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Show I Mines and Mining 1 M. H. Fames of this city recently received a letter from the I manager of the Copper-Uranium mine, which stated that the fourth car of ore had been shipped on March 20th, and that another car was nearly ready for consignment. Logan Republican. General Manager C. W. Clapp of the Commonwealth mines, situated situ-ated a few miles south of Reno, Nevada, is making arrangements for a $10,000,000 smelter proposition to be located near Reno. It will be known as the Western Smelter Company. ' H. E. Blake came in on Friday from Denver and left on Sunday j for Lisbon Valley. Mr. Blake took several men with him to work on the company's property. Work is going on steadily on the Lisbon i Valley claims, a force of men having been at work on the property for the last six weeks. Grand Valley Times. ! The Mineral Point Mining Company is preparing to conduct a V vigorous campaign of development work this year. It is believed that if the full extent of the body of iron ore located there can be ascertained a sale of the property can readily be made, and therefore much exploration work will be done this season. Logan Journal. The Little Chief Mining Company will install a donkey engine upon the 1000-foot level in order that the shaft may be deepened without interfering with the development work which is now under way. Superintendent Joseph Hannifin is now making preparations to commence sinking the main shaft which will probably be put down three or four hundred feet further. Eureka Reporter. I The richest property in the new camp of Bull Valley, in Utah, appears to be that owned by John Pulsipher and William Farnsworth, both of St. George. They located the ground about February 8th and have a well-defined ledge which carries high values in gold. A piece of gold was taken out of this mine by the owners which is a quarter . of an inch thick and two by three inches in size. Fillmore Progress- Review. ; B. Rich of Salt Lake, one of the owners in the White Star prop- , crty in North Tintic, returned to his home yesterday after having made a trip out to the ground. A well-known eastern expert accompanied accom-panied Mr. Rich to Tintic for the purpose of examining and reporting report-ing upon the ground for the benefit of capitalists who expect to invest some money in this stock. If Mr. Rich is successful in his effort ef-fort to place a block of the White Star stock he will immediately put a force of men at work for the purpose of developing the ground. Eureka Reporter. There seems to be a strong sentiment among the local mining men that something is going to happen in this end of the county, and that in two or three weeks there will be something sensational to give out. It is understood that some of the best mining talent in the state has become interested in the properties both west and north, and that I it is the intention to open these great properties and put them into the shipping class at once. Local talent has the opinion that within sixty days from now there will be some surprises sprung which will open the eyes of the people and make them wonder whether they are I near Aladdin's cave. Beaver Press. William Hoffman, Dr. ITarveille and C. E. Huish were in Salt Lake on Monday for the purpose of attending a meeting of the Iron Hat Mining Company. At this meeting a resolution was adopted making Eureka the place of business for the company. N. A. Robertson Robert-son resigned as secretary and C. E. Huish was elected to this office. It is the intention of the company to take up the development of the is- property again at an early date. The company owns four very prom-i" prom-i" ising claims in the eastern section of the Tintic district upon which ' some development work was done last fall. The company has a block of treasury stock which will be used for development purposes. Eureka Reporter. Some of the directors of the Selma Mining Company of North Tintic, including Walter Poulton and L. C. Peterson, were at the property on Wednesday and it is stated that preparations arc now under way for the resumption of work. The development work which the company has done up to this time has been upon the tunnel level, but commencing early next month the management will start sinking a winze a short distance from the face of the tunnel. The Selma is equipped with an electric drill and it is quite probable that a small electric hoist will be purchased for the purpose of putting the work- , ings down to greater depth. Now that the power line has been ex-tended ex-tended out into that section of the district an electric hoist could be operated very inexpensively. Considering the amount of work which has been done the Selma has a very remarkable showing and it would not be at all surprising if some big bodies of good ore are opened ' up in that section of Tintic within the next year. Eureka Reporter. I (Continued on Pntto 15.) ! MINES AND MINING (Continued from rase 6) While drilling for oil on the San Juan river, twenty miles below Bluff, E. L. Goodridge, on the 4th