The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1908-12-26
MINES AND MINING


all the counties that yield gold.
The sales on the Salt Lake stock
exchange for 1907 are placed at H..
1855 shares, valued at 1897.
1858.
The total dividends for 1907 and
1908 paid by the mines of Utah thus
far are placed at the enormous sum
of $1OO,OOO,OOO
GOldfield Is making a strong bid for
the next meeting of the American
Mining congress, and 1t is believed
that the enterprising camp will land It.
Gold production from the Snake
river deposits in Idaho is gaining In
that section number of ambitious
hydro.electric power and railroad
building projects exert powerful up.
lift on the mineral industries.
The new Goldfeld Consolidated mill
is practically completed and has been
running for several days trying out
the machinery. Parties who have
seen the mill pronounce it model
and declare it to be working perfectly.
Despite the drop in prices Of nearly
all metals, due in large measure to the
financial unrest of the last three
months of the year, 1907 was the best
year in the history of mining in the
state of Utah. both as to production
and profit.
The Bluff City, Utah. oil region is
reported to be one of the liveliest
spots on the petroleum map at pres.
ent Twelve drilling rigs are on the
ground, pounding away day and night,
and five producing oil wells have
been struck
AT the depth of 800 feet in the Lu-
Zero shaft of the Orizaba Mining com
pany, operating in the Indian Peak
district, streaks of gray copper and
chalcopyrite are coming into mas
sive body of ore on which the shaft Is
being sunk.
The first shipment of ore from the
rev strike in the ground of the Lion
Hill Consolidated company at Ophir
was settled for at the smelter last
week upon controls showing values OF
255 ounces in silver, per cent lead
and $l.2O in gold.
The principal copper producing area
! of Idaho is in the Occur dAlene coun-
/ try. The copper production for this
| year will reach a value OF $l,5OO,OOO.
! This industry Is now in condition to
| be considerably increased, IL the price
! of copper goes a little higher.
! In gold and silver production In
Idaho there are 267 producers, includ-
! ing eighteen placers. In ore valuation
the yield for the current year will
average AZ cents in gold and 1894 for
silver per ton. The ton value for gold,
silver, copper, lead and zinc will aver
age $l2.95.
One of the busiest mining camps in
Nevada today is Lodi, where the Lodi
Mines company Is not only develop
ing mine which Is proving a wonder,
but Is building Il lO0-tOn smelter to
treat its own ores The company has
laid out a townsite near the mine and
smelter.
The bottom of the winze, fifteen feet
below the $50 level in the Nevada
Hills mine at Fairview. Nevada,
shows a magnificent body of high
grade shipping ore, while three to four
inches of sensationally rich sulphides
carry gold and silver contents Of
81, 900 to the ton.
! II. A. Millick. one of the largest OPP
orators of the Osceola district In Ne.
vada, announces that he is about to
launch the Kohinoor Mining, Milling
& Power company. backed by Port.
t.V. tnly
the KohinoOr group of mining claims
In Spring valley,
The matter of petitioning the legls'
lature at its coming session to estab-
fish a state mining or industrial Blu.
reau. with an appropriation large
enough 10 make its work effective,
will be taken mp at an early meeting
of the Utah branch of the American
k Mining congress.
The richest discovery on Goldtield
Florence ground since that of the IA
nous Engineers lease has been un
covered in the adjoining block of
ground to the east, formerly known
as the Daisy Florence, and now the
property of the Mitchell-Fairfeld De
yelopment company.
The Independent Salt company has
Just completed construction of a dixie
on its property about three miles
south of Saltair, on the lake shoe
and Il is announced that plans for
refinery will be soon gotten out. II
is expected to build the refinery dur
ing the coming summer.
Greater activity in copper mining 10
being manifested now than ever be
tore In tie history of Utah. A
total of 141 ,2S9 $40 pounds of lead was
produced in 1907, and 1t may be ex
pected that the lead mines of Utah
will show n larger production for the
current year than for 1907.
Cuprite, New, where are large sui.
phur deposits which have been founG
to carry gold, apparentlSSin paying
| quantities. now laws claim to the fur.