The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-11-12
MINES AND MINING


producer of precious metals and vari-
GUS estimates of the production OF
the district have been all the way
from $4,000. 900 TO sSO.0OO,000
German metal workers are fast
driving British and French workers In
copper and brass goods from num-
Der OF channels of trade In Africa,
China and South America.
The Broken Hills company's mine
at Clifford, about fifty miles east Of
Tonopah is being heralded as an
epoch maker, such as was the Miz-
pah of Tonopah and the Mohawk OF
Goldfeld.
In the bottom of the shaft in the
property of the Wild Irish Mining
company at Gold Springs, has been
found two feet of ore from which an
average sample returned values Of
$50 ton. nearly all in gold.
A strike OF rich gray copper.silver-
lead ore has been made in the Midas
mine at Garfield bay, says a dispatch
from Standpoint. Samples Of the ores
have been sent to Spokane and as
sayed and show values OF 1915 to the
ton
That section of Utah containing the
mines of Alta and the south fork OF
Big Cottonwood is described by Su-
perintendent William Magrem of the
Rexall Mining company as being one
of the busiest and happiest parts of
mining Utah
Two careful samplings OF the two
feet Of rich ore in the north drift
from the winze In the Seven Troughs
Signal Peak mine show average values
of SIS and $40 a ton. Aside from the
two feet of high grade are ten feet
of milling rock in the vein,
Solid silver ore so pure IT. can be
Whitfield with penknife has been
struck on the Dromiack lease OF the
Queen ground at Rawhide, Nevada,
The ledge, so far encountered, is
three feet wide and has every indi-
cation of making a large ore body.
Germany has made greater strides
during this year in the construction o.
copper aad brass working plants than
any other nation. Her export trade in
copper wire, rolled, spun and cast cop.
per and brass products also will ex-
coed the tonnage of the previous year.
On account of the blocking of the
Ogden gateway the coal market has
been extremely heavy In Utah, but
with the opening of the gateway the
first of the month, coal produced in
this state and parts of Colorado was
Afforded an outlet, and is now NOV
ing rapidly westward northward and
eastward.
The BambergerDe Lamar mine in
Nevada is running at full blast turn
Ing out 400 tons daily of ore that aver.
ages from SO to $3.50 a ton in gold In
the mill an adaptation of the usual
process is being worked successfully;
this consisting of the full strength of
the cyanide solution being applied at
the crusher
Nat G. Goodwin & Company, says
the Inter-Mountain Republican. are
evidently preparing to bring into the
limelight the new camp of Bovard,
where was made last year the big sur
face strike which was picked up by a
ated upon it the Bovard Strike Min
ing company.
The Engineers lease corporation
Of Goldfield last week paid a dividend
of 80 cents a share on 10000 shares
Of stock, amounting to $1S0000. This
is the fifth dividend from this re-
inarkable lease and brings the total,
together with $4,000 repaid to Salt
Lake purchasers of the treasury
stock, up to S550,000.
From the camp of Chafey, New,
comes the news that within the next
week the new steam hoist over the
Black hole mine will be in operation,
after which the company will be in a
position to ship in more generous
tonnage of gold ore than has been the
rule for the past month. This is one
of the big propositions of the Chafey
camp.
G. c.. Richards of the Western Mill
and Machine company of Oakland
Cal, and inventor Of the famous com
bined stamp and arastra milling pro
cess, is the latest mill man who has
| decided to install a custom mill in the
Seven Troughs district The plant
which is to have an initial capacity OF
twenty tons per day, will be erected
near Vernon.
There is good profit in marketing
on commission the product of mines
says the Mining World On October
Is, the United Metals Selling com
| pany, which handles the copper pro
duced by the Amalgamated constitu
\ ents, besides other large mines. paid
quarterly dividend of IS per share
or per cent ($250,000), at the rate Of
| 20 per cent per annum on the $4,000,
900 capitalization.
II look for a revival in mining de
velopment on far more conserva
! tive basis than obtained in the time o
the BOOM" said John Hays Hammond
during an interview in New York tn,
other day. "A large part of the money
! that will 20 into mining In the futur,