Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-02-21

fidently predict a banner season for
the Star district of Beaver county,
Utah, before the present year has
given way to 1908.
A remarkable rich strike was
made last week on the former
Walker Lake Indian reservation,
Nevada, in the Wild Horse No. 2,
ore being uncovered that assays
$206. 80 to the ton.
The news comes from Ely, Ne
vada, that the shaft of the Salt
Lake-Ely company has dropped into
a solid body of high grade copper
ore and that there is no longer any
question about the future of that
proposition.
Strikes CT high grade ore in the
Daly-West mine at Park City are
becoming of such frequent occur
renee that the management declares
it is afraid to enumerate them, as
to do so would be to invite in
credulous criticism.
Word comes from Goldfield that
the machinery ordered some time
ago for the Goldfield White Rock
Leasing company, the corporation
controlled by Harry Joseph and ].
U. Eldredge, Jr., of Salt Lake, had
a-Y-iued m, the Ground
Ely is designed to be one of the
greatest copper producing districts
in the United States. Up to date
the immense tounages of ore have
been developed with smaller
amount Of capital than any other
district in the United States.
Hayden, Stone & company, of
Boston, in commenting on the cop
per share market, show how Boston
is refusing to follow New York and
also draw some pertinent COMPARE
sons in favor of copper as against
railroad and other investments
The Dewey mill, Thunder Noun
tain, Idaho, has started dropping its
ten stamps and dividends will be
the order of the day for the next
year. They are putting through
the mill an average of 81 per
cent of the assay value on the
plates.
Another cave has been encoun-
tered in the Ontario drain tunnel
at Park City, another bulkhead had
been costructed and the manage
nnent has commenced the driving of
another encircling drift on the south
side of the main avenue to get
around it.
Round Mountain camp is located
on the east side of the Big Smoky
valley, about half way between
Tonopah and Austin, Nevada, at
an altitude of from 5000 to 64O0
feet, the total elevation of the
mountain for which the camp is
AldiuCQ OClh6 LOl lliOlC tbdi TOO
feet above the adjacent valley.
Favorable reports are being re-
ccived from the Ramey Ridge and
Crooked Creek districts, which are
situated about 40 miles north of
Thunder Mountain. A large num-
Der of prospectors are engaged in
developing numerous properties in
these sections and very gratifying
results are being obtained.
Joe Crimson is doing business at
his coal mine, about fourteen miles
east of Idaho Falls, Idaho, and has
just installed an engine and a hoist
to take care of the trade, as nearly
all the farmers around Ammon and
Iona are using the coal, and recon-
mend it. 1t is selling for So at
the mine.
Work on the Guggenheim prop
critics at Ely is progressing stead
lily along the lines originally laid
down. Development at the Veteran
group is particularly satisfactory.
Here a great blanket of ore has
been opened up whose dimensions
so far disclosed are 80 feet in depth,
$50 feet in width and 20 feet in
length.
The United States Smelling
company is assembling at Chrome,
N. j., the largest metallurgical
works in the world. Investment
in these plants will exceed $3,000,-
600. 1t already has copper re-
finery of a present capacity of a.
600, 600 pounds annually and is
building a fully equipped smelling
and copper converting plant.