Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-07-18
MINING NOTES

a.
district are occurring SO frequently
Of late that they are becoming COM
mon.
There are few Nevada camps. if
any at all, that a show so many
working and shipping properties as
the camp of Good Springs.
1t is announced by the
OF the Utah coal companies hat
Preparations are being made to
avert a repetition of the coal fam
inc of last winter.
Dugway needs water, and il
needs a railroad. Nothing else is
retarding the growth OF what should
be one of the banner lead and cop-
per producing sections of all the
state of Utah.
The report that the United States
Smelling, Refining and Mining
company has been forced to abandon
all the old Mexico mining field is
absolutely untrue, and is looked
upon as a joke of some would-be
humorist.
Word has been received in Rhyo-
lite from the Panamints that an
assay from the Eddy discover
shows 81, 600 ore. A rush is OH
for the new camp, and it is pre-
dicted it will prove Tie sensation of
the summer.
While all the men who can be
obtained are being put to work at
the coal mines at Rock Springs,
Wyo., the daily output is only
about sufficient to meet the daily
demnds. No coal is being pro-
dlced for the railroad for storage
purposes.
At Mountain Home last week
Deputy United States Marshal Bry-
ar sold The property of the Crown
Point Mining company to satisfy
a judgment OF S11,377.85 granted
in favor of B. P. Hutchinson by
TIC FCuCI al court last MdTCD.
company at Stockton, Utah. is
making arrangements to sink from
400 to 500 feet lower than the pres
ent tunnel level. Local circles ex-
pect that the Honerine at depth will
open up some very rich copper ores.
Fort Hall mine, near Pocatello,
has been opened by a crosscut tun-
mel, which has been driven $500
feet, cutting the first vein at 2, SOC
feet from the portal and other veins
were intersected at points farther
in. 1t is a copper-gold-silver prop
osition.
The Weimer copper property il
Idaho contains a ledge of copper
ore that will average o. per cen
copper. The mine is opened by
adits and open cuts and sixteer
cars of ore in all have been ship,
ped, which brought about 50, 00(
per a
The Moonlight mine, located ter
miles northeast of Pocatello, is de
veloped by over 2, 900 feet of work
mostly adits and cross-cuts, an(
phyry footwall and c~onglomerate
hanging wall. The ore goes 8 pc
cent copper.
The mining district recently
brouhgt into existence by the dis
covery of rich gold bearing quart.
by Scott Hickey in the Toquimi
range, some fifty miles from Man
haitian, has been named Wayne
after c.. E. Mayne, Manhattan
foremost mining man.
The big mill at the Montgomery
Shoshone, at Rhyolite, Nevada, il
rapidly nearing completion, but i
VIII probably be the middle of Aug
ust befobe the plant will be in op
Grafton. The electrical machiner.
has been shipped from Pittsburl
and should arrive shortly.
S~cotty's cache is an establishe'
fact. A gold strike, the richness o
which can hardly be estimated, ha
Just been discovered in the midst @
the Willow Greek copper camp
which of late has been so persist
emily before the public. Free gol
is readily seen in the white quartz
Near Montpelier, Idaho, an ex
tensive deposit of phosphate roc
has been discovered and is bein
mined by two companies, who ar
shipping the rock to San Francis
co, where it is being used for fer
tilizing purposes. The bed OF tn
deposit has been traced for sixt
miles.