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Show FORTUNA TO OPERATE ON HUGESCALE Recent operations at the Fortunn Mining Company's properties in Beaver county are creating considerable consid-erable interest among mining men who have seen samples of the gold-bearing gold-bearing ore brought in from this district. This company secured control oi the property over a year ago, and have been quietly at work rehabitat-ing rehabitat-ing the old buildings erected in the boom days of 1914, when a large amount of exceptionally high-grade gold ore was .taken from a shaft less than a hundred feet in depth. The company had some of the best mining engineers in the country coun-try on grounds, and they have made a most favorable report on their findings. These reports it seems has justified the company in expending considerable money in new development develop-ment work. The old shaft has been J cleaned out and retimbered. The : confidence that the present owners have in the property is shown by the permancy of the work they are doing. do-ing. The new timbers in the shaft are being secured by steel rods on all four corners, which is seldom done except where long usage is expected. A shaft house and modern hoist 'and compressor has been installed and work of sinking the shaft is underway. un-derway. Already some exceptionally high-grade are has been encountered, encounter-ed, although the company does not 'expect to reach its objective under a "hundred and forty-five or fifty feet. The size of .the vein and present val-ties val-ties would justify shipping from the mine, and arrangements are already being made for transporting the ore to the smelters. John M. Bestelmeyer, a well known mining of Provo, has been placed in charge of the work, and he is confident that the Fortuna group of claims will be the making of one of the large gold producing properties proper-ties of the state in the near future. Old time mining men of the state recall that it was the Fortuna group that attracted the attention of the late U. S. Senator Thomas Kearns, who grew enthusiastic over the property pro-perty on a tour of inspection with the late Judge Marineaux and Judge Milner of Salt Lake City, according to Mr. Bestelmeyer. At that time Senator Kearns maintained that he had seen many gold properties in his mining experience and that the Fortuna For-tuna properties presented great possibilities. pos-sibilities. He backed his judgment by ffering to finance a program of de-by de-by offering to finance a program of development work. This, however, was held by a number of owners who failed to reach an agreement with the senator and his associates. "Had a spirit of cooperation existed ex-isted then, the Fortuna doubtless would have taken its place as one of Utah's outstanding and most productive pro-ductive mines" Mr. Bestelmeyer declared. |