Show mining news mammoth mining company has appealed tax case having in 1913 paid under pro test a tax of 43 58 levied by juab county on a dump the mater lal ial in which was taken out of its mine between 1876 and 1890 the mammoth mining company appealed its case to the supreme court and that tribunal now has it under con sider atlon hearing arguments yes berday interpretation of 0 provisions of the state law providing tor for taxation of net proceeds of mines Is involved in the action the mining company pany contends that it has the right in its computation of net proceeds to deduct the cost of extracting the ore conta ned in the dump which was considered practically valueless at the time but which through modern methods of extraction of values and the high prices of metals has now become valuable 1 the state states s contention is that the ext extraction radion cost has already been paid and that consideration should be div I 1 en to the condition of the mine at the time the net proceeds law went into effect rather than to the prop erty status at some prior time when a ruling shall be made by the supreme court it will be of inter est to mining men and districts throughout the state as the dump in question was created many years be fore the net proceeds law became ef of 1 1 zuma company has started from the level 1 for the purpose of getting a bet ter line on the ore body which was recently opened in this mine andi which has been followed by a drift for nearly one hundred feet the management of the zuma property this week commenced sinking a from the level instead of sinking the at the face of the drift a more promising point was located some distance back where the ore appeared to be strongest work already done on the level of the zuma indicates that the top portion of an ore body has been cut i and that greater depth if is needed to reach the place where the ore widens 1 out 1 mammoth co could use much larger force of men manager earl mcintyre states that notwithstanding the difficulty in get ting railroad cars for the shipment of ore the mammoth mine Is doing a large amount of work A fomhof force of about seventy five men Is now being used and there is work there for many more the mammoth mining company lost a part of its force when it was necessary to stop shipping on account of the embargo placed on the mine mines s ore by the smelter and later when the scarcity of railroad cars effected all of the tintic gintic prop arties and now difficulty Is being ex perlen perien ced in getting men enough to bring the force up to normal transfer of tintic gintic claims the following quit claim mining deeds have been tiled filed with the coun ty recorder of utah county the tintic gintic empire mining corn com pany to united tintic gintic mines corn com pany tor for the nevada tunnel exten slon sion no 2 and five other tintic min ing claims the combination mining company to united mines company tor for the nevada tunnel ex tension no 1 and ten other tintic gintic claims the united mines company to the south standard mining corn com pany tor for the burglar lode mining claim and 26 other claims including the claims named in the two former deeds the consideration stated in the transactions Is one dollar |