The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-11-01
MINES AND MINING

From all obtainable Information tne
next great copper boom is going 10 DC
in the Yerington district, Lyon coun-
ty, Nevada.
During the past week there was
shipped from the mines of Tintic ais
drlct to the valley smelters total
of 1877 carloads of ore.
A rumor has gained credence tha'
the Snowstorm and Snowshoe mines'
near Mullan. in the Couer dAlenes'
are to be consolidated at once.
The Spokane Chronicle announces
that F. Augustus Heinze OF Butte nav
secured control of the Alameda Mln-
ing company's property near Burke
Ida. at a valuation of $375,0O0 or
more.
Lessees on Block 1 of the Lou Dii-
lon Goldfield property have opened
eight feet of $50 ore at depth OF
fifty-three feet. The vein is clearly
defined and presents every indication
of permanency.
The Minerva mine, at Atlanta, Ida
no, is constantly proving more val
liable. During September the mill was
running full time, a cleanup being
made at the close of the month. The
total saved on the plates in bullion
was $4,000.
What may be called sensational
strike has been made at the Walton
No. 2 on Conor creek, in Idaho. AT
depth of twelve feet fine quality oil
ore has been encountered, assays
showing as high as 500 to the ton In
lead, gold and silver.
Articles of incorporation of the We
ber County Mining & Milling company
were filed with the secretary of state
last week. The company will be 10
Gated at Ogden, and owns a number
of promising claims in Weber county
Utah. The capital stock is $4,000.
The Newhouse Mines G. Smelter'
company is hustling for laborers
mine muckers, carpenters and othe
classes of skilled and unskilled labo
with the idea of enlarging its field o
operations at the Cactus, in Beaver
county, Utah, now conceded to be ont
of the greatest copper mines of thu
country.
The sale of the noted Fairviev
group of claims at Seven Troughs
Nevada, by the discoverers, William
Kavanaugh and j. j. Mackedon o.
Goldfield, to Senator Reed Smoot AM
a number of other Utah capitalists
marks deal of the utmost Importance
to that district and Humboldt county
In general.
No such wild trading in mining
stock as occurred last week has eve,
been witnessed before on the New
York curb market. Thousands O.
shares have been bought and sold by
persons who did not know what sor
of properties they were buying or IL
some instances what was the pa
value of the stock sold.
The entire Idaho district of Yam
kee Fork is splendidly mineralized. The
operations upon the Sunbeam prop
erty have demonstrated that there /.
a tremendous amount of rich free
milling gold ore with comparatively
shallow depths, the ore closely resem
bling that of the great Shoshone mine
of the Bullfrog, New, district.
The biggest mining deal in the his
tory of Goldfield is about to be con
summated. George Wingfield, for him
self and associates, has Bought suf
ficient stock in the Jumbo and Rec
Top mines to give them control of thu
properties. The stock purchased be
longed to the Taylor boys and t.
Hughey and Colburn, all four pio
neers and locators of the ground.
In the matter of the controversy be
tween the Montana Mining compan,
and the st. Louis Mining company, in
volving the ownership of part of tn,
valuable Drum Lummon mine il
Lewis and Clark county, Mont. tn,
supreme court of the United State
granted the Montana company leav,
to file its petition for an injunction
prohibiting the st. Louis compan,
from taking out ore.
One of the Karns Tunneling ma
chimes is to be in operation in Idah,
as soon as the company can catch III
with its orders. This is the machine
that bores tunnel much as a carpen
ter puts a hole through a plank. TIL
machine is to be tried out in tn
HALEY district
One of the most interesting of re
cent developments in Idaho has takel
place in the property of the Path
finder Gold & Copper company ol
Queens river, just below Atlanta, il
the discovery of ore from 1G to IS fee
thick that assays from SIT to S55 IL
gold and silver
After a close-down of a few months
during which the superintendent q
the property has been in Nevada
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