The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-01-31
MINES AND MINING


the Star district of Beaver county
Utah, before the present year has
given way to 1908.
A remarkable rich strike was made
last week on the former Walker Lake
Indian reservation, Nevada. in the
Wild Horse No. 2, ore being uncovered
that assays s296S0 to the ton.
me news comes from Ely, Nevada.
that the shaft of the Salt LaKe-Ely
company has dropped into solid body
of high grade copper ore and that
| there is no longer any question about
! the future of that proposition.
Strikes of high grade ore in the
Daly-West mine at Park City are be-
coming of such frequent occurrence
that the management declares 1t is
afraid to enumerate them, as to do so
would be to invite incredulous criti
cism.
Word comes from Goldfield that the
machinery ordered some time ago for
the Goldfield White Rock Leasing
company, the corporation controlled by
Harry Joseph and j. u. Eldredge. Jr.,
| Of Salt Lake, had arrived on the
ground.
| Round Mountain camp is located on
the east side of the Big Smoky val.
ley. about half way between Tonopah
and Austin, Nevada, at an altitude of
from 6000 to 6400 feet, the total ele-
! walton of the mountain from which
the camp is named being not more
than 400 feet above the adjacent val
ley.
Favorable reports are being re.
ceived from the Ramey Ridge and
Crooked Creek districts, which are sit
uated about 40 miles north of Thun-
der Mountain. A large number of
prospectors are engaged in developing
numerous properties in these sections,
and very gratifying results are being
obtained.
Joe Crimson is doing business at
his coal mine, about fourteen miles
east of Idaho Falls, Idaho and has
Just installed an engine and hoist
to take care of the trade, as nearly
all the farmers around Ammon and
Iona are using the coal, and recon-.
mend it. 1t is selling for $500 at the
mine.
Work on the Guggenheim properties
at Ely is progressing steadily along
the lines originally laid down. Devel
opment at the Veteran group is par
ticularly satisfactory. Here great
blanket of ore has been opened up
whose dimensions so far disclosed are
80 feet in depth, $50 feet in width and
70 feet in length.
The United States Smelling com.
pany is assembling at Chrome, N. j.,
the largest metallurgical works in
the world. Investment in these plants
will exceed $3,000,000. 1t already has
p copper refinery of a present capacity
Of 100000 pounds annually and is
building fully equipped smelling and
copper converting plant.
A leading interest in Utah Consoli.
dated says that while full figures for
the fiscal year of the Utah Consoli.
dated have not yet been received it Is
known, SO far as can be determined,
that the company earned $2,750,000
for the year and 1t Is estimated that
for 1907 the company will earn be-
tween 100000 and $4,000,000.
A deal has been contaminated In
Goldfield which places one of San
Franchises most prominent business
men in the local field. That man is
no less a parsonage than John d.
Spreckles, the sugar king, owner OF
the San Francisco Call and various
other large enterprises on the Pa
ciic coast, and the property Is the
Blue Jacket group.
Joseph II. Game, of Salt Lake,
uerman mining engineer and Tono-
pah geologist, have secured an option
On the famous Ludwig bonanza. The
Ludwig has been one of those rich
and rare propositions that has earned
good money and gone along without
making any noise in the world. In
prosecuting development work last
year $4,000 worth of rich ore was
shipped.
An assay sheet from the Cactus
mine discloses the fact that the samp-
ling of ore covered by twenty-five sets
OF mine timbers gave returns of 6.5
up to 25.4 per cent copper. Sixteen
of the twenty-five sets of assays
showed percentages ranging all the
way from 11.9 to the highest, while
an average of the lot attested the
presence of better than 15 per cent
copper.
While doing some development work
on his mines in the Mason Pass sec
ton in Nevada recently, Pat Gal
lagher opened up fine ledge Of cop
mar ore. VARYING In width from two to