The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-08-15
MINES AND MINING

| Sam company was opp
900.
The mill of the Silver Peak Val.
caIdp Mining company at Blair. Ne
yada. is now In commission
II is asserted that leasers In the
Seven Troughs district are making a
big thing out of their leases, and the
entire district is on the eve OF a
boom.
The sum of 100000 has recently
haen raised with which to continue
the development of the oil lands
owned by the Standard Reserve COM
pany in Uintah county, Wyoming.
II ia announced that deal has been
practically closed and terms agreed
mon that will soon result In the
consolidation of the West Quincy ana
Thompson Mining companies prop
critics at Park City.
st. George is at fever heat over the
oil boom. People are coming ana 60
ing continually-m illionaries, capital
lists. clerks, miners and laborers OF all
kinds have dropped everything and
made a rush to the oil regions.
Last week a force Of men was put
TO work on the water system for Ma
yuma. Nevada Engineer Mills has
made a preliminary survey and mas
that the distance from the springs
near the head of Print Canyon to Ma
yuma is five miles.
Pearl district, in Idaho. is becoming
very active camp. Six organiza-
tons are now working upon ores,
while at least twenty more are dill
gently operating their possessions with
every confidence of striking the COW
eted chutes in good time.
Oil has been struck in the Mcleod
we'll. two miles west of Reno, Nevada,
on the Truckee river. Every vacant
spot on Ave sections has been filed
on and several derricks have been
contracted for. The oil Is of a light
specific gravity with paraffin base.
The Paraffine Virgen Oil company
of st. George, Washington county.
filed articles Of incorporation with
the secretary of state last week. The
concern is to engage in the oil bust
ness in the newly discovered fields In
southern Utah and is the first incor
poration since the discovery of the
field.
All trouble in the Seven Troughs
mining district has been settled by
the mine owners agreeing to pay union
miners S. instead of 81 for eight
hours work. The miners have been
on strike for more than month and
in that time nearly every mine in the
Seven Troughs district has been
closed down.
It does not often happen that min
ing organization Is so fortunate as to
begin operations upon property sim
ultaneously with shipping ore from
the same to the market. That, how
ever, is the initial record of the Utah
Indian Peak Mining company, located
about thirty miles west of Lund, in
the Needle range of mountains.
Chaotic conditions still character.
lie the market for copper. There is
absolutely no sign of any large buying
movement for future delivery, and the
consumers, large and small alike, are
still feeling their way along cautious.
ly and buying only from day to day
in sufficient quantities to keep their
plants employed on such orders as are
received.
The average petroleum of the world
gives off about per cent of gaso-
line. Some Of the Ohio, Colorado,
Pennsylvania and Kentucky petroleum
give off much more than that, but the
petroleums of California Texas, Kan.
sas, Louisiana, Illinois, Indiana, Okla.
homa, Indian Territory, West vir.
ginia, Tennessee and Kentucky do not
materially help the Illuminating oil
world.
The new methods employed at the
Consolidated Mercur company's big
works at Mercur are turning out and
meeting every expectation and prom.
ise of the management. AS the Mer-
cur ores contain little gold that Il
is impossible to recover by any pro.
cess. 1t is thought that the present
method of handling the rock will
prove as nearly perfect as it is pos,
sible to devise.
There is still golden harvest to be
gathered from the gravels OF the Klon.
dixie valleys. The government has
Just completed an examination and
survey OF gold-bearing gravels of both
nigh and low grades, 1t is estimated
mat In the neighborhood where gold
is known to exist and from which gold
TO the value of s94.750,O 900 has been
taken by crude placer methods. there
remains s5S04262O, which may he re
covered at profit by hydraulic min.
ing, dredging and other advanced |
methods of gold recovery.
The famous litigation over the
property of the Eltigre Mining com.
pahy was settled last week at Mexico
whnn lan