The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-03-07
MINES AND MINING

ton of one Of the greatest copper
mining booms the country ever saw
in the Yerington, Nevada, district
The Michigan crowd that now con.
trolls the Sheba property at Mill City,
New, is rapidly rounding that propo.
sitlon into shape for heavy produc-
tion and earnings.
More than 100000 has been spent
by the big mining companies of the
Robinson mining district of Nevada
during the last twelve months for
extension purposes.
A number of important mining deals
are pending at HALEY. Idaho, which,
when consummated, will put a mum.
Der of the older mines of this district
again on the active list.
One-hfth of the worlds production
of copper, or 3OO,OOO,OO0 pounds an.
nually, is the estimated capacity OF
Calumet & Hecla within the next few
years under it's present policy OF
progress and expansion.
The most important asset of the
Calumet G. Hecla is the old Calumet
conglomerate, so called, which has
returned in the thirty-six years OF
its successful mineral activity s110,
100000 in profits to the company.
The prediction is made by an en-
thusiast from Wonder, Nevada, that
within the next sixty days one Of the
biggest booms in the history of Ne
vada will take place in this camp and
run the population well beyond the
1000 mark.
In what is known as the COL north
crosscut on the 600-foot level Of the
Cactus bonanza of tho Newhouse
Mines company, machine drills are
ploughing their way through ore
which the daily sample assays show
to be averaging ZIG per cent copper
Prominent stockholders of the Bis
cult Mining company, of Cherry Creek
Nevada, confirm the reported strike
of splendid proportions upon the $50
foot level of this mine, and that each
foot that is gained by the management
upon this deep level is sending the
workings into finer quality of re
sources.
The Daly-West mine, at Park City,
Utah, at the present time lifts its mill.
ing ores all the way from 1000 to l..
$50 feet through perpendicular shaft
puts it through the mill and then
drops the product down the mine again
and send it out through the Ontario
600-foot tunnel to the loading station
at the old Ontario mill.
Thomas w. Lawson has started out
IN an advertising campaign to boom
Nevada-Utah stock. He is publishing
q four-column ad to announce that he
has his engineers investigating the
property, but in the meantime will
DOOM pIOpot.y III Ine market on
the supposition that engineers reports
will bear out his expectations.
At a meeting Of the Nevada Con-
solidated, held in Portland, Maine, the
shareholders voted to ratify the sale
of one-half interest in the Nevada
Northern railroad to the Cumberland
Ely Copper company. This action was
merely formal and followed the issu-
ance of new stock by the Cumber-
land-Ely some time since.
d. w. Ellis has sold the Bonanza
group of nine claims south of the
Gerean property and adjoining the
Velvet group, near Ely, to Francis
Sherrard and Christian Hermenson,
Ely investors, for $4,000 cash. The
Velvet group, adjoining the Bonanza
group, was recently sold by the Pho
by brothers for 100000.
Out of the numerous meetings held
at Colorado Springs to consider ways
and means for beginning the work on
.he deep drainage tunnel at Cripple
Creek has come at last definite de-
cision to proceed with the money now
available and trust to the liberality of
beneficiaries who have not yet entered
the list, to plank down the remainder
at the proper time.
The Idaho Consolidated Mining
company has reached a depth of 100
feet in the shaft being driven in the
Relief claim, near Bellevue. and ex.
pect to go is feet further. A large
shipment of the latest model machin-
cry is now en- route and large force
Of men will probably be put to work
in the near future.
A well known mining engineer
says: 1.-THE only limit to mining ac-
tivity in the west is the inability to
get materials for construction, coal
for power, and labor for the mines
and mills. There is no other cloud
on the horizon that anybody actually
at work can see. We dig the money
out of the ground there, so that we
don't have to ask for new money, ex-
cent for promotion"