The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-08-30
MINES AND MINING


lanta, in Idaho.
The Thunder Mountain-Pearl Min
ing company is taking out patent on
its claims, nineteen in number.
A force of forty miners is now en-
ployed blocking out ore in the Sunny
side mine, in the Thunder Mountain
district
The directors of the mint on the
end purchased 100000 ounces of sill
yer at 81 cents an ounce, 10 be de-
livered at New Orleans The price
paid the previous week was 66.62
cents.
| Success of the most generous pro-
portions is attending the efforts of the
Gray Warrior company upon the Idaho
placer possessions on the Boise river,
about seventy-five miles northwest OF
Boise.
1t is reported that an important
strike has been made in property
belonging to Charles Neff, Mr.. Nc
Bride and others near the Dewey mine
at Roosevelt The claim is south and
west of the Dewey.
Because of the recent heavy storms
all the ore traffic from American Fork
canyon has been suspended. The road
| Is washed out in such bad condition
that it will require some time to repair
1t for the resumption of ore freight
ing.
| The directors of the Consolidated
Mercur company have declared a div
idend of $4,000. With this payment
the Consolidated Mercur company will
have distributed to the fortunate
stockholders of the company the sum
of s3.36O,312.97
It is claimed that the anthony
mines of Utah are greater than any
in the entire country, and this phase
of the mineral industry of Utah is as
Stunning proportions equal to the i'm
portance of the valuable mineral con
tanned within Utah hills.
Fire of unknown origin started in
the plant of the National Smelling
company, at Rapid City, s. d., and,
owing to the lack of water, spread to
adjoining property. Loss about $780,
900, partly covered by insurance. The
total value of the plant is $250,000.
DR.. Oscar Eckstein, professor of
chemistry at the University of Chica-
go, and DIR. Wilfred G. Fralick of New,
York City, two noted scientists and
mining experts, are on a prospecting
trip in the hills near Boise, and it is
reported that they are prosecuting
their work in the interest of big east
ern capitalists.
A carload of very rich copper ore,
carrying little better than Al per
cent, was sent out recently by +. j.
Brinton, one of the leasers at the Eu-
reka HILL This is no doubt the best
copper ore that has been sent out
from Tintic in years, and the carload
of ore will bring in the neighborhood
of $4,000.
ore has begun at the rich Seven
Troughs strike says the Lovelock,
Nevada, Tribune. The seam OF ex-
tremely rich ore is widening with
every foot gained in depth, while sur
rounding this 100000 streak is sew
eral inches of ore that will go from
$1,000 to $4,000.
d. p. Rohlfing, the well known min
| ing engineer and manager of the Fris-
co Contact and Lulu companies prop
critics at Beaver, in Beaver county,
Utah, returned from his three months
| trip abroad last week. During his alb
sence Mr.. Rohlfing attended the inter
| national gathering of mining engi-
| neers at London.
A mining suit that promises inter
esting developments has been filed at
Carson City, Nevada, by the Combina-
lion MlhiuS COMPANY dSdinSJ the AiO-
hawk Mining company, alleging that
the latter company is working on the
ore within four feet of the Combina-
ton line, which ore apexes on the
Combination claims.
President Don Mcguire of the Napo-
leon & Maghera Copper Mining COM
pany, whose mines are located at the
foot of Mt Monte Cristo, about five
miles north of Ogden, has just sue.
ceeded in getting sufficient miners to
double crew the work. He is driv-
ing a deep tunnel, and the work has
been delayed owing to a scarcity of
suitable labor,
Among the more recent excite
ments in Nevada is that over the dis
coveries said to have been made of
placer gold in dry lake near the
Stonewall mountain For years this