The Citizen. [volume] (American Fork, Utah) 1903-1912, 1907-01-12
MINES AND MINING


1t is a great milling proposition.
II. p. Madden has bonded for SIC, 900
the group of seven mining claims
owned by Morris Roberts and An
thony Zurich at Ely, Nevada
An authority on mines, who is fam
liar with the Sonora field, says that
the output of copper In Sonora, Mexi.
CO, for 1906, amounted to 179 zoo, 900
pounds.
The big Greenwater merger, that
has been talked OF for some time, has
been contaminated The new COM
pany will have a capitalization of $25..
100000. With 100000 shares.
II is stated that in the Keane
Wonder company's mine in Death Val
ley, $650,000 worth of ore has already
been blocked out. and the free milling
will average better than SIS.
1t is now a certainty that a combin-
alton of interests in the Manhattan
district will erect great custom mill
ing plant this coming spring, or as
soon as weather conditions will allow.
Ore that assays IT'S ounces in sill
yer and 10 per cent lead has been
struck by Henry Welland and Joseph
Foster on their Victor claim about
three.fourths of mile east of Phoebe,
Nevada.
January was a happy day for the
Consolidated Mercur company and a
portion OF their employees. for two Of
the battery of six roasters at Mercur
we're placed In commission after
closedown of several days.
During the past year more annual
assessment work was performed in the
Deep Creek district than before in any
FIVE years combined. This condition
has been brought about by assurance
that the Western Pacific railroad will
be completed to shipping points with
in the early months of the present
year.
A good oldfashloned stampede Is
on toward the new copper and gold
district known as Mizpah, Ely and
surrounding Nevada points providing
the material for making this rush as
picturesque as Is usually the case In
Nevada. The MiZpah district Is To-
Gated six miles east OF Spruce, north.
west Of the Dolly Warden section.
T.. p. Jennings, mining engineer,
gives some extremely interesting fig
ures In his report regarding the prob
able earnings OF the Nevada Douglas.
Taking the daily capacity at 1000 tons
OF, 3Is per cent copper ore, after de-
dieting hll expense. the annual profit
OF the company will be $2,7G0,00O, or
u1re than 80 per cent OF the com
poay's capitalization.
BY a vote Of three to one. the mem-
bers Of the Butte Mill & Shelter.
mems union have decided to make q
demand on the management OF the
Boston & Montana smelter for an In
crease OF so cents a day for all EN-.
ployes who work on change shifts In
the various departments. The men
are at present. and have been for
several years, receiving 50 a day.
Mines valued at over 10000, 900 in
the Bullfrog district OF Nevada were
awarded To Il. A. Montgomery by
Judge Sewell Of San Francisco. last
week against the claims OF c. b.
Flemming. who had sued for a half
interest because OF dispute in the
agreement II IL now stat.
ed that the properties will be trans
fered to Charles Schwab, the
steel king.
ITO those who have supposed that
the Comstock lode is worked out, II
may be OF interest to state that the
actual production from the ophir mine
alone. during the past week." says Su-
Franklin Leonard, IT.,
In recently submitted report,
amounted to seventy cars OF ore, as
saying s94 per ton; thirty.six cars rs
saying $50 per ton; seventy.five cars
assaying S22 per ton, making a total
OF 25l cars OF high grade ore.
The deposits OF the Yerington dis.
trict are classed as contact metamor-
phic ore deposits" by the economic
biologists. and may be described as
masses OF metamorphosed and miner
allied limestone resting upon an intru
sive granite, the granite having fur
nished the necessary heat and heated
mineralized solutions required 10
convert the adjacent limestone into a
massive garnetiferous rock impreg.
mated with copper ore.
The richest shipment Of ore ever
sent to market from any mining camp
on earth was lot OF fifty tons ex.
pressed from the Hayes and Monnette
lease on the Mohawk at Goldfeld, last
week. The consignment is valued al
one million dollars. Six armed guards
accompanied the ore, which went 10
the Selby smelter near San Francisco.
Express charges were eight thousand
dollars. Twenty sacks OF the shin.
ment were filled with ore worth az.
~ thousand dollars per ton.
Word from the east is to the effect
that strong PENNSYLVANIA men OF money