The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-08-13
MINES AND MINING

FoiAhtN AAt tAtNAe II vi July. ltVts knG
coal mines at Clear Creek were
worked twenty.six days This year
they have been worked only thirteen
days.
A new mining camp has been
brought to light half way between
Kawich and Silver Bow, on the east
slope of the Kawich range, and at the
foot of the range that separates the
Reyeille range from the Kawich,
The report comes from Park City
that John j. Daily and John McSorley
have taken an option on the Boulder
Basin group Of claims in the Bonanza
Flat section, and that they have UNI
til January first to pay 100000 for the
same.
The continued activity that is being
taken in American Fork canyon, and
the prevailing spirit at every claim
where men are developing proper
ties, shows the confidence which ex-
perienced men and miners have in the
district.
While the management is having
mighty little to say about conditions,
1t comes from good source that the
Cactus property of the Newhouse
Mines & Shelters corporation. in
Beaver county, is developing in
manner that is altogether gratifying.
For the quarter ending June 80, the
Utah Copper company's gross pro
duction of copper amounted to H.
56S,390 pounds. The average cost
for the quarter was SIG cents per
pound on the net copper resulting
after allowing smelter deductions.
James Hague of New York. well.
known mining engineer and president
of the North Star Gold Mining COM
pany of Grass Valley, Cal, died at his
summer residence at Stockbridge,
Mass, aged seventy-two years. Mr..
Hague was consulting engineer for
the state of California for several
years.
Eighteen inches of shipping ore
was encountered on the face of the
tunnel on the Martin & Gourdier
lease at a depth of eighty feet on the
Mazuma Hills at Seven Troughs last
week. The strike occurs in big
parallel vein 600 feet west of the fa-
nous Mazuma Hills vein in entirely
new ground.
Speaking of the Elk mining district
of Idaho, the Elk City News says: "a
wild boom is not necessary in central
Idaho. The districts have everything
that is required for legitimate min
ing. The country Is ripe for the rail.
nd &c hui will ynf hai
share of the money that goes with
the prosperity"
Good progress continues to be made
in the erection and equipment Of the
new 600-ton mill of the Goldfeld Con-
solidated company. All the retaining
walls and heavy foundations are COM
pleted and the water storage tanks
are erected and in commission. A
| locomotive and six cars have arrived,
and are satisfactory.
| The Bingham Butte Mining COM
| pany of Bingham, Utah, has started
! campaign of development work
that will begin giving results at an
early date. 1t is the intention of the
management to send the shaft on
down another 100 feet, then to up
raise on the ore body now developed
at the deepest level
While not desiring to give any date
on which the Daily Judge company of
Park City will cut loose with three
shifts both in the ore bodies of the
mine and in the mill, General Man.
| ager George w. Lambourne stated
last week that the force of miners
employed on development work was
being added to right along.
The new hosting equipment of the
Pioche-Pacific Mining company at
Phoebe, Nevada, has been installed,
and is now doing splendid work. The
hoist was set above the new shaft
which was over 80 feet in depth at
that time, and the shaft Is now down
| at least 100 feet BY the time the $50
| foot level is gained 1t is expected that
! the Zero vein will have been encoun-
| tered.
The entire hosting plant of the
Copper King company has been pur-
chased for the Red Warrior mine in
Beaver county. The plant consists of
a large gasoline engine, a compressor
| and other machinery and Is OF suffi'
cient capacity to handle large
amount of ore.
Another shipper has been added to
the list of Phoebe producers in the Old
Timer. The property is one of the
noted old producers Of the Phoebe dis
trict, although it has not been count
ed ON as a shipper for many years
The value of the ore shipped runs
from $50 on up.
A deposit of asbestos, in the form
sometimes called mountain cork,
has been discovered near Henryville
| It is in a vein about four feet wide
| lying between sand and spar. In ap
pearance the stuff is not unlike gyp
sum and in weight 1t is probably nc
heavier than cork.
The total production of coal in
/ Idaho in 1907 was 6,508 short tons
having a spot value of $26,494, says
the bulletin of the United States geo
logical survey. Ignite beds occur II
several areas in Idaho but little min