Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-07-26 | Page 12 | Gold Hill to have City Improvements

GOLD HILL TO HAVE CITY IPPIEffiTS M ining Companies Unite for Water System and Hospital. Hold II ill, central .supply point for I ho mines of the De;p Oivcik (iistrln, is to have, without delay, a muni'ipal water BysLcm and a first-aid hospital, a tonipe-lnt tonipe-lnt nurse Ur the hospital having alrnady hot-n secured, according to stat tjtnon U-i made yosterday hy F'. S. iMiamhors, president presi-dent of the Western Utah Copper company com-pany and the Pole Star Copprr company. com-pany. Air. Cliarnhors, a'-ornpanied by A. Ii. Custer, mana gor of boi h of I hr so coinpaniew, r: turned Wednesday ni'ht from a stay of ten flays in the Crock country. At a eon ferine, held In flold Hill on Monday and 'I'n-'Hday, in which the Western West-ern Utah Copper coinpnny wan re pre -sentod hy its prcsideid, I-'ratik Itowiey of J'rovldence, 1L It wart agreed tliiLt the "Western Utah Copper company, the fOant-crn fOant-crn I ; tah Kxten.sion r:opper company and the t'ole atar company hould net jointly m tlio matter ol' furnishing Ihe diy a better water supply and a first-aid-to -tho-injured hospital. It was utatcd hy Mr. Chambers that Lheie would be no delay de-lay in carrying forward the plana for both of these betterments. Speaking of developments in the 'district generally, Mr. Cham Iters said that he found them highly pleasing. He added that the recent strike of tungsten in the property of the Western 1,'tah Copper company, with which he has no connection connec-tion whatever, was a stimulus to activity all over the district. As to conditions at the Western Utah Extension and Pole Star companies" properties, prop-erties, M r. Chambers was able lo give some details concerning progress made. He said that in the south drift from the 200-foot level of the Mogul mine shaft of the tex tens ion property a four- foot vein of copper-si Iver-gokl ore that would average av-erage around $75 per ton hail been opened, adding that work was under way for the intersection of this vein on the SOU-foot level. On the Helmet mine ot" the Kxten-sion Kxten-sion property at No. I tunnel, a big manganese vein, sixty-five feet wide, is being developed with excellent results. The foundations are now constructed and the building is under way for the additional unit to the new compressor piuut, which will be put Into commission within fifteen days, Mr. Chambers says, giving the company tho largest and best ' equipped plant in the. Deep Creek district. dis-trict. During the past few days heavy cloud-: bursts have interfered to some degree with operations In the Deep Creek conn- j try, causing considerable damage tu the roads. j