The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1908-04-04
MINES AND MINING

nall, >. d., laSC week, lHu WASTE
thousands of acres OF land and de-.
stroyed a number of school houses.
ZONES and barns. No fatalities are
reported.
A dispatch received at the navy de-
Iartment from Commander John
Hood of the cruiser Tacoma, says
that that vessel ran aground while
entering the harbor OF Willemstadt,
island of Curacao.
One of the largest copper-producing
interests in this country tells the Bos'
ton Financial News that consumers
are scrambllng for lake copper at 1914
cents and that the market Is liable to
advance any day.
Forced to action by committee
Of fifty prominent citizens, the com
mon council of South Bend, Ind, has
ordered all questionable resorts, in
Guiding gambling houses and alley
saloons. Immediately closed.
The old workings OF the Sheets-Ish
lease on the Combination at Goldheld
has caved, tipping over the gallows
| frame of the vertical shaft and carry
ing down half an acre of the surface,
| which Is assured In dozen directions;
A company has been formed, to be
| known as the Boston-Sunshine Gold
Mining company, which will take over
| the noted old Sunshine property OF
| the Mercur district of Utah. The
property has been secured through a
receivers sale.
General Manager G. w. Clapp OF
the Commonwealth mines, situated q
| few miles south of Reno, Nevada, Ia
making arrangements for $4,000.
900 smelter proposition to be located
near Reno. II will be known as the
Western Shelter company.
The Federal Ely stock Is now as
sessable, the stockholders having de-
cided on that at the annual meeting
held last week. Out of 10000 shares
issued, 637 900 were represented. and
the vote to make the stock assessable
was practically unanimous.
The naturalization of the Granite
district of Nevada Is unique. Two
parallel veins, or surface groupings,
one OF gold quartz and the other OF
silver-lead, run for more than thirty
miles north and south between Cher
ry creek and Hercules gap.
Development work is being vigor-
ously prosecuted In the Wabash prop
erty at Park City The vein Ia
strong one and well defined. The
values all are rich, the ore running
from 100 to 400 ounces silver, IL to
10 per cent lead and from to per
cent copper.
Practically all the machinery
which. when set in place, will COM
pose the new $4,000 converter plant
of the Yampa Smelling company at
Bingham, has been received at the
mine, and Is now waiting for the build
ing to be completed so as to allow
installation.
A stampede is on to new camp
near Austin, Nevada. There Is much
excitement, especially among Tonopah
people, and the valuation of property
is soaring skyward. The ore carries
, bromides, chlorides and horn silver.
, and is described as being boSh very
rich and strong.
Thirty-five thousand members of
the United Mine Workers Of America,
: employed in districts Nos. 4, 81 and
20, comprising Missouri, Kansas, Ar
kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, will 60
, on strike on April 1, following a de
cision reached at a meeting of the d.
vision Of vice presidents held last
! week.
Charles II. Meyer, president of the
Western Federation of Miners, in an
= interview at San Diego, Cal, last
week. said Every condition of the
mining industry in Colorado, Idaho
,, Montana and other western states Is
improving rapidly and ! look to see
things on a most prosperous basis by
= the middle of August"
1.-THE man who ships in ore carrying
so per cent lead, or 1000 pounds pei
, ton, which at 81 lead is worth $40 per
, ton, gets, under existing conditions
$22.S0 per ton, while the smelling
, company gets 1920. Yes, there IL
J trouble in Utah between the shipper
! and the smelters," says Harry 8. 10
seph secretary OF the Utah Mine Own
ers' association.
In the Salt lake Offices OF the Ne
vada Hills property of Fairview. Ne
> vada, may be seen samples of ore
, that are a source of Joy to the average
. mining man. The ore carries thou
sands of ounces silver per ton, the
rntive metal being plainly seen by
/ the naked eye. In addition to silver
l. the ore has as much as thirty ounces
!, of gold, 81 per cent copper and some
lead values also.
The richest property In the new
y to be that owned by John Pulsiphe
g and William Farnsworth, both Of ST
o George. They located the grouni
If about February s and have well
a defined ledge which carries high val
=. ues in gold. A piece OF gold wa
taken out of this mine by the owner
% which is a quarter OF an inch thicl