The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-10-25
MINES AND MINING

a crow of forty men Will be employed
at the Buster mine during the winter
in extensive development work.
There has been found to exist in
Utah possibly as great variety OF
commercially valuable minerals as Is
IN be found in any like area on the
face of the earth.
A report has been received oil an I'M
nortant strike in the Bluejacket mine
on Crooked creek near the Salmon
! river in the southerly end of the Bur
falo Hump camp.
A tunnel is being driven on the vein
| in the Black Warrior mine IN the
Black Warrior district OF Idaho, as
saws of the ore encountered showing
values of $52.S2 per ton
Fire at the Consolidated Mercur
mines at Mercur. Utah, last week de-
stroyed a number of buildings; but 1t
is not believed it will be necessary
to close down any part of the work
ings.
With the increased output of the
mines of Utah has arisen the need for
increased smelling facilities and every
smelter in the Salt Lake valley has
either increased or is increasing It's
capacity, until today the valley is
very important smelling center.
A most striking feature of copper
mining in the Bingham district In
the last two or three years is the COM
plete success of experiments made in
the treatment by concentration of the
so.caled disseminated ores, in which
small particles of copper sulphide &C.
cur disseminating through altered por-
phyry.
Utah is putting on the market over
a million and half tons of coal per
year. This supply comes principally
from Sewer, Emery, Carbon and
Grand counties, in the east central
part of the state. Three other coal
fields of less Importance are the We
Der river, the Sanpete and the Iron
county fields.
Park City, which has long held the
reputation of being one of the lead
ing silver-ead camps in this country,
holds its own in the advancement
of mining in Utah. The OUTPUT for the
past year amounted to upwards OF
100000 tons The Silver King, the
, Daly-West, Daly-Judge and Little Bell
are the heaviest producers.
Professor F. e. Fielding, for thirty
years chief consulting engineer and
expert on the staff Of the Comstock
magnates, Mackay and Fair, has been
making an examination of the Chicago
, Nevada company's properties in the
Dietrich district, eighteen miles out of
Virginia City, and has nothing but
words of praise for that district
The Utah & Eastern Copper COM
pany, operating the Dixie mines be-
low ST. George, Utah. now has it's cop
per smelter at Shem, a few miles from
, the mine, in full operation. From the
treatment of about forty tons Of ore
a day approximately 1000 pounds, or
: three and a half tons. of copper is
being produced every twenty-four
hours.
Alta the once famous Little Cotton
wood camp has recently come again
, into prominence. The production of
, lead, silver and gold from the old EN-
ma and Flagstaff properties during
the '70s and early sos amounted to
millions. After period of less &C.
tivity recent developments in this dis
trlct are disclosing enormous ore
/. bodies
Utah has immense deposits Of rock
,, gypsum within her borders The most
, important deposits occur in the CEN
trail and southern portions of the state.
In Juab county east of Nephi, in San.
pete and Sewer counties near Sa,ina.
A In Millard county at White mountain.
3 near Fillmore, and in Wayne county
/. in south Washington.
!. The great Sierra Madre mountain
north of Ogden seem to carry Aat only
a many of the rare metals such as
I tungstate, molybdenum and other such
D metals, but it has ledge of the rare
l stone, the garnet, which Is used sc
. extensively as polsher for the met
t ais and the supply of which in the
: United States is not equal to the de
, mand
+ AS result of meetings of the di
rectors of the Nevada Consolidated
and Cumberland Ely Mining GONNA
- MES in New York, the latter part OF
last week, it has been agreed tina,
'he cumberland Ely company will
have a half interest in the $4,000 ,OOC
reduction works to be built by the Ne
yada Consolidated company, and the
cumberland Ely company also secures
half ownership in the Nevada North
ern railroad, which was built by the
Nevada Consolidated company This