The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-10-17
MIN rs AND MINING

! that vicinity.
The rumor from Park City to the Of
feet that the DAILY Judge company
would close its mine down within a
few days has no foundation in fact
The Nevada Dredge company's
drcdge and property at Orovllle, Cal,
was burned last week, causing a loss
Of $i,000,000. The fire started in the
transformer.
If the United States is to produce
enough nickel, cobalt, and tin for its
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 100000 tons of ore to
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 Goldfield district for the week
ending October ~ was 3S771s 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
last week that will call for the check
ing out OF $4,000. They were: Colo
RADIO, 100000: Beck Tunnel Con, $40.
0O0 Grand Central, $12,5OO, 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 $174 to the ton, and the
Boise assayer found S10S.
The average cost of copper produc-
ton from Butte mines under the re-
stricted output is today not less thai
IL cents per pound. At Lake Superior
the cost will probably average close
to 10 cents. The cost of Calumet n
Arizona is only 5.71 cents.
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 H. J. Smith, two
Ogden prospectors. The discovery is
said to be an extremely rich one.
Two of the largest up to date and
modern quartz mills in the state,
with 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 story to the effect that numer-
Gus Montana and Washington in
vestors have been mulcted to the ex-
tent of more than a third of a million
dollars through the discovery that GER
tain placer mines near Landers, Wyo..
had been sailed and that the property
in question Is worthless.
It is learned that during the next
few days there will be a 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 number
of teams hauling ore from the dump to
Council. where 1t is shipped to the
Sumpter smelter.
#. n. Barnsdale of Plttsburg. 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 us 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 the
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 $780,
600, pending in the courts of Los An
geles, Boston, Duluth, Tucson ana
Tombstone, Ariz., have been ended.
1he actions involved large amounts OF
stock in rich copper properties. nota
bly, the Cananea Central Mines COM
pany and the Greene Cananea Copper
company.
The Minerva mine, in the Atlanta
district, Idaho. for the past two years
has been producing steadily and has
ineXhaustive bodies of ore in reserve.
1t is stated the company will enlarge
he nrpsent 10 stamD mill which 10 not