The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1907-09-28
MINES AND MINING

lHe montgomery SuoSnOnt, vi huyo
lite, Nevada. increased its output last
week TO FIVE cars. or 200 tons. 1t Is
the policy of the management to con
tinue steady shipments.
There is a well-defined rumor In cir.
culation to the effect that the Mason
Valley Copper, of Yerington, Nevada,
has in mind the erection of a smelter
for the treatment of its ores.
The remarkable record for produc-
ton and the wonderful disclosures that
have been made in the Lost Packer
company's property at Loon Creek,
Idaho. is stirring things up in that por'
ton of Custer county.
A reduction of S. share in the
quarterly dividend Of the Calumet
Hecla Copper Mining company was an
nounced on the 10th. The directors
declared a dividend Of SIS a share,
against 500 three months ago.
Every days development in the Am
erican Fork, Utah, district makes 1t
more and more apparent that the old
district, which has received such scant
dttcntlou gVuib, SoihS w h"hN
up with the best of them in the near
future.
The recent oil excitement along the
Virgin river has attracted attention to
all parties Of Utah which Is rich In oil
and coal, and the Escalante section
is said to be one of the most richly
blessed localities for the touch OF up
to-date talent.
Reports from recent shipment OF
ore made by the Wheeler Gold Mines
company, whose properties are in the
Yerington, Nevada, district, show that
the shipment was a satisfactory one,
netting $40 gold to the ton, or $4,000
net for the car.
The action of the Amalgamated COM
pany to curtail copper production from
20, OOO,O 900 to 100000 pounds of cop
per per month will throw about 5000
men out of employment. When the
mines will again resume at full blast
is predetermined.
The Alta district, twenty-five miles
northwest of Mackay, Idaho, is again
coming to the front. The ores from
there are copper and lead PROPOSE
ton. 1t is an old district, but the peo-
pie have just come to recognize the
fact that 1t Is wonderfully productive
and are fiocking there at a surprising
rate.
1t is estimated that there are any
where from 25O,OOO,OOO to 5OO,O0O,00O
pounds of copper stored away In the
country awaiting disposition by the
producer. The general production OF
the present year is expected to fall
very little below last year. But there
is not the buying activity that there
was last year.
In the Mime Haha copper properties
in the Clifton mining district Of Utah,
in the deepest shaft there is fourteen
feet of ore. OF this there Is three and
one-half feet carries 20 per cent cop.
per, 6 to 22 ounces silver and from 81
to $14 in gold per ton. There are
several carloads of this character of
ore on the dumps.
II Is said that the oil fields on the
San Juan river can be traced dis.
lance of fifty miles and at one point
on the rivers bank there is'at least
twenty-five barrels per day flowing into
the water which impregnates the
stream and renders the water useless
for culinary purposes for over a dis.
lance of three miles.
While doing some open trenching
along the vein system of the Columbia
Wedge property at Alta, Utah, an ore
vein was found that averages two feet
In width for the distance opened along
Its strike. Assays made upon this ore
discloses values as follows Silver,
from 100 to $50 ounces: lead, 40 to 20
per cent; gold. 81 per ton.
The Goldfield Mining Stock exchange
and the Goldheld Stock and Exchange
board will consolidated. Committees
from each exchange, appointed with
full power to act, have made a unani-
nous and favorable report. on consoli-
dalton. The handsome new stone
building of the old exchange will be
the future home of the association.
The directors of the old reliable Utah
mine, the biggest little mine In the
United States, last week declared the
regular monthly dividend Of per cent.
or $4,000. With this distribution the
company will have paid out during the
present year 27 cents a share, or $27.-
900, while the total disbursements on
dividend account to date amount to
s279 900.
Latest advices from the Wonder dis.
trict, Of Nevada, are that rich strike
has been made In the shaft of the
Nevada Wonder company's property.
At a depth of 300 feet, while drifting
on an ore shoot, cross vein was en-
countered measuring eighteen inches
at the point of intersection. The
new rock, 1t is claimed. will average
$4,000 to the ton.
II is probable that a syndicate will
soon acquire the aluminium, marble and
other deposits owned by local parties
near Lehi Utah The properties con.
tain mammoth clay beds, which assay
3S per cent aluminium and of whica
there are thousands of tons ready for
shipment. Also black marble quarries
ONYX beds depOsits of calcILe and a