The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-01-02

by which the shelters are transferred
70 tidewater, hear San Francisco Tne4
Bully HlH mine, which has been the
second producer of the state for several
years has been taken over by the Gen.
eral Electric company. The Mammoth
fe5ne, in Shasta county, has been taken :
ever by the tinted States Mining COM
pany, and Is being opened. and equipped
on q considerable scale, and should add
the state At several other points in the
state there are developments Of some
promise, but IN no case has the produc-
ton reached Importance as yet.
Conditions in Alaska.
Alaska has copper ore measures Of
great promise. The stories brought in
BY explorers from the Copper River
need considerable scaling down. in or
der to get the stories to fit inside the
boundaries Of. fact, but with all due
seems inseparsbIe from the exploration
OF new mineral fields difficult Of access.
the interior copper deposits of Alaska are
ton that important producers VIII be de-
Yeloped within the next ten years. At
present the. producing mines are on
ing mines of the greatest promise are
located on that island, and on the main
land opposite The advantages of large
and rich ore bodies climate. topography
and transportation enjoyed by the Prince
OF Wales island mines are decidedly IA
y.o9fable. ta t3s making of large mines
sources of copper supply within the next
few years.
Some Small Mines.
Washington and Oregon have numerous
deposits Of copper ore, and in the first
named state considerable progress has
been made within the past two OF three
Washington was trivial. a Considerable
production should be effected during the
next few years. Idaho has a. number of
small mines but the output remains
small.
Wyoming has nearly hundred mining
companies owning land in the vicinity
of the town of Encanpment, Carbon
county. Most of these are contented to
sell stock fer low prices and do the an
nual assessment work required by the
ented mineral claims. A few companies
are developing seriously, but the ex-
ploftation of the district has been greatly
hampered by a sfxty-nf1e wagon haul on
all Freight. both in and out. A railroad
Is now building, and should be in 9PeeTT5aS-
Mch IN the he most oPf8 Important OF of the 0f w
oming properties is the Penn Wyoming.
which ran its s7nelter for. more than
n nf CT 1he aaf bwxsr a of five eeure o
pounds Of blister copper
Colorado Copper.
Colorado has copper ores in every
copper mines. The production of SOo00O0
pounds credited to Colorado in the es-
innate for 1905 is from by-produet metal
recovered in the smelling of gold and
silver ores. Larirner county, which ad-
joins Carbon county, Wyoming. has some
rather promising copper measures, and
will benefit by the building Of the rail-
roa1 to Encampfnent.
Nevada never has been an important
producer. but is known to have copper
ore bodies of more than ordinary prom
Use. The wonderful gold and silver de-
posts found during the past few years.
at T0nopah and other desert mining
camps has turned attention anew to the
mineral resources of this, until very re-
Gently. the least populous and most
backward of all the American states and
territories, and it is probable that the
copper developments OF the near future
will place Nevada among the important
producers of the second class.
New Mexico, despite the fact that some
of the earliest copper mines in the west
were opened within her borders. has
made very little progress in production
for some years past There is more new
work under way now however. than for
some years past, and the developments
in progress in Grant and OterO counties
give promise of a fair production in the
not remote future.