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Show MINES AND MINERS. M W. C. Alexander, one of the directors H of the Black Diamond compnny, visited H these properties this week. Operations H on this property hnve been temporarily H suspended, ns the Honerlne tunnel tins H not yet reached a point whereby H It will drain the Black Diamond, nnd H I nothing can be done until then. H A corporation has been formed re- B cently under the nnme of "The Foun- H tain Oil and Asphalt company," In- H corporntcd for $500,000, of a par value M of $1 per Hhare. Incorporators and M directors ure: T. P. StetTey, president; H R. M. Edmur.du, vice-president; S. P. 1 Hall of Cincinnati, secretary; Edmund. H 'Wilkes and E. J. Rnddctz. The proper-- ,H , tiiJrolocatedKiibputs,.j)lxteerijLnilIeHku M - fromPromoi'itoryVnnd co'ntainl'lOOCjBBSlSar"- '" H acres. Twenty thousand dollllraTllber! " -H spent nt once for development of same. H The Ophlr Hill mine, owned by Scnn B tor W. A. Clark of Montana, Is the HHj life of the model little camp of Ophlr. HHJ The camp Is nn old one, but wns for n HHj time allowed to fall Into decay. In J taking up nnd thoioughly equipping the J Ophlr Hill mine and making It n sue- BBj cess Is naturally drawing attention J again to this field. Among thorn being operated now are the Montana, J the Ophlr Queen, the Burkhorn, and HH over In Dry Cnnyon section, out of which severnl millions were mined ! buck In the 'GO'h, development work HHJ with favorable results Is curried on at the Utah Queen, Eureka-Ophlr and Mono. The Mono has produced over $1,000,000 In the past. |