of March, struck a flow of high grade petroleum. When the eight-inch drill penetrated the oil sand it was all the driller and crew could do to get out of the way ; a stream of oil came up the pipe spouting in the air about twelve feet. This lasted some three minutes. This well is 220 feet deep and at this writing the oil stands 140 feet in the pipe. The well was sunk to develop de-velop fuel only and for this reason Mr. Goodridge chose a shallow territory to save expense, as fuel is very scarce. As soon as the oil burners arrive they will move on deeper' ground where they expect greater results. The San Juan river running through the field has cut the formation to a depth of 1,200 feet and four distinct oil sands can be seen, which vary in thickness from twenty to 880 feet. The sand which the above well tapped is forty-five feet thick and the petroleum pe-troleum is of a very high grade, being about .55 gravity. The San Juan people are highly elated over the strike and are securing a great deal of land. The choicest land in close proximity is owned by E. B. and F. H. Hyde, Adams Brothers, and others. According to development develop-ment we are convinced that it is one of the greatest high-grade oil producing districts in the United States. Iron Couity Record. The Bingham-Nevada Exploration Company, through its secretary secre-tary and attorney, R. D. Kennedy, acquired early this week the Paymaster Pay-master group of claims at Good Springs, Nevada, on which the company com-pany had a verbal option and which adjoins the group of three claims known as the Payday group. The new acquisition, it is believed, will prove a valuable one because of the fact that it shows a two and one-foot one-foot vein of zinc ore which runs from forty to forty-two per cent. This same vein shows up on the Payday and the stockholders expect to realize a great deal from these claims. Mr. Kennedy in a letter to the directors of the company spoke very optimistically of the conditions con-ditions in Good Springs and stated that the camp at the present time is reputed for its stability. Scores of mining men from all over the country who have looked into the conditions there have expressed themselves as being elated over the prospects of the camp. Mr. J. M. Richards, formerly of Butte, Montana, and a competent mining man, left the early part of the week for Good Springs to take charge of the Bingham-Nevada company's interests with a view towards a vigorous campaign in developing the claims and also towards shipping when the time is meet. While the deal has not been consummated as yet there is a strong likelihood that the company will ship its zinc ore entirely to the United States Custom Smelter at Bingham Junction. The United States Smelting Company is very desirous of getting this high grade zinc ore and it is quite probable that in the near future shipments will be made to the junction town. Bingham Bulletin. The Seven Troughs mining district is taking on new life. Money for development has begun to flow into the camp. Mine owners and leasers who have remained with the district throughout the period of financial depression and some uncertainty as to results are making good. The district is passing from the prospective to the producing stage and mills are being built to grind out the gold-silver product on the ground. The Seven Troughs, the Mazuma Hills and the Kindergarten Kinder-garten properties arc mines, with the Therien, the Signal Peak, the Fine Gold, the Hero, the Buckhorn, the Eclipse and a number of others rapidly approaching the point where they can be counted in that class. With a custom mill on the ground many property owners and leasers can begin at once producing enough ore to pay for development. de-velopment. Some of them will do better than that, while the mines should be able to pay dividends almost as soon as their mills are under way. The Kindergarten mill is under contract to be completed by May 1st. The Mazuma Hills mill is being built as rapidly as possible. The Smith-Demarest syndicate has secured the site and water supply for its custom mill. L. A. Friedman, manager of the Seven Troughs Mining Company, has announced that a mill for the Seven Troughs mine will be built during the summer. The water supply for the second sec-ond mill for the Friedman properties has already been provided. Until it is completed one battery' of stamps of the Kindergarten mill will be used to treat Seven Troughs ore. With construction work in progress on every hand and with mining machinery and mill material being taken in and ore being taken out by eight and twelve-mule teams, the gold district presents a busy scene. It is plainly on the SX upgrade, and there must be a reason. Intcrmountain Republican. The American Automobile Association has definitely decided on the Vanderbilt race for 1908. The date of competition, the rules governing gov-erning and the route will be announced by the William K. Vanderbilt, Jr., cup commission by July 1, 1908. The race will be for not less than 250 miles, and the entry fee for each car will lie $1,000. . |