Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1907-07-19
MINES AND MINING

dividend Of cents per share, o
$1,000 In all.
A company known as the Dietricl
Milling company, and composed 0
Utahns, has lease upon the OLE
Comstock dumps, at Virginia City
Nevada, and affairs have Just beci
shaped correctly for an era Of pros
perity.
Jesse Knight of Provo intends t.
man. He has acquired coal lands il
Uintah county, Utah, and within few
months will begin the construction o.
railroad to the coal measures which
lie owns.
AfteT a period of nearly fifteen
years of inactivity, the Detroit min
ing district, which lies about thirty
miles northwest from Oasis, Utah, is
again about to take on new life. The
formation of the Detroit district is
counterpart of Tintic.
Reports are current that F. Angus
tus Heinze is connected with the new
Miners Smelling company, just incor-
porated in Maine, with s100OO,oOo
capital. The new company, it is I'M
derstood, will build 3,000-ton smelt-
err In the Salt Lake valley.
Great excitement exists at Centen-
NAL, Wyoming lead of gold ore bear
ing samples that run as high as $1,000
to the ton having been discovered west
Ct that place The lead can be fol-
lowed for seven miles, and in places
the vein is $50 feet wide. A trench
fourteen feet deep shows rich ore to
the bottom.
\ New York woman who is prospect
ing in Nevada has determined TO be
comfortable, and to do so adopted male
attire, wearing overalls, shirt and
large straw hat. A woman with nerve
enough to suffer the privations of
year among the mountains and deserts
of Nevada certainly deserves to discov-
er bonanza.
The Iron Age says: Our monthly
blast furnace statistics show that the
production in June was 2,247,420
tons, against 2,201, 030 tons in May.
July starts with twelve more stacks
in blast than were in operation on
the first day of June, and the outlook
is that the production will be well
maintained.
Since the first of June the Ameri-
can Smelling & Refining company has
cut the price of lead 55 cents per 100
is, the company has
lowered the settling basis with the
nothing to show that the metal is any
more plentiful than it was month
Dr. six months ago.
Railroads and water are the two |
Kings most needed in the Lee, Ne |
gada, district, but these are coming. |
t is stated that a twelve-inch pipe |
inc will be run into the camp by |
ahyolite capitalists, and that spur
rack from the main line of the Borax
smith railroad track will be run into
he town and to the mines.
In all probability business will be
cry quiet in Owyhee county. Idaho,
fter July 90 The 400 miners at
silver City and De Lamar have made
demand on the Trade Dollar and
)e Lamar Mining companies for an
Increase of 25 cents a day after
uly 20 The owners declare the
NIT has been reached in wages.
Preparations are now being made
t the Honerine at Stockton, Utah.
,r the sinking of 200-foot shaft be-
wv the train tunnel level and ground |
i'll probably be broken within few
avs. This shaft is to be equipped
it'll hoist, pumps, ETC., and every
ecessary precaution will be taken to
se that nothing binders the work,
ice it is under way.
1t is now planned by the Balaklala
begin breaking ore in August, to
I'VE a supply for beginning opera
0ns of the smelter by September /, I
hen it is expected to be ready TO
eat both Balaklala and Trinity ore. {
he tramway will be completed by
at time and Manager Brown of the
Unity is said to have his property in
ape TO Immediately begin produc- :
u. I
North and east of North Platte river {
east central Wyoming is a broad 4
" domal mountain mass. with Q ]
aximum height of about 5000 feet {,
owe sea level which is known as d
e Hartville upIift and which is sim. c
II in many respects to the Black =
lis of South Dakota. Throughout \
IS entire area copper is so widely dis II
buted that, although no large deposit r
s yet been discovered, valuable beds !.
ore may at any time be found :,
From all indications and according ia
the statements of some of the most
liable mine owners and residents OF
ian and the back country mining
tricts, an assayers and chemist Fl
med Howard has invented new OF
,cess for extracting gold from gold a.
iring sock or quartz which seems re
itined to absolutely revolutionize
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