The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-07-25
MINES AND MINING


the list of shippers
The geological survey reports the
copper output of Idaho for 1906, ut
s,57S0iG pounds, about equal to the
output of Alaska
The independence mines, near
Ketchum. Idaho. have been gathered in
by eastern capitalists who promise to
put 1t on a paying basis
A seat on the Salt Lake mining
stock exchange sold last week for 49,
100. Two years ago seats could be
bought for from $50 to SIS
Secretary James Wilson of the de-
partment of agriculture and party OF
federal officials saw the shelters of
the Washoe company in Anaconda
last week. They will visit forest re-
serves and irrigation projects In Mon.
tana.
Work on the Iowa Copper company's
property at Park City is again in full
swing and good progress Is being
made Shipping ore is being taken
out right along and stored for ship
ment which will be made In the near
future.
John w. Smith, who brought the
FIRST load of freight ever hauled from
Kelton to HALEY, Idaho, has returned
TO HALEY after an absence of rs
years. during which time he has been
In many different mining camps. and
as far north as Alaska.
The zinc industry of Utah is on the
increase. The new finds of the metal
in Beaver county, long one of the
principal sources of this metal in the
state, have added greatly to the avail
able tonnage. the only drawback be.
ing lack of proper smelling facilities.
The United Metals Selling company
Is reported to have sold several million
pounds of electiolytic copper at %
cents, part OF which is for export 1t
Is claimed that there will be no change
from a 22-cent pound rate for cleo
trolytic within the next three months.
The Goodenough mine, In Bear
Creek, in Idaho. since the LIST of June
has had q fivestamp mill running
steadily ON very high grade of ore.
The mill Is located about quarter
of a mile from the mine and at pres
ent has to be handled with pack ami
mails, requiring 2S horses to do the
work.
At present the Ramsey-Comstocll
mine at Ramsey, Nevada, is more in
the limelight than any other property,
because of the very rich strike on the
third level where an ore shoot en- the
hanging wall side is uncovered that Is
producing specimen ore. containing
rich sulphides, together with free
gold and tellurides.
Fire which has been smouldeIfng In
the depths of the Minnie Healy mine
at Butte filled the workings of the
West Colusa mine, one OF the big
copper properties of the Amalgamated
Copper company, with gas to the ex.
tent that 1t became dangerous to per-
nit miners TO work. Operations were
suspended temporarily
The firm of j. p. Morgan & Co. ia
now heavily interested in American
Smelling. A close affiliation between
the Morgans and the Guggenheims has
existed for some time in the Alaska
Milling and Railroad Development com
pany, but this Is the first time the
Morgan firm has become interested in
the American smelters.
There Is a rush on for the Revellle
district In Nevada Automobiles and
rigs were on the go all the day long,
and the rush has hardly started. The
location of the strike is given as If
teen miles to the east of the old Re-
veille mill, and the highest assays OBJ
tanned from the rock recently discov,
cred, goes from 81 400 to $4,000.
Some important developments have
been made in the Carrie Leonard mine
in the Ketchum district, of Idaho.
vein "a feet thick has been en-
countered. There is a streak all the
way along this new Strike from "A
inches to two feet thick that runs from
272 to 5S5 ounces to the ton in silver
and from 6 to 81 per cent lead.
A dispatch from Standpoint. Idaho,
says George Heaton has filed an at
tachment against the Panhandle Smelt
ing company of Ponderay for $51 900.
He says this amount is due him for
money advanced Under agreement
while he was president of the com
pany The property involved is com
posed of 400 acres of land with five
mining claims.
The Boston Consolidated has issued
a complete report to stockholders, Civ
Ing details as to property, ore reserves
and values and prospective profits
President Newhouse gives the actual
tonnage of sulphide ore blocked ont
as 741,746 tons, with an average assay
value of rs per cent copper, while es-
timated tonnage not developed aggre-
gates $4,000 tons additional.
In the preliminary statement just
received from the United States geo
logical survey giving the production
of spelter for the past year, Utah
stands well up in the list Missouri
is first with a production of 130,34S