let of next July The Interstate company Ls at work getting out ore preparatory to lcecpinr the mill In constant operation opera-tion when once started Sold CunLmnan Stook The News of Ely Nov says The gratifying news comes from Philadelphia Philadel-phia that a block of 10000 shares of the stock of the Chalnnmn Mining and Electric company was sold In that city last week for 10000 Occasionally a croaker who knows nothing about It makes the statement that thero are no big ore bodies In tho Chalnman mine but every man who knows anything about mining and has gone through the underground workings of that property laughs nt the assertion There Is no mine in the Went which presents pre-sents a better showing today than the Chalnman considering the amount of work which has been done and under efficient management It will now surprise sur-prise Its friends as well as its enemies Mining Notes Capt William Curtin of the Gloncoo 13 Wllnm down from Park Curtn again Tho Gemini of Tlntlc reached tho smelter smel-ter during the day wIth eight carloads of hluhgradQ ore The Utah oC Dcop Creek reported with two carloads tot nlghgrado silver iind lead ore E J Daughters will leave for Tonopah to conduct an examination 01 mining property this week The producers of Tonopah Not divided divid-ed the proceeds a four carloads of high trade ore yesterday A carload of hlfrhgrado lead and silver oro from Burko Ida won disposed of on yesterdays market Superintendent John A Kirby of tho Daly West was down from that Park City bonanza again yesterday Manager Farnsworth of tho Bullion Beck of Tlntlc reached tho smelter with a halfdozen carloads of oro for a weeks opening The Eagle Blue Bell arrived at tho BInyham Cones furnaces with three carloads car-loads of oro from Us pintle properties yesterday President Nowhousc of the Boston Con leaves for Denver today where ho will meet rs Newhouse and with her return to Salt Lake That tho advance by Wabash yesterday yester-day was stimulated by any change In Its property at Park City was denied by tho local officials Dr Franklin of the big Franklin syndicate syndi-cate IB scheduled to arrive from his properties prop-erties out of Marysvalo and south of Gold mountain this morning Manager TtfcShorry of the old Mono now owned by tho Plttnburg and Utah or Dry canyon came forward with n carload car-load of ore during tho day The foreman of the Highland Boy Con of Bingham reports tho tunnel still sti ploughing Its way Into tho main oro body bd Villh which connection was recently rccent made Time owners of the Mountain Gem mine at Bingham wero In line with another consignment of silver and lead oro during tho day and v111 follow It with another In a few days The days receipts at tho Taylor Brunton sampler consisted of eighteen carloads of ore frpm Tlntlc two from Iom Blngbam four from Touopah two from fom Deep Creek ono from Stockton nnd ono from Idaho Park City Miner The Belmont Mlnhftr company which acquired tho ODonovan group or claims a loir months no In I tends to begin the development ot their property at once They will put up n nolsthouse as soon no they can ret ma terial on tho ground und will thtn begin LTOlll anl wi twn elnking c six hundredfoot shaft Harry Bcardulcy representing Frank Leslies Wcokly has returned after nn Inspection of tho O 1C group and other mines embraced within the Majestic com Iajctc pan r holdings l and confessing his as tonishment at tho wonderful disclosures which havo beth mode Mr iclosurc will remain In ZIon several days DClrcsl lnqllrln Into maters of local interest t |