The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-01-10
MINES AND MINING

Manhattan, Nevada, closely re-
sembles the camp of Bullfrog in that
1t is a great milling proposition.
H. p. Madden has bonded for $4,000
the group of seven mining claims
owned by Morris Roberts and An
thony Zurich at Ely, Nevada.
An authority on mines, who is fam
iliar with the Sonora field, says that
the output of copper in Sonora, Next
co, for 1906, amounted to 179,000,000
pounds.
The big Greenwater merger. that
has been talked OF for some time, has
been consummated. The new COM
pany will have q capitalization OF $685.
100000, With 100000 shares.
1t is stated that in the Keane
Wonder company's mine in Death Val
ley. $650.000 worth of ore has already
been blocked out, and the free milling
will average better than SIS.
1t is now certainty that a combin-
alton of interests in the Manhattan
district will erect great custom mill
ing plant this coming spring. or as
soon as weather conditions will allow.
Ore that assays 175 ounces in sill
yer and is per cent lead has been
struck by Henry Welland and Joseph
Foster on their Victor claim about
three-fcurths of mile east of Phoebe,
Nevada.
January 3 was a happy day for the
Consolidated Mercur company and a
portion of their employees. for two of
were placed in commission after
close-down OF several days.
During the past year more annual
assessment work was performed In the
Deep Creek district than before in any
| FIVE years combined. This condition
has been brought about by ass'irance
that the Western Pacific ra,lotd will
be completed to shipping points with
in the early months Of the present
year.
A good old-fashidhed stampede is
on toward the new copper and gold
district known as Mizpah. Ely and
surrounding Nevada points providing
the material for making this rush as
picturesque as is usually the case In
Nevada. The Mizpah district Is To-
Gated six miles east OF Spruce, north
| west OF the Dolly Warden section.
e. P. Jennings, 8 mining engineer.
gives some extremely interesting fig
ures in his report regarding the prob.
able earnings of the Nevada Douglas.
Taking the daily capacity at 1000 tons
of 3h per cent copper ore, after de-
Quoting all expense, the annual profit
OF the company will be $2,760, 900, or
more than so per cent of the com
pany's capitalization.
| BY vote of three to one. the mem
bers Of the Butte Mill & Shelter
mems union have decided to make .
demand on the management OF the
Boston & Montana smelter for an in
crease Of so cents day for all en-
ployes who work on change shifts In
the various departments. The men
are at present, and have been for
several years. receiving SO day.
Mines valued at over 500, 100000 In
the Bullfrog district of Nevada were
awarded to e. A. Montgomery by
Judge Sewell of San Francisco. last
week against the claims of c. B.
l Mo-. mi, he koI 60 Lal
| interest because of dispute in the
| grub-stake agreement 1t Is now stat
ed that the properties will be trans
! fered to Charles Schwab, the
steel king.
ITO those who have supposed that
the Comstock lode Is worked out, 1t
may be of interest to state that the
actual production from the Ophir mine
alone, during the past week." says Su-
perintendent Franklin Leonard, Jr.,
in recently submitted report,
amounted to seventy cars of ore. as
saying 1914 per ton; thirty-six cars as
saying 1913 per ton; seventy-five cars
assaying $22 per ton, making total
of PSI cars of high grade ore.
The deposits of the Yerington dis
trict are classed as Contact metamor-
phic ore deposits" by the economic
biologists, and may be described as
masses of metamorphosed and miner
allied limestone resting upon an intru-
slve granite, the granite having fur
nished the necessary heat and heated
mineralized solutions required to
convert the adjacent limestone into a
massive garnetlferous rock impreg-
mated with copper ore.
The richest shipment of ore ever
sent to market from any mining camp
on earth was lot of fifty tons ex-
pressed from the Hayes and Monnette
lease on the Mohawk at Goldfield, last
week. The consignment is valued at
one million dollars. Six armed guards