The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-01-02
MINES AND MINING

So,UUU.
The metal production of the mines
OF Utah for 1907 exceed the record
made during 1906 by $1O.606,593 the
production this year reaching a total
of $51, 046.366.
The net earnings of the Tonopah
| Mining company of Philadelphia,
whose property is iocated at Tonopah.
Nevada, for the quarter ending No
vember 80, are stated to have been
| 1901, 900.
| The old Tuscarora district, with its
record output of $40,00O,0Oe, is now
in line for active development the
coming season, according to those
who are familiar with that section of
| Nevada.
Three of the largest mines in Park
| City are to close down temporarily
| at least until metal conditions get
| better. over 1000 men will be thrown
out of employment as a result OF the
| shutdown.
he largest copper shelters in the
world, capable of handling the pro
| duct OF what is now believed to be
| the most extensive copper deposit in
| the world, are now in course of cree
ton in White Pine county, Nevada.
Considerable surprise is occasioned
in Utah mining circles by the fact
that the Uintah Treasure Hill Mining
company, owning the old Uintah
Treasure Hill and the Creole proper
ties in Park City, has been closed
down, temporarily at least.
The entire output of borax in the
United States is derived from San
Bernardino, Inyo and Ventura coun-
ties, California, and up to and includ-
ing 1906 the greater part of it has
come from San Bernardino county.
The present depression in mining
will have the direct effect of intro
ducing many improvements and new
economies in working, more particu.
larly in the methods of ore treatment,
it is claimed by many of the wise
ones.
The total output of crude boraX for
the year 1906 was 5S,173 short tons,
valued at $1,1S2,410, as against 49,
334 short tons, valued at $1,019, 1854,
in 1905, an increase in 1906 of 1888
short tons in quantity and of $163,256
in value.
In cutting a ditch at the Grimes
Greek placers in Idaho last week, the
men in charge of the work discov-
cred a ledge of high grade free mill
ing ore. 1t assayed $10S.36 in gold
and may prove bonanza. Five claims
have been located ON the ledge.
The annual report of the Quartette
Mining company, operating at Search
light, New, is just issued. Gross re-
ceipts were $342,425; operating costs,
$24S,01S; net earnings, S94,407. These
compare with net earnings OF. $172,-
GA for 1866. The surplus of $685.
AIT is a decrease of S24,S19 from the
preceding year.
1t is reported that two experts in
the employ of the Guggenheims re-
Gently visited the old camp of Hunter,
New, and looked over the Vulcan prop
erty with a view to buying IL. The
Vulcan property adjoins that of the
old Hunter, and is accredited with
having several million dollars worth
of ore blocked out.
The production of copper in the
United States in 1906 was 917 ,S05,6S2
pounds. This represents the years
smelter production-that is, the guam
tity of fine copper in the blister cop.
per produced during the year and the
production of refined Lake copper.
The production of 1905 was exceeded
by 15,S97,S3 pounds.
The Grimes Creek Placer Mining
company, which owns LOO acres of
valuable placer ground on Grimes and
Muddy creeks in the Boise basin, has
expended nearly $4,000 on bitches
and other work preparatory to taking
out gold during the next year. 1t is
estimated that 25 cents per cubic yard
will be taken from the ground.
After having been silent twelve
years the ten stamps in the mill at
the old Robinson mine at Mt. Pisgah,
Bingham county, Idaho, are again
dropping on the gold-bearing ore. The
Robinson mine, together with several
other groups of claims on Mt. Pisgah,
was included in giant merger re-
Gently consummated by Boston and
Salt Lake people,
Ten of the thirty hot mills of the
Shenago tin mills at Newcastle, Pa,
will resume operations January 6
next. Ten additional mills will re-
sumo shortly after, and it is expected
that the entire plant will be running
full force before the end of January.
The mill, said to be the largest tin
plant in the world, has been idle
since July 81. Fully thousand men
are affected.
Two thousand one hundred tons of
high grade ore was sent from the
ground of the famous Little Florence
lease at Goldtield last week to the
Globe smelter at Denver The entire
lot is worth upward of 100000 and
has been under the full glare of cleo.