The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-05-21
MINES AND MINI

Humboldt range, in Nevaa, ue
which Tiptop is the center !. sad
ing a big crowd of prospectoS. aa'
vestors. Ma
Leasers on the Diamond or.
pany's property at Beatty IN w i \
frog district, are marketing s
Salt Lake City that is rupn,, "
A carload sold few days 40"
s217 in gold per ton. . u
In 1907 alone the product,o,
ore In the United States woa
600 tons, or more than 2o0
for each man. woman and cbi,a @
sS,000,000 population. And The Ivy NY
tion is steadily increasing p'N
The initial discovery in the n,
district of Nevada was made n.y.
gust by Mrs. Donald McCartb~
merly a dancing teacher OF col,.,
who a year ago turned to prosns's
She, however, kept her flnd y
secret until about two months a..
DIR. l.. A. Crandall, the po,os
expert, declares that around lu,.
will be encountered at the sh.s
depth of $50 feet in 400 to 550S,-
quantities, while working to A.
of 1000 feet no less than six olls'
ing strata will be encountered
Word from Phoebe brings tIdi,,
a fine strike of lead and silver J.,
the property of the Nevada pl..s
Mines company. At depth o, \,
feet the management has encom,,.,
seventeen feet Of the ore, and itl'
of the real excitement breeders a n
season there.
Pleading guilty to the charrs
promoting fraudulent mining s,b,r.
by the use of the mails, John 0H,
was sentenced in the United S,,
district court at Denver to serve h
day in the county Jail and to pay
fine of $500. The prosecuting M
ney recommended light senteuu
Another splendid mining prorm
in Beaver county that has been !,
joying a Rip Van Wrinkle sleep for !,
eral years will be in active operat.
again before the end of the press
month, according to the Salt I,bI
Herald. 1t is the old Washpsr
company's property in Loeber mid
Not before the first of July wint1
United States Smelling, Reinlng +
Mining company resume operatimr
its lead smelter in Utah. In the men /
time the company is expendns i
the neighborhood of 100000 in III
stalling apparatus which will perriI
operations under the decree Of MI
Utah courts.
A most important bit Of news II
silver miners is the decision Of ID
German government to resume N
coinage of silver on a scale that Vi
call for 40,OOO,000 ounces of silver u
nually for the next five years. MI
will absorb 10 per cent of the t0z|
amount of silver that comes upon u
open market.
Tip Top, in the East HumooA|
range, in Nevada, is said to be d
ideal poor mans" camp, Just vaf|
the well-informed prospectors Of NJ
west have been looking for duringta|
last ten years. Prospects show d
twenty to thirty feet depth payl|
quantities. of ore worth $3.50 to iip]
per ton in gold.
Probably the most important strla]
OF the winter in the Deep Greek cols]
try has been made in the Clifton Cql
per Belt company's ground. A ff|
foot ledge has been opened up NJ
mass averaging SIS in gold, 56s NJ
cent copper. 1928 per cent bfsnui|
1853 per cent tin and .G2 per csI
nickel per ton.
On Wednesday of last week u
management of the Utah Mines Y
ceived a check for $2,1657, IN r'|
ment for the last car of ore recens
in the local market. The ore "
sayed 205 ounces silver and " "
cent lead. calling for sl2G4O per la
There were 52.764 pounds dry wel9'|
in the consignment
1t is stated in Boston that there
no longer a Lawsonian connecun
with Nevada. Utah. There are 4
tween 1900 and 10000 stockholdenh
this corporation, and the leading n
terests believe that the compan!
now prepared to stand on Its meila
1t is shipping from forty to Sixty =.
loads OF ore per month from 4
Phoebe properties.
When the republic was iounu,
there were, according to recent eAs' x
estimates, approximately 2,VVVw.
100000 tons of coal in the terli'"'
now forming the United States pr
tically none of this supply was w. y
for over quarter of century ~ Z
during the seventy-fiye years .on' n "
1920 to 1895 nearly 4,OOO'ooO'vV"'l
tons were mined.
Coal consumption Is increaslnt
an astonishing rate. During u, :
riod for which statistics have D
gathered, 1t has doubled durins ~, ..',
decade; of late 1t has more
doubled. In 1907 the productlon -. -
about 450,0U0,000 tons. AT tne vi
ent rate OF increase the producuV'
1917 will be 900,000,000 TONS /,