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Show THE CITIZEN 14 i statement Mill gimiiiMUMiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiilliiiiillui Weekly Mine and Oil Review. lllllllllllllllll I I Illllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll till RESUMES OPERATIONS. GALENA COMPANY resumed at the property of the Galena Mining company, adjoining the Beaver Copper mine in the Beaver Lake district in Beaver county, according to M. C. Morris, president. Contractors are at work driving a tunnel to catch the ore that was developed in the Galena shaft at a depth of approximately 240 feet. This ore, according to Mr. Morris, was of extremely high grade. Already the tunnel, which is on the Frisco claim, is in the formation a distance of 260 feet. Within the next 150 feet, it is estimated, the ore will be encountered. Gn one claim, known as the Chloride, there is, at a depth of seventy-fivfeet, it is said, a showing of ore which assays 60 per cent lead and 100 Operations have been . e ounces of silver. The stock has been relisted on the Salt Lake Stock and Mining exchange. The report to the listing company showed that the Galena Mining Com- pany is incorporated for $50,000, divided into 1,000,000 equal shares. Approximately 200,000 shares have been retained in the treasury, according to Mr. Morris, and the company has also on hand $3,560 in cash. CARDIFF ORE HAULING STARTS. Hauling of ore from the Cardiff mines lower bins at the junction of Big Cottonwood and South Fork canyons, was begun this week, according to information received at the companys office. This ore has been stored in the bins since last fall. The road leading up the South 'Fork to the mine has not been opened yet and will not probably be in condition for hauling until the first of July, it is said. During the winter the company has had its fleet of trucks carefully overhauled and repaired in preparation for this summers activiteis. From the ore bins at the mouth of the South Fork, the ore will be hauled to the Loven-dah- l railroad tipple. As there is about 2,000 tons of ore stored in the bins, it is estimated that this work will take about three weeks. COMSTOCK ADIT PROGRESS RAPID Rapid progress is being made by the United Comstock Mines company, a subsidiary of the Metal Exploration haulcompany, in driving the 9, 000-foot age tunnel connecting its entire holdings by a central working adit, through which will be transported the mill on American ore for the 1,000-to- n fiat. Since the first of the year seven headings have been started on this great underground passageway, and two more will soon be added, with the result of a substantial increase in the weekly footage. At the middle of May the company estimated the haulage way was practi. call 50 per cent completed and some lime within the coming month connections are looked for between the imperial and the Yellow Jacket and the Belcher' During a recent ten days run 425 feet was made in driving the tunnel and at this rate the finishing touches may be looked for during the fall. The tunnel is being driven in the west country of footwall section, and a feature of interest has been the opening of a new quartz body in the south heading of the Yellow Jacket. The extent of this quartz is unknown, but it will be subjected to develop- ment later on. The company has not as yet launched its extensive building program at the portal of the tunnel on American Flat, but all is in readiness for lively doings when the final details have been determined upon. The grading for the spur track of the V. & T. railway has been completed to the tunnel portal and the laying of the steel will be started in the near future. GREATER CON. FISSURE ORE CHUTE It wras reported during the D. B. Fields, secretary and week by treasurer of the Greater Consolidated Mining company, of the Alta district, with head offices at room 201 Ness building, that the main Logger or Benson fissure had been cut in the tunnel through which the big property is nowT being operated. The vein encountered covers the entire face of the seven tunnel and assays taken by nine-foo- t at random from the new find show valeus in excess of $3,620 a ton in silver and lead. Indications show a better average per ton as the work of exploiting the ore body continues, according to Mr. Fisher. The tunnel through which the Greater Con. is being worked constitutes the main water drainage system for the entire district and its further development means much in the way of economic mining and handling of the ore taken out by the various mines of the district. Shipment of ore from the new find will be made as soon as practicable by the company. It is the belief of the officials of the company that a big chute has been tapped and they look forward to many mpnths of profitable exploitation of the newly cut ore body. BIG SIX HITS OIL AT MOAB. Word was received in Salt Lake last Thursday that the Big Six well, drilling on the west side of the Grand river in the Moab district, had encountered oil bearing sand at a depth of 1,170 feet. As a result of the strike there are many wild rumors current throughout the district and with a view of setting these false reports right, the officials of the company recently issued a brief Manager F. W. Strong of the Big Six is reported to have said: At 1,170 feet