The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1908-02-22
MINES A ND MINING


outside world by telegraph.
The CRANKY Copper company, in
Canada, is again operating to almost
full capacity, but the other boundry
shelters are still closed down. In De
cember all the boundry smelters were
shut down.
Wonder and Fairview, booming
mining towns a year ago, are prac-
tically deserted today. A hundred or
more, practically all the towns con-
tanned, started across the hills last
week for Rawhide.
The estimated production Of copper
in January was 100000 pounds in ex-
cess of the December production, but
Is 100000 pounds behind January last
year, and 3O,OO0,O00 pounds less than
the normal monthly output.
One thousand miners employed by
the Crerar Clinch Coal company of
Chicago, went on strike at Duquoin,
| ILL.,, last week. The trouble originated
over the price of powder which the
operators have been selling to the
miners.
The Boston News Bureau figures the
production of copper in the United
States, Mexico and Canada for the
month of January at 65,00O,O00 pounds,
comparing with S4,935,143 pounds in
January, 1907, and 1895, 400 pounds in
January, 1906.
Rawhide fever is fast causing the
depopulation of the town of Ely, SO far
as idle men are concerned, every man
who is not working, and many who
are, determining to size up the new
camp for himself, to see just what
there is to 1t.
Ore shipments in pounds for the
week ending February 10, from Park
City. were as follows: Daly-Judge.
$4,000; Silver King, 372,740; total,
746,740 pounds. The total shipments
| for the month from the Silver King
were 1,352,640 pounds.
A circular has been issued in which
IL is stated that the mills will be
working full capacity by June 1, and
that the Utah Copper company is
then assured production of $4,000.
600 pounds per annum at a cost of 8
cents pound, including all refining,
transportation and selling charges OF
the refined output.
It Is planned to have the milling
plant at Magill, Nevada, handling not
less than 10000 tons of ore day be-
fore the end of the year, and, includ-
ing the crude ore from the Veteran
mine and other sources, the smelling
works will be reducing to bullion pos
sibly 5000 tons Of copper-bearing pro-
duct.
That the rumored developments Of
the Giroux Consolidated Copper COM
pany will be carried out, their plans
including building additional concen-
traitor facilities, installing long pipe
line for securing water for 1t, opening
their townsite project in the early
spring, is the latest reports from Ely,
Nevada.
The climax Of the boom at Raw
hide, Nevada, came last Friday with
the announcement that Balloon and
Grutt hills are practically solid
mass of free milling gold ore. The
townsite is located on the two richest
claims in the district, and lot owners
have transformed their dwellings into
mining claims.
Clarence Eddy, who has been max
ing tests to verify his theory that the
sunken bed OF Death valley contains
sufficient value in precious metals to
make II all dredging proposition,
has received returns OF an analysis
made in Oakland, Cal, resulting In
| 50. 80 gold and silver per cubic yard
and values in aluminium.
The first 2,O00-ton unit OF the con-
centrating mill at Magill, Nevada, is
practically finished and work Is being
| crowded on four more sections, all OF
which will be ready to go into commits
sion by the time the first 1,500-ton
unit of the great smeter works Is
ready to receive ore, about the end Of
June or early in July.
Thomas F. Kelley, the millionaire
Chicago operator, made final payment
last week In the sum Of $4,000 for
the McGarry group of twenty-four lode
and one placer iron claims in the Iron
| Springs district, Iron county. the
total sum paid for the property was
$225,500. This undoubtedly means
blast furnaces and mills for this dis.
trict.
At the meeting of the directors of
the Nevada-Utah Mines and Shelters
corporation held in Portland, Me-, on
the 18th, 1t was voted by stockhold-
ers to take back 100000 shares of the
stock issued to an individual who can
not pay for them. President Learnard
says important negotiations are now
pending of great ultimate benefit to
stockholders.
James F. Burns, defendant In the
famous suit brought by James Doyle
and involving a claim for stock in the
| Portland Gold Mining company,
amounting to nearly one million dol
lars, has filed a motion in the district
court at Council Bluffs, Iowa, for a