The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-05-02
MINES AND MINING

pounds.
Another strike has been made in
The City Rocks companys property,
at Alta.
The new camp of Regent, So miles
southeast of Fairview, Nevada, is
booming and the mines showing up
well.
Wonder and Fairvlew, Nevada, are
both on the grow, Earview especially
being unaffected by the present stock
slump.
Thomas Weir and N. ]. Catrow, of
Salt Lake, have purchased the Win
n"muck mining property at Bingham
for $4,000.
The demand for good miners at Sill
yer City, idaho, exceeds the supply
ty considerable number, at least 100
men being needed.
The Nevada Engineerings works at
Keno, Nevada, has been burned to the
ground. Defective wiring is supposed
to be the cause. Loss, $4,000; insured.
Operations at the Western Nevada
| Copper company's Dyer mines at YER
lngton are now being vigorously
pushed and with results bordering on
the sensational.
/ !. Cleaver, the present superintend-
ent of the Mckinley group, on the
upper Salmon river, Idaho, has struck
five foot vein of d. the richest ere
yet seen in the Mckinley mine.
( Work on the ten-stamp mill of the
Silver Peak Valcalda Gold Mining COM
| pany Is progressing rapidly, and it Is
calculated that it will be in operation
/ by the first of June, says the Tonopah
Miner
John Hays Hammond, the mining
engineer of New York, receives a
salary aggregating 100000 year,
! which is more money than any other
man ever received for his personal
services.
The selling price of Uncle Sam
Consolidated on the Salt Lake mining
exchange was advanced $4,000 on the
Goth. In other words the stock OPEN
ed at 81 cents and sold up to 6S cents
during the afternoon.
The Bullock mine at Silver. Utah.
is reported to be showing up some
very fine ore. A car is being loaded for
immediate shipment and the inten
ton of the company is to make regular
shipments from now on.
Good progress is being made in the
construction of the copper smelter al
San Bruno, Just south of San Fran
cisco. These works will be an import
ant factor in making San Francisco
q metallurgical center.
The shaft on the Whitenob cope
mine on Lost River, in Idaho, is nov
down 900 feet and large bodies o
ore have been opened. A few year
ago this mine was worked by JON
w. Mackey and others at loss an
work was suspended. Leasers go
hold of the mine and are making
pay.
TRANSPORTATION conditions are in
proying and the mines of the Tint
district are now getting ready for tn
, long summers campaign of heav
production of which they are capable
During the past week 163 carloads
ore were sent out to the Varlou
smelling works with which the shll
pers have contracts.
-, The Cliff Mining company, whic
now owns and operates the famous oil
Buckhorn and a large number of az
Joining perties in the camp
Ophir south of Stockton, is now dow
to real business. Underground cond
< tons are splendid. 1t is estimate
/. that there is now blocked out not les
/. than four years reserves OF ore, nj
uring the output at 100 tons da,
: A new coal property, which pron
t ises to develop into another good pr
| Queer is being developed in Cot
5 Creek canyon, Washington count
| Utah. A well driven tunnel has bee
| sunk into the side of the mountain,
distance of 100 feet. and a fine vel
> of coal has been encountered.
!, 1t is reported that railroad eNte
sion is to be made from Moapa. N
J. yada. to the intersection of the Gran
i Gulch wagon road from the Gran
0 Gulch mine in Arizona, which WI
prove a great boon to this mine
AS a result of the settlement G
a fected between the mine owners al
/. the miners. the mines of Goldhe
y were thrown open at o'clock on II
{, afternoon of the 23rd and the locko
$ of the past seven weeks came to
end.
}, State Auditor Bragaw, of Idaho hi