The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1899-06-03
MINING NOTES.

Sails country within the past ten days.
The Electrical Review says that the
SIS. 900, 900 capital Of the new Amalga-
mated Copper company was over-sub-
scribed six times.
Some of the members OF the. Salt
Lake exchanges are agitating the clos
ing the exchanges during the summer
months.
The monthly output of the mines Of
Nelson district, B. g., is 100000. The
gold from the mines is sent TO Helena,
Montana, TO the United States assay
office.
It is reported that the Standard Oil
syndicate has bought the Bonanza
mine, near Baker City, Oregon. The
present mill will be increased to 100
stamps.
Some fine samples Of ore have recent
ly been taken from the Great Lake
Mining company's property, located on
Antelope Island. Some Of the pieces
are so rich that they can be whitfield
with a knife. A number Of samples
show rs to so per cent. copper.
The May Day group OF four mining
claims, situated on the east fork Of
Sewer river, Piute county, have been
made the basis OF an incorporation to
be known as the Piute Gold and Cop
per Mining company. The capital
stock is fixed at $500 in Hve-cent
shares.
A carload of rich copper ore was
shipped last week from the Roy Mayne
property on Miners Mountain, in
Wayne county. II was hauled from
the mines to Richfleld in wagons. The
transfers report that the mine is be.
ing steadily worked, and is improving
with development.
II is reported that the Mammoth
management has submitted PROPOSE.
tions TO contractors for the sinking
and timbering OF three compartment
shaft from the 300 to the 1900 level.
The general opinion is that the great
producer Is in fine physical form, and
that another dividend will soon be an
nounced.
The King toll road which will be a
big factor in the development Of the
La SAILS mining regions is completed
within one mile of Moab, and within
the next ten days II will be finished
and line OF stages in operation be-
tween Cisco on the Rio Grande West
ern and Moab. The road has been built
at cost of about $50, 900.
Articles of incorporation OF the Bios
som Copper Mining company have been
filed with the county clerk of Salt Lake
county. The capital stock is fixed at
$4,000, In cent shares, and the pur-
pose Is TO develop the Dauntless. Little
Dipper, Copperopolis, Mammoth, Carp
and Mastodon mining claims, situated
in Battle Mountain district, Nevada.
The Steamboat Mining company Of
Park City, with property in the Snake
Creek district, has levied three-cent
assessment on its capital stock. 1t is
the purpose OF the company to put
power drills at work In the tunnel
which Is being run to tap the big cop
per belt which cuts through its claims.
Power will be generated by water
motors.
The Nelson placer mines situated
eight miles northwesterly from Baker
City and owned by Zera Snow of Port
land, Ore, have been sold for $40, 900
to outside capitalists. This property
has been operated with a profit for the
last twenty years, producing at times
$50, 900 per season. Water right litiga-
ton in the past has lnterfered with
operations, but the mines now are in
splendid shape for large future produc-
ton.
The machinery of the new Silver
King mill at Park City, which has
been running the past two weeks, is
getting down to smooth and satisfac-
tory work. For the present only an
eight-hour shift is being run and but
four of the niue tables are operated,
the daily tonnage being forty-five tons,
whereas the full capacity is $50 tons.
For some time water has been incon-
veniently scarce at the King, but by
saying the spring surface flow, sufiici-
ent for the present needs of the mill
at least Is obtained.
The owners of the Grand Gulch Cop
per mines are highly elated over
samples recently received from their
property. This mine is located in Ari-
IONA, about sixty-ive miles south OF
st. George, and on the east side of the
Grand Wash. The country is full OF
copper, and the Grand Gulch seems u
be great big nest of copper ore. The
veins seem to run in a circle, and II
looks as II some time in the past copper
had boiled up from the interior of the
earth, as II from huge pot. The
great circle of copper ore on the Grand
Gulch measures about 800 feet in length
by 1870 feet in width.
A rich strike is reported from the
Copper King mine, in Big Cottonwood
A vein of copper ore eight feet wide
has been cut in the bottom OF the In
cline from the tunnel level, and assay,
made from some OF the rock show
thirty-fve per cent. copper, sS.75 In