The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1908-11-07
MINES AND MINING

Maine and Missouri in the order
named. are thS greatest producers
of lime.
The worlds coal production, both
anthracite and bituminous, in 1907,
was but little short of half billiop
short tons.
II is estimated that fully 25,000,000
pounds of copper have been pur-
chased from the leading copper agen.
cies during the past week or ten days.
The mining outlook in the Little
North Fork country is improving very
materially as development work pro
crosses, says the Occur dAlene Jour
nal.
The United states including
Alaska, produced but siXty.two tons
of tin in 1907, about one.twentieth of
] per cent of the total output Of the
world
The prospects are encouraging for a
lively season next year in the Buffalo
Hump country, according to reports
made by A. F. Shultz, principal owner
of the Del Rio mine
The Granite Copper company, oper.
ating in the Mineral range, in Beaver
county, Is getting out a shipment of
ore which Is expected to run about is
per cent copper, with some lead, sill
yer and gold.
Aluminium may be sodered with
a solder made from tin and zinc or
tin. bismuth and aluminium. The lat
ter is the more malleable II pieces
are to be further worked after join
ing.
duced in the United States in 1907
were worth $S96,O22 the best record
in the history of the industry. Ohio
produced nearly IS per cent of the
total.
Pennsylvania mined IS ,O35,412 net
tons of anthracite coal in 1907, ex.
ceeding the best previous years pro-
duction by more than 100000 tons.
1t is estimated that 7,0O0,000,0O0 tons
remain unmined.
A good stike of eight inches OF
copper ore has been made on the
Der. located near BoraX and adioin-
ing the Amazon-Dixie on the north
says the Wallace Times.
The Tanana district OF Alaska this
year will send out only about $4,000
900, although the actual output OF the
district has been So 200, 900. The other
5000, 900 remains In the dumps as
water has not been available for
sluicing up.
The Ponderev smelter has secured
freight rates that make 1t possible TO
get ore from all points in Montana,
Idaho. Washington and Oregon at rea-
sonable rates, thus opening the whole
smelling field of the northwest to the
new concern.
The North Butte company has fin.
ished the station on the 2,200foot
level, and commenced prosecuting to
the vein, which should be reached
| very shortly. Crosscutting has been
commenced on the 2,OOO-foot level and
| is progressing well.
saltwater Bill Gates, miner and
explorer of the northland, who
amassed a half dozen fortunes in
Alaska only to lose them in various
| exploits, including his matrimonial en-.
tanglements, has landed in Spokane
| from one of the boom mining camps
of Nevada. where he cleaned up a
| tidy fortune.
Indications are that the crosscut
from the bottom of the 750-foot shaft
of the Seven Troughs Mining company
is approaching the vein opened ia
some extent down to the 500 level
according to advices FROM the camp
| After cutting that vein something like
60 feet remains to be. driven TO reach
the larger fissure
| Steps have been taken toward the
organization Of a mining company &c
develop mining claims in the vicinity
of Spirit Lake, Idaho. A party OF
| pTospectors have been working on 8
| claim a few miles from the lake anC
they assert that they have found ore
rich enough and in large enough
quantities to make mining pay.
The Mammoth smelter of the Unit
ed States Smelling, Refining and Min
| ing company VIII have copper pro
duction this calendar year of 10000,
900 pounds, larger output than has
yet been recorded for all the smelt
ers in California combined in any one
year.
The famous Cracker Jack mine
near Calendar, Idaho, is to be re
opened within month with a force o
twenty-five men, The property wal
sold last summer under foreclosur,
proceedings and was. bid in by Mix,
Sweeny, a well known mining man o
Spokane.
A strike has been made In the LioI
Hill Consolidated companys propert!
at Ophir that borders on the sensa
tional Ofiicials Of the company de
clare that two men have taken GU
more than $1,000 worth OF the or,