The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-07-11
MINES AND MINING


Lake Mining Stock exchange.
Most OF the Utah mines closed
down on the 3rd, lth and 9Th. for
the usual Fourth of July rest
An unusual interest in mining prop.
critics In the mountains south of Bur
ley, Idaho. has been noticed during
the past three weeks.
About dozen men are being EN-.
ployed at the Camera mine. near Al
bion, Idaho. and large quantity OF
high-grade ore is being taken out.
A number OF quartz locations have
been made recently In Boulder can
yon on Land creek. in Idaho. and a
number of the locators believe they
have fortunes in sight.
The Luman copper mine, near Their
mopolis, Fremont county, Wyoming,
that was recently sold to Senator w.
A. Clark for $l,5O0.000, is now being
systematically developed.
Mineral paint viii probably be one
OF the productions of Cassia county,
Idaho. In the near future. Two loca.
tons were made recently, one of 100
and the other of 40 acres.
Officials of the Butte Mining COM
panies centering in the east, estimate
mines will show falling OFF of 26-
l61,131 pounds of copper as compared
with June last year.
Fifteen hundred tons of ore day
are now being treated at the new
plant of the Utah Copper company at
Garfield. BY the end of the week an.
other section of the great mill will be
placed In commission.
The shaft house OF the Strong mine
at Leslie, fourteen miles east of Lara
ME, Wyo., was totally destroyed by
| fire on the End. The shaft was near
ly 400 feet deep, and all the hoisting
| machinery was destroyed or damaged
Beginning early this fall, the largest
and most modern gold reduction plant
In Nevada and probably in the world
will be In operation at Blair. in the
Silver Peak district, about twenty-five
miles northwest of Goldfeld, in Es-
meralda county.
In spite of fire and its attending
drawbacks, the Utah mine of Fish
Springs continues to reward the eff
forts of the management with SO gen.
erous hand that no decrease in
the usefulness of the organization has
been experienced.
The Gold Mountain Consolidated
company has placed the third shift at
work In both mine and mill. This or
ganization owns the Annie Laurie.
the Kimberly and the Mammoth
groups at Gold Mountain, and more
men are in demand.
For the first half of the current year
the dividend payments reported to
the Mining World by lightweight gold,
silver. lead, copper. zinc and quick
liver mines In the United States, in
GLIDING Alaska territory. having an
outstanding capitalization Of $3a7,-
755,727, amounted to the huge sum of
$38, 560,812.
The rumor from New York that
the Guggenheim interests are after
the control of all of the Balalilala
properties in California, has called
attention anew to the recently or
ganized Guggenheim company In the
east with a capitalization sufficient
to take in many Of the great mines
of the west.
The extensive plant Of the Hanna.
pah mine, located about twenty-three
| miles from Tonopah, New, was entire.
| ly destroyed by fire on July 2. The
| principal owners of the mine are Sam
| uel Newhouse OF Salt Lake and A.
j. BEETLES. the well-known cyanide
man. The fire consumed all the build
ings and descended into the shaft.
A private wire from Cobalt says
that the Nipissing Mining company
now under the Newhouse manage
ment. has found another very rich
vein four inches wide on No. 400. This
Is adjacent to the Tretheway Tennis
kami, Hudson bay and Orien proper.
ties. This makes the second vein
struck in two weeks.
The Skaggs property, in the Dolly
Warden district in Nevada. which was
sold about nine months ago to Bos-
ton firm, is proving far richer than
was first thought. The mines are be-
ing worked and are paying their own
way at the present time The price
the property sold for was $3.50, 900,
the last payment having just been
made.
Word from the camp OF Seven
Troughs, Nevada, is to the effect that
the Seven Troughs Mining company
at last has caught the thieves who
have been stealing high-grade gold ore
from the Fairyiew group of this Utah
proposition. A woman, the wife OF
miner, has been arrested along with
her husband, and they are now in jail
at Winnemucca.
The great $1O0,0OO,OOO smelter trust,
head by Simon Guggenham, senator
elect from Colorado, has fallen under
the ban of the federal authorities, and
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