The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-09-05
MINES AND MINING


company at Levan, Juab county, Utah
has recently erected a gypsum mill Oh
their property,
The Marysvale or east section of the
Gold Mountain country, in Utah, lie
looking more encouraging and hopeful
right now than it has for twelve OF
fifteen years
A twelve-inch vein of itch galena ore
was uncovered fifty feet below the SUI,
face in the Basin property at Wallace,
Idaho last week. Senator Hepburn is
one of the owners of this mine.
A strike of gold in the grass roots
in the Left Flank claim on Michigan
hill, near Centennial, Wyo., has made
excitement At thirty feet three
foot ledge showing $40 to the ton was
uncovered.
The largest and richest natural
sluice box in the world, and perhaps
the greatest deposit of gold on earth,
is to be found in the combined gold
of the black sand concentrates of the
Snake river, Idaho.
The Washington Mining & Milling
company. operating rich gold proper
ties on Bear creek in the Marshall
lake district, is running night and
day shift, the stamp mill being kept In
operation sixteen hours out of "a
There is great deal of metal min
ing going on in the region radiatinS
from Pocatello, and the opening OF
good coal measures in that section Will
do more to build up southeastern Ida
no than anything that has ever hap
pened.
The North Star mine, on the east
fork of Wood river, will, soon join tho
ranks Of producing mines. Two years
and half ago the Haley mining bu'
reau secured lease upon it, with an
option to purchase at Ghy time within
Ave years for 100000.
A man named La Point has been at
work on the Snake rive, below Parma,
Idaho, installing small plant for saT'
ing the values from the river sandA
This plant has been worked for soma
time and the results are so satisfac
tory that large one is to be installed
Work at the Petit mine at Atlanta
Idaho, is being rushed. The power
plant is being put in, and it will be
one of the fine ones of this part OF
the state. The plant will be supplied
through a flume 1900 feet in length
from which a fall of SO feet is secured
The manager of the Rainbow COM
pany's properties in Little Cottonwood
district reports having tapped high
grade silver-lead ores in that proper
| ty and he is now certain that he Is
| going to make mine Of it. The ore
shows 1879 ounces of silver, 20 per
cent lead and 40c in gold, with some
copper.
A Spokane dispatch says that Thos
T.. Greenough, millionaire mining man
and former partner Of Peter Larson
has announced the purchase OF 22,O0(
acres of placer ground in Fremont
county, % miles from Lander, the
nearest railway point, and Will spene
s1,OOO,000 in improvements on thu
| property.
Oil locations are being made nine
miles south of Levan, in Juab coun
tv. Utah. and the locators believe the!
will develop some phenomenally ricl
oil properties. Oil was shipped from
this section in small quantities, sever
al years ago, but lack of capital ant
proper facilities resulted in a cessa
! ton of development.
The Mink Creek coal mines. nea
Pocatello, Idaho, have been opened u
depth of 800 feet on the dip of tn
vein, which is twelve feet thick be
tweer walls and which has a pitch O
between 80 and 35 per cent from IN
horizontal. The quality of the coal /
improving with depth, and the min
will undoubtedly make fortunes for 1t
owners.
The anthony district of Utah Is i
the northeast corner of Garfield coui
ty. about 200 miles from Salt Lax
CITY. A rancher discovered the ant
mony properties some twenty-six year
ago, and but little work mas pee
done. But now Montana capital ha
taken hold of the proposition ana
1OO-ton concentrating mill TO handl
the lower grades of ore is nearing con
pletion.
Sheridan county, Wyoming, coa
mines have practically doubled thei
capacity since last season, and tn
coming winter will witness by far IN
greatest business ever handled troi
the field. Anticipating the tremer
dous tonnage, the Burlington has pu
chased 100 new engines of the hea'
lest type of freight locomotives an
added 1900 cars to its equipmen
sheridan operators say If sufticierl
miners can be secured the output WI
practically double that OF any PR
vious year.
According to producers OF cope
the supplies in consumers hands al
lower than they have been IN year
, One producer says even the copper
the form of scrap has been PRACTICAL
, consumed and that manufacturers ca
.. NOT stay out of the market two weei