Show 1 AV e 0 e 10 1 0 1 1 0 s y t 11 news i i i S 8 5 i 55 superintendent newton dunyon and master mechanic frank kane ot of the ontario company motored to coal ville wednesday to note progress being made on modern improvements at the be weber coal mine at that place and chich Is owned and operated by the ontario the old steam hoist at this coal mine Is being replaced with a modern electric hoist a new by system of 0 tripping will be installed and other important improvements made that will greatly facilitate production ot of coal and making work easier for the miners PIRE DAMAGE AT THREE KINGS last tuesday night about 9 during an electrical storm the transformer house of the three rings kings wining mining company was struck by lightning setting ire fire to it rind and com comi i plemely destroying the small build v ing and the three large transformers installed therein there was no water with which to tight fight the flames and there was nothing the workmen or spectators could do but to watch the property burn down the loss 1 to the three rings kings company will I 1 amount to at least 1500 besides the loss of at least ten days work in the mine the transformers were I 1 completely destroyed as were thel the various instruments belonging to the utah power and light company valued at GOO COO new t transformers will be here tomorrow and the latter at part of next week will ill see operations erat Prat orations ions at flie property in full swing 01 general superintendent A M 1 J dalley returned to the park wednesday 1 and is inspecting and directing new ew development work at the big silver xing king coalition property jick jack hasson is doing some prospecting over on lake flat tor for the ontario company which is expected to amount to something worth while the many friends of J 1 I mcgeorge the competent assayer at the silver king coalition will regret to learn that the gentleman lias has resigned his position with that company and will leave shortly with his alg family to accept ft a more lucrative po joslon slon with the aher S i i 5 i S ev 8 S I 1 and refining company com piny of florence colorado during mr Mc Georges 1 residence in our city he lias aas won the I 1 esteem and good will of all who came in contact with him and the universal wish is that success will follow him to his new field of labor manager dave scott was down from the iowa copper the first of the week eek the first time for more than two months he reported work still progressing on oa the with the face of the drift highly mineralized and good indications but as yet no ore lie he is very hopeful of a different story in the near future some of the mine managements management are in hopes there will be relief tor for the present scarcity of labor in the near future they figure that the harvesting will nill soon be over and that many valley men will be coming back to the park to secure employment and settle down tor for the winter there are places for several hundred of them reports from the park utah this morning are to the effect that conditions in the mine are improving daily but the great handicap Is shortage of 0 labor workman are so scarce that it is becoming a serious problem how to continue operations this is not only true at the park utah but at all the other big prop cities L lies bt bf the camp the ontario management has men em employed aloyed taking various samples from the old ontario mill dump with a view af ascertaining average values es if returns are it is confidently expected they will be a method of 0 working the dump faill III be decided upon there are hundreds of thousands of ton tons s dick pelton has charge tot the sampling ing process SHIPMENTS king coalition judge M S go co on ontario tario daly west daly Nail driver i lO oooo C A ireland scott hill total |