The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1907-08-31
MINES AND MINING

pany's immense plant at Reno, Nevada,
has been destroyed by fire.
The output of the mines and leases
of the Goldfeld district for the past
week was 3,4i7 tons, having an es-
timated value of s390,775
Jesse Winter recently encountered an
eighteen-foot vein of copper ore on his
claim at Grand Encampment, Wyo.
Through it ran several rich stringers
of ore several inches wide.
Plans are being made to build n
railroad from Baker City, Ore, to the
copper belt of which the Poorman
mine is the central figure, and to the
Iron Dixie mine on the Snake river.
In the property OF the Fetish Min.
ing company few miles from HALEY,
Idaho. in which Salt Lakers are in
terested, ore has been struck which
has a market value of $2l0 to the ton.
A compressor plant has been in.
stalled at the Baby Mckee property,
in Big Cottonwood canyon, near Salt
Lake. and from now on work will be
vigorously prosecuted at that property.
Ore has been encountered in the
| property of the Fetish Mining COM
pany, near HALEY, that has a market
value of $21O to the ton. The owners
are principally Salt Lake business
| men.
The Schultz tunnel at Boulder is in
$50 feet and recently has tapped the
| vein casing at a depth of 800 feet. In
| 25 or 80 feet more the surface shoot
of ore is expected to be cut, says
| the HALEY Times.
A strike of four feet of lead car
| Donate ore has been made in the I'm.
| perial mine at Burke. Idaho, which
| State Mine Inspector Bell has declared
| to be as big and important as the first
strike in the Hercules mine.
Goldfield mines and leases made the
heaviest shipments in the history Of
| the camp last week. Three thousand
two hundred and fifty.four tons Of ore
were shipped and $40 tons milled, a
total of 379i valued at $43S,420.
Daniel w. Edwards, who conducted
brokerage business in Tonopah for
some time, is the authority for state
ment that he and Nat c. Goodwin, the
famous comedian, will open a brolt-
erage Office in Reno this fall.
What IS known as the copper belt, 20
miles northeast of Baker city, Ore,
has exceeded all expectations in the
showing made by the developments OF
the last six months, all of the working
properties in that district showing con
siderable improvement
| The building of the first public con
| centrator in the Occur d'Alenes will
be commenced within few days. The
concentrator will be erected by the
Northern Ore Purchasing company nj
cost of 100000, and win have a ca.
| pacity of 100 tons day.
The Rainbow mine in Mormon ba
sin, some 20 miles from Durkee, Ore
is equipped with an aerial tramwaJ
from the mine to the mill OF 20 stamps
The ore is partly free milling. A
force of 40 men is employed.
The report comes from the Atlanta
mining district of Idaho of great activ'
ity this year. Not enough houses arr
erected to comfortably house all the
people who are there now and no,
near as many men are there as could
receive employment at the camp.
The north drift from the crosscut
tunnel level on the Banner, at Silver
City, Idaho, Is now in 800 feet, and the
south drift 2G5 feet on the same level,
In both directions the ledge at the
face of the drifts has been crosscut
10 the walls and shows a width of IL
feet, the greater portion of the ledge
being of a good grade of milling ore.
The final section of the first unit of
the Utah Copper company's mill at Gar
field will be placed in commission dur
ing the week and by the first of the
month the plant will be just about
running at it's capacity of 5000 tons q
day, while there is every probability
that few weeks will see the great
mill running at better than 5000
tons.
In order to Offset any mistaken i'm
preston that might be created by his
| oeCOinlnB lueHllleu WIN HlHluB opcId-
tions on "A large scale in Utah, f..
Augustus Heinze in an exclusive in.
terview to the New York Commercial,
said that he was not contemplating
any belligerent tactics against any Of
the large interests already established
| in Utah.
The addition to the mill of the Round
Mountain Mining company at Round
Mountain, Nevada, will be finished
within fortnight and the capacity
will be increased to sixty tons day,
The mill has been producing $4,000
Il month with two Nilsson stamps, re-
ducing twenty tons a day. The man
agement expects to make the mine and
mill earn 100000 month net,
Three young men, who a few weeks
ago took up claims within sight Of
Nampa, are being rewarded for their
enterprise. At the 355 foot mark
which has just been reached, they
have struck a small vein of extremely