The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1907-10-19
MINES AND MINING

fect that the DAILY Judge company
would close its mine down within a
few days has no foundation in fact.
The Nevada Dredge company's
dredge and property at Oroville, Cal.
was burned last week. causing a loss
OF 100000. The fire started in the
transformer
II the United States Is to produce
enough nickel, cobalt, and tin for It's
own consumption. new deposits must
be discovered. for those now known,
while individually rich, cannot supply
the entire demand.
During the past month the two mills
of the Utah Copper company reduced
approximately 100, 900 tons OF ore to q
high-grade concentrate. and there Is
every probability that that figure will
be eclipsed during the present month,
The output Of the mines and leases
OF the Goldfeld district for the week
ending October 12 was 3S77h tons.
having an estimated value OF $3S2,350.
This is something like 100 tons more
than the output for the preceding
week
Vanadium, one OF the rare metals.
is used principally for hardening steel.
especially in connection with chrom-
ium. This rare metal is to be found
in small quantities in Utah and Colo
RADIO, as well as in some of the south
western states.
Four Utah mines posted dividends
Loot uaaE TINT will coll for tho ack-
ing out of S94, 500. They were: Colo
RADIO. 100000; Beck Tunnel Con. S20.-
600; Grand Central, $t2,50O, and Utah,
OF Fish Springs, $4,000.
Rich returns were received last
week from assays of rock sent from
the keystone mine. a property almost
within the city limits of Weiser, Idaho.
A Baker City assayer found that the
rock carried STA to the ton, and the
Boise assayer found sos.
The average cost of copper produo-
ton from Butte mines under the re-
stricted output Is today not less than
IL cents per pound At Lake Superior
the cost will probably average close
to 10 cents. The cost of Calumet "
Arizona is only 5.71 cents. 4.
Considerable excitement was devel-
oped in Logan. Utah, mining circles
last week by reports concerning a re-
cent find In Blacksmith Fork canyon,
by Captain Silvey and II. J. Smith. two
Ogden prospectors. The discovery Is
said to be an extremely rich one.
Two OF the largest up to date and
L.. he ctaNa
with a daily capacity of reducing $50
tons of ore are now in course OF com
pletion for the big mines of the Mon
arch and Bagdad Chase Mining COM
panies, in the Atlanta district of Idaho.
The Record OF Helena, Mont, pub
fishes a story to the effect that numer-
Gus Montana and Washington in
vestors have been mulcted to the ex-
tent of more than third of million
dollars through the discovery that GER
tain placer mines near Landers, Wyo.,
had been sailed and that the property
in question is worthless.
II Is learned that during the next
few days there will be number o.
experts in Utah who represent great
London operators who tackle the fields
Of the world in competition with the
Standard Oil company. but who have
not become very aggressive in Ameri-
can as yet. Their coming looks good
for the Utah oil fields.
George w. Boggs, one Of the lessees
and general manager of the Old Pea
cock mine in the Seven Devils dis
trict, states he has twenty-one men
employed at the mine. is taking ore
from the new strike and has a number
of teams hauling ore from the dump to
Council where 1t is shipped to the
Sumpter smelter
r. N. Barnsdale of Pittsburg, the
owner of the Monarch group OF mines
at Atlanta, Idaho, has expended nearly
million dollars in developing and
blocking out the ore bodies of the Mon
arch mine alone before even placing a
mill on the property. This alone as
sures MS of his confidence of the great
possibilities of the camp.
There are millions of tons OF ore OF
commercial value blocked out in the
mines of the Atlanta district, Idaho.
and the future of the camp has always
been dependent on the successful
working of these ores, which in thu,
past has been a failure on account of
the great loss caused by not having
the proper process to treat the ores,
Through a compromise reached out
of court, civil actions involving $500.
OOO pending in the courts of Los An
geles, Boston. Duluth, Tucson ana