Salt Lake Tribune | 1912-11-17 | Page 22 | Heavy Snow Comes Early in Wasatches

REHVY SNOW COMES Nature Laying Up Abundant Wafer Supply for the Coming' Year. While Salt Lake City Is basking in the pleasant sunshlno these .days It Is diflt-cult diflt-cult to realize that within a short ride of the city the new snow so far Is sovon feet deep on tho level, but such is the case at the Michigan-Utah Consolidated property of the Big and Little Cotton-woods. Cotton-woods. Frank D. Brown returned fro 111 the property yesterday, and ho staled thai the roads over the snow woro broken brok-en through for the first time last Thursday, Thurs-day, and uninterrupted communication with the properties of Alta Is expected from now on. The company la operating oper-ating Its tramway stradlly. and there Is no reason to believe the tram will be out of commission during the winter. The management, states Mr. Brown. Is removing the large hoist to Its new post at the head of the raise connecting the Solitude and City Books tunnels, upon the Installation or which sinking will bo resumed re-sumed Tho oro bins of the property are completed, including the automatic loader, the ore bins and tracks at Tanners Mats are completed and the tracks are snow-shedded. snow-shedded. The company has completed Ihe task practically of getting all the winters supplies to the mine There are four lots of ore now on the local market, on two lots assay returns are available. The first lot averages 0.03 ounces gold, 20 ounces silver. 10 per cent lead, S per cent copper and 10 per cent 'ion. The second, 0.03 ounces gold, 2i.2 ounces silver, IS per cent lead, 0.4o per cent copper and 3 per cent Iron.