Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-11-28

record that the Nevada-Douglas
Copper company is setting for No
vcmbcr.
The shaft of the Casting Copper
at Warrington, is down ITO feet
and the average of the whole dis
tancc is IS. per cent copper. The
highest assay secured was 1873
per cent copper.
Advices from the Virgin river
field are to the effect that twenty
four rigs are at work on drilling
wells, and an era of activity such
as has never before been known
in southern Utah is now mani
fest.
The miners of Park City have
voted to go back to work. The
properties sffeccd by this action of
the miners is what are known
as the Bamberger properties COM
prising the famous Ontario, Daily
West and the Daily.
Three oil wells have been sunk
with satisfactory results in the
Virgin oil field of southern Utah
during the past sixty days, and
there are at least a dozen more rigs
in commission and new strikers
are expected every day.
That the district of Rosebud,
New, is waking up to its oppor-
tunities and that work is now
started or ready to be started up
on several groupes idle for many
months, is the good work received
from that district last week. \ =
Considerable interest has been
aroused throughout the west over
Congressman Bartlett's plan to have
the coming session of congress
pass on mining claims for 1907
shall be done away with.
At last the old reliable mining
camp of Phoebe, New, has rail-
road. The advent of the railroad
was accepted by the people of
Phoebe in a very quiet manner,
but it is determined to celebrate
the event in proper way when
the opportune time arrives.
The production of the Butte
mines in October was but s, 376, 00(
pounds or 2,e53, 600 pounds lest
September and 1867, 600 pound
less than the monthly average 70
the first six months of 1907. Tn
October output was the smalles
in the history of the big mines.
l. One of the really spectacular dis
coveries during the present rcsur
rcction period of mining in Ncvsd
! is the property once known as tn
!. Catlin group 90 miles east of Ton
7 opah. The rock contains values {
5000 to the ton and so far the ne,
company has blocked out $3.50, 90
worth of such rock.
The Degolia and Atkins tungste
mines on the Moiavc desert, rec
ognized as the best paying mimi
properties in the west were close
/ down Saturday of last week and a
most a hundred miners hande
their checks when they reporte
for work. Th- cause is said
be trouble W 18th the miners.
ExcclIe-' --oe rcss attends II
sinking of the large new workir
shaft at the Cumberland Ely {
- its Veteran mine. This sha
= contains four compartments ar
r is five feet six inches by twent
= six feet inside timbers. Sinkir
J and raising is in progress, al
! it will be completed in about tv
j months.
4 v. L. Butler, manager of II
4 Butler & McKinnon Diamond DIR
4 company of Butte, Mont, has be-
i in Phoebe looking over the distri
1. with view of determining Il
4 possibilities of work IN this Sc
Il tion with diamond drill, wi
q the result that, the Nevada u
4 Moines property,will-- install DIR
* at once. 80
D The Utah Gopher comp
d according u Boston officials,
. now tie largest producer of copr
i il Utah, wrestling that honor frc
- Utah Consolidated. During c
tober it produced 5000, 900 pound
OF this 2,4o0, 600 pounds were {
- tanned from its new concentrate
plant. which produced 1900 to
from concentrates averaging 80 I
cent copper.
H. N. Day, the Ccnterville, Idal
mining man, is handling body
large OF black sand from the
placer diggings, employing quit
,,,,rnher of men II iS RIM n