Show additional mining news auto trucks doing good at desert mountain B F P riel net was in camp this week from h 9 mining property lo 10 abed in hit frickson district and states that everything points to a very prosperous season for the mines of that section the fleiner prop erty is known as the utah aine inc min ing hilling co go and from all re bolts it promises to ta take ke its place a mong the regular shippers of that ci Li strict one carload of fine ore was sent out late last fall and ore of the same class is now piled up on the dump awaiting shipment mr air flein alein er sas that he has arranged with the company which is hauling the deseret mountain ore to handle the output from the utah uta it zinc zine property this transportation compan is moving the ore from the deseret mo intrain mine to the rail rall roa I 1 by the use of a big auto truck ai at d trailer and i ot withstanding the lough tough road over which the truck must travel tl is system of hauling appears to I 1 e entirely satisfactory an I 1 by far the tile most economical the despret deseret mountain people and owners of other west nest and Lr brickson ickson district properties lee have spent a large amount of money in improving the wagon roads of that section cutting cutt ng doyn dov n quite mater tally the distance bet between een the mines ond nd the railroad mr air fleiner believes that juab county a officials should take im mediate steps to put the wagon road between and the west districts in better condition con altion tion this road can be fixed up without the ex ture tire of a large sum of money and if it Is pu put in condition tor for trav el et it will be the means of bringing a lot of business bustness to the tintie mining camps new compressor arrived for gold chain mine A new 17 drill compressor ar rived at mammoth during the week and will at once I 1 ie e In install stalle I 1 at the agold gold chain mine thu machine is alto to be operated by electricity and al ready the horsep horsepower motor and other electrical equipment haa has been Inc installed tor b or some time the gold cold chain has been receiving air from the grand central company a big compressor but a large amount of work is now under way in both mines and the load is too heavy for the compres sor hence ile nee the installation of the new compressor at the gold chain ft utah copper made seven million in three months for the first three months in 1917 the utah copper company a net earn ings were 7 which exceeds exceed a the crofts made by any other rain 1 ing company in the world tor for a single quarter this however Is falling oft off from the last quarter in 1916 when 10 0 67 84 8 4 was made the net not earnings from the company a milling operations were 5 64 tor for the first quarter in 1917 while for the last quarter in 1916 the mill profits amounted to 8 96 |