The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-11-15
MINES AND MINING

1t is stated that the zillig and John
son properties in Stateline district.
Utah, have changed hands, but who
the purchasers are and the considera.
ZION are not known.
Negotiations are under way In Salt
Lake City through which a regular
auto line from Humboldt to the Rose
Bud mining district is to be estab'
dshed without delay.
The directors of the Utah Mine
company met last week and posted
the usual dividend of 8 cents a share,
and, as they did last month, also or.
dered the payment of cents as an
"extra."
The producing mines of the Occur
d'Alenes will make mineral yield
this year of something like s20,00O.00O
in gross value, and will probably pay
between $5,000,000 and S6,000,O00 In
dividends.
All of the large mining corporations
OF bulle ~ NOUN 4NoNeihpSi 4" P"S'S"
notices at their properties that, be-
ginning November 10, the wages OF all
underground men would be Increased
from $3.50 to 1915 day.
The first ore shipment from the Bull
frog district over the new Las Vegas
| & Tonopah railroad, recently conf
| pleted in the camp, has just been
made. It consisted of AZ tons OF high
grade ore from the Tramp Consolidat-
| ed on Bonanza mountain.
A Utah copper district which isl
| bound to be heard from as soon as the
main company operating there has
| completed the improvements now bel
| ing rushed, is the Copper Mountain
| camp in the Lucin district, seven.
miles southeast of Tacoma station.
Upon the completion of the branch
railroad from Caliente to Phoebe. AM
| undertaking now well under way,
| there will be added to the shippers Of
| ore to the Salt Lake market the Lin
den group of properties. recently pur-
chased by Tony Jacobson of Salt Lake
City.
]. P. Olympus, the experienced min
ing man and operator, returned last
week from a ten days trip to Beaver
county Utah, where he reports having
secured a group of eighteen claims
in the Indian Peak range, about two
miles from Indian Peak. He says 1t
is an enormously mineralized sec
ton.
The Snowstorm copper mine, three
miles east of Mullan, Idaho, has made
fully a score of people Independently
rich within the past two years. When
the Greenough brothers became inter
ested in the property about three
: years ago it was looked upon Ell Joke
and its shares were changing hands
at from one to five cents.
The Revenue company, operating In
Beaver county, Utah, will soon send
out a few carloads Of 5000 ore just to
make their statements concerning the
values which the ores contain good
At the mouth OF the tunnel workings
from which the rich shipments are to
be made, there are now over thirty
tons of ore sacked that samples Al
per cent lead, 1913 ounces silver ant
$3.50 in gold per ton.
The Occur d'Alene district of Idaho
Is best known as a lead-silver district
and in fact as SUCH 1t is without
ores are noted for their purity ant
, freedom from Objectionable sulphides
It's resources, however are by M
, means confined to lead and silver, bu
) comprise an important variety of ore
including copper deposits that indicate
a resource of the red metal equal o
Importance with the lead,
! One of the most interesting pursuit
: in America today is the search o
: platinum. Heretofore its production
, has been limited chiefly to Russia an
T some SOutl American COuutrles' Aus
: sia, furnishing 95 per cent of tn
: worlds supply, but there are many II
/ dications that quantities OF it will b
l. mined in the United States in fe'
l. years at most. Several America
firms have sent out their own prospe'
tors to search for it.
SILVER is going to reach price
!, 76 or better within two years, and
s Is going to hold that price" sal
k George w. Roberts, director of IN
IS United States minis, at Denver, In a
4. interview last week. 81 believe tina
d hundreds of silver mines throughor
Q the west which have been shut dow
l. for more than ten years because oil IN
d fall in price will be opening up agar
within a year, simply because Tn
. | price of the metal will make IL wort