The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-11-14
MIN rs A ND MINING

Nevada Douglas Copper company is
setting for November
The shaft of the Casting Copper. az
Yerngton, is down 10 feet, and the
average of the whole distance is AS
per cent copper. The hlghes; assay
secured was 1873 per cent copper.
Advices from the Virgin river field
are to the effect that twenty-iour rigs
are now at work drilling wells, and an
era of activity such as has never be.
fore been known in southern Utah is
now manifest
Leasers working in the Eclipse
property in the Seven Troughs dis
trict, are sacking ore as fast as posi-
BILE This ore will run about 800 to
the ton on the average, but some of it
is of very high grade.
The miners Of Park City have voted
to go back to work. The properties
affected by this action of the miners
are what are known as the Bamberger
properties, comprising the famous On
tario, DAILY West and the DAILY.
Three oil wells have been sunk with
satisfactory results in the Virgin oil
field of southern Utah during the est
sixty days, and there are at least u
dozen more rigs in commission, and
new strikes are expected every day.
That the district of Rosebud, New, is
waking up to its opportunities and
that work is now started or ready to
be started upon several groups idle for
many months, is the good word re-
ceived from that district last week.
Considerable interest has been
aroused throughout the west over Con"
gresham Bartlett's plan to have the
coming session OF congress pass an acc
by which all assessment work on min
ing claims for 1907 shall be done away
with.
At last the old reliable mining camp
of Phoebe, New, has railroad. The
advent of the railroad was accepted by
the people of Phoebe in a very quiet
manner, but it is determined to cele-
brate the event in proper way when
the opportune time arrives.
The production of the Butte mines
In October was but S,376,000 pounds,
or 1858, 500 pounds less than the estl-
mated output for September and 49,
7S7600 pounds less than the monthly
average for the first six months of
1907. The October output was the
smallest in the history Of the big
mines.
One of the really spectacular dis
coveries during the present resurrec-
ton period of mining in Nevada Is the
property once known as the Catlin
group, 60 miles east of Tonopah. The
vock contains values of 5000 to the ton
and so far the new company has
blocked out $4,000 worth of such
rock
The Degolia and Atkins tungsten
mines on the Mojave desert, recos-
nized as the best paying mining prop
critics In the west, were closed down
Saturday of last week and almost
hundred miners handed their checks
when they reported for work. The
cause Is said to be trouble with the
miners.
Excellent progress attends the sink
ing of the large new working shaft at
the Cumberland-Ely on its Veteran
mine. This shaft contains four COM
partments and is five feet six inches
by twenty-six feet inside timbers. Sink
ing and raising" is in progress. ant
1t will be completed in about two
months
" l.. Butler, manager Of the Butler
& McKinnon Diamond Drill company
of Butte, Mont, has been in Phoebe,
looking over the district with a view
of determining the possibilities of
work in this section with diamond
drill, with the result that the Nevada
Des Moines property will install
drill at once.
The Utah Copper company, accord
ing to Boston officials, is now the
largest producer of copper in Titan,
wrestling that honor from Utah Con-
solidated During October it produced
100000 pounds. OF this 100000
pounds were obtained from it's new
concentrating plant which produced
1000 tons from concentrates averag-
ing 30 per cent copper.
II. N. Day. the Centerville, Idaho.
mining man, is handling a large body
of black sand from the old placer dig.
gings, employing quite a number Of
men. 1t is run over Wiley tables,
saving the monazite which sells for
5000 per ton. Monazite is one of the
rare metals that has become quite val
liable during late years on account o.
it's use in the manufacture of metals
for gas lamps.
Another oil well has been tapped IN
the Virgin river field. The strike was
made in ground owned by a Goldfeld
company headed by Mckenzie, the
wealthy mining operator OF that camp.
on section IA. which begins about 1000
feet west of the original well of the
Virgin City company.
A seat on the New York stock ex.
change was sold last week for $50 600.
the lowest price recorded since 1904.
when a seat was disposed of for S57