The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-05-30
MINES A ND MINING

earning from SO 10 60 per cent in
profits on ore that averages from IS
to s1l1o per ton
The Ogden Buckhorn people, who
have encountered high grade copper
ores in good quantities in Coldwater
canyon, tributary of Ogden canyon,
are building a good wagon road up to
| the mine.
The Rabbit Foot group of four
claims, at Rosebud, Nevada, changed
hands last week. This group has al
ways been held at 100000. but the
price 1t sold for has not been given
to the public.
1t has been a popular belief that
| iron was little known to the ancients,
but Lepsius believes that the Egyp-
tians used it for hand instruments.
and that it was prepared in smelling
furnaces 5000 b. c.
| The Lemhi Telephone company Is
now building line from Salmon City
down through the Gilmore and the
Birch Creek country past the Weimer
mines and on to Medicine Lodge, nine
miles west of Dubois, Idaho.
The Eureka mine, at Bullion, above
HALEY, Idaho, is showing from six
inches to two feet of solid galena, on
| the fifth or lowest level. This Is at
a vertical depth of 400 feet. Besides
| the galena there is some concentrate
ing ore.
In Nevada twenty years ago there
was but one method employed In pro
viding funds for operating mine
that was not individually owned or
held in simple co-partnership, and
that was by assessing the holders Of
interests.
Last year the Transvaal contrib.
uted nearly one-third of the worlds
gold supply, that is, 5,7S6.617 fine
ounces, valued at $119,45S,737, second
place being held by the United States
with approximately 4,649.313 ounces.
$96,101, 400.
The Gibraltar Mines Syndicate has
sent another car of ore to the Salt
Lake ore market. This is the second
shipment of ore from the Gibraltar
since the railroad has reached the
camp of Rhyolite, the first going 1851
to the ton.
The Washoe smelter OF the Anal
gamated Copper company turned out
in excess of 100000 pounds of cop
per in April. The output of the Great
Falls smelter of the Amalgamated is
between seven and eight million
pounds monthly.
United States Senator George s.
Nixon and George Wingheld have pur-
chased the Pittsburgh Liberty mine at
Masonic, Nevada, for 100000. The
deal was closed after two days de-
liberation. Masonic is eighty miles
south of Carson City.
I'm Rus, the ancient gold mine in
! Egypt, that was reopened by an Eng
fish company, has been closed down,
and the company has gone into liqui-
dation. The first ore produced aver.
aged an ounce of gold, but deeper de-
velopment has proved disappointing.
1t Is stated on good authority that
a strike of great importance has been
made in the long tunnel being run by
the Gold Coin Mining company on
their property in the Black Lake min.
ing district IL the Seven Devils dis
trict, Idaho, a vein of ore that will
run $50 to $40 per ton having been
| uncovered.
A third vein has been cut in the
main tunnel of the Revenue mine, in
Beaver county, Utah. The discovery
was wholly unexpected, but well
come surprise. The new vein is
three feet wide and was encountered
at a depth of 175 feet Assays on the
of milling stuff.
Every mine in Rock Springs is
! closed and business is paralyzed as
result of the labor troubles. Union
meetings are being held every after
noon and evening Nearly every
miner in the camp is now a member
of the union, and the majority of the
other laborers, the organization icing
about 1,400 strong.
Rosebud, New, is all wrought up
over an oil discovery within sight Of
camp. Three men, while prospecting
about eight miles southeast of camp,
stumbled upon a strip of territory,
approximately eight miles wide and
twelve long, which has every appear
ance of being the cover or lid of a
great reservoir of petroleum.
The report of the Anaconda Copper
company for the year ended Deem
Der 81. 1906, bears out the contention