Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-03-28

"A I'D February the prod dCtiOl of cop
per has been low, owing to the
severe weather and shortage of coal
Everything new points in the
d .rection of one of the e eatest cop
per mining booms the country ever
IS in the Yerington, Nevada, dis
trict.
The Michigan crowd that now
controls the Sheba property at Mill
City, New, is rapidly rounding that
proposition into shape for heavy
production and earnings
More than $4,000, 900 has been
spent by the big mining companies
of the Robinson mining district of
Nevada during the last twelve
months for extension purposes
NUMBER of important mining
.oeals are pending at Haley, Idaho,
which, when contaminated, will
put a number of the older mines CT
this district again on the active
list.
One-fith of the worlds produce
tion of copper, 500, 10000, 900
pounds annually, is the estimated
capacity of Cluet & Hec1a within
the next few years under its pres
-ent policy of progress and cxpan-
sion.
The most important asset of the
Calumet 81 Hccla is the old Calumet
-copglomcratc, SO called, which has
returned in the thirty-six years of
its~ successful mineral activity
$11o, 1000, 900 in profits to the COM
gpany.
The prediction is made by an
enthusiast from Wonder, Nevada,
that within the next sixty days
one of the biggest boorns in the
history of Ncavda will take place
in this camp and run the popula-
stion well beyond the 2, 900 mark
In what is known as the 6O1
north crosscut on the 6Oo-foot level
of the Cactus bonanza of the New
house Mines company, machine
drills are blowing their way
through ore which the daily sample
assays show to be averaging FL 9
per cent copper
Prominent stockholders of the
Biscuit Mining company of Cherry
Greek, Nevada, confirm the re-
ported strike of splendid proper
tions upon the 85O-foot level of this
mine, and that each foot that is
gained by the management upon
this deep level is sending the work
ings into finer quality of resources
The Daly-West mine, at Park
City, Utah, at the present time
lifts its milling ores all the way
from 1000 to-1, $50 feet through a
Iaf through
the mill and then drops the product
down the minea again and sends it
out through the Ontario 6OO-fOOt
tunnel to the loading station at the
old Ontario mill.
Thomas w. Lawson has started
.out on an advertising campaign to
boom Ncvada-Utah stock He is
publishing four-co1urnn ad- to an
nouncc that he has his engineers
Investigating the property, but in
the meantime will boom the prop
erty in the market on the suppo-
-sition that engineers reports viii
bear out his expectations
At meeting of the Nevada Con-
solidatcd, held in Portland, Maine,
the shareholders voted to ratify the
sale of a onc-ha1f interest in the
Nevada Northern railroad to the
Cumbcrland-Ely Copper company
This action was merely formal and
followed the issuance of new stock
by the Cumbcrland-Ely some time
since.
D. w. Ellis has sold the BOnan-
"a group of nine claims south OF
the Gcrcan property and adJoining
the Velvet group, near Ely, to
Francis Sherard and Christian Her
menson, Ely investors, for $40, 900
cash. The Velvet group, adjoin-
ing the Bonanza group, was recent
ly sold by the Pheby brothers for
$4,000
Out of the numerous meetings
held at Colorado Springs to consider
ways and means for beginning the
work on the deep drainage tunnel
at Cripple Creek has come at last 3
definite decision to proceed with
the money now available and trust