Show MINES AND MINING the newly discovered bull alley gold mines are located about twelve miles bouth of modena utah the utah consolidated report shows 93 per share earned in 1908 the total surplus was div ic ends final surplus 1 word comps cherry creek nevada that charles a vet cran prospector has made a strike in thirty toot of ore assaying per ton in gold the ground la located just north ot town it is announced that the new milling plant at golconda is working regular ly and effecting a fine saving on the ores being treated though no attempt la being made to move the product to market at the prasert time A prominent mining expert speak ing of the gold springs district of utah says taking gold springs dis tact all in all it Is what I 1 deem one of the greatest gold sections on the globe and the mines there will be producing gold when many ot the greatest gold camps in the world are forgotten the salt lake copper company whose mine is at copper mountain in box elder county is to resume pro th s is one ol 01 the mines which closed down when the united states smelter ceased to receive cop per ore early in january since which time only development work has been carried on the little beaver mining and re company has secured for the sum of the marguerite and other claims in beaver county from the vicksburg gold and copper min ing company the company has a lease on a twenty five ton mill near by and it is the intention to begin miling ores at once after the expenditure of much labor and money the 1400 foot level of the ontario at park city has been freed from water for the first time in three years the management Is able to enter on this level and the water will only have to recede another feet to bring its level down to that ot the ontario drain tunnel on the coleman property in eiko county nevada work has been done to the foot level and from the bottom of te feet of drifting and crosscutting has been done this work has disclosed an ore shoot that ranges from eighteen eish teen inches to five feet in width the ore carrying from 15 to 61 per ton n gold accord ng to the recent report of the guggenheim Gugg exploration corn rany its investment in tile yukon gold company was valued at 8 there are 3 shares in the company and the market kalua tion is 17 it is expected th company will begin paying dividends before the end of the year ten chicago giant power drills were ordered the F rich mond machinery company last week by the boston consolidated company this indicates that the company is preparing to tear the ground up at a 1 vely clip pretty soon thirty or forty sets of power drills are already in use at the company s mines the claim is made that of the min ing camps in nevada gold circle is one that has no professional boom ers and which as steadily advancing bodely on its own merits the miner zone is increase ng from day to day and Is now larger than any other camp in the state with the possible exception of the seven tro highs many business men from reno have lately taken advantage of the apor tuni ties offered and are building stores and business places in gold circle lots are now selling up to as high as 2 A large part of the townsite te has the addan tage over other mining camps in the tate by being platted upon patented ground the latest development work per formed in the last chance mine in the dugway mining district of too ele county utah is a forty foot shaft this now shows a face of ore nearly eight feet wide samples taken across the face show a trace of gold ounces of silver and from 7 to 15 per cent lead copper is also present in the ore in small quantity the s ot the pacina gold mining and mill ng company of american fork has been instructed to commence the blocking out of the large bodies of ore which they encountered month ago n price from 10 to I 1 his ore ranges 60 per ton and is expected to be the means of placing the mining company on a paying basis the house committee on mines has been having hearings on various bills to establish a bureau of mines will make a favorable report at an early date upon a measure corn bin ng the features ot several bills which have been under consideration it is expected the measure which will be reported will provide tor a bureau under the charge of the department oi the interior and connected with scientific work being carried on by the geological survey the exploitation so far advanced in gold circle district would not only indicate the strength of this mineral iced area from north to south but it to demonstrate the fact that the width of this mineral bear mg territory is now hardly dreamed oi says the gold circle miner the united states smelting corn pany s plant at bingham junction has taken on new life since the decision handed down by judge marshall in place of be ng closed down tight as has been the case during the last two months it now has a payroll of men most of whom are mechanics the status of the proposed condoll dation of the utah copper company nevada consolidated company and the cumberland ely copper company has not changed very materially and interests identified with these various companies say negotiations are pro gressing and the merger will go through without fait every property in the seen tro highs nevada district that has re bently been idle pending a settlement of the wage question qi estion has started up with a full force of men th last dit havin been ada isted and new wase scale signed |