The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-05-23
MINES AND MINING

magnate and steel king, has been OK.
aiming the mines of the Bullfros
district in which he is interested
personally.
The foreign visible supply of con
per on the 18th, as reported from
Boston, was 1903 tons. decrease
of 1856 tons during the first half OF
the month
There is much excitement In Car
lin, Nevada, over the discovery OF
rich placer gold in the Lynn district,
twenty-five miles from there, and a
phenomenal rush is on.
The record of ore production Of the
mines of Park City for the week Just
ended is as follows: DAILY Judge, l..
100000; Silver King, 1,119,76O; DAILY
West, 100000; Ontario, 1000. To.
tai tonnage, 1851 ,760.
The report of John d. Ryan, presi |
dent of the Anaconda Copper Mining |
company submitted to stockholders,
shows that the corporation for the
year that ended December 81, 1906,
earned profit of $8,S42GG9
The old camp of Sprucemont, Ne
vada, whose mines have been worked
for more than a third of century
with profit to their owners, but has
lain dormant the past two years, Is
again in the list of producing camps.
Within the last few months the
Duck Creek lead section OF White
Pine county, Nevada. has presented
such an attractive opening for the
prospector that hardly an inch of un.
occupied ground remains for those
who are to come.
April copper production of the
United States, Canada and Mexico Is
estimated at 9G,5677O0 pounds,
against 1872 ,23O pounds in March
and S5,2SS,160 in February. The
) April reduction is due largely to la
Dor troubles, notably in Arizona.
The Red Metals company, operat.
Ing within a mile of Schurz, in the
Walker Indian reservation country,
Nevada, has had the first 100 feet Of
its tunnel completed, the face now
being 113 feet from the portal.
contract has just been awarded for
. 200 feet more of tunneling.
It Is stated in what apparently is
authoritative circles that as soon as
the Salt Lake route completes It's
branch line from Caliente to Phoebe
! 1t will begin Immediately upon the
proposed line to the Deep Creek sec
ton of Utah and Ely, Nevada. Thi!
will be cheering news to the miner!
of that section.
It is reported from Park City tina
the Miners union is considering tn
advisability of resembling the orde
against men working on the drall
tunnel of the Ontario for less than y
a shift. It is said that number 0
the miners now consider that II "oul
be all right to permit work lhere
the old scale Of $3.50.
Another mining company has JUS
been launched in Springville, utai
The company is known as the Ev
Mining company, and its property
| located in the Mount Nebo minin
| district. The property has bee
| worked on at different times Tor se'
| eral wears past, and considerable d'
| yelopment work has been done
| Advices from Lovelock, New al
to the effect that to the many prom
= Using discoveries made in Humbol'
= county during the past year anothe
has been added. A strike recentl
made in the Trinity range, twel',
+ miles northeast of Lovelock, is
scribed as being one of the riche
and most extensive of the season.
4 development work is now progress
] ing on the Mountain View mine
Pine. Idaho. The mine was cios'
> down for time in the winter d
4 worl, is now being pushed vigorous
1 They hone to be able to start the
4 r,ju during the summer, but at pre-
ont are deyoting their attention.
4 tracing ont the course OF the
shoots.
| A meeting of the stockholders
II tbe silver Pick Triangle Mining COZ
4 nany is being held in Goldheld 10
4 ouire into alleged fraudulent deahn
1 of the promoters, Patrick; Enjoy SIo a q
\ Camn, It is claimed that zIo,o
Il shares of the treasury stock was ~
y at at 10 cents, and that virtually ,i , no
m Of the proceeds has gone into ue'
p opments.
~ George Wingfeld is quoted as 81
Dy ing that the Goldfeld Consohaa,
Dis Mines company would in every pro'
In hu,ty not pay any dividends dI ht,
rty the wear 1907, nor will any M
I'M srsde ore be shipped to the smei u
'ea' at salt Lake. Mr.. Winghela 81 >,
ste that the company was going 70
. tea it's own reduction plant III, IN o @O'u's q