The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-12-19
MINES AND MINING

The production OF gold In Juan III
1000 amounted to $5,218,3S6, an in
crease of s97,466 over that of 1905.
Despite the stringency in the
money market, the money required
for the cyanide plant to be erected al
Boise, Idaho, has been raised
There are six set of leasers work
ing ON the Honerine properties al
Stockton. and ore is being forwarded
to the valley smelters each week.
In the Virgin river oil section there
are sixteen rigs now set up ready for
action, many of which are hard at
work drilling. Such as are idle are
awaiting the arrival of broken parts.
A suit is to be brought. to test the
validity of the corporation license
tax law passed by the last session oil
the Utah legislature over 100 cor
porations have joined in the expense
of conducting the fight.
The production of zinc oxide, or
zinc white, in this country in 1905
was 154,675,1SS pounds, or 1850
short tons, an increase of 5,977 tons,
or 81 per cent over the production
! in 1905.
Baker City and Payette have organ.
lied an oil company. They have Sc
cured land near the well of the Ore
gon company at Payette, Idaho, and
propose to begin drilling with as little
delay as possible.
November's copper exports were
33,7S7 tons, establishing new record,
and bringing the total of 1907 to date
back to figure only 1,44S tons below
last years exports. The increase over
October was 5,001 tons, over Novem-
Der last year 1886.
The cleanup of the Sunnyside mill
for the month of November was near
ly 100000, says the Round Mountain,
Nevada, Nugget This was gathered
in three retorts which had tempo
rary resting place in the company safe
until its removal last week.
The old Ketchum smelter, between
Ketchum and the Guyer hot springs, Is
being demolished. Most of the tim
bers and other wood work has been
shipped, much of it to Nampa, where
it will be used to build sheds and
warehouse for the sugar factory.
One of the largest Independent
shelters in the west will probably be
built at Leadville, Colorado, within
the next year by the owners of the
famous Greenback mine at Bingham,
Utah. This syndicate owns the
smelter at Bingham, which has been
closed down by injunction proceed.
ings.
Before action was taken to close
down the Washoe smelter and Butte
mines, the situation was carefully
canvassed by the officials of the vari-
GUS Amalgamated subsidiary COM
panies. There were present at the
conference, which lasted three days,
H. III. Rogers, James Stillman and
William Rockefeller
F. G. Cooley, representing the Mine
& Smelter Supply company in Salt
Lake. has been making an investiga-
ton of the southern Utah oil fields,
and has returned so impressed with
their future and present needs that ne
has recommended to his house that
full line of oil drilling rigs, tools, ma
chinery, casing and supplies, be put in
at once.
letter from the superintendent of
the Yerington Copper Mountain com.
pany's properties to prominent Salt
Laker advises that the shaft on the
company's Lydia claim has attained
depth of fifty-one feet. and that
there has been eighteen inches of fine
copper ore in evidence for every foot
from the surface down. with the best
showing in the bottom.
The mine owners of Fairview, Won
der, Yerington and considerable other
mlneral-producing territory in that re.
glon nave got to get relief from some
sources one of these days, and the
impression is that some of the bia
companies will get together during the
winter and decide to put in mills and
smelters and invade the metal mar.
kets on their own accounts during the
coming year.
general improvement in senti.
ment is noticeable in the iron world
EVERY one seems to be awaiting the
time when increased activity will be
justified. 1t seems to be the general
Impression of the furnace managers
from all the different districts that
long depression need not be looked
Tor and that in the early part of next
year considerable inquiry for pig iron
may be expected.
one mining section of Idaho that is
not feeling the present slumpy ten.
dency throughout the country is the
spring Mountain district of Lemhi
county, There are eight producing
mines In the district, the ores carry,
ing lead and copper One mine alone
mas contracted to deliver fifty tons of
ore a day to the smelter there being
zoooo tons of ore in sight at the pres,
ent time.
Recently two men offered eighteen