The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-08-27
MINES AND MINING

made In the Carney Copper group.
Directors of the Utah mine OF Fish
Springs last week declared the regu.
lar dividend of three cents a share. or
$4,000.
The famed Occur d'Alene district
OF Idaho has produced gold. silver.
lead and copper mineral to the gross
value OF approximately $175,0O0,000 TO
date since 1884
From q perfectly reliable source II
is learned that an ore body has been
uncovered in the Bradburn property
at Marysvale for a distance or over
100 feet and the values run from $50
to $1,000 per ton.
A report has reached Sumpter. Ore.
that most wonderful rich strike has
Just been made In the Red Boy mine.
The strike was made on the 700 level.
and is said to be the richest vein OF
ore ever uncovered In the district.
The old Colconda mine near Baker
City, Ore. has JUS been sold at sher.
| iff's sale for claims amounting to $780,
900. which claims were held by hard
ware firms and supply houses, The
property was at one time great pro-
| Queer.
Montana men have secured work
ing bond on the Hay Fork quartz
claims owned by Leo and Antoine I'm
| ternahrer says the Idaho City World.
A payment of $1,000 has been made.
The bond was given for two gears and
| half.
| From Beaver county comes the
| news that the Stalwart lease on the
| Talisman property Is working in from
eight to fourteen inches of ore that
runs 1000 ounces in silver with high
lead values. The find is on the 200.
foot level.
Not In twenty years has the mining
| outlook In the vicinity OF HALEY.
| Idaho, been so bright. All the mines
are working as large forces as posi-.
BILE, and the ore bodies seem to Inn
prove in richness with every foot of
development
A new compressor will be installed
soon at the Utah-Bingham mine in
| Bingham. Ore shipments are also to
| be inaugurated and II is said applica-
| ton will shortly be made to list tho
stock on the Salt Lake stock and min
ing exchange.
Fifty thousand dollars is the value
| of the first five days production on
| the Mohawk Jumbo lease on the Gold
/ Wedge at Goldield. Stopping was
started on Monday. and every avail
able man was used for whom a place
could be found in the mine.
A prominent and conservative min
ing man declares that there is now
beginning at HALEY. Idaho. the big
gest mining boom that the west has
ever seen; that 1t will be on merit.
strictly. Wildcat ts barred, and that
1t will last two or three years.
President George M. Nix of the
Dolly Warden Mining company. oper-
| ating in the Dolly Warden district, an
/ nounces that he has financed deal
in Chicago by which the company re-
| celves large amount of money for
carrying on Its development work.
Constant rapid Improvement Of a
proposition which was most promis-
ing at the start Is the word brought
! from the Alta company's mine out
| from Mackay, Idaho. The tunneT has
been driven 165 feet on ore giving
assay values of $40 In gold. 175.5
ounces in silver and 2 per cent cop
J per.
mill run Of fifteen tons of ore
from the Wihuja Gold Mining com.
pany's lease on the estate OF tho
Seven Troughs Therein Mines com
pany, made the other day In two
eight-hour shifts at the Kindergarten
mill, turned out bar of bullion
weighing 224 ounces and valued al
$4,000.
Representatives of majority OF
the stockholders in the Hogan mine
at meeting recently held at Elk
City. Idaho, voted to double the
capacity of the present plant. which
Is now handling 1876 tons of ore per
day at net profit of 5000 The stock.
holders also voted $4,000 for improve,
1 ments.
The Potosi mill at Silver City,
Idaho, is nearing completion, but is
now awaiting the arrival of the bal.
ance of the machinery. In the mean.
time the cement floor is being laid
about the battery. track from mine to
ore bin Is also being laid, and 1t will
now be only a short time until the
mill Is completed.
More than so names. including
those of the most prominent mining
men of Utah, and all of them thor
oughly representative, have been
signed to the roster of membership in
the new Utah Branch of the Ameri
can Mining congress, and q meeting
for permanent organization is to be
held during the week
By unanimous vote the Salt Lake
Stock and Mining Exchange has ap
proved the action of its governing
board In accepting the proposition OF
Samuel Newhouse to give to the ex-
change magnificent site for stock