The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1907-07-20
MINES AND MINING

grand total of posted dividends for
the past week by posting the usual
dividend Of cents per share, or
$4,000 In ALL
A company known as the Dietrich
Milling company, and composed OF
Utahns, has lease upon the old
Comstock dumps. at Virginia City,
Nevada, and Affairs have just been
shaped correctly for an era of pros
peIity.
Jesse Knight of Provo intends to
become coal operator and railroad
man. He has acquired coal lands In
Uintah county, Utah, and within few
months will begin the construction OF
a railroad to the coal measures which
he owns.
After period Of nearly fifteen
years of inactivity. the Detroit min
ing district, which lies about thirty
miles northwest from Oasis, Utah, Is
again about to take on new life. The
formation of the Detroit district Is
counterpart of Tintic
Reports are current that f. Angus.
tus Heinze Is connected with the new
Miners Smelling company, just incor-
porated in Maine. with sl0,O0O,0OO
capital. The new company, 1t Is I'M
derstood, will build 3,00O-ton smelt-
err in the Salt Lake valley.
Great excitement exists at Centen-
nial Wyoming, lead of gold ore bear
ing samples that run as high as $1,000
to the ton having been discovered west
CT that place. The lead can be fol-
lowed for seven miles, and in places
the vein is $50 feet wide. A trench
fourteen feet deep shows rich ore to
the bottom.
A New York woman who is prospect
| ing in Nevada has determined to be
| comfortable. and to do so adopted male
| attire, wearing overalls, shirt and q
| large straw hat. A woman with nerve
| enough to suffer the privations OF
| year among the mountains and deserts
of Nevada certainly deserves to discov.
err bonanza.
The Iron Age says Our monthly
blast furnace statistics show that the
|
tons, against 2,201,0 900 tons In May.
July starts with twelve more stacks
| in blast than were In operation on
the first day Of June, and the outlook
is that the production will be well
maintained.
Since the first Of June the Ameri
can Smelling & Refining company has
cut the price of lead So cents per 1OC
pounds-that is, the company has
lowered the settling basis with the
producer that much. Yet there IL
nothing to show that the metal Is an,
more plentiful than 1t was q month
or six months ago.
Railroads and water are the TIVE
things most needed in the Lee, Ne
vada, district, but these are coming
1t is stated that twelve-inch pip'
line will be run into the camp by
Rhyolite capitalists. and that spu
track from the main line Of the Bora
Smith railroad track will be run Int
the town and to the mines.
In all probability business will b.
very quiet in Owyhee county, Idaho
after July 20. The 400 miners a
Silver City and De Lamar have mad
demand on the Trade Dollar ant
De Lamar Mining companies for al
increase of % cents day ate
July 20. The owners declare tn
limit has been reached I'm wages.
Preparations are now being mad
at the Honerine at Stockton, Utah
for the sinking of 200-foot shaft be
low the train tunnel level and groun'
will probably be broken within few
days. This shaft is to be equippe'
with hoist, pumps, ETC., and ever,
necessary precaution will be taken I
see that nothing binders the work
once 1t is under way.
1t Is now planned by the Balaklal
to begin breaking ore In August, +
have a supply for beginning opera
tons of the smelter by September
wnen 1t is expected TO be ready t
treat both Balaklala and Trinity ore
The tramway will be completed b
, that time and Manager Brown of tn
Trinity Is said to have his property /
, shape TO Immediately begin produ'
tiOn.
North and east of North Platte rive
! in east central Wyoming Is a broad
! low, domal mountain mass, with
maximum height of about 5000 fee
above sea level, which is known a
? the Hartville uplift and which is sin
! liar in many respects to the Blac
! Hills of South Dakota. Throughout
I this entire area copper is so widely di
: tributed that, although no large depos
has yet been discovered, valuable bed
of ore may at any time be found.
From all indications and accordin
to the statements of some of the mos
reliable mine owners and residents {
Julian and the back country mimi
districts, an assayer and chemi'
named Howard has invented a ne
process for extracting gold from gol
bearing rock or quartz which seen
. destined to absolutely revOlutioniz
=, quartz mining, making mines whiC