The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1899-06-16
MINING NOTES.

parties for $4,000.
The Gold Mountain country. with
several promising properties, will be
very nctiAe this year.
The Marsac mill at Park City was
started up last week, preliminary 10 a
run ON Ontario tailings.
The Clarisa mine, Park City district.
il being worked. and II Ia promised
will soon become a shipper
A mill will be erected this summer
at the Horseshoe mine In Eagle Valley
district, Lincoln county, Nevada.
An electric hoist is soon to be in.
stalled In the Ontario at Park City, In.
stead OF the steam hoist now In use.
Joseph Hardy has bonded his new
end near vernal for $1,000, and devcl-
opment work will commence at once.
The Daily.west and the Apez, two
OF Park Citys grca; properties that
have long been idle, are now being
worked again.
Water Is very Troublesome In the
Dexter, at Tuscarora, Nevada, and
new machinery will be installed to
keep the mine dry.
Free gold has been discovered In the
Independence group 81 mines In Park
valley, Box Elder county. Assays
from well defined, four foot ledge re.
veal siO.19 in gold and eight ounces OF
silver.
The Carbonate Hill mine. up Little
Cottonwood gulch near Ogden, ia In
excellent condition aud during the last
thirty days has marketed three cars OF
ore. The ore showed about ~ per cent
lead, very nice values In iron aud a
small per cent OF silver, which makes a
very desirable smelling ore.
Between the North Platte and Little
Snake rivers In Southeastern wyom.
ing lies the Saratoga copper mining
district, embracing n copper bearing
rome In the Sierra Madre mountains
from four TO twelve miles wide and
sixty miles long. II is predicted this
district will be n factor In the worlds
production Of copper at no distant day.
The once famous La Plata district,
northeast Of Ogden, seems TO be again
awakening 10 its old.tlme activity, aud
number OF the old mines are going 10
be worked, more especially those on
the west side OF the old camp, where
copper leads, outside Of the contact,
gave 30 much promise several years
ago.
Work will soon be commenced on ths
West Valeo At Park City. Three shifts
will be put TO work and development
pushed a. fast as possible. The own
ers have 7no doubtsas 10 the outcoml
OF their labors. for they are ia coun
try where mineral Ia plentiful and IL IA
only matter OF time before they tap
the Valeo ledge.
Tests Of the ground In the placer
properties near wheatlAnd, wyo.,
have proven very satisfactory. IL has
been found that the dirt contains gold
In paying quantities for a depth OF
over ten feet, Bedrock has not been
found rs yet, and 1t ia naturally OK
pected that higher values will be
shown at bedrock.
With the last few weeks the copper
mining interests Of Utah and adjoining
states have suddenly assumed degree
OF prominence heretofore unknown.
This Is brought about by the great ad
vance In price consequent upon the
rapidly increasing demand for copper
and copper wire In telegraphy and the
transmission OF electric power for rail.
roads, mining, milling and other pur.
poses where mechanical energy is called
into requisition.
The Silver King mill at Park City,
which has but recently been completed,
Is now In successful operation. II Ia
one OF the most complete concentrate
ing plants In the west and there IA no
device that possesses merit. either a.
10 saving the ore or easing the work
OF the men, but has been used. IL Is
lighted by electricity and heated by
steam. The full capacity is 200 tons
daily. The mill Ia, strictly speaking,
a double lOO-ton mill, arranged NO that
either half can be run independently.
The coal production and consump.
tion OF the world during the past AZ
teen years are presented in some Ia
bles just prepared by the treasury bu.
reau OF statistics. These show that
while the United Kingdom ia still the
largest coal producer In the world,
the United States Is a close second,
and II the present rate Of gain is con.
tinued will soon become the leading
coal producing country In the world.
The coal production OF the United
Kingdom in 1897 was zoe, 900, 900 tons:
that OF the United States i70, 900, 900
tons: Germany 81, 100000; France 90,-
900, 900.
The contractors have just finished
the 700-foot tunnel on the Holland |
property, in Gold Mountain district A !
contract for another 100 feet, or as