Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-05-25
rrine and Mr. Hohlhng Is consultin
engineer and general snanagef.

mine and Mr.. Rohlfing is consulting
engineer and general .nanagefi
w; Il. Smith, inanassr Of the Contact
ccfpet 'nlne 1eas Scaaville, NeYi
boarded the t.aid To- The west this
Afternoon: iic expects co remain In
camp several weeks, Preparations are
dfder way Tor the building u Q COM
modious boarding house at the Contact;
The lumber has been ordered and
shlppeh
Al Of the electrical machinery for the
columbus Consolidated Mining COM
panys power plant In Little Cotton
wood canyon has been delivered ex-
cepting the transformers 20 be Installed
at the mine, These were shipped from
the eastern factory on the 10th inst, and
are expected to arrive any day.
Walter G. Orem returned tsis fore
noon from a hurried business trip rs
far east as Kansas city whore he met
his father who came out from Boston,
Mr. Orem declared he had nothing new
10 give Que az this time. lie expects 20
so out TO Bingham probably tomorrow,
TO look over conditions at the Utah
Apex, Of which he ~ manager
Thomas Ferguson Of Salt Lake ac-
coupanled Nv X. A. Kerr Of Canada
returned 70 Halt Lake on Friday morn
Ing last inter few daya spent IN this
sctlon Mr., Ferguson Is Interested
In the ueMit, and Ferguson quick
silyer roprrly located Just above the
Deer Trail property. This property
has, It Is stated, had some OF the great
cot assay rrjurns on quicksilver In the
country Mr., Ferguson and Mr.. Kerr
examined The property for the purpose
OF determmns the adyisabillty OF re-
slming work. They returned loaded
with saplrles and II the results are
satisfactory Mr.. Ferguson stated, the
company would be Incorporated at once
md work ted,-Marysvole Free
Press
a. h. Beetles. who was over from
Sodayllle this week brought most en-
C0uraglng reports from the Copper Con-
tact group, situated about twenty
miles from Sodaville and recently bond
ed by r. II, INLAND and himself TO w
| r. smith IN the interest OF Salt Lake
| people. The property Is being devol-
| Oped by means of cruss-Cut tunnel,
and II Is estimated that there is al
| ready 1875, 600 tons Of ore IN sight. While
| the values are not high, the ore Is of
| @ superior iluXing quality which viii
| make It exceedingly valuable in smelt-
ing the ores Of the district. One ton
| of the Copper Contact ore viii smelt
two tons Of the refractory Tonopah
| ores, and Mr.. BEETLES Is confident that
the new district win supply sufficient
tonnage 20 solve the problem Of smelt-
| ing for the entire region. -Tonopah
Miner.
Work at the Mazeppa shaft Mt the
: DAILY was discontinued this week, and
| while the reason given Is that surface
water has forced them to temporarily
| abandon the shaft. there are a number
| who are Of the opinion that develop
| ment work win hereafter be carried on
through the old Federal tunnel Man
| ager Rood emphatlcally declines TO YER
| fly the report, as he did two or three
| months back, when he stated that moth
! ing would be gained by such a proce-
| dure. II would take probably three
| months to connect with the Mazeppa
| ledge, but then it would be at some
| depth If large ore bodies were opened
up then the product could easily be
| hauled through the tunnel and It would
| not be necessary to put a hosting plant
at the Mazeppa shaft.-Park city Re-
cord.