The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-11-26
MINES AND MINING


outlook, according to the mone ne'di
ment.
The Demijohn Mining companv ..
encountered the ore on the 9oo ,. "as
of its mine in the Phoebe distric, ~,
Salues run about 200 ounces in s,,' .ne
so to 40 per cent lead and 81 ana :,
in gold. ~
Fifteen cents for copper beforo a..
end of this year is confidently, 49,.
dictedqamong the metal brokers Mos,
of the large producers have disnosns
Of their output up to January an,
oven into February.
The news comes from Elv Nor,s.
that another big smelling works ,s % tn
be erected in the Steptoe valley ~
posite the Ely Townsite comnany'.
holdings. for the treatment Of custo,.
ores of the Ely district.
The recent discoveries of oil in tba
new Bluff, Utah, fields, are attractins
the attention of oil experts and nros
pectors all over the United States ana
they are arriving on the ground from
all parts of the country.
Word has been received at Centor.
rial, Wyo., of a snowslde in the nom
tains above Albion mine at Coonor
Hill. The Albion property was dam.
aged and the mountainsde was
shaved clean of timber No one was
injured
The great Seven Troughs lode has
been encountered in the cross.cut from
the 750foot level and conditions an,
being revealed that constitute the.
greatest work of demonstration in tbs
history of the district, says the Seven
1roughs Miner.
The report comes from Gold6eld that
few days ago a four-thousand.pon
drilling apparatus being used by par.
ties searching for oil twenty miles
from Goldfleld, was blown twenty feet
into the air by the force of natural
gas explosion.
One of the richest strikes reported
from Beaver county in many years has
been in the Silver Horn group Of
claims in the Star mining district
about eight miles southwest of Mil
ford. The values run from 600 td
400 ounces in silver.
The Kindergarten mill completed
its run of thirty shifts "Wednesday and
made one of the greatest clean.ups in
the history of the plant, says the
Seven Troughs Miner. The run wilI
result in a total output of $4,000, COM
ing from less than 200 tons of ore.
Operations have been resumed by
the Sweetland Mining company in the
Narrow Gauge mine, in the Wood
River, Idaho, country, with every pros
pect of success. The mine workings
and machinery have been placed in
good condition and pumping and A
hoisting has begun from the lowest
level.
The ten-stamp mill at the Cracker
jack mine, in the Buffalo Hump dis
trict of Idaho, is running steady. The
plant has been in operation for about d
two weeks and twenty men are en-
ployed at the mine. The mill will run
throughout the winter and develop
ment work will also be carried for
ward.
At the Truett lease, on the Happy
Hooligan claim of the Coalition, theE
winze, which is now down seventy-fyeH
feet below the 70-foot level has cut a
streak of high-grade ore than pans
free gold in large quantities, indcat
ing values of $500 a ton for width OF
eight to ten inches, says special from
Rawhde.
The Hecla Mining company az
Burke, Idaho, has begun sinking from
the 900 to the 1,200-foot level to tap
the ore body at greater depth IheH
Hecla is one of the best equip
ped properties in the Coeur d'AleneE
district, and its ore bodies are becon
ing larger and richer as further depIp
is obtained.
The Goldfeld Consolidated, in run
ming cross-cut from the Claremoh't
shaft to the Mohawk, ran into NE"
vein, which gives promise to be very
valuable addition to their present ore
reserves. The vein is about SIX iees
vide, and for the whole six feet VII,
average better than $50, exclusive N
high grade streak
John Dern of Salt Lake, director "
the American Mining congress- 10
received a letter from Secretary D.
Callbreath of the association no"
Pittsburg, in which he says the oOn
ing session of the congress proniSIe
10 be notable one, and thal
Plttsburg people are giving very '''
i.factory cooperation
At a meeting of all mining oPr.r
tors of Occur d Alenes held III
lace, committee was selected ~
to washington and enter po.s
against any action which the cons,.a
sional committee may take tow" tnUd
reducing the present tariff on leau ~ M
zinc ores, when that matter coi'''
for discussion November 20
Three feet of solid gray coppe' lad
carrying values in silver all tne w." n
IRON 1000 to 1000 ounces to lhe w
in addition to large quantity o, ~ M