The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-08-23
MINES AND MINING

the rate of 300.000,OOO pounds per an.
mum within three years
A lot OF ore has been started from
the Sunnyslde mine at Roosevelt to
be taken to Portland for treatment In
the Garvln cyanide machine.
During the past week on the Salt
Lake Mining Exchange, total of lac.
200 shares of stock changed hands.
the selling value being sl09.029.
Gradually and surely the Nevada
Northern railroad is covering the dis.
lance from Cobre. on the Southern
Pacific. to the big copper camp OF
Ely.
A steady shipper of gold ore to the
Salt Lake market Is the Gold Quartz
Mining company, operating Twenty-Five
miles from Beowawee, on the South
ern Pacific road west of Ogden.
Favorable action was taken last
week by the Salt Lake stock exchange
listing committee on the application Of
| the Sunnyside Mining company OF
Thunder mountain. for the listing Of
its stock.
The Nevada Fairview Mining COM
pany. an organization OF prominent
Salt Lake investors, who were early
upon the ground at Fairview, last
week made the last payment upon the
| Warren group Of properties.
There is prospect of copper out
put In Utah by the close Of 1908 at the
rate of 2OO,O0O,OO0 pounds per annum
and within three years Of 300,000.000
pounds per annum, or, at the present
rate OF copper production in Arizona.
That the very surface of the Yering.
ton Copper company's possessions Is
capable Of producing enormous copper
values is more than shown by the
quality of samples that have been
sent from this property to Salt Lake
| City.
From recent transactions made In
Eldorado canyon properties, 1t is be-
lieved by many mining men In south
ern Nevada that Senator w. A. Clark
OF Montana has either purchased out
right or obtained controlling interest
in the famous Wall Street, Quaker
City and Techatlcup mines In that
district.
AS far as is known, the record for
ore shipments from the Alta district
during the present resurrection period
was broken on Wednesday of last
week, when there arrived at the Salt
Lake samplers from this district
ninety-flve tons Of ore, all of 1t being
hauled from the properties to Sandy
by team.
A strike has been made in the Gen.
eral Conner property In the Gold
Mountain district. in Utah, that Is
creating not little excitement at
camp. The property is being operated
under bond by Charles Skougaard,
Guy Lewis and T. f. Gillian, with the
latter in charge, and reports border on
the sensational.
The foundation for the first 1900.
ton unit of the Boston Consolidated
company's 6,000-ton milling plant at
]. BEETLES states that he is now ready
for the structural steel. When the
raising OF this will begin, he states, Is
up to the steel company, which should
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few days.
H. A. Kearns, one OF the heavy
stockholders in the Jenny property OF
Gold Springs, has returned from an
inspection visit to this Iron county
proposition in which Salt Lakers are
interested. The highest values OBJ
tained in gold and silver by Mr..
Kearns amounted to $6S.50, and the
lowest 1885.
w. G.. Dawson, who has been oper-
ating a placer mine at Rich, Idaho, for
some time, sent $40 pounds of gravel
to be tested by the department of the
interior to determine its mineral con.
tent, and the report shows 1t to be
worth $25.01 per ton. The gravel was
run over Wiley table and 9S.5 per
cent Of the gold was held in the con.
. Oric Cole, who has been mining
eighty miles up the middle fork OF
Boise river, says he has every reason
to believe that he has located ledge
for which he and others have been
[ searching for three years. The vein,
he says, is over five feet and assays
recently made show values from $29s
to $293.40 per ton.
Rapid progress is being made in
.. the construction of the 1,000-ton
: smelling plant Of the Balaklala com
pany, now being built at Coram, Cal
All the steel construction is under
t contract to be delivered and erected
, by September s, and 1t is the expecta
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