The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-08-20
MINES AND MINING

soon 10 be considerable increased &C
tlvity In the Duck Creek district in
the vicinity of the Steptoe smelteG
The total stock sales of the salt
Lake mining exchange for the past
week amounted to 62l,70t shares, the
market value of which was $751;.
1864
For the first half of the year the
total production of iron in Germany
was 6,0i9,7O0 tons. against 6.355.900
tons last year. The reduction was
less than 5 per cent.
During the year 1907 there we're re-
ceived into the Yerington district
total OF 69,137.140 pounds of freight,
while 9,3S1.2S0 pounds were shipped
from the district to outside points.
Eighteen inches of shipping ore has
been encountered in the face of the
tunnel at depth of so feet In the
Martin and Gourdier lease on the Ma
yuma Hills estate. says the Seven
Troughs Miner.
A strike that is as rich as any of
the fabulous ones in the early days
Ut thDtuuflut anu WIN Ibth ~ llCH u
would be superfluous to assay 1t, has
been made at Gold Reef, nine miles
south of Tonopah.
II is announced that eastern capital
is becoming interested in the Seven
Devils district, In northern Idaho,
and as a result season of develop
ment and production is expected that
will ultimately mean boom for that
district
Last week narrow vein of gaiena
was encountered In the Mountain Dell
mine, in American Fork canyon, Utah,
the owners feeling highly elated. be-
lieving the vein will widen and boz
come richer as development work
progresses.
| The situation in the German iron
| trade continues most unsatisfactory,
and the controversy over the abolition
of the duties on crude iron and steel
and scraps has tended to increase the
discomfort and uncertainty In all sec.
tons of the trade.
AS the result of the explosion of a
boiler at the Raile gold mines near
! Charlotte, Tenn, Superintendent
THEE was instantly .killed and three
other men seriously injured. The
cause of the explosion, which demol-
ished the stamping mill, is not known.
The original lease or the Diamond
Queen is to the front with the big
gest strike yet, says the Bullfrog
miner. Samples from the shell that
seemed to lie between the spar and
the ore ran sSOSO and one from the
ore as it was taken out and dumped
into the ore bin ran $340.40 to the ton
in gold.
The Cactus, in Beaver county, Utah,
is now putting out about 100000
pounds of copper per month, but the
management says 1t will not be long
before the company will be treating
1000 tons of ore per day at its con-
centrator and putting out the largest
production Of copper In the history
Of the mine.
A meeting of the stockholders OF
the King David Mining company was
held in Provo last week, at which
Jesse Knight and David Evans, the
principal stockholders, sold them
selves 100000 shares of the company's
treasury stock at par, so cents a
share, thus placing in the treasury a
working fund of $4,000.
Some idea Of the development work
being done in just one mine in the
Yerington district can be had when I,
is known that the Nevada-Douglas
mine is doing nothing but develop
ment work, Is doing no stopping, and
yet they are shipping 60 tons Of high
grade copper ore to the smelter al
Salt Lake City every week.
The SteptOe Smelling company
which Is owned by and treats the ore
of the Nevada Consolidated and Cum
berland-Ely, is already putting out al
the rate of 100000 pounds of cop
per annually. Operations to date
have demonstrated that Nevada Con
solidated will secure recovery of n
per cent of all the copper in its Q Il
2h per cent ore.
The company which owns the Min
and Lucky Boy mining claims nea
! Horseshoe Bend has secured leas,
, of the Osborne ore crushing mill ant
will operate 1t for several months II
order to test the ore In the Luck.
; Boy mine, says the Emmett Idaho
Index.
Salt Lakers are planning to secur
the headquarters of the American
mining congress, now located In Den
, yer. This would mean, II the plan
r prove successful, the erection of
mining temple In Salt Lake City an,
the centering In Zion OF a great in
dustry.
From Lodi camp north of Tonopah
Nevada, comes word that preparation
for the building of smelter by tn
Lodi Mines company is already caut
ing considerable new mining activit
, in that and neighboring districts. TIL
plant is to be Of 100 tons dali
capacity.
The Utah Apex mine at Bingham
has resumed production. From 80 t