The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-06-28
MINES AND MINING

Rich strikes in the Seven Troughs
district are occurring SO frequently
of late that they are becoming com.
mon.
/ There are few Nevada camps, If
any at all, that can show so many
working and shipping properties as
the, camp OF Good Springs.
It is announced by the managers
Of the Utah coal companies that
preparations are being made to avert
repetition of the coal famine Of last
winter.
Dugway needs water and 1t needs
railroad. Nothing else is retarding
the growth of what should be one of
The banner lead and copper producing
sections of all the state of Utah.
The report that the United States
Smelling, Refining and Mining COM
pany has been forced to abandon all
the old Mexico mining field is abso-
lutely untrue, and is looked upon as
a joke of some would-be humorist.
Word has been received in Rhyo
lite from the Panamints that an as
say from the Eddy discovery shows
$1,000 ore. A rush is on for the new
camp, and 1t is predicted it will
prove the sensation of the summer.
While all the men who can be OBJ
tanned are being put to work at the
coal mines at Rock Springs, Wyo., the
daily output is only about sufficient to
meet the daily demands. No coal is
being produced for the railroads for
storage purposes.
At Mountain Home, Idaho, last
week, Deputy United States Marshal
Bryan sold the property of the Crown
Point Mining company to satisfy a
Judgment of $11,377.S5 granted in ia
vor of B. P. Hutchinson by the Fed
eral court last March.
The Weimer copper property, in
Idaho, contains a ledge of copper ore
that will average 61a per cent copper.
The mine is opened by adits and open
cuts and sixteen cars of ore in all
have been shipped, which brought
about $4,000 per car.
There is a mine in active opera
ton not far from Salt Lake that pro-
duces 40 per cent copper and runs
20 ounces in silver to the ton. 1t is
situated in Morgan county, about
seven miles southeast of Morgan City,
and is owned and operated by the
Chicago-Utah Copper Mining COM
pany.
The Ontario group, near Ketchum,
Idaho, has recently been sold for
large sum. The Ontario, an old pro-
Queer, yielded over 100000, paying
$45 per ton for smelling charges on
lead-silver ore, closed down with the
slump in silver after demonstration
mas a complete mill for concentrat-
ing.
After protracted negotiations the
mine operators have at last secured
fright rate concessions from the Salt
lake Route, and it is generally con-
eeded that the Denver & Rio Grande
will follow suit. The concession is
that in future rates will be based on
the net valuation of tonnage instead
of the gross, as heretofore.
Three rich strikes in as many diff
ferent mines were made in the Pearl
camp, in Idaho, last week. The rich
est find reported is in the Whitman,
where an eighteen-inch vein of ore
assaying $435 to the ton was encoun
tered. Another strike of an eighteen
foot ledge with values of $37 to the |
ton was also made.
Goldfeld is getting back into her |
old-time production form. There were
1891 tons of high-grade ore marketed
during this last week, it's approx
mate value being $4SO,60O, or nearly.
half a million. There were 1,712 |
tons shipped to the shelters, 1889
tons handled by the Nevada Goldfeld
Reduction works, and 400 tons treat.
ed at the Combination mill.
1t is reported that the Honerine
at Stockton, Utah, is max
ing arrangements to sink from 400 to
500 feet lower than the present tun'
mel level. Local circles expect that
the Honerine at depth will open up
some very rich copper ores.
Fort Hall mine, near Pocatello.
Idaho, has been opened by a crosscut
tunnel, which has been driven $500
feet, cutting the first vein at 2,50G
feet from the portal and other veins
were intersected at points farther in
It is a copper-gold-silver proposition
The mining district recently
brought into existence by the discov
,ry of rich gold bearing quartz by
Scott Hickey In the Toquima range
some fifty miles from Manhattan, has
been named Mayne, after C. E
Wayne Manhattan's foremost rninipo |