The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-07-18
MINES AND MINING

SO 900 in all.
A company known as the Dietrich
Milling company. and composed OF {
Utahns. has lease upon the ola {
Comstock dumps, at Virginia Clty' !
Nevada. and affairs have just be'n
shaped correctly for an era OF pros
peIity.
Jesse knight of Provo intends to
become coal operator and rallroau
man. He has acquired coal lands III
Uintah county, Utah, and within rev
months will begin the construction Oh
railroad to the coal measures when
lie owns.
After period of nearly hfteeh
years of inactivity, the Detroit min
ing district. which lies about thirty
miles northwest from Oasis, Titan, is
again about to take on new life. Inc |
formation of the Detroit district Is
a counterpart of 1intic.
| Reports are current that f. Angus
fms Heinze is connected with the new
Miners Smelling company, just incor-
porated in Maine, with Sl0,0ou.oO0
capital. The new company, IL Is UNI
ierstood will build 3,OoO'ton smeit
err in the Salt Lake valley.
Great excitement exists at Centen'
nial. wyoming, a lead of gold ore bear
,ng samples that run as high as sl,oou
TO the ton having been discovered west
Ct that place. The lead can be ioi'
lowed for seven miles, and in places
the vein is $50 feet wide. A trench
| rich ore 10
the bottom.
A New York woman who is prospect-
ing in Nevada has determined 10 DC
comfortable. and to do so adopted maze
attire, wearing overalls, shirt ana
large straw hat A woman with nerVe
enough to suffer the privauons Oh
wear among the mountains and deserts
of Nevada certainly deserves to discov
err bonanza.
n The Iron Age says: Our monthly
. blast furnace statistics show that the
|. production in June was 2,2f',4zu
II TONS against 2.201 900 tons In May
a uly starts with twelve more stacks
o in blast than were in operation ON
D. the first day of June, and the outiooh
8 Is that the production will be wei
il maintained
% Since the first of June the Amer
le can Smelling n Refining company ma
lie cut the price of lead So cents per lo'
ut pounds-that is, the company ma
~ lowered the settling basis with TN
"a nroducer that much. Yet there
h. nothing to show that the metal Is an
OF more plentiful than 1t was mont
10 or six months ago.
~ Railroads and water are the wv
things most needed in the Lee, NJ
ls vada, district. but these are comn'
he 1t is stated that a twelye-inch PIP
hu line will be run into the camp
Sh Rhyolite capitalists, and that spt
'o' track from the main line of the Bora
~ smith railroad track will be run in'
the town and to the mines.
~ In all probability business VIII
~, very quiet in Owyhee county, idah
80, after July 20. The 400 miners
Silver City and De Lamar have mat
=. demand on the Trade Dollar al
a De Lamar Mining companies LOT
ast increase of 25 cents day art
In Iuly 20. The owners declare u
,a. limit has been reached in wages.
rho preparations are now being ma
ISL at the Honerine at Stockton, uta
zen for the sinking of 2OO-foot smart
leir low the train tunnel level and groul
,plo will probably be broken within a Il
OF davs. This shaft is to be equip
or with hoist, pumps, etc, and eve
necessary precaution Will be taken
ufH- see that nothing hinders the "ol
he once 1t is under way.
LETT 1t is now planned by the Balakli
to begin breaking ore in August,
Il have a supply for beginning ope
lions of the smelter by September
hly- wnen It is expected to be ready
the treat both Balaklala and Trinity @
sort The tramway will be completed
title that time and Manager Brown OF
sit Trinity is said to have his property
are. shape to Immediately begin PROD
iooF ton.
North and east of North Platte ri
hhe il. east central Wyoming is a bro
my low domal mountain mass, with
,gan -. l,,,,,,+ % ohout OO0
You ii,"N''i'"'i. 49, 80, u,hinh &c known
past a'0'U ..',,,o ,,,,,ift ard which &c c
the Hartville upll1t ana winch 10
liar in many respects to the Bl
:, y. Hills of South Dakota. Through
tiu' this entire area copper is so widely
-. tributed that although no large dep
,uos has yet been discovered, valuable b
n,s of ore may at any time be found.
ID to from all ln"iea'iohs anu 49,, :,
hand to the statements OIL Sohie VI tne -
reliable mine owners and residents
ttirg Julian and the back country mir
WA !" districts an assayer and cher
yinR named Howard has invented a
,sed process for extracting gold from
you bearing rock or quartz which Sc
3 and destined to absolutely revolutio
20. 1uartz mining, making mines W
you, have heretofore been considered VIZ
how'd. | Loco md nIavad ont of immense v;