Show WOOK ON THE ANNIE drifting tunnel no 4 Is now under way an am article in the western mineral survey reads preliminary to intensive development of the annie laurie consolidated gold mines company property in pirtie piute and sevier counties 17 miles aiom sevier station on tho the denver rio grande western railroad has been begun according to president B F bauer who predicts that within two years the annie laurie gold mines company should reenter re enter the ranks of utah dividend payers properties of the company comprising a total of 2600 acres embrace the annie laurie the sevier miller and the mammoth surprise in the gold Mon district past production of the annie laurie from 1901 to 1908 amounted to tons of ore with a bullion recovery of and an operating profit of dividends amounting to were paid by the annie laurie estimates of the ore by H E clement mining engi engineer neer give the assured and probable ore as amounting to tons and the possible ore procurable pio plo curable from general development as totaling tons additional average values are given p as a ton and cost of min mining and milling according to the same engineers estimates should amount to 3 or less a ton in the sevier miller property W C marshall estimates the positive value of oie 01 e exposed on two sides after a liberal deduction for mining and milling at values range from 1 to a ton and main bodies from 5 to 10 on an average ge until the roads are open operations operation will have to be limited to a small force but between now and may 1 much ran can be done to expedite progress ress later at present operations operation are being centered on a vein half way between the no 4 and no f 5 tunnels no 5 tunnel is the lowest tunnel and no 4 is feet vertically above A adver power line is eing being built from broil fish creek to the mine a distance of 2 miles until electric power is available the compressor is being run by a gasoline engine fred T tilton is in charge of operations and two shifts are being behig employed past production plo pi of the gold mountain district has come from the rhyolite it is the intention of the company to push its development toward the buried sediment aries which are productive in the bingham ophir and tintic gintic districts the gold mountain district occupies a deep depression depies sion at the north extremity of tushar during duling the demov al of hundreds of feet ot of avei burden by along fish creek channel according to J F gibbs a writer on the geology of the dis thou thousands ands of gash veins and buried lenses of gold and silver ore the exclusive product of gold mountain erupt ives were removed while others are buried and others appear as outcrops two outcrops of quartzite show in the district in fish creek in the old miller incline a shipment of high grade ole oie was taken finni the quartzite the more deeply eroded alie fon formation nation according to mr gibbs the more numerous nume ious and prominent the outcrops |