Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-10-25
CONCENTRATES.

Charles r. Orchard. who is enc OF the
chief owners IN the Hue mine and the
Lady Bryan. has gone to Boston on
business.
Prof J. n. Weber has returned from
Ogden with the Information tnat he has
succeeded in financing the Uncle joe
Copper Jack property at Tintic.
John Bergh. former superintendent
OF the Western Utah Copper company.
Is IN the city after trip OF several
months through Mexico. California aud
Nevada.
Ernest stinger. superintendent OF the
Ray Consolidated company at Ray,
Arizona, Is Ia the city for a few DAYS
lie declares that everything IS moving
nicely at the property.
Material is all on the ground for the
new Snake Creek plant that is to be
built by Jesse Knight. This plant VIII
furnish energy for the machinery used
In driving the new Snake Creek tunnel.
An eight-foot ore body carrying good
milling values has been encountered IN
the Signal Peak mine at Gold Noun
tain. IL Is said that the drift has been
run IS feet on the ore and that It con-
tinuos 10 improve.
The Utah Consolidated Mining COM
pany az Tintic viii put two shifts 60
work at once In the mine. Drifting II
still being done on the SOO-foot level and
from the 4OQ-foot level raising viii cont
mence al once to make connections.
r. t. Garrett and w. II. Paul. who
are already heavily interested In the
Masonic district in California, have Sc
cured control OF the Masonic Mountain
mining district They also own the
Pittsburg- Liberty property In the same
district.
On account OF the death Of Justice
Peckham of the United States supreme
court, the decision In the Grand Cen
trail Mammoth suit will be delayed at
least another week. II was expected
that a report Of the decision would be
received from Washington today.
A new sintering furnace to handle
fiue dust is now being operated at the
Tintic smelter by G. G. Vivian, super
intendent Of the plant The process Is
MIR. NiVan's invention and a model Of
his furnace was operated with good re-
suits. The present furnace required 20
men and has capacity OF 40 to 90 tons
a day. II IL said that there Is enough
dust al the smeter to keep the furnace
in operation for 80 days.
The old Daisy and South Daisy mines
in the West Dip section OF Mcrcur have
been taken over by the Daisy Combina-
ton Mining company In which r, 5
Leaver and Arthur Murphy are the
chief interests. Mr.. Ieaver is an ex-
pert min man from Goldfleld. The COM
pany has purchased the old plant of the
Utah Nevada Leasing company which
was built to treat the Sacramento tail
ings. The company viii install the
same shines process as made the Bos-
ton Sunshine and Consolidated Mercur
successful.
According 10 d. C. Jackllng. general
manager Of the Ray Consolidated Cop
per company. who returned from Arr
iona saturday, the ore bodies now be-
ing developed In the upper end of the
company's estate are thicker than those
developed by diamond drills earlier IN
the work Although the overburden le
heavier. drills are now proving up 400
geo tons Of ore 10 the acre as against
100000 tons I'm the other end OF tho
property. The grade OF ore Is holding
up TO 23 per cent copper. The new
shaft has been timbered to the l50-foOt
level where the second level Is being
put In. Al present so per cent OF tho
railroad between Kelvin and Ray has
been graded and 70 per cent OF the
spur from the Southern Pacific TO the
mill site has been finished. The ella
property IS now being developed by
four drills.
HAVERCAMP & ALBERTsoN
Mining BROKERS
Both Phones 1855. Room 9is.
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