Show GILSONITE MINES PAY BETTER THAN GOLD professor arthur lakes has lately been out on the reservation and along the proposed route ef t the moffat road la in utah aud colorado after an x haussl a clo on formation formations and a of the amro ni of mining gil do nitle by the st luuis louls company tho the gentleman discus discusses soa the prices obtained for the product us as follow follows hitherto Rither td they hae haie been shipping about four hundred tons per month although there la Is an easy capacity of or 1000 tons upwards et of tons ero ere on the ground recently sacked ready for shipp ment to the bio granda grande western railway nt price ralles miles distant shipping by freight wagons costs cost 13 per ton shipping from arke te to st louis by rail 3 5 63 65 the mining and sacking coats costs 2 50 per ton so that tho the total costs amount to 21 a ton the gilsonite te Is sold at st louis for 50 to CO 60 per ton so the tile minoa mines net some 30 to 40 per ton T P bigney superintendent of the noted mind at soldier sum balte says salt lakes mining bo ile view which Is 1 unique in the fact of its being the only productive ite mines in north america and whose product finds its any into tho the anark markets ets of now york and hamburg Lier mally and other european centers has decided to increase In creaso the ehll 1 clency of that property by sinking a new double compartment shaft to a depth of one thousand feet the in StAllA tIOU of a modern plant nt at the tho careful and economic direction which mr rigney can give it will place this property ou on a footing few callea will excel fords times of last friday has this pat which is pt Inte interest rost hereabouts hore A party et of prominent coal op opera orators tora from tir the east last week visited the anthracite deposits that have been opened up by isy it A Kir kirker kerat at new harmony oa on the line between iron and washington hington counties the owners have spent in developing theeo these deposits anti with proper equipment they could now send out five live hundred tons per dy day this coal is a semi anthracite and it lie to claimed that as a smelter fuel 0 when mixed coke it give gives better botter results atza cake alone Elch nelds reaper lias has this tills reference ence to A mining property in south tin utah lutah the stock of which la Is largely held ia in carbon co county it la Is reported that the billy big vein cla on the tile trap trait ates pride property pro PortY which was struck ir v the tile tunnel has been on 1 countered in the tunnel which superintendent in tandel t machala hue has been cleaning out and re timbering the ore la Is of a line character aad mad with the disclosures thi property a big boly of dov developed eloped matter the trapper ti Tv uppers apper pride Is getting in a position to be a ug mine soon 0 L diffenbaugh DIffenb nugh of eden utah owning a large area of oil lauda lands on the tho promontory Pro bordering the tho east shores ot of the great bait salt lake luke has made un an exhibit of lato late of a barrel and some jar of asphalt in a liquid state representing tho flow ot of thia tills commodity atit a tit oozes f from rom the lake bed to secure the tile asphalt a pipe Is driven sixty ho flie feet into tho the lake bottom which permits tho crude pro duct to seep out this product according to analysis tl pet cent cant asphaltum and 41 per cent oil state mine inspector gomer thomas was out at tho the rarie tto 84 few days lays apo ago making one of his periodical inspections ions of properties in that neighborhood bo ho ile says that at ut a depth of three hundred feet a fine body of ore hai been and as depth Is attained it grows much bettar iho shaft lit I 1 being ro to timbered in order to make it afo safe tor for the men working underground the mines near a port lort du do chesno were wore forced to shut flow down a portion of last wack owing to the th breakage of tho the electric lighting plant somo twenty four and six horse teams about tho the minei at onu ono time malting alting for am opportunity to ioki out i the tile parri tte mine has been p oiling up its ore fur for several week weeks and ha has ben beon shipping only what la to at the eastern factory operated by the owners of the property |