the drill entered an sand which showed a considerable amount of live oil. In all probability three to four gallons of oiJ were balled from the well. Considering that the hole is eight inches and that water stands twenty feet from the top of the casing, we consider the oil showing indicative of a good producer. The water pressure at the bottom of the well figures 550 pounds to the square inch, and with this pressure the oil obtained was that which was released from the sand pounded up by the drill. The fishing job will be simple, and as soon as our new cable arrives we will clear the hole and drill the sand another foot or so. casing is being ordered and when the water is cased off we can then ascertain just liow big a well we have. oil-beari- ng Six-inc- h costly tunnel, and Irrigated fruit farm, have sprung up where there wag on, 'll sagebrush a matter of fifteen yean ago. As the lower end of the ing the oft Utah line the approaches effect gets more pronounced. que dat country is more broken and the rec brush is in the ascendancy. The ran son road swings off in another direction. ies Placerville being the final station. b. del yond Placerville the country has scam the visitation of water. As it drops away sti toward the Utah line it becomes dryer me in its character and more desert-likcit There are few trees on the hills, and no occasional erosions of sandstone rear qu their heads strange formations which no increase in number and size as one al journeys further out on the great pla. cd teau that stretches toward the ) a river. .1 e Colo-rad- of id A TALL STORY. a A farmer hired a man to help gather his corn last season. SOURCE OF RADIUM. When Mme. Marie Curie was presented with radium valued at $100000 from the women of this country it was gift she retruly an all-Americ- an ceived. d Out In the grim, broken, desert where southern Colorado and e Utah meet there is produced the ore from which most of the worlds supply of radium is recovered. Valuable mines have been located in arid gulches that were worthless even for cattle grazing. Concentrating mills have been erected and little mining settlements have grown up where not sage-covere- car-notit- even the courageous dry farmer planted his homestakes a few- years ago. Burros loaded with sacks of concentrates pick their i way along rough trails to the dusty highways that reach out into the not less dusty desert. Their burdens are shifted to ore wagons one wagon and a trailer to a team usualy and there is much rattling of tires and cracking of whips and flinging of oaths as the teamsters jolt their way to the rearest railway station, perhaps fifty or seventy-fivmiles distant. At the railroad sacks the ore which have of canary-colorebeen sorted from countless tons surof worthless or rounding rock, are shipped to a reduction plant in the east Mme. Curie it to visit one at Pittsburg, according to dispatches, and, through a long and expensive process, involving much settling in tanks, the precious element is secured by Mme. Curie has expressed a desire tc visit the radum fields, if the trip is possible, and also to see the best of American scenery. Her rotue will be through a land of grandeur if she visits the carnotite fields of Colorado. There is only one route to the radium country the Denver and Rio Grande railroad out of Denver. Crossing the Continental Divide at one of its points, after having transferred to the narrow-gaugline, Mme. Curie will find herself in the Uncom-pahgrvalley. Hero the government has brought water from the Gunnison river through an amazingly long and - fc him ai Now, the being an farmer had a reputation for efficient worker, but the hired man was not daunted by it. They started cut side by side, the hired man being advised by the farmer to keep as close to him as he could with the row he was gathering. But lo! the new' worker after a few minutes of keeping up with the farmer passed him and soon wras several feet ahead. Frantically the farmer pulled the ears from the stalk, but the new man still kept gaining. Then all at once he heard the farmer shout. Stop! he yelled. Stop, if you want to wrork for me. I never yet let any man who worked for me get ahead of me. And because lie wished to hold his job the hired man slow'ed up. adium-bearin- g six-hors- e e d low-grad- e pin-poi- nt pin-poin- t. WHY HE KEPT SILENT. A certain worthy couple in a country district had a boy who was supposed to be dumb, for up to his year lie had not spoken. One day it happened that he and his father were busy in the hayfield. It was very hott and the father paused for a drink of tea. He was very slowly imbibing from the jar the boy said: Make ser-ent- h In astonishment the man lowered the jar from his lips and gazed at the boy. Why, lad, he e- haste! xclaimed, ye speak afore? e Why didnt "Nowt for to say," replied the boy. SHE HAD. Have you ever appeared as a witness in a suit before? asked the bullyragging attorney. replied the young lady on the witness stand. What suit was it? It was a blue suit with a white collar and white cuffs and white buttons all the way down the back, replied Why, of course, the young lady. A BIT BOTH WAYS. su-blim- e youre talkin! No doubt appearance has a lot o w'ith ones success. o to But not so much as success Ins to with ones appearance. The Bui still (Sydney). ii o: is |