The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1908-06-06
MINES AND MINING


From the present outlook, Pearl
Idaho. will have a prosperous year In
the mining industry, with companies
preparing to start operations and the
leases that are working.
Prospectors on the Easter Mining
oompany's claim at Pearl, Idaho,
few days ago discovered ore that as
sayed $3.50 per ton. and will concen-
trate to an sS4 product.
A wage scale operative until March
81, 1909, affecting about 10000 oper-
atives in the Pittsburg district, was
signed last week. The agreement Is
the same one In force two years ago.
A map OF the mining district of Park
City, Utah, is being prepared by Child.
Cole & Co., Salt Lake brokers. which
will be eagerly sought for by mining.
men, owing to its accuracy and COM
pleteness.
The news comes from Seven
Troughs, Nevada, that with every
round of shots the conditions on the
Harris lease of the Seven Troughs
Florence Mining company are i'm
proving.
Our revised statistics show that
the production of copper in the Unit
ed States in 1907 was S79,241.766
pounds. against 917,620,0 900 pounds In
1906, says the Engineering and Min
Ing Journal.
Shipments from the Bull valley dis
trict in Utah are to begin at once. Up
to the present time the locators havl
simply sacked their ore and left II on
the ground, but now they are going to
throw 1t on the market.
At the Bear Top mine, in the Occur
| d'Alenes, at a depth OF 1000 feet In o
1000 tunnel, four feet of solid galena
has been followed for thirty-five feet,
and every foot's advance shows that
the shoot is growing larger and richer.
A syndicate composed Of Jesse
Knight and associates has bought
controlling block of stock In the Old
Emma mine at Alta Associated with
them will be the stockholders who
have been developing the mine since
last August.
| The Goldfield News shows that dur.
ing the week ending May Is the camp
produced 2,072 tons of ore valued at
| $143,280. For the week ending May
%, the mines of the district produced
2,4391h tons of ore, the value OF which
was s211.5375O,
The CumberlandEly property In the
Ely, Nevada. camp has been under de-
nalf and in that time its Veteran ore
body has been opened and 100000
tons of ore placed in sight that will
average 3h per cent.
The discovery of an old Mexican
mine near Florence, Nevada, recently,
is another evidence of the richness of
that district. There are forty-two
inches OF ore In place at the end of a.
340-foot tunnel, estimated from PAN
nings TO be worth at least $50 per ton.
Immense bodies of fiuxing ores,
Just the kind to mix with the silica
rock from the Goldheld district. are
lying almost dormant In the districts
of Ubehebe, Palmetto and Sylvania,
awaiting only cheap transportation to-
give the section a first position by
leaps and bounds, says the Goldfield
Tribune.
At Wardner, Idaho, the recent open
ing OF the Last Chance mine has put
new life into the camp. and the fa-
nous Wardner lode has been doing
some remarkably interesting stunts In
the way Of new ore development dur
ing the past few months that puts the
stamp OF permanency on the Occur
d'Alenes.
The officials of the United States
Smelling, Refining and Mining COM
pany were made glad last week by the
receipt Of the first carload of struc-
tural steel for the new roasters. The
company has ordered about 100000
pounds OF this steel. and the first re-
ceived is that which goes into the
foundation.
For the past quarter of a century
Butte has supplied 25 per cent OF the
worlds copper, and whether or not its
values are inexhaustible, II is demon
strating right now that the old relia-
BILE camp is just as rich as ever and is
producing ore In a way that must be
gratifying to those who have banked
their all on that camp
Several hundred Pittsburgers are
stockholders OF the Amador Consoli.
dated Mining and Development COM
pany, whose property In Montana has
proven worthless. The stock was
widely doomed and two experts we're
sent to Montana to make a thorough
examination of the property, favor
able report being received
The first stamps were dropped in
the Seven Troughs district on May 81.
when the Kindergarten mill at Seven
Troughs and the Mazuma Hills mill
at Mazuma started a battery Of five
stamps each running The trial in each
case was highly satisfactory and as q
result both mills will be running as
soon as a few alterations can b0
made.
New machinery has recently been
installed at the Indian Queen mine, in