The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-06-20
MINES A ND MINING

considering several propositions look
Ing to the erection OF concentrating
plant for the property in Nevada.
1t is announced that some strong
financial talent is preparing to start
work on the oil fields that are said to
exist short distance from Fillmore,
Utah.
Dick Colburn, who made the REQ
TOP mine in Goldheld, has bought the
interest of Secretary i. p. Kane in
the Red Top mine at Manhattan, and
now owns control.
That no smoking be allowed behind
the rail of the local exchange during
the regular call, is time-honored Gus
tom religiously adhered to by the
brokers of Salt Lake,
A prospecter from Rosebud says
that an eight-foot ledge of average
500 ore has been tapped on the
White Alps group, recently purchased
by Goss brothers of Salt Lake.
From the first of February to the
first of June the Goldfeld CONSOLIDATE
ed accomplished 1871 linear feet o,
drifts, cross-cuts, upraises and shafts
and 61,00S cubic feet of stopping.
There is greater mining activity in
the eastern end of Beaver county, AT
this time, than ever before known,
and the properties being developed
are showing up most encouragingly.
John Hays Hammond, the mining
engineer of New York. receives sal.
airy aggregating 100000 a year,
which is more money than any other
man ever received for his personal
services.
The treasury department on rne
14th purchased 100000 ounces of sill
yer for delivery at San Francisco, at
6715 cents per ounce, and also 10000
ounces for delivery at Philadelphia,
at 67.27.
The tunnel that is prosecuting the
country on the property of the DAD
Glory company in the Silver Island
district of Utah, has encountered an
eighteen-foot streak of very rich sill.
yer and lead ore.
The Salt Lake valley smelters are
making every effort to do away with
| +bo ep,oI,o ru;eopoo ond .ra eDand
ing fortunes in the installation OF
| new devices which are expected to
solve the problem.
The balance of the machinery FOR
the Montgomery Shoshone mill has al
last been shipped, says the Rhyolite
Herald. Much of this was promised
in ninety days after the order was
put in, six months ago.
A station is being cut on the 500
| foot level of the Shoshone, at Rhyo
lite, Nevada, and about $50 tons Of
ore per week are being taken from
the dump, loaded directly on the cars
and shipped to the shelters.
At the Wild Irish, in Gold Springs
district, the development work being
done goes to show that the mine is
about one of the biggest things II
Utah. Gold in its free state is liter
ally plastered over some of the rocl
being mined.
| Tho Oar Of s,,it1 ctt
ated ON Boyle mountain, fourteen
miles west of Ketchum, have beer
sold to a company of eastern capital
lists, which will organize corpora
ton to be known as the Boston-IdahC
Mining company.
l.. Laudie, secretary of the Electric
Traction company of Mercur, Utah
visited the Clipper mines near HALEY
| Idaho, in which he is interested, re
Gently. He was SO well pleased witt
the appearance of the property that
he secured an option upon all The
outstanding stock, about $4,000 out
of the 100000 shares.
| Cathode copper is exceedingly pure
usually about 1898 per cent copper
with hydrogen as the chief impurity
says the Engineering and Mining
Journal Objectionable cathode i'm
purities are two classes-those which
depress the electrical conductivity
and those which make the meta
| brittle.
A mining engineer who has just re
| turned from the Cobalt camp is au
thority for the statement that the
work now going on in that district is
being carried out along scientific ant
practical lines, with the result that
more is being accomplished in the
way of developing the ore bodies thar
ever before.
The old Dyer copper mine, ir
Uintah county, Utah, which has pro
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