The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-07-04
MINES A ND MINING


silver to the ton.
The Gold Mountain section of Utah
is Just now receiving the attention OF
many mining investors, being regard.
ed as one of the future rich producing
districts of the state.
Two carloads of machinery for the
100-ton concentrating mill to be erect
ed at once at the Muldoon Mining
Mining company's property, have been
received at the Bellevue, Idaho, depot.
The directors of the Tonopah Min
ing company have declared the regular
dividend of 20 cents share, The ex-
ira dividend of 10 cents. which has
been declared for the last few per
iods, was not ordered.
In Beaver and Deer creek canyons,
In the Mt Badly mining section OF
Utah, a number of prospects and some
propositions of more serious charac-
ter are being given attention, and
some of them are coming out with
good showings.
The Ohio-Kentucky at Phoebe, of
which Samuel Newhouse and the God
| hes of Salt Lake City are the chief
owners, is preparing to ship their ore
| to Salt Lake from Bullionville until
the reduction works are erected at
| tho latter place.
Unless present indications prove de-
ceitful. Cedar City, Utah, is likely to
experience quite mining boom In
| the near future, as result OF dis
covery recently made by J. II. Arthur,
a local land attorney and surveyor.
| The returns show $50 to the ton In
| gold.
| The Birch Creek Mining company.
made up chiefly of Idaho Falls men,
has a promising mine, considerably de-
valoped by tunnels and shafts, from
which 16 carloads of ore have been
shipped from Dubois station that ran
| ~ per cent lead and IL ounces silver.
| The mine is in the western part OF
Fremont county, Idaho.
On June 20 the Goldfield officers
seized ton of stolen ore which Is
worth $4,000, some of 1t assaying as
high as $40 per pound. Most of the
| ore was taken from the Smith Assay
| and Reduction works. Some was
found in the house of deputy sheriff
| and jailer. Several other suspects
| are also under arrest.
A HALEY miner, w. S. Pierce, who
has just sold the famous old Ontario
mine near Ketchum to Boston parties,
says that the wildcat" corporation
| bill passed by the last Idaho legisla-
ture has done wonders in restoring
the credit of Idaho as mining state.
He says that investors look on this as
an honest law.
w. j. Mcconnell, the first COVER
nor Of Idaho under statehood, manager
and a large owner in the Idaho Lead,
| Silver and Zinc company, in the lead
mining district, eighteen miles from
Argo, Is in correspondence now with
parties in Europe, with view OF
shipping his zinc ore either to Wales
Or Belgium.
1t may surprise the old prospectors
to learn that an entirely new mineral
belt has been discovered on the Dor
ders of Custer and Lemhi counties
and almost in sight of town." az
some one expressed 1t, says the Chal
lis Messenger Nevertheless, such Is
the fact, as can be verified by actual
observation if any person doubts it.
David Keith, president of the Silver
King Coalition Mines company, which
recently absorbed the Silver King
and other Park City mines, announces
that quarterly dividends will be in
augutated on the 10th of July. The
company will start off on II per cent
basis which, on its capital OF $6,25O,
600, will call for the disbursement OF
$1S7, 900 per quarter or $750,0OO pei
year.
President Joseph S. Giroux, of the
Giroux Consolidated, who is now In
the east, says that the Giroux viii be
gin production at Ely within month
The 500-ton concentration will be rap
idly increased when the shafts are
enlarged. With this equipment, to
gether with shipments of the two
other shelters, he says the GirouN
can earn $2,000,000 net for the coming
year on 15-cent copper.
Much excitement has been occasion
ed in the mining circles of Butte by
the discovery of a ten-inch streak
of very rich peacock copper ore II
the Greenleaf mine Of the Amalga
mated Copper company, two mile'
east of Butte, demonstrating, in the
opinion of mining engineers, that the
copper veins of the famous Butte
Hill extend east OF Butte to the mair
divide of the Rocky mountains, sever
al miles beyond Butte.
Senator w. A. Clark, who some time
ago took bond on the May Day mine
at Bristol, Nevada, for $25000Q, ha'
made the first payment of $4,000
The May Day is great copper propo
sition. Senator Clark has large
force of men at work prosecuting de
velopment work.
The Bristol Consolidated people a
Bristol, Nevada, who have been block
ing out ore which they propose t