The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1907-12-14
MINES AND MINING


ceeding 300 feet on any part OF the
group. The ores carry silver and
lead
Word from the Bullfrog district Of
Nevada is to the effect that the Bull
frog Gold Bar company will have It's
new milling plant all ready for opera
tioI, by the middle of the current
month.
A couple Of Denver men have In
vented machine that will perhaps
become very valuable to placer min
ers. Il is an arrangement by which
they say all of the gold in sand gravel
g saved.
The treasury department on De-
cember 4th purchased 100000 ounces
n silver at $500 cents per fine
ounce. or isis 100000 ounces is to
oe delivered In San Francisco, 100000
n Denver and 100000 in Philadelphia.
1t is being talked around that mine
owners o. otan will have to get to-
gether and build works that will mako
them Independent of the present
smelling concerns, or accept long
time contracts at greatly increased
rates.
The Quincy Junior Mining q Mill.
ing company, at HALEY. Idaho, has
closed down the mill for the winter,
but development work In the mine It.
self will not be allowed to pause dur.
ing the coming months Of mill mac
tivity. s1a
The reports of combination of
smelling interests In Utah and Colo
RADIO for the purpose of advancing
smelling charges, and especially on
ores from Goldfeld, Mr.. Solomon
Guggenheim AYERS, are without foun-
dalton.
About 500 men are now on the pay
rolls of the Con. Mercur, at Mercur,
Utah, and they are producing such
results that local circles expect q re.
sumption Of dividends before the year
1908. The new shines plant is treat.
ing 400 tons of ore per day.
There are several properties near
Boise where an abundance Of ore may
be had that carries gold values rang
ing from Sc to 50 per ton that can be
treated at good profit by the cyan
ide process. and cyanide plant Is to
be erected in the near future.
The production of quicksilver In
the United States In 1906 was 26,238
TASKS of seventy-hve pounds each.
valued at $958,634. as compared with
30,451 TASKS, valued at @1,103,120. In
1906, a decrease In quantity Of 4213
tasks and in value Of S144,486.
withou& waiting for action ON the
part OF the Nevada Consolidated com.
pany, the powers In the Cumberland
Ely company have decided that there
shall be no further delays in hurry
ing to completion the great milling
and smelling works at McGill. Ney.
A definite plan of reorganization Of
the Balakalala Copper company has
not been decided upon. although the
New York management OF the COM
pany has submitted tentative plan
to some of the larger Boston inter-
ests, whereby third will be organ
lied, and through this vehicle an as
sessment OF 81 per share is proposed.
Three mining companies operating
In the Occur dAlene district, in
northern Idaho. east OF Spokane, dis
tribhted among their stakeholder
during November dividends to the
amount OF $4,000, making the total
disbursement to date in 1907 4,967.-
500, and $3l, 635,SO7 since the discov-
cry of the mines.
With demand for the metal at a
standstill, prices for copper have
eased off from last weeks figures
The domestic consumers refuse t.
nibble. even though such tempting
prices as 10 1-S cents are quoted, with
the result that the foreigners are pick
ing up copper here and there at ad
vantageous prices.
AS a producer of the precious met
ais Nevada occupies a high place
among the states and territories o.
the Union. In value of gold produce
the state is outranked only by Colo
RADIO. Alaska and California, while III
silver output gives 1t fifth place. Col
orado, Montana, Utah and Idaho TAX
Ing precedence.
All OF the mines OF the Anacond'
company, the Butte & Boston com
pany and the Washoe, Parrot ant
Trenton companies win be closed ant
the operations of the Amalgamatet
copper company confined to the prop
critics of the Boston & Montana com
pany, which embraces the larges
mines In the Butte district
The directors of the Amalgamate'
Copper company have voted to con
tinue curtailing the output of cope
from the mines OF the company a
: near as possible on parity with tn
present basis of consumption. It wa
also decided to authorize the operai
ing officers to close or continue Il
operation such mines and smelter
as they deem best.
Three mills in the Bullfrog dis
trict of Nevada produced during NJ
yember the handsome total of 1881
900 worth of bullion, the leader bein
4 "a -. u.