Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-02-28
MINING PARAGRAPHS

The dump at STATIONS Inde-
pendence mine at Cripple Creek is
said to contain 600,0 tons of ore
that will average $50 per ton.
Phoebe, New, parties are>looking
up properties at Stateline, and it is
expected they will cast their an
chors in that awakening camp as
soon as surface examination is pos
sible.
The Boston News Bureau says
that the Utah-Apex company has
closed a contract with the Utah
Smelling company with smelter at
Ogden, Utah, to treat 5000 tons
of ore at minimum of 1900 tons
per month.
About 1000 pounds of samples
of copper ore from the mines of the
Yerington district were placed on
display in window in Salt Lake
last week. The collection embraces
samples from all of the principal
properties in that section which
have been developed.
Earnings of So, $780, 900 by the
Utah Consolidated company this
year would indicate a profit of 141
cents per pound on 10000, 1000
pounds produced, crediting gold and
silver values against copper Gusts.
This would be equal to earnings Of
SO. 10 per share.
c. c. Parsons, president of the
Hannapah Mining company, stated
last week that the, unwatering of
the mine at Hannapah, New, was
progressing satisfactorily, and that
it would be possible to get to work
on the 300foot level again with
in couple of weeks.
The new board of governors of
the Salt Lake Stock & Mining ex-
change have organized by elccting
James A. Pollock president; R. ].
Evans, first vice president; w. ].
Browning, second vice president /;
Fred R. Davis, third vice president I;
G. P. Norton, treasurer, and James
A. Shorten, secretary.
In ledge four feet wide the
Wheeler Gold Mining company,
operating in the Yeringtop, Nevada,
region, has just encountered body
of ore that averages better than
81, 800 in gold per ton. Sixteen
inches of the material runs $lO1.65,
two feet assays 81, 204.1 II, and All
eight-inch streak of it carries S2,-
1872. 80.
A strike in the Jumbo Extension
at Goldfield has just been made
public. The shaft is down 22O feet
and the bottom is entirely in ship
ping ore, none of which runs less
than 5000, give from $4,000 to
$4,000 per ton. According to indi-
cations $40, 900 ore will soon be en-
countered
Manager Walter James of the
Black Rock properties in Beaver
county, states that new shaft
has been started on the ground to
prospect the big iron blowout that
occurs in the ground. The new
shaft is now down sixty feet and q
contract has just been awarded for
another 100 feet of work in the
same hole.
Several samples of ore taken from
ledge discovered northwest OF
Paris, Utah, have been asssyed and
showed $2,146.25 in gold, and
$451.12 in silver per ton. AS a
result there is considerable excite
ment in and about Paris. The
strike was made by A. E. Plycr, an
old prospector who had been grub
stakcd by three locomotive engi-
nccrs.
Salt Lake mining and smelling
circles do not take seriously to the
claim recently made that several of
the copper refiners in the north,
south and east were piling up cop
per in order to create an artificial
shortage. The report to this effect
emanated from the east, and ever
since it has been one prominent
source of conversation.
With the first days transactions
aggregating 204, $50 shares, the