The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-02-07
MINES AND MINING

dence mine at Cripple Creek is said
10 contain 100000 tons of ore that
viii average $3.7O per ton.
Phoebe. New, parties are looking up
properties at Stateline, and 1t is ex-
peoted they will cast their anchors in
that awakening camp as soon as sur
face examination is possible.
The Boston News Bureau says that
tho Utah-Apex company has closed
contract with the Utah Smelling com
pany with smelter at Ogden, Utah. to
treat $4,000 tons of ore at minimum
OF 1000 tons per month.
About 1000 pounds OF samples OF
copper ore from the mines of the Yer.
ington district were placed on display
in window In Salt Lake last week.
The collection embraces samples from
all of the principal properties in that
section which have been developed
Earnings of s2,75O,OOO by the Utah
Consolidated company this year would
indicate a profit of 14h cents per
pound on 100000 pounds produced,
crediting gold and silver values
against copper costs. This would be
equal to earnings of 1915 per share.
C.. C. Parsons, president of the Han
oapah Mining company. stated last
week that the unwatering of the mine
ut Hannapah, New, was progressing
satisfactorily, and that 1t would be
possible to get to work on the 30O-foot
level again within couple of weeks.
The new board of governors of the
Salt Lake Stock & Mining exchange
nave organized by electing James A..
Pollock president; h. j. Evans, first
vice president; w. ]. Browning, sec.
ond vice president; Fred II. Davis,
third vice president; G.. p. Norton,
treasurer, and James Shorten, sec,
rotary
In ledge four feet wide the Wheel
or Gold Mining company, operating
In the Yerington, Nevada, region, has
just encountered body Of ore that
averages better than $1,000 in gold,
per ton. Sixteen inches of the material
runs $10l.65, two feet assays $1,204.12,
and an eight-inch streak of 1t carries
S2,792.36.
A strike in the Jumbo Extension at
Goldfield has just been made public.
The shaft is down 900 feet and the
bottom Is entirely in shipping ore,
none of which runs less than 5000,
give from $500 to $500 per ton. Ac-
while returns from some of the ore
cording to indications $4,000 ore will
soon be encountered.
Manager Walter James of the Black
Rock properties in Beaver county,
states that new shaft has been start
ed on the ground to prospect the big
ground The new shaft is now down
sixty feet and a contract has just
been awarded for another 100 feet OF
work in the same hole.
Several samples of ore taken from
ledge discovered northwest of Paris,
Utah, have been assayed and showed
s2,146,25 in gold and $45i.23 in sill
considerable excitement in and about
Paris. The strike was made by A. e.
Plyer, an old prospector who had been
grubstaked by three locomotive en-
gineers
Salt Lake mining and smelling
circles do not take seriously to the
claim recently made that several of
the copper. refiners in the north
south and east were piling up cop
per in order to create an artificial
shortage. The report to this effect
emanated from the east, and ever
since 1t has been one prominent
source of conversation.
With the first days transactions ag-
gregating 204,350 shares, the Goldfleld
stock exchange board inaugurated
business ON the 2lst under the most
favorable and encouraging auspices.
The great volume of business which
the members accounted for was no
surprise to the people of Goldtield, for
Its success was a foregone conclu-
sion.
Western Nevada is casting eyes to-
ward the new Mizpah mining district,
and 1t Is considered that this region
will make banner camp. Mizpah is
described as being only few mo-
ments' walk from the track of the Ne
vada Northern railroad, and when the
Western Pacific road is completed the
camp will be within fifteen miles of
this steel highway.
A phenomenal strike has been made
on the Major Harrison mine in Death
Valley. Values assaying as high as
$4,000 to the ton in gold and silver
have been found in the groupings OF
the lodges, of which there are several.
A shaft has been sunk on the main
ledge, and at thirty-five feet in depth
the ore assayed over 5000 in gold aad
silver, with to per cent in copper.