The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-10-04
MINES AND MINING

Smoky section, In Idaho, some high
grade rock being uncovered recently,
and men are coming in from all quar-
tiers.
The Bullfrog Gold Bar will install
reduction plant at once, a stage OF
development having been reached at
the property which justifies this i'm
provement.
The Hecla mine last week declared
dividend of $4,000. making the to-
tai paid to date $S90,000, and $4,000
paid thus far in 1906 The first divl-
dend was raid in 1900
1t is claimed that the Tenabo coun-
try, in Nevada, is on the eve OF
boom. Recent assays from the Gold
Quartz mine show 1866 per cent lead
and 42.5 ounces silver per ton.
The building of first-class wagon
road between Rhyollte and The new
districts in the Panamint range,
through to Skidoo, via Funeral range
and Death valley, is now being agi-
tated.
The Anaconda Copper Mining COM
pany last week declared quarterly
dividend of $3.50 per share. This
compares with its last previous quar-,
terly dividend of $1.37h a share. The
par value of the stock is $25
A bill for the punishment of all
mining takers will be submitted to
the American Mining congress, which
meets in Denver the 18th of next
month, which will be recommended to
the legislatures of all mining states for
adoption
When returns had been secured
from the average sample of the big
body of ore that has been encountered
in the Cedar Mining company's prop.
erty last week it was found that the
material carried 55 per cent lead and
81 ounces silver per ton
Assistant Chief Engineer Richings,
of the Bullfrog-Goldfield railway, says
that unless something unforeseen hap
pens, the passenger crew of the new
line will cat Christmas dinner, Dec. 25,
1906, in the city of Rhyolite. This
means much for Rhyolite mines.
A meeting of considerable import
ance In mining circles was held re-
Gently in Salt Lake, when twenty
three representatives of companies OPP
Grating in the Tintic district organized
the Tintic Mine Operators associa-
ton, with view of obtaining cheaper
freight rates upon ore shipments from
the district to Salt Lake shelters.
Development of the Jumping jack
mine at Manhattan, Nevada. is being
watched with an interest equally as
keen as that which attaches to opera
lions at the Stray Dog. Ore of high
value Is being sacked with daily reg
ularity. and the quartz not infrequent-
ly returns assays as high as $1,000 in
gold to the ton.
The report comes from Custer, Ida
no, of sensational strike that has
been made in the Bachelor property,
on Custer mountain, property that
is being operated under bond by Hen.
ry Mccormick and others, of Salt Lake
| City. The ore, the letter relates, car
ries twenty ounces In gold and $50
| ounces silver per ton.
Work is being pushed steadily on
| the Potosi mine, at Silver City, Idaho.
| The old shaft which had a twist In It
| has been Strengthened and all the tim
| bering in 1t repaired. At the 200 level
a drift has been started south, with
three shifts working it. A sixteen
inch vein of high grade ore has recent
ly been encountered In the Potosi.
Captain Herbert l.. Davis. superfn-
tendent of the Fidelity Copper Mines
company's property near Cuprum, Ida
no, has made a report to his corpora
ton that has created no small sensa-
ton among mining men interested in
the Seven Devils district He states
that an ore body has just been opened
that is the best thing he has ever seen
in the way of copper proposition.
The Reno, Nevada, Gazette has tho
following to say of the Bullion dis
trict, in which several Salt Takers
have holdings: ELEVEN different
properties are now classed among the
producers in the Bullion mining dis
trict. The Gold Quartz is sacking ore
fort he second shipment from that
property. The first shipment sent out
few weeks ago netted the company
S106.55 per ton, all in gold"
During its meteoric career the out
put of Goldheld has never approached
that of the week ending September %,