The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-09-10
MINES AND MINING

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The latest from the Clifton district.
Deep Creek, is that ore is being mined
in the Lucy l.. property that carries
50 to 20 per cent blsmuth and close
60 $500 In gold per ton,
The Judas Leasing company. at
Pearl Idaho, has struck some very
rich free milling gold ore and are
hauling about Atty tons to the Easter
mill to make mill run.
The Itmay smeter at the Itmay
mine. at Grand Encampment wyo,
will he blown In about September 10.
This plant the second OF it's kind In
the state, is owned by Wisconsin cap
italists
The Parker Mountain Mining com
pany, whose property is near Mackay.
Idaho. last week received and In
stalled new crushcr A lot OF high
grade ore Is in sight, and the prop
erty looks better with every foot OF
work
The report comes from Chafey, Ne
vada. that capital is beginning to
take notice" of the opportunities
thereabouts; while strikes of new pay
shoots in the older and pay veins In
the younger prospects occur with re-
markabe regularity.
At the new gold.silyer camp of Ma
tional. near the Idaho line in Hum
boldt county, Nevada. ledge has
been opened in which at thirty.hve
feet depth is an eight.inch streak
which gives values. II Is claimed, az
high as $4,000 ton.
That the equipment for the Lodi
Mines company's smelter. which Is
being built in Denver. is almost com
plete and will be shipped soon, is the
word which comes from DR.. C. /.
Burt, who is directing the company's
operations from Reno.
Pig lead holds firm around 4.60c. 1t
Is the opinion of both producers and
consumers that no decided change
will take place for about month.
Then an advance to something like
475o is looked for, says New York
metal market authority.
That the Mendha mine. which con.
tributed nearly $l,000,000 to the
Phoebe districts production in the
old days. will produce great deal
more than that In future, Is the opin-
ion of experts who have lately been
investigating the property,
For the purpose Of making study
of the conditions in the coal regions
OF Wyoming, w. II. Bancroft. vice.
president and general manager, and
J. Nj. Davis, general superintendent.
of the Oregon Short Line, last week
went to the scene of the strike.
IT is understood that Goldfeld Con-
solidated interests have secured a
foothold in the Seven Troughs dis
trict and the foundation is laid for
one OF the biggest leasing enterprises
in the history of the country by the
requirement OF the Black, Campbell
and Swicapper lease on the Wild
Bull.
Advices from the Marshall Lake
district OF Idaho show much activity
there. The Goodenough company is
working on the 150-foot level and run
ming on four-foot vein of ore that
averages $50 ton, and will soon In
stall fifteen-stamp mill, while the
Mount Marshall is working about for.
ty men.
For the purpose OF receiving the
final payment OF s16,500 for the
ranch he sold the Federal Ely Cop
per company several months since,
Albert Heusser of Ely was In Salt
Lake last week. The payment com
pietes the sum of $4,000 which the
ranch with its fine water rights
brought him.
A deal has Just been closed where
by George Havercamp of Provo has
transferred 10000 shares of stock in
the Lilly Mining company and all of
his interests In the Silver King,
Golden Horseshoe, and other claims
in the East Tintic district. to the
Eureka Lilly Mining company. The
consideration Is $4,000
News of a big strike in the Hole
Card claim In Black Horse district,
has been received. The whole bottom
OF the shaft at the depth of fifteen
feet is in ore, 1t is said, which pans
more gold than anything ever before
opened In camp, which means a great
deal.
The Moscow, in Beaver county
Utah, has twenty feet of high-grade
copper ore at the bottom of its
Wine from the 400 level. The
Wine is down thirty feet and the ore
body has been widening rapidly. A
drift is being run on the 500 level to
catch 1t.
Preparations have been made for
the resumption of the active work OF
development on the Jefferson Exten-
sion properties, adjoining the ground
OF the Consolidated Jefferson Mining
company, at the mouth of Little Cot
tonwood, about sixteen miles from
Salt Lake.
Seven feet OF ore that breaks $40
a ton is what the present manager
has opened up in the old Buster mine
at Ida, Nevada, a mine that the for
mer management spent 100000 in de-