The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-04-30
MINES AND MINING

m the Cold Grown vein at Gold Circl
Nevada, which crops for $500 feet
through the company's possessions.
Child, Cole & Co., the Salt Lake
brokers', are getting out new map Oh
the Park City, Utah, district, winch
they declare will be up to date In eV'
cry particular =,
Thirty thousand miners employed
in the Pittsburg. Pa, district resumed
work last week, in accordance WIN
the agreement reached at the TOLEDO
Joint conference.
Salt Lake City has at last received
a patent to its asphaltum mine at
Thistle, Utah. The mine was pur'
chased by the last municipal admins
tration for $4,000
The Shenango valley steel plant,
operated at Newcastle, Pa, by the
Carnegie Steel company, resumed
operations last week with a full force
About 1900 men are affected.
The president of the University OF
Idaho is looking for a graduate who
is capable of holding the chair of as
sociate professor of mining and met
allurgy, at salary Of $1,000 year
The Virgin City oil district is sit
uated in the southwestern corner OF
Utah, near the eastern boundary of
the Basin ranges. The region is
drained by Virgin river and its trib-
utaries.
Reports from Silver City, Idaho,
concerning the Potosi mine are very
encouraging, the statement being
made that over 10000 tons of ore are
in sight. and the ledge is constantly
improving.
Development work is being vigor-
ously prosecuted in the Common
wealth mine, in the mountains near
Milford. The shaft is now down 500
feet and the indications are bright for
the future of the mine.
The shipment of gold from the Unit
ed States to Europe has begun, much
to the satisfaction of the mining men
of the west. When Uncle Sam can
spare gold for Europe, better times
are in view for the miners.
The Nipissing Mines company has
issued its annual report, covering the
period from February /. 1907, to De-
cember II, 1907, which shows total
income for that period of 1890, 1872,
and net profits of S923,7SS
Annnu %, $50
in contemplation for the Chicken
lucky mines in Phoebe, Nevada, is a
smelter plant, which will be construct
ed at Bullionville, the company hav-
ing plenty of ground and water for an
ideal site.
The recent big strike made by leas.
ers in the Golden Treasure property
at Seven Troughs, Nevada, has been
hailed with Joy by the owners, mostly
Utah men, who expect to begin devel-
Opment on a large scale as soon as
the leases expires.
The news comes from Ely that at
the recent trial run of the first sec
ton Of the big McGill plant every.
thing worked much better than had
been expected The plant is to be
placed in regular commission during
the coming month.
A Butte dispatch says: Butte
Coalition has opened a large body of
copper glance in the Rarus mine ON
the 1,7O0-foot level. 1t is from two to
'our feet wide and 100 feet long and
Is estimated at 1000 feet high Engi.
neers estimate that this body of ore
WI nave a gross value of nearly
$50 100000.
Fully two hundred people went
from Ely to witness the concentrating
OF the first copper ores at McGil from
the big mines, Many had never seen
ore treated in this manner before
while many more went for the pur-
pose or satisfying themselves as to
the complete success of the latest ma.
chinery in handling Robinson ores.
The news comes from Newhouse.
utah, that conditions are much i'm.
PROVED at the mines. They are add.
ing to the ore reserves at the mine
each month. and are making headway
IN opening up new ground that is ex.
pected to add to the wealth of the
property.
A bar OF gold bullion, worth about
sl'oOO, was shipped from the Wheeler
mine at Yerington, Nevada, last weel,
the bar being the result of a two
weeks run at the company's little mill
lollowing a close-down for a month
owing to the breaking of some of the
machinery. 'o
AS a result of a combination of cir.
cumstances, the Lincoln Mining com.
pany' operating at Pearl. Idaho has
gone into the hands of receivers. The
property is evidently a good one hrt
Tor year or so the management bas
mad lots of trouble through lack ~
electric power. VI
The estimated total world nroduo.
tion of quicksilver for 1907 was 9s o7e
TASKS, which was the smallest amourt
reported for a number of years. with
the exception of 1905. OF this amornt
the United States produced On 5no
TASKS, which was 5,73S TASKS ioSo
than in 1906. 'oSs
At Cuprite, seventeen miles from
GOldtield. native SuIrhur g. a.