The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-10-08
MINES AND MINING

nave the ulntah Treasure Hill NINA
machinery installed. He is install,no
new boilers, compressors and ma
chine drills.
The Gold Point Mining COMPANY on
hed river, in Idaho, has ordered a An
ton capacity CHILEAN mill. Assavs -,
ore taken from this property have
run as high as $500.
Next to Colorado in production O,
silver during 1907 was Utah, s752S.
ooo; Montana, with s7345,50O. Ne.
vada, $5,465,100; Iuano. s52Os 200.
Arizona, s1,916,0O0 and California.
$1,O49, 400.
Inc wabash mine at Park City
mas closed down on account of the
water. The company intends to nut
IN new boilers and new machinery TO
handle the large volume of water
mat has come up in the mine.
Fire resulting from an explosion of
can of oil In the boiler house burned
all the buildings belonging to the
Union Pacific mine at No. Q dunn. AZ
Scofield. Utah, including the boiler
house, dump, engine house, and small
adjoining buildings.
Three feet of solid galena ore that
averages Go per cent lead and As
ozs. in silver. with several feet more
OF good second class ore-such are
the handsome proportions of strike
Just made in the Branburg property
in Big Cottonwood district.
Alaska produced s1S,4S9. 400 in gold
during 1907, followed by California
with $16.S5S,5 Nevada, with 3d.
900; Utah with $5.121 600; South
Dakota, $4,13S, 200; Montana. $3,472,-
500; Arizona, s2664,OOO; Idaho, ST..
255,900, and Oregon, $1.222,2OO.
Twenty-three miners at work in the
Mollie McCarty mine quit in body
few days ago, being dissatisfied with
the Chinese cook, says the Idaho City
World. The company has employed a
lady cook and two of the old crew
went back to the mine to work.
A message received from Orc.
grande, Idaho, states that rich strike
has been made in the Four Mile min.
ing district This strike was made
on a claim about 400 feet from the
rich find made last spring that start
ed the big stampede to that district
In Boxelder county, Utah. where
one can stand and look over into the
states of Utah Idaho and Nevada, is
mining section that is coming to
| the front in an ore development way
without making much fuss over the
| fact. This section Is in what Is
known as the Goose Creek range OF
| mountains.
The Zenoli Silver-C Copper company
| last week marketed lot of ore from
| its mine at Pallsade, Nevada, from
which it realized the sum of S2,69S. 10
after freight and smelling charges
had been paid The settlement
showed values of 2313 ounces in sill
yer, SIS per cent lead and 2.5 per
cent copper.
The dam for the first power plant
on Little Cottonwood creek, in the
Alta district, is complete with the
exception of the last section OF con-
crete work. The diverting of the
water through a tunnel to admit OF
LAYING the last section has Just been
finished and short shift will be made
of the work remaining to be done.
The production of gold and silver
by the mines of the United States for
the calendar year 1907, as determined
nv the bureau of the mint and the
geological survey, acting in conjunc'
ton, aggregated 4,374,S27 ounces OF
fine gold of the value of S9O.435,7 700
and 56,514,700 fine ounces OF silver OF
the commercial value averaging 66
cents an ounce. or sS7, 299,7oO.
Active development will be started
nj once and continued all winter at
the property of the Liquidator MIN
ing company, situated near the Hec
Ia in the Occur d'Alenes. The com
many has lust ben organized for the
purnose of working the group OF
claims.
The strike in the Columbus EXten'
sion company's tunnel at Alta has
opened into from % W Nv iVV. VI
phides, the greater portion OF when
;s fine stuff that slides like sand
making the progress of work very
slow, Not the entire body is OF com
mercial grade.
The Dominion Copper company
formerly operated under the direction
of Samuel Newhouse, but subsequent
" turned over to eastern sharehoId
ers is to be reorganized. The neces
sitv for this action. says the boston
News Bureau, arises from the lack o.
treasury funds.
The officials of the Uintah Treasure
Hm Consolidated company whose
nroperty is located in Park CITY nave
called on the stockholders Tor opt
cent per share, the money 10 oe
raised bv this assessment going 10
wards placing the company on al
operating basis
News of a very fine strike of ricf
s,,yer.lead ore was brought to sal
Lake last week by W. L. Har"o .,.'i
the general manager of the Park CT!
,,;,iro and Power company ne