The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-06-04
MINES AND MINING

From the. present outlook, Pearl
| Idaho. will have prosperous year IN
the mining industry, with companies
preparing to start operations ana tne
leases that are working.
prospectors on the Easter Mining
company's claim at Pearl, ldaho' a
| few days ago discovered ore that as
sayed $3.50 per ton, and VIII concen-
trate to an $S4 product.
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 man of the mining district OF PARK
City, Utah, is being prepared by Child,
| Cole e Co., Salt Lake brokers, wnlch
| 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 S79,24l,766
pounds against 917,620,000 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 hav,
simply sacked their ore and left 1t on
the ground, but now they are going to
throw it on the market.
At the Bear Top mine, in the Occur
d'Alenes, at depth of 1000 feet In
900 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 Goldfeld News shows that dur.
ing the week ending May 15 the camp
produced 2072 tons of ore valued at
S143,280. For the week ending May
%, the mines of the district produced
2,439R tons of ore, the value of which
was $211,537.50.
The Cumberland-Ely property In the
Ely, Nevada, camp has been under de-
velopment a little over year and
nalf and in that time its Veteran ore
body has been opened and 100000
tons of ore placed in sight that will
average 3A 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
340-foot tunnel, estimated from pam
nings to be worth at least $50 per ton.
Immense bodies of fuxing ores,
just the kind to mix with the silica
rock from the Goldfeld 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 Godfleld
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 Coeur
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 200. 900
pounds of this steel, and the first re.
ceiyed 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, it is demon.
strating right now that the old relia.
SAtiB 10 Juol DO Iltil tlS ever and ia
producing ore in a way that must be
gratifying to those who have banked
their all on that camp.
Several hundred Pittsburgers ar,
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 were
sent TO Montana to make thorough
examination of the property, fayo,r
able report being received.
The first stamps were dropped IN
the Seven Troughs district on Nav 27
when the Kindergarten mill at Seven
Iroughs and the Mazuma Hills mil,
at Mazuma started a battery of fivo
stamps each running. The trial in each
case was highly satisfactory and as a
result both mills will be running az
soon as few alterations can ha
New machinery has recently bear
installed at the Indian n,.