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Show Mines and Mining The Montreal, of the Tintic district, will soon let a 100-foot contract. con-tract. Good values have been found in the Celtic mine, according to the Boise Statesman. The vein recently uncovered is eight feet in width, and an average sample of the entire eight feet shows a value of $17 in gold. A dispatch from Modena, Utah, says that an important gold strike is reported to have been made on the Pulsifer-Farnsworth group in Bull valley. Free gold in a gangue of ferric material, principally of the nature of limonite and in spots assaying over $1,000 per ton, is the report. The machinery at the Swansea mine is now being overhauled and placed in shape in order that the property may be reopened upon short . notice. Some of the machinery will probably have to be repaired and '. the shaft will also come in for some repair work. The mine will be started up as soon as the new pumps arrive. Eureka Reporter. The plan whereby the Bingham Con. Co. was to be absorbed by the Ohio Copper Co. has been temporarily abandoned. Under this plan Bingham stockholders were to contribute $12.00 per share and secure for this contribution and the turning over of their stock, 4 2-3 shares of the Ohio Copper Co. stock and one share of Eagle & Blue Bell. Bingham Bulletin. Frank P. Swindler, manager of the Apex mine, returned to Salt Lake to-day after having spent a few days at the property. When asked regarding the Apex Mr. Swindler said: "There have been no changes of importance underground. We are still crosscutting the country from the 1,325-foot level and the property is looking good at this time." Eureka Reporter. Several sensational strikes have been made recently in the new gold field in upper Bull valley, about forty-five miles north of St. George, Utah. Some of the discoveries are showing up ore worth $5,000 a ton, while surface showings everywhere in the district are very promising. Hundreds of men have gone into the district in the past fortnight. Fillmore Progress-Review. B. H. Bullock, who was in camp from Provo, says that the crosscut cross-cut to the east from the 150-foot level of the Bullock mine at Silver City is now in a distance of fifty-six feet and that the vein will be cut within a very few days. The company is considering the advisability of running another cross-cut to the west for the purpose of cutting a couple of parallel veins, and Mr. Bullock believes that with the opening up of these veins the property will be one of the best in that section of Tintic. Eureka Reporter. John Hiler, John Else and P. J. McDermott returned from- a trip to southern Utah where they went to investigate a mining prospect. They found the prospect, but they have not yet decided to go into it. They went to the end of the line of the Thistle Junction branch of the Rio Grande railroad, and staged across country over two hundred miles to the Pahreah river country near the Arizona line. They had varied experiences and found an excellent copper proposition, though far from the railroad. They threaten to return to that country in a couple oi weeks. Pocatello Tribuno. J. H. Kreiger, who is heavily interested in the Equity Gold Mining Min-ing & Milling Company, has on exhibition over the Success Meat Mar-. Mar-. ket fine samples of ore -from the workings on the property. The Equity owns sixteen claims in Taylor canyon just east of Ogden. Much development work has already been done. There is a large quantity of ore on the dump that will run at least $12 in gold, and the ore in the face of the tunnel, which is now in 375 feet, assays $30 in gold. The directors are greatly encouraged by the outlook. Mr. Kreiger Krei-ger also announces that next week he 'will begin work in a gray granite quarry about a half mile up the canyon, and that he will have stone on the market within a week. Utah State Journal. The management of the Bingham Amalgamated Copper Co. has received the settlements on the first lot of ore shipped to the Yampa smelter at Bingham. Under the contract between these two organizations organiza-tions the Amalgamated has the right to ship 100 tons of ore a week for a period of twelve months, and with the price of copper wlicr it is at present the company makes a profit beyond all expenses incident to mining, transportation and smelting of $11.25 per ton. The ore is of a splendid character. The company, therefore, is now making a comfortable profit steadily, and the management has no fear about maintaining the limit of production. Bingham Bulletin. (Continued on race 0) i 1 MINES AND MINING (Continued from Fasre 7) I Fully 4,000 tons of ore, some of it niarvelously rich in gold, is now awaiting shipment at the Mammoth mine. The mine has shipped no a ore this year but notwithstanding this the regular force has been kept at work and at the present time the ore is piled up both underground and upon the dump. If the United States