The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1908-05-23
MINES AND MINING

The recently announced discovery
OF large gold deposits In the East
Humboldt range, in Nevada, and OF
which Tiptop is the center, Is attract
ing a big crowd OF prospectors and In
vestors.
Leasers on the Diamond Queen COM
pany's property at Beatty, in the Bull
frog district. are marketing ore in
Salt Lake City that is running high.
A carload sold a few days ago carried
s217 in gold per ton.
In 1907 alone the production of iron,
ore In the United States was $1,000
900 tons, or more than 1,200 pounds
for each man, woman and child of our
sS,000,000 population. And the produc-
ton is steadily increasing.
The initial discovery in the Zip Top
district OF Nevada was made last Au-
gust by Mrs. Donald Mccarthy, for
merly a dancing teacher OF Colorado
who year ago turned to prospecting.
! she, however, kept her find close
secret until about two months ago.
DIR. l.. a. Crandall. the noted oil
expert declares that around Juab oil
will be encountered at the shallow
depth of $50 feet In 400 to 55O.barrel
quantities while working to depth
of 1000 feet no less than six oil-bear-
ing strata will be encountered.
Word from Phoebe brings tidings Of
fine strike of lead and silver ore on
the property of the Nevada Phoebe
Mines company At a depth of 400
feet the management has encountered
seventeen feet of the ore, and II is one
: of the real excitement breeders Of the
] season there.
Pleading guilty to the charge Of
I promoting fraudulent mining schemes
!. by the use of the mails, John O'Hara
= was sentenced In the United States
district court at Denver to serve one
day In the county jail and TO pay 3
b fine Of $780, The prosecuting attor
!. ney recommended light sentence.
h Another splendid mining property
a in Beaver county that has been en-
}, joying Rip Van Wrinkle sleep for sew.
@ eral years will be In active operation
again before the end OF the present
month, according to the Salt Lake
Herald IL is the old Washington
company's property In Loeber gulch.
Not before the first of July will tie
United States Smelling, Refining &
Mining company resume operations al
its lead smelter in Utah. In the mean
time the company Is expanding IT
the neighborhood OF 100000 In in
stalling apparatus which Will PERM
operations under the decree OF thu
n Utah courts.
IS A most important bit OF news L
@ silver miners is the decision OF IN
S German government to resume tn
s coinage of silver on n scale that VII
e call for 100000 ounces OF silver an
s nualy for the next five years. Thi
will absorb 10 per cent OF the tots
amount of silver that comes upon tn
open market.
Tip Top, in the East Humboldt
range, In Nevada, is said to be a.
ideal poor mans" camp. just VIVA
the wellinformed prospectors of tn
west have been looking for during tn
last ten years. Prospects show a
twenty to thirty feet depth paying
l quantities of ore worth $3.50 to 500
: per ton in gold.
5 Probably the most important strik,
2 OF the winter in the Deep Greek coun
5 try has been made in the Clifton Cop
per Belt company's ground. A five
foot ledge has been opened up, the
mass averaging SIS In gold. $3.50 pei
? cent copper. 1928 per cent bismuth
159 per cent tin and go per cent
; nickel per ton.
On "Wednesday of last week the
management of the Utah Mines re
ceived check for s2,165.71. In pay
ment for the last car of ore received
In the local market. The ore as
sayed 2o5 ounces silver and AZ per
cent lead. calling for S126.40 per ton
There were 62.764 pounds dry weight
: in the consignment.
, Il is stated in Boston that there is
no longer Lawsonlan connection
, with Nevada-Utah. There are be.
tween ~ 000 and 1900 stockholders IL
this corporation, and the leading In
! terests believe that the company il
now prepared to stand on its merits
, II Is shipping from forty TO sixty car
loads OF ore per month from its
Phoebe properties.
When the republic was founded
there were, according to recent expert
estimates, approximately 100000.
100000 tons of coal in the territory
now forming the United States. Prac.
tically none OF this supply was used
for over quarter OF a century; but
, during the seventy.five years from
, 1870 to 1895 nearly 100000, 600. 900
, tons were mined.
J Coal consumption is increasing at
an astonishing rate. During the pc.
, Rod for which statistics have been
{ gathered, It has doubled during each
decade; of late II has more than
: doubled. In 1907 the production was
about 450,0U0,000 tons At the pres.