Show ACTIVE MINING WORK GOING GOIME Oti ON IN IM S. S SAYS KING KIMG M. M E. E King who l Ills has S been engaged for some time in look looking ng over the tIle mining properties at Fortuna Utah and who re returned returned returned re- re turned today to Salt Lake for tor a a short stay a says that at present tile the l e gold camp r is quiet UI but that t several r of the g leading g companies are getting ready to do extensive extensive ex ex- development work ork and that there here is every prospect that the camp amp will see the liveliest period In Its history within the next sixty to W ninety days Among the companies who will begin extensive development and leasing projects projects projects soon are the Fortuna Independence and the Beaver properties The Fortuna Independence recently sold In Interests interests In- In to B. B G G. G Lott and Harry Rand and will sink a shaft at a favorable point foint and conduct important underground ex explorations ex- ex beginning within n a few weeks at most and and in addition inaugurate a liberal policy of f leasing Th They y have already let a lease to R. R B. B Westman and associates that promises promises' much Mr 11 Westman has charge of the Sheep Rock stamp five mill and will operate this lease in connection with the mill He is authority for the statement that he lie has sampled a big stock work vein running across the proposed lease and that it Undoubtedly undoubtedly un Un- un- un contains good quantities of high grade milling ore The t Fortuna In Independence Independence In- In dependence has alread already been approached by other prospective leases Tile The secretary of the Beaver Goldz ne Mining company writes from Los Angeles Angeles Angeles An An- geles that Ire ITe has effected the sale of a major interest in this property and that an extensive campaign of development is assured The TJ sale sate includes a. a hundred thousand shares of of treasury stock and enough promotion stock to give the Purchasers purchasers pur Pur- chasers chase s control of the property and they have already announced their intentions of ot beginning big developments right light away The is north norih and the Independence dence south of the Moore Lumry ground where the Hodges McGarry lease has al already already al al- ready mined between and tons toils o of ot ore and are arc preparing for the premier mill run of the camp They started shipping ship ping their big consignment to the Sheep Rock mill five miles away Monday of this week They have discovered that their ore re shoot crosses their shaft between between be be- tween the thirty and sixty levels and apparently y goes to depth P to the south I be-I of dt m mth it They will develop I and mine nino rl south of th the th shaft as soon as they have hoisted the ore now stored in the mine The Mohawks 1 and Jumbos and claims recently purchased by D. D D. D Houtz and associates are aro also contemplating early developments along with other proper proper- ties j Fortuna has one of the best surface showings In the tue West Vest with plenty of ot places where good values alues come to the surface but enough work worl has has' not yet been done to really demonstrate anything anything any any- thing tiling either way The Gold Queen Is the deepest and It is only a little over overa a hundred feet from the surface It has followed a body bodY of milling ore six to eight feet wide for fifty f feet et and is dally daily expecting to break into high grade grado shipping ship ping ling ore |