Salt Lake Tribune | 1912-04-28 | Page 18 | Battle Mountain Begins Busy Year

BUTTLE MOUNT! BEGIWSBUSY YEAR Several Properties Are Giving Results of Importance in the District. That the Battle Mountain. Nevada, mining section Is much elated over the resumption of ore shlpmenis by the r'op-per r'op-per Canyon property, which Is a QlaegOW & Western enterprise, Is vouched for by H. S. Thomas, the .Salt Laker who is operating in that part of the: state The Coppei Canyon has been closed down for a considerable period. resumiiiK operations oper-ations Inst lately, and a car of gold ore is now on Its way to the Suit Lake stueltern. Mining at Buttle Mountain is picking up very satisfactorily, said Mr. Thomas on Saturday. Me is Just returned from the camp, showintr the effects of facing the spring sun on the deserts Adjoining Adjoin-ing (he Glasgow ft Western territory, he states Is the Boyd A Broy group, and this property la opening so well that the owners are considering the Question of providing their own smelting facllltl-' In the Mill Canyon part of the district, dis-trict, which Is twenty-five miles south of Rattle Mountain, Judge B. F Curler has taken over the holdings of U, H. Estes and H. Hill, and he is making prepara-! prepara-! tlons to drive a shaft to the 400-foot level. At Klmherly. the Klmberly Consolidated Con-solidated company Is working fifty men at the mine and mill, and this force will be Increased steadily. The nwners of fne Plttsburg-Red Top. he states, are Planning a mill, having a splendid showing show-ing of ore. The Little (riant is another property which Is developing Into proportions pro-portions never before equaled. The Battle Mountain district during the summer will give an excellent account of Itself