The Utah County Democrat. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1898-1909, 1899-08-26
MINES AND MINING

lar dividend of three cents share, or
$4,000
The famed Occur d'Alene district
Of Idaho has produced gold, silver,
lead and copper mineral to the gross
value OF approximately S175,OO0,OOO to
date since 1884.
From perfectly reliable source It
Is learned that an ore body has been
uncovered in the Bradburn property
at Marysvale for distance or over
100 feet and the values run from $50
to $1,000 per ton.
A report has reached Sumpter. Ore,
that most wonderful rich strike has
just been made in the Red Boy mine.
The strike was made on the 200 level,
and is said to be the richest vein OF
ore ever uncovered in the district.
The old Colconda mine near Baker
City. ore. has JUS been sold at sher
IFS sale for claims amounting TO $50.
600. which claims were held by hard.
ware firms and supply houses. The
property was at one time q great pro
Queer
Montana men have secured a work.
ing bond on the Hay Fork quartz
claims owned by Leo and Antoine I'm
ternahrer. says the Idaho City World.
A payment of $1,000 has been made.
The bond was given for two years and
a half.
From Beaver county comes the
news that the Stalwart lease on the
Tallsman property is working In from
eight to fourteen inches of ore that
runs 900 ounces in silver with high
lead values. The find is on the 200.
foot Lowell
Not in twenty years has the mining
outlook in the vicinity OF HALEY,
Idaho, been so bright All the mines
are working as large forces as posi-
BILE and the ore bodies seem to inn
prove in richness with every foot OF
development
A new compressor will be installed
soon at the Utah.Bingham mine in
Bingham. Ore shipments are also to
be inaugurated and it is said applica.
ton will shortly be made to list the
stock on the Salt Lake stock and min
ing exchange.
Fifty thousand dollars is the value
of the first FIVE days production on
the Mohawk Jumbo lease on the Gold
Wedge at Goldheld Stopping was
started on Monday, and every avail
able man was used for whom a place
could be found in the mine.
A prominent and conservative min
ing man declares that there is now
beginning at HALEY, Idaho. the big
gest mining boom that the west has
ever seen; that II will be- on merit,
strictly, Wildcat hg barred, and that
It will last two or three years.
President George NJ. Nix of the
Dolly Warden Mining company, oper-
ating in the Dolly Warden district, an
nounces that he has financed deal
in Chicago by which the company re-
ceives a large amount OF money for
carrying on its development work.
Constant rapid improvement Of a
proposition which was most promis.
ing at the start is the word brought
from the Alta company's mir e out
from Mackay Idaho. The tunnel has
been driven 1875 feet on ore giving
assay values OF 500 in gold, 1855
ounces in silver and per cent cop
per.
A mill run Of fifteen tons OF ore
from the Wihuja Gold Mining com
pany's lease on the estate OF the
Seven Troughs Therein Mines com
pany, made the other day in two
eight-hour shifts at the Kindergarten
mill. turned out bar of bullion
weighing 224 ounces and valued at
81 800
Representatives of a majority OF
the stockholders in the Hogan mine
at a meeting recently held at Elk
City, Idaho, voted to double the
capacity Of the present plant. which
is now handling 1876 tons OF ore per
day at net profit of $500. The stock
holders also voted $4,000 for improve.
ments.
The Potosl mill at Silver City,
Idaho, Is nearing completion, but is
now awaiting the arrival OF the bal
ance Of the machinery. In the mean.
time the cement floor is being laid
about the battery. track from mine to
ore bin is also being laid, and II will
now be only a short time until the
mill is completed.
More than so names, including
those of the most prominent mining
men Of Utah, and all of them thor.
oughly representative, have been
signed to the roster OF membership in
the new Utah Branch of the Ameri.
can Mining congress, and a meeting
Tor permanent organization is to be
held during the week.
By unanimous vote the Salt Lake
Stock and Mining Exchange has ap-
proved the action of its governing
board in accepting the proposition Of
Samuel Newhouse to give TO the ex-
change a magnificent site for a stock
exchange building, providing only that
the recipient OF the gift will erect
thereon a suitable building.
Robert Francis. superintendent of
the Lost Packer mine, in the Loon
Creek, Idaho. district, says that the
mine will make handsome produc.