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Show IRON BLOSSOM II DISPUTE H El Juab County Entitled to 80 Per Cent of Money. It is now practically certain that the long end of the tax on net proceeds from the Iron Blossom mine will be paid into the treasury of Juab county, says , the Eureka Reporter. Both Juab and Utah counties have been claiming the tax on this mine 's net proceeds, but according to information which is now in the hands of the state board of equalization, equal-ization, Juab county is entitled to approximately ap-proximately 80 per cent of this tax money. iVo commissioners of Juab county. P. J. Fennell of Eureka and J. V. W nitmore of Nephi, were in Salt Lake the past week to meet with the board of equalization and they were accompanied ac-companied on the trip before the board by V. E. Sklotf, the county surveyor, who recently checked up on the stopes from which the Iron Blossom company has been shipping its ore for the past year. Utah county 's claim for a big part of the Iron Blossom tax was based on a map which did not show the correct location of the boundary line between Utah and Juab counties. According to a recent ruling of the supreme court the tax on the net proceeds of a mine must be paid into the county from which the ore is mined, notwithstanding the fact that the portal of the tunnel or the shaft through which the ore is brought to the surface may be in another county. coun-ty. P. J. Fennell, who is looking after the development of the property of the Zuma Mining company, states that the main working shaft in which work is now going on has reached a depth of 400 feet and that during the past week or ten days some important changes have taken place which lends tho officials offi-cials of the company to believe that a highly mineralized formation is near. Sinking operations at the Zuma are bo-ing bo-ing handled under contract. Thomas Holilawv, who is directing operations at the Tintic Central property, prop-erty, is highly pleased with the showing show-ing in the drift now being driven at a depth of 825 feet. This drift is being sent out toward the southwest from the winze which was sunk a short time ago. Mr. Holdaway says that notwithstanding notwithstand-ing the fact that but one shift is employed em-ployed tho work is progressing very rapidly. Out in a new section of the Lower Mammoth ground, some distance to the south of the main workings but almost directly above one of the old stopes from which a large quantity of good ore was mined many years ago. Superintendent Superin-tendent William Fouyer is now engaged in tho development, of a new ore' body which was encountered a few days ago. This now find was made in a ' raise, which nt this time is about fortv feet ahovo the 1500 levnl. ;ind while tho vnl-uns vnl-uns hrtve bren n little spotted tho ore through which the raise is now beinf driven will parry about 15 in lend and ; silver. Tt was on the 1700 level thrit j the compnnv bad a bis? ore Imdv several vears ago and the new strike' n p pears tn be on tho same vein. Ofneinls of ; the Lower Mammoth arc quite sanguine i regarding this new piece of work because be-cause of the fact that the values appear to be improving with each round of holes and because the deposit is apparently a very large one. The ore comes near the contact between the lime and the porphyry. por-phyry. On th6 600 level of the mine a small stringer of $25 ore is being followed, the values being in lead, silver and cop per. There is also a nice butoh iron ir-on the 1000 level which will avc::.l;: around 15 ounces silver, $1 in go..l.T, 2 per cent copper. |