The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-02-20
MINES A ND MINING

lull capacity Dul lhc OthtI DOuhuiy
smelters are still closed down. In De
cember all the boundry smelters were
shut down.
Wonder and Fairview, booming
mining towns 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
100000 pounds behind January last
year, and 30,0O0,000 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 65,000,000 pounds,
comparing with S4,935,143 pounds in
January, 1907, and 1926, 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 it.
Ore shipments in pounds for the
week ending February Is, from Park
City, were as follows: Daly-Judge,
$4,000; Silver King, 372,740; total,
| 7iG,7l0 pounds. The total shipments
for the month from the Silver King
were 1,352,G40 pounds.
A circular has been issued in which
IT, is stated that the mills will be
working full capacity by June /, and
that the Utah Copper company is
then assured a production of $4,000
600 pounds per annum at cost of s
cents pound, including all refining,
transportation and selling charges of
| the refined output.
| 1t Is planned to have the milling
plant at Magill, Nevada, handling not
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 it, 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 tC
make 1t all dredging proposition
has received returns of an analyst:
made in Oakland. Cal, resulting II
$23 gold and silver per cubic yart
and values in aluminium.
The first 2,000-ton unit of the con
centrating mill at Magill, Nevada, is
practically finished, and work is being
crowded on four more sections, all o.
which will be ready to go into commits
| sion by the time the first / ,500tor
unit of the great smelter 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 fol-
the McGarry group of twenty-four lode
| and one placer iron claims in the lror
| Springs district, Iron county The
| total sum paid for the property was
| $225,500. This undoubtedly mean!
blast furnaces and mills for this dis
| trict.
At the meeting of the directors o
the Nevada-Utah Mines and Smelters
! corporation held in Portland, Me, OF
the 18TH it was voted by stockhold
ers to take back 100000 shares of the
stock issued to an individual who can
not pay for them. President Learnart
| says important negotiations are now
| pending of great ultimate benefit tC
| stockholders.
James F. Burns, defendant in the
famous suit brought by James Doyle
and involving claim for stock in the
| Portland Gold Mining company
amounting to nearly one million dol
| lars, has filed motion in the district
court at Council Bluffs, Iowa, for 9
| change of venue. The Doyle-Burns
case has been twice tried before 6
| jury, the verdict in the first trial hav
ing been for Doyle and in the second
and last trial for Burns. Before the
| jury trials Doyle took judgment by de
fault for over S7S0,000.
The news comes from Magill, Ne
| vada, that the great stretch of stee
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