The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1908-10-03
MINES AND MINING


and SHELTERS amounted to 100000
pounds of copper.
Excavations are being completed
at Gold Circle for the ten. stamp mill
ing plant which is to BE- installed by
Butte capital The mill builders are
expecting the arrival OF the equip.
ment any day.
Daniel Guggenheim, president of
the American Smelling and Refining
company is as optimistic over the
outlook for better prices for silver
and lead as he is over an improved
copper market.
The gold production ofthe United
above the S1O0,O00000 mark. A few
years ago, the best informed gold
miners did not consider 1t within rea.
son to predict an output of that
amount before 1915.
A strike was recently made in the
Red Elephant mine, seven miles west
OF HALEY, Idaho. Three feet of high
grade galcna ore was cut into in the
lower workings and regular ship
ments are being made from the mine.
The idea, to have banks make sub
stantial loans on mining stocks Of
merit, as they do on railroad and
other securities that are subject to
market fluctuations, is worthy Of
careful consideration, says the Min
ing World.
From mine near Leadville, Colo,
Ia, In nf nunnn
last week received carload of ore
that will net the shippers $23,450.
The values carried are $74 in gold,
734.7 ounces in silver and 1928 per
cent copper.
Discovery of zone of remarkable
naturalization in the Gold Prize
group of claims, west of the Seven
Troughs mine and directly south of
the Cleghorn group, is one of the
latest sensations in the Seven
Troughs district.
The Clifford mine, fifty miles east
Of Tonopah, in Nye county, Nevada,
has been sold by Edward Clifford
and his sons, who discovered and de-
veloped the property, to J. C. McCor.
mack of Godneld for $35O0OO, first
payment of $4,000.
The Consolidated Mercur Gold
Mines company last week shipped to
the mint at Denver its August output
of bullion, which will bring the com.
pany something over $4,000. This
is a substantial increase over the
output of any month for some time,
the production having run from $685.
| OOO to $4,000.
Reports from the camp at Buck
| skin, Nevada, are of the best II Is
certain that the people there are sure
| they have a camp. New mines are
| being developed and old workings
started up. The oil excitement has
also reached that camp and they
think they have as good showing
as any Of them.
The Independence mine, two miles
south of Ketchum and fourteen miles
| from HALEY. has been worked since
| 1889 by the owners, taking out only
first class or shipping ore, leaving
the second class. or milling ore, in
the mine and dumps. Its record for
| shipping ore sold up to June, 1907,
was over 100000.
| The iron fields of Iron county,
Utah, have long been known to be
among the best In the United States.
| In some portions of the field exists,
| Il Is said the very best product for
making bessemer steel that has been
discovered anywhere. There is no
question about the deposits being
very large, nor that they will be
utilized some day upon an extensive
| scale.
J The deal by which the Pittsburg
Consolidated Mining company, oper.
ating in the Alta district, takes over
the holdings of the Pioneer CONSOLE
dated company has been closed. The
property Is taken under bond and
lease with the consideration Of
S52,25O,
Realizing $4,000 from a 1O,foot as.
sessment hole is the romantic record
established by George Norton, miner,
Of Mohawk Ariz., who has been
spending week In Los Angeles Nor
ton had decided to give up his
ground as worthless, when the strike
was made.
The famous Engineers lease OF
GoldReld has in three months pro-
duced $G5O,OO and has paid 100000
In dividends. The lease has two
months yet to run, at the end OF
which time It Is estimated that the
gross output will have been better
than $S5OOOO,
The long looked for change OF for
nation has aDpearcd In the long tun
mel that is being driven into Scott
hill by the Scottish Chief Mining
company, at Park City. The tunnel
Is past the 1,200-foot mark and the
last $50 feet has been run through q
hard quartzite.
A strike of two feet of free milling
I ,ggovg p1Gga n gEOu In GOLD