The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-08-06
MINES AND MINING


stotes shows Utah to be fourth.
The Cherry Creek, Nevada, district
"a an active center just now, and Is
giving forth some fine results.
One hundred tons of copper per
day is the present rate of production
os the Garfield smelter of the Amcri-
can Securities company.
The sale of a seat on the New York
Stock Exchange for $4,000, an In
crease of 81 900 over the last previous
sale. was announced on July 30.
Beaver county mines seem to be
passing through a period OF renewed
activity, according to recent visitors
from the southern copper camps.
The fourth blast furnace OF the
United States Smelling. Refining and
Mining Company's plant at Bingham
Junction was blown in on Saturday.
While nothing of an official nature
has been given out, there is well de-
fined rumor to the effect that +. Au-
gustus Heinze is no longer interested
in Ohio Copper.
Another Utah mine added its name
10 the list of Utah dividend payers
last week, when the Utah Copper
company posted its initial quarterly
dividend of fifty cents per share.
A bump" occurred in No 2 mine,
Coal Creek, B. c., on July 81, and as
result twenty-three miners were
entombed. All means of escape ap-
peared to be cut off, but after hard
work twenty of the men were rescued.
The home of George Banks, a ne
gro miner in Emsley, Ala, was .dyna-
mited last week. Governor Conner
has announced that he intends re-
naming in the district until all indi-
cations of trouble have been removed.
The smelter production of copper
In the United States in 1907 as fig
ured by the United States geological
survey, was S6S,996,491 pounds. This
is decrease of 4S,SO9,191 pounds, or
Sc per cent from the record figures
of 1906.
Consolidated company at Alta has
found out from what point the recent
floods of water came, as great cave
has been found in the southwest drift,
about 1000 feet from the shaft, on
the 400-foot level
A Goldfeld mining man who knows
the mines well says the Engineer
lease on the Florence lease has the
richest ore shoot ever struck In Gold
field. The lease is producing more
money than any mine in the camp at
the present time.
The Kindergarten mill, treating
ores from the mine of the Seven
Troughs Kindergarten Mining com.
pany, will make the phenomenal
cleanup, working but one shift in
twenty-four hours, of $4,000 during
the month of July.
Frederick Dorr, a broker with of.
fees in San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Salt Lake City, Butte, Montana, anu
Spokane, Wash, member of the
New York stock exchange and the
Chicago board of trade, has tele-
graphed from Chicago to his San
Francisco manager to suspend bust.
ness.
The first check for mining deal in
the fabulously rich camp of They. west
of old Belleville, was brought 10 Tono-
pah last week by jim Flynn, who has
just sold one-fourth interest in a
lease there on some of the Bass prop
erty. While the amount of the check
was not stated, it was not less than
$4,000.
Advices received in Butte from
Mexico state that John w. Gray, a
well known miner of Butte, was mui-
dered on a train out from Mexico
City, his throat being cut by unknown
Mexicans. Gray was found dying in
the toilet of the car. Gray went to
Mexico to help erect a smelter near
Tezuitlan.
Increased business during the
month of July is reported by the
United States Steel corporation. The
directors on July % declared the reg
ular dividend, and gave out a state
ment showing that the corporations
net earnings for the second quarter
OF the year exceeded that of the frs,
quarter by s167,73O.
IL Is announced that Matthew Cul-
len has purchased the complete inter.
est In the Rebel group of claims in
the North Star district of Beaver
county, Mr. Cullen long has held a
part interest in this property, and
now is in possession of the same The
REBEL group in the past was a faith.
iui producer of precious ores.
State Bullion Tax Collector HALEY
who has been in Carson City, Nevada
Tor the past week investigating the
revenue resources OF the state and SO.
curing opinions from Acknowledgement
Stoddard on the revenue laws of Ne.
Vada' has created sensation by dis.
covering that the Adams Gvnsum
company in Reno, and other gynsum
plahts' have not been paying anv
taxes Tor the output of their plaster
Working three shifts a dav the cor.