The Utah County Democrat. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1898-1909, 1908-09-08
MINES AND MINING

In the Lucy L. property that carries
| so to as per cent bismuth and close
to 5000 in gold per ton.
The Judas Leasing company, at
/ Pearl, Idaho. has struck some very
rich free milling gold ore and are
hauling about ffty tons to the Easter
mill to make mill run.
The Itmay smelter at the ltmay
mine. at Grand Encampment, Wyo..
will be blown in about September 10.
| This plant, the second Of It's kind In
! the state. is owned by Wisconsin cap
] italists.
The Parker Mountain Mining com.
pany, whose property is near Mackay,
Idaho last week received and in
stalled a new crusher. A lot Of high
grade ore is In sight, and the prop
erty looks better with every foot OF
work.
The report comes from Chafey, Ne.
vada, that capital is beginning to
take notice" of the opportunities
thereabouts; while strikes OF new pay
shoots in the older and pay veins in
the younger prospects occur with re-
markable regularity.
At the new gold-silver camp of Ma
tional, near the Idaho line in Hum
boldt county, Nevada, a ledge has
been opened in which at thlrty-fye
feet depth is an eightinch streak
which gives values. It is claimed, as
high as $4,000 ton.
That the equipment for the Lodi
Mines company's smelter, which Is
being built in Denver, is almost COM
plete and will be shipped soon. is the
word which comes from DR.. C. l.
Burt, who is directing the company's
operations from Reno.
Pig lead holds firm around 4.60c. 1t
is the opinion OF both producers and
consumers that no decided change
will take place for about a month.
Then an advance to something like
Also is looked for, says a New York
metal market authority.
That the Mendha mine, which con-
tributed nearly $1,O00,0OO to the
Phoebe districts production in the
old days. will produce a great deal
more than that in future. is the opin-
ion of experts who have lately been
investigating the property.
For the purpose of making a study
OF the conditions In the coal regions
OF Wyoming. w II. Bancroft, vice
president and general manager and
j. NJ. Davis. general superintendent,
of the Oregon Short Line, last week
| want IN tho qrann nf tho atrfka
II is understood that Goldheld Con-
solidated interests have secured
foothold in the Seven Troughs dis
trict and the foundation is laid for
one of the biggest leasing enterprises
In The history of the country by the
requirement of the Black, Campbell
and Swicapper lease on the Wild
| Bull.
Advices from the Marshall Lake
district of Idaho show much activity
there. The Goodenough company is
working on the 150.foot level and run
ming on a four-foot vein OF ore that
averages $50 ton, and will soon in
stall fifteen-stamp mill. while the
Mount Marshall is working about for
| ty men.
For the purpose of receiving the
final payment OF s16.500 for the
ranch he sold the Federal Ely Cop
per company several months since
Albert Heusser OF Ely was in Salt
| Lake last week The payment com
pletes the sum of $4,000 which the
ranch with its fine water rights
brought him.
A deal has just been closed where.
by George Havercamp OF Provo has
transferred 10000 shares of stock in
the Lilly Mining company and all of
his interests In the Silver King.
Golden Horseshoe. and other claims
in the East Tintic district, to the
Eureka Lilly Mining company. The
consideration is $4,000.
News of big strike in the Hole
Card claim In Black Horse district.
has been received, The whole bottom
OF the shaft at the depth of fifteen
feet is In ore, II is said, which pans
more gold than anything ever before
opened in camp. which means great
deal
The Moscow, In Beaver county
Utah. has twenty feet of high.grade
copper ore at the bottom OF its
winze from the 400 level. The
winze is down thirty feet and the ore
body has been widening rapidly. A
drift is being run on the 500 level to
catch II.
Preparations have been made for
the resumption of the active work OF
development on the Jefferson Exten.
sion properties, adjoining the ground
of the Consolidated Jefferson Mining
company, at the mouth of Little Cot
tonwood, about sixteen miles from
Salt Lake.
Seven feet of ore that breaks $40
a ton is what the present manager
has opened up in the old Buster mine
at Ida, Nevada, mine that the for
mer management spent 100000 in de-
veloping and equipplng with a mill,
and yet were unable to make II pay
dividends
In the Great Western mine IN Horn.
silver, New, has been opened twenty.
eight feet from the shaft. on the low
est level, a body of ore eight. feet
wide which is said to give average
values of so ton. A streak of
high grade eighteen inches wide runs
up TO 1891 a ton.
That the Buffalo Hump is the great.
est mineralized district In Idaho II
not In the entire west, has always
been the contention of the great mass
OF mining men who have visited that