The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1908-10-10
MINES AND MINING

both gold and silver for 1907, having
furnished s2O,s97 900 of the former
and s7,5S7OOO of the latter metal.
Uncle" Jesse Knight will soon
have the Uintah Treasure Hill mine
machinery installed. He is installing
new boilers, compressors and ma
chine drills.
The Gold Point Mining company on
Red river in Idaho, has ordered 40
ton capacity CHILEAN mill Assays OF
ore taken from this property have
run as high as $780,
Next to Colorado in production Of
silver during 1907 was Utah, $7,52S,.
500; Montana, with s7345,5OO; Ne.
vada, $5,465,100; Idano, s5,206,300;
Arizona, s1,916,OOO, and California,
81 ,049, 400.
The Wabash mine at Park City
has closed down on account OF the
water The company intends to put
in new boilers and new machinery to
handle the large volume of water
that has come up in the mine.
Fire resulting from an explosion Of
can of oil in the boiler house burned
all the buildings belonging to the
Union Pacific mine at No. dump, at
Scofield, Utah, including the boiler
house, dump. engine house, and small
adjoining buildings.
Three feet of solid galena ore that
averages 65 per cent lead and 45
ozs. in silver. with several feet more
the handsome proportions of a strike
Just made in the Branburg property
in Big Cottonwood district.
Alaska produced SIS ,4S94OO in gold
| during 1907 followed by California
with $16,S5S, 500; Nevada, with 3d.
900; Utah, with $5,121 800; South
! Dakota $4,13S,2OO: Montana, s3,472,-
600; Arizona, 1864 900; Idaho, ST..
255. 900, and Oregon, $l222,200.
Twenty-three miners at work in the
| Mollie McCarty mine quit in a body a
few days ago, being dissatisfied with
the Chinese cook, says the Idaho City
World. The company has employed a
lady cook and two of the old crew
went back to the mine to work
A message received from Oro-
! grande, Idaho, states that a rich strike
has been made in the Four Mile min
ing district. This strike was made
on a claim about 400 feet from the
rich find made last spring that start
ed the big stampede to that district
In Boxelder county, Utah, where
one can stand and look over into the
states Of Utah Idaho and Nevada, is
a mining section that is coming to
the front in an ore development way
without making much fuss over the
fact. This section Is In what Is
known as the Goose Creek range OF
mountains.
The Zenoll Silver. Copper company
last week marketed a lot Of ore from
it's mine at Palisade, Nevada, from
which II realized the sum of $2,69S. 10
after freight and smelling charges
had been paid. The settlement
showed values of 231.3 ounces in sill.
yer, SIS per cent lead and 2.5 per
cent copper
The dam for the first power plant
on Little Cottonwood creek, in the
| Alta district, is complete with the
exception of the last section OF con.
crete work. The djverting Of the
water through a tunnel to admit Of
laying the last section has just been
finished and short shift will be made
! of the work remaining to be done.
The production of gold and silver
by the mines of the United States for
the calendar year 1907, as determined
by the bureau Of the mint and the
geological survey, acting in conjunc.
ton, aggregated 4,374,S27 ounces OF
fine gold of the value of 500 ABS, 700
and 56,514 700 fine ounces of silver of
the commercial value averaging &C
cents an ounce, or $37 ,299.700,
Active development will he started
at once and continued all winter at
the property Of the Liquidator Min.
ing company, situated near the Hec-
la, in the Occur d'Alenes. The com
pany has Just ben organized for the
purpose of working the group of
claims
The strike In the Columbus Exten-
sion company's tunnel at Alta has
opened into from 80 to 40 feet Of sui.
phides, the greater portion of which
is fine stuff that slides like sand,
making the progress of work very
slow. Not the entire body Is Of com.
mercial grade.
The Dominion Copper company
formerly operated under the direction
Of Samuel Newhouse, but subsequent.
ly turned over to eastern sharehold.
ers, is TO be reorganized. The neces'
sity for this action, says the Boston
News Bureau, arises from the lack OF
treasury funds.
The officials OF the Uintah Treasure
Hill Consolidated company, whose
property is located in Park City, have
called on the stockholders for one
cent ner share the money to he