The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1906-10-27
MINES AND MINING:

greater number of dividend payers
are to be found in the mines Of Tin
tic district than In any other district
Of the state of Utah,
A report from Elk City states that
crew OF forty men will be employed
at the Buster mine during the winter
In extensive development work.
There has been found to exist in
Utah possibly as great variety OF
commercially valuable minerals as is
to be found In any like area on the
face OF the earth.
A report has been received Of an i'm :
portant strike In the Bluejacket mine
on Crooked creek near the Salmon
river In the southerly end OF the Buff
falo Hump camp.
A tunnel is being driven on the vein
in the Black Warrior mine In the
Black Warrior district of Idaho, as
says of the ore encountered showing
values of $52.s2 per ton
Fire at the Consolidated, Mercur
mines at Mercur. Utah, last week de-
stroyed a number Of buildings; but 1t
is not believed 1t will be necessary
to close down any part Of the work.
ings
With the increased output OF the
mines Of Utah has arisen the need for
increased smelling facilities and every
smelter in the Salt Lake valley has
| either increased or is increasing. its
capacity, until today the valley In D.
very important smelling center.
A most striking feature Of copper
mining In the Bingham district in 3.
the last two or three years Ia the COM
plete success Of experiments made In.
the treatment by concentration of the
socaled disseminated ores, In which
small particles of copper sulphide 0c-
cur disseminating through altered p0r-
phyry.
Utah is putting on the market over
| a million and half tons Of coal per
year. This supply comes principally
from SEWER. Emery. Carbon and
Grand counties. in the east central
part of the state Three other coal
| fields of less importance are the We
Der river. the Sanpete and the Iron /.
| county fields.
Park City, which has long held the
reputation Of being one Of the lead
ing silver-lead camps in this country.
holds its own In the advancement
Of mining in Utah. The out ut for the
past year amounted to upwards Of
| 100000 tons. The Silver King. the.
Daly-West, Daly-Judge and Little Bell
are the heaviest producers.
Professor F. e. Fielding. for thirty
years chief consulting engineer and
expert on the stan Of the Comstock
magnates. Mackay and Fair, has been
making an examination of the Chicago
Nevada company's properties in, the.
Dietrich district, eighteen miles out of
Virginia City. and has nothing but
words Of praise for that district
The Utah & Eastern Copper COM
pany. operating the Dixie mines be-
low st. George. Utah, now has its cop
per smelter at shem. a few miles from
the mine, in full operation. From the
treatment of about forty tons of ore,
q day approximately 1000 pounds. or
three and a half tons. of copper is
being produced every twenty-fo
hours.
Alta the once famous Little Cotton
wood camp. has recently come again
into prominence. The production of
lead. silver and gold from the old EN-
ma and Flagstaff properties during
the '70s and early sos amounted to !,
millions. After a period OF less &C
tivity recent developments In this dis
trict are disclosing enormous ore
bodies.
Utah has immense deposits OF rock
gypsum within her borders. The most
important deposits occur in the CEN
trail and southern portions Of the state,
In Juab county, east Of Nephi, in San
pete and Sewer counties near Salina,
In Millard county at White mountain,
near Fillmore. and In Wayne county
In south Washington.
The great Sierra Madre mountain
north of Ogden seem to carry Not only
many Of the rare metals such az
tungstate, molybdenum and other such
metals, but 1t has ledge of the rare
stone, the garnet, which Is used 80
| extensively as q polisher for the met
| ais, and the supply of which In the
| United States is not equal to the de-
mand.
AS a result of meetings of the di:
rectors OF the Nevada Consolidated
and Cumberland Ely Mining compa-
MES in New York, the latter part of
last week, 1t has been agreed that
the Cumberland Ely company will
have a half interest in the $6,0O0.0O0
reduction works to be built by the Ne
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