The Utah County Democrat. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1898-1909, 1908-10-20
MINES AND MINING

q county, Otan, the BODY OF rlcn
carbonate ore has been opened for
l1S feet on the 100 level, with stop.
ing ground virtually to the surface.
From the east comes the significant
intelligence that the officials of the
Ely Consolidated company have per
iected arrangements for resuming de-
velopment effort on the Ely territory
Twelve men are being employed in
the Lulu mine in Beaver county.
pushing the drift on the $50 level
southwark toward the ore body which
was opened last fall on the $50 level
The Utah Fuel company Is reopen.
ing the Utah mine, formerly known
as Mud Creek" located some three
miles south OF Scoheld This will in
crease their daily output about 500
tons.
A strike was recently made in the
Red Elephant mine, seven miles west
of HALEY, Idaho. Three feet of high
grade galena ore was cut into In the
lower workings and regular ship
ments are being made from the mine.
A big gold discovery was made a
few weeks ago at Blue Point. Idaho,
between the head Of Deadwood Fork
of Payette river and the South Fork
of Salmon, and ten or twelve miles
from Knox. The ore assays S426 per
ton.
An agreement has been reached for
an amicable settlement of all pending
litigation between Florence Goldheld
and Little Florence, involving nearly
SO, O00,O0O Orders dismisslng all pend
ing suits have been prepared and
signed.
Another $4,000 is to be distributed
among the stockholders in the Bunker
Hill & Sullivan Mining and concen-
trating company. The total amount
Of dividends to date is $10,515,000,
while the total for the present year
Is S705.O00.
The United Metals company has
been awarded the contract for fur
nishing the navy with 100000
POUNDS Of copper, while the American
Metal company obtained the contract
with 100000 pounds.
To Salt Lakes industries is to be
added at once a plant for cutting and
finishing a semi-precious stone, the
amatrice, of which Utah is the only
important producer in the world. Ma
ohinery for the plant is now on the
way from the factory.
The Seven Troughs Coalition Min
ing company, capitalized for 100000
! shares Of the par value of 81 a share,
has been Incorporated under the laws
| OF Nevada to take over two and pos
sibly three of the leading properties
| of the Seven Troughs district.
Prospectors working on the Little
Salmon river, three miles from Pol
lock, Idaho, have discovered a rich
surface showing OF asbestos and 4
company will be formed to continue
Investigations, as 1t is believed the
prospect will develop into mine.
The Silver Queen group of quartz
claims on Pratt creek in Idaho have
been bonded to Larry Duggan OF
Butte for $4,000 There are three
distinct veins of mineral on the
ground, each averaging three to four
feet I'm width. Two of them are par
allel, about 100 feet apart. Some phe-
nomenally rich assays have been
made.
In the lower tunnel of the Hecla
mine, in Beaver county, some rich
ore has recently been encountered.
The tunnel taps the ore body about
500 feet below the upper workings,
from which twelve carloads of $40
rock have been shipped. The ore
from the lower workings is said to
average about $40 ton, 1t being a
silver.lead carbonate in a bedded
vein.
An entire shaft of $40 gold ore is
the word received in Salt Lake by
the stockholders of the Washable Ne
yada Mining company. This is Ne
yada proposition put forth early in the
year by well known Salt Lake mining
roen. and good reports have been fire.
quent.
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UNI, Idaho, has been worked since 1883
Ly the owners. taking out only first
class or shipping ore, leaving the sec
ond class, or milling ore. in the mine
end dumps Its record for shipping
ere sold up to June. 1907, was over
100000
Ed Hunter, manager of the South
eastern Hercules mine Is Cassif
county, Idaho, where It has twelve
claims acquired last April by the pay
ment OF $4,000, announced in Spo
kane that a fifty-ton smelter will be
installed to be ready to receive ore
early next May
Two bodies of free milling gold ore
have been struck on the Hope prop
erty in the Elk City district in centra
Idaho. One measures five feet and
assays SAL; the other is two feet, as
saying more than $50, The property
is under bond to Philadelphia and Al
lantic City capitalists.
The Hutchinson patented process
for the extraction OF gold values from
high grade shines and sulphide con
centrates is success and a hug
one, according to the Nevada Press
No roasting is required, and SAVING
is being made as high as any cyanide
liant In the world.
Splendid assay returns have beer
received from the ore taken from thu
Black Horse property at Wallace
Idaho The mine, which is located OF