Show IN I 1 ml RN JU juat ill 11 aull ILL BE DL ably the western end of juab county Is coming in for a lot of mining de according to an announce ment made by william R wade manager of the engineers explore tion lion and mining corporation mr wade arrived in utah late last week and made the initial payment of 20 on properties of the cen aral mines company located in the western end of juab county near joy the engineers exploration and mining corporation Is controlled by john hays hammond international ly famous engineer and his son harris hammond the company will begin dimmed lately on an extensive development program the old copperhead shaft which Is now down to a depth of feet will be widened to two compart ments and sunk to a depth of 1 feet penetrating all of the var various louEA geological formations and permit ting comprehensive development of 0 the district principal values of the district are gold and copper with a little silver during the past year leasers teasers have been making small shipments from shallow workings based on the present value of gold around 31 per ounce the product shipped from january 1st would average about 20 gold to the ton according to mr wade in making the tte announcement late last week mr wade said that at the present stage of development ore showings and geologic conditions are highly encouraging we believe belleve that the district has possibilities comparable to any within the state he declared E A boadway engineer for the tile engineers exploration and mining corporation has been appointed su perin of the utah property and will arrive in this state within the next few days to take charge of the development program in adal tion to the company work which will employ a crew of about 30 men mr mir wade plans plaits to leq let a number of leas es property of the utah central mines company comprises a compact group of claims aggregating about 2500 acres of which about 1000 acres are patented the prop erty Is located in fit the detroit district on the west side of the drum moun talus in juab and millard counties the nearest shipping point Is about 25 miles distant at Su garville a branch line from delta the sedimentary formations corn com mence with the tintic gintic quartzite on the east side of the district overlying this are about 1800 feet of lime stones and dolomites somewhat similar to those in the district the district was discovered by a man named drum in about 1876 A good deal of prospecting was done at that time in about 1880 dincov eries made by prospectors attracted attention and several companies were formed about 1885 a detroit company 0 put up a small jacket smelter of 25 tons dally daily capacity at hot springs 25 miles east of the district the smelter succeeded in running about a year and was then abandon ed about four years later B F joy president of the detroit mining corporation came in pose sessi session on of several properties in the district and another smelter was erected about 17 miles from the district this plant was run about 18 months from ores extracted all over the district and was considered a success dur ing the time it was in operation in 1894 the ibex mine commenced op orations erat lons ions and built a mill at leam ington but after a year s operation it too was closed down during these years of development ill the work was done in the oxidize ed zone above the water leel and the sulphide zone was never pene grated several attempts were made to sink to this depth but in 1907 the district was practically abandon ed eureka reporter oct 12 1933 charlese sampson and gordon bishop of delta max bishop JOB eph rawlinson and fred reeve of hinckley elson ellason of deseret and charles finnel and fred fin lansou of learning leaming on are attending the U of U repeal forces say prohibition has tailed failed revenue and all |