smelter is given permission to operate its lead "furnaces the Mammoth will immediately start shipping and the ore will be sent out as fast as it can be loaded upon the cars. Quite a number of leasers are also at work in the Mammoth mine and they also have a large amount of ore ready for shipment. In no mine in Tintic have there been more important changes within the past few months than at the Mammoth. The ore bodies in the lower revels are opening up wonderfully and the work which Supt. Mclntyre I is doing in virgin territory is making a new mine of this old time ' bonanza. Eureka Reporter. Supt. Geo. Sommerville has been instructed by the directors of f, the Pacific to block out the sulphide ore bodies so it can be accurately i measured. At the present time there is a vast quantity in sight going from $10.00 to $60.00 per ton. The death of Mr. E. H. Boley made a vacancy in the board of directors which J. F. Crompton has been appointed ap-pointed to fill. The board as it stands to-day is a strong one and no doubt has the entire confidence of every stockholder. J. L. Craig, Joint Freight Agent of the Salt Lake Route and O. S. L. Railroads, is president, with C. M. Beck, H. C. Johnson and J. F. Crompton of this city and A. B. Stevenson, of Salt Lake, superintendent of the O. S. L. Railroad in Utah, comprise the directors. The policy of the company, it is understood, will be a continuation of the vigorous campaign of development, with probably an increased force of miners in the near future, and in all probability the "Irish" dividends will be replaced by others more agreeable to the stockholders, the present difficulty being to find a smelter to handle the ore profitably to the company. American Fork Citizen. Ogden men are prominent in the development of the Selby mining district. The following letter from Virginia City tells of the bright showing made: The real interest in this locality begins to attach to the West Comstock, which is also known as the Jumbo district, and of late is often referred to as Selby, because of the name of the principal prin-cipal mining company operating in the district. The reasons for the West Comstock not receiving the development it deserved were many, but the extreme richness of the Comstock proper was the chief. Those who came that far never went any farther that is, those who had money to invest. And without money any development work worthy of the name is impossible. Some of the wanderers that drifted into the West Comstock district stayed with it despite a lack of I means, and in several instances their search was well rewarded. Thus, E. W. Harris took in the neighborhood of $100,000 out of a space not larger than a small room, and other little purses of this sort were scooped out in sums varying from $25,000 up to $60,000. There is ; quite a rush on, and town lots are beginning to go fast. New investors are coming in daily. Only yesterday a company composed of Paul, Buckley, the well-known Walker Lake and Rawhide operator; C. A. Paulver, a mining engineer of Salt Lake; George Dellin, a mining man of Spokane, and W. H. Schnitzer and Charles Fricdholl of Reno, bought four claims north of the T. and B. They came to this city to secure men to begin active operations at once. Ogden Standard. Dr. C. A. Gowans and C. J. Call of Salt Lake City are in the city in the interest of the Elk Coal Company. This is a Utah corporation in which a number of prominent Ogden men are interested. Some of the Ogden stockholders have already visited the property of the com-pany com-pany in Wyoming and a prominent coal dealer has arranged to handle the output of the mine in this market. Dr. Gowans and Mr., Call are enthusiastic over the outlook for their enterprise. "Our company com-pany is made v of prominent business men of Idaho and Utah," Dr. Gowans said in speaking of the object of his visit to Ogden. "Our mine," Dr. Gowans continued in reply to questions, "is located in the Diamondville-Kemmerer district of Wyoming. We have over 5,000 J acres of ground, most of it patented. We are but three miles from the Short Line and are splendidly located as to market. On our ground we have ten workable veins of coal, ranging in thickness from five to fifty feet. This coal has been analyzed extensively and is proven to be equal to the best turned out in the great Wyoming coal district. The main mine of course will be in the fifty-foot vein. This ein is I solid coal from top to bottom. We have explored it for 300 feet and the quality of the coal improves as we proceed. We are developing and equipping the mine as fast as men and money can do it. We have thirty men employed now and will have seventy-five by the end of ' the month. We expect to be on the market with the coal within sixty days and b'e able to supply 500 tons a day if necessary. There is no limit to the amount of coal we can put on the market when the property is fully developed. Utah State Journal. |