The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1907-11-15
MINES AND MINING

l'n'. Do. llGs and 1852 per cent con.
For respectively Dos the record That the
No.d1 Douglas Copper company 90
nt'u Tor November
Mn. shaft of'thc CASTING Copper. %,
iDuuston. Is down mo- feet. and the
average OF the whole distance is 90
pur cent copper The highest assay
secured was ISIS per cent copper
hlylcos from the VIRGIN river field
are TO the effect that twouty.iour rigs
are now 90 work drilling wells. and nn
ru Of activity such as has mover Doe.
fore been known ln southern Utah De-
now manifest
lcascrs working IN the Eclipse
property In the Seven Troughs 900.
tr.ct are aacklnr ore us fast az possl.
bic This ore will run about 500 20
the ton on the average but some OF IL
ls Of very high grade
The minors OF Park GUY have voted
to go back to work The properties
affected by this action OF the miners
arc what are known as the Hamburger
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tario, DAILY West and the Daily.
Three oil wells have been sunk with
satisfactory results In the Virgin oil
hcld Of southern Utah during the past
sixty days, and there are at least a
dozen more rigs la commission. and
now strikes are expected every day.
That the district Of Rosebud. New. is
waking up TO its opportunities and
that work is now started or ready TO
bo started upon several groups idle for
many months. is tho good word re-.
ceiyed from that district last week.
Considerable interest has been
aroused throughout the west over Con.
gresham Bartletts plan TO have the
coming session OF congress pass an act
by which an assessment work on min.
ing claims for 1907 shall be done away
with.
AZ last the old reliable mining camp
OF Phoebe. Nov, has railroad. The
advent OF the railroad was accepted by
the people OF Phoebe In very quiet
manner. but Il "a determined 90 colo
brate the event In proper way when
tho opportuno time arrives
Tho production OF the Butte mines
In October was but $4,000 pounds.
or 2,953.GOO pounds less than the cstl.
mated output for September, and 49,.
7s76OO pounds less than the monthly
average for the nrst six month8 Of
1907 The October output was tht
smallest In the history OF the big
mines
ono OF tho really spectacular dis.
coyerca during the present rosurreo.
ton period OF mining IN Nevada Is tho
property once known as the Catlin
group. 60 miles east OF Tonopah. The
rock contains values of 5000 10 the ton
and so fnr The now company has
blocked out $4,000 worth OF such
rock.
The Degolia and Atkins tungsten,
mines on the Moiaye desert, recog.
nized ms the best paying mining prop.
critics In tho west. were closed down
Saturday Of last week and almost
hundred miners handed their checks
when they reported for work The
cause is said to be trouble with tho
miners
Excellent progress attends tho sink.
ing OF the large new working shaft nj
the Cumborland.Ely on It's Veteran
mine. This shaft contains four com
partments aud Is i've feet six inches
by twontyslX feet inside umbors. Sink
ing and raising is In progress, ant
II will DO completed Ia about two
months.
V. l.. Butler, manager Of the Butler
a McKinnon Diamond Drill company
OF Butte, Mont, has been IN Phoebe.
looking over tho district with view
OF determining the possibilities OF
work In this section with a diamond
drill, with the result that the Nevada.
Dos Molnes property win install
drill nj once.
The Utah Copper company. accord.
ing TO Boston officials. is now the
largest producer Of copper In Utah,
Wrestling that honor from Utah Con.
solidatcd. During October n produced
5000 600 pounds or this 2.400.O 900
pounds were obtained from It's new
concentrating plant, which produced
1000 tons from concentrates ayorug
ing 30 per cent copper.
H. N. Day. the Centervlle. Idaho.
mining man, Is handling a large body
of black sand from the old placer dig
glngs, employing quito n number Of
men II Is run over Whitley tables
saving the monazlto which sells for
5000 per ton. Monazlte iB one Of the
rare metals that has become quito val.
uahlo during late years on account o
its use In the manufacture OF metals
for gas lamps.
Another OH VOL has boon tapped IN
the Virgin river field The strike was
made IN ground owned by q Goldnold
company headed by Mckenzie, the
wealthy mining operator Of that cnmn
ON section n, which begins about 600
foot west of the original well OF the
Virgin city company.
a scat on tho New York stock cy.
change was sold last week for 100000
the lowest price recorded since 1904
when a seat was disposed Of FOR $751;
900 Tho high record price was reached
late In 1905. when a scat brought $780,
600 aud a sale for like sum was re-