The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1906-11-17
MINES AND MINING

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county, New, will be the scene Of the
next wild excitement in that state.
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-
ton 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.
lished without delay.
| The directors OF the Utah Mine
company met last week and posted
the usual dividend Of 3 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 $40. 900. 900
in gross value, and will probably pay
between 100000 and 100000 in
dividends.
All Of the large mining corporations
OF Butte at noon November 10 posted
notices at their properties that, be-
| ginning November 10, the wages Of all
underground men would be increased
from $3.50 to 1913 a day.
The first ore shipment from the Bull
frog district over the new Las Vegas
& Tonopah railroad. recently COM
pleted In the camp, has just been
made II 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 be-
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, an
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.
J. p. Olympus, the experienced min
ing man and operator, returned last
week from ten days trip to Beaver
county Utah. where he reports having
secured group of eighteen claims
in the Indian Peak range, about two
miles from Indian Peak. He says 1t
IL an enormously mineralized sec
ton.
The Snowstorm copper mine, three
miles east of Mullan. Idaho. has made
fully 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 sIi a Joke
and its shares were changing hands
at from one TO Ave cents.
The Revenue company, operating In
Beaver county, Utah, will soon send
out 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, 1893 ounces silver and
$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, II is without a
peer in the mining world Its lead |
ores are noted for their purity and |
freedom from Objectionable sulphides. |
Its resources, however, are by no |
means confined TO lead and silver, but |
comprise an important variety of ores |
including copper deposits that indicate |
resource of the red metal equal OF
importance with the lead
One of the most interesting pursuits
in America today Is the search of |
platinum Heretofore its production |
has been limited chiefly to Russia and |
some South American countries Rus
STA, furnishing 90 per cent of the
worlds supply, but there are many in.
dications that quantities Of 1t will be
mined In the United States in few
years AT most. Several American
firms have sent out their own prospec-
tors to search for Il,
"Silver is going to reach a price of
20 or better within two years, and II
Is going TO hold that price," said
George w. Roberts, director of the
United States mints, at Denver, in an
interview last week. Il believe that
hundreds of silver mines throughout
the west which have been shut down
for more than ten years because of the
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