Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-02-13

Mines and Mining

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Los Angeles is again sgitating
the construction of a gigantic smclt-
ting plant to be located near that
city.
Anoher big oil company is organ
lied to operate in the Virgin river
] $50 acres of land.
Yerington, Nevada, is assuming
its old time form once more, and on
many groups where the sound of
the blast has not been heard for
some time, operations are again
under way.
The supreme court held, in de-
ision rendered last week, that the
Nevada mining laws and not the
United States laws apply in the
matter of location an time of assess
ment work.
While all the large mines are
practically close down and mining
generally is at standstill at Park
City, yet a number of the smaller
properties are grinding away and
some good looking prospects are be-
ing found.
|. A distinguishing feature of the
Boston Consolidated company's mill
at G arficld, Utah, is that there is
not an elevator in the entire plant.
Everything passes by gravitatiton
through the works The daily ca
pacity will run from 5000 to 3, 200
tons.
At the Banner mine at Silver
City, Idaho, work is still progress
ing satisfactorily in the mine and
on the mill construction. The
transformer and manager s residence
are finished. The machinery for
themill is nearly all on the ground.
An effort is being made to have a
government survey ordered of the
Virgin river oil fields in southern
Utah. The rcbort of the surveyor
general shows the cost of the pro-
posed survey would be $142, 900,
and the area to be surveyed 2,75O,-
600 acres, in Garfield Iron Kane and
Washington counties.
Control Of the Goldfield Consolid-
ated Mining company has passed
from Mcssrs. Nixon and Wingfielc
of Nevada to a New York Boston
syndicate headed by Hayden, Stone
and Co , and Barney Baruch anc
Company. This company has 3,
500, 900 shares of stock, par $1t
and, controls the leading gold mine.
in the Goldfieid district.
The trcstlc work connecting the
Nevada Northern railway with the
concentrating plant of the allied in
terests at McGill, Nevada, is clos
ing up rapidly, 1t is expected tina
within the week it will be conclud
ed and the way left open for RUM
ing trains from the mines of tn,
, Cumberland-Eiy Copper compan,
. and the Nevada Consolidated.
The Godfield Miners association
) announces that it can use 100
. more men. Local miners will b,
l given the preference, but if the re
quisitc number is not obtainable
| men will be brought in from Utah
The Gem lease which has been EN-
, ploying Western Union miners, ha
} closed down, and the Florenc
: Annex will close. Both will star
up with independent miners.
AT one time a mint was 1ocatc
, in The Dalles, Ore, by act of CON
gress: this was in the year 1865
/ when one million dollars was appro
, prlated. Rock was quarried from
, five miles up Mill creek will
which to construct the building
, A large number of workmen wer,
, employed and the building reached
the second story when congress de
I cided that the mint was not needles
: and no further appropriation wa
m adc.
, Crushing of the ore in the mill O
the Boston Consolidated company a
Garfield, Utah, is accomplished b.
312 Nissen individual stamps, ar
ranged in double rows longitudinal
ly with the bin. These stamps ar
fed automatically and crush to %
mesh. Pulp is passed to the class
ifers, where it separates into thre
5 divisions, passing thence to the var
] ious machines for the recovery O
: the product, which include 284 Will
i fley tables, ESQ Johnson tables an
= 312 Callow settling tanks.
S A Boston dispatch says there i
: considerable dissatisfaction with tn
: management of the Giroux Conso1
, idated company, which is expecte