The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-01-21
MINES AND MINING

Rhyolite, Nevada, is shipping ore
from an eight-foot ledge that goes
5000 to $500 to the ton without sort
ing.
The building of the Lemhi smelter
in Idaho has added great stimulus to
mining in the district, The opening
of spring will witness large influx OF
miners and prospectors.
The Consolidated Mercur mine is
producing larger tonnage of ore
| than it did last year. The December
output was 10000 tons, which is about
| normal under present conditions.
OF eight wells put down to the
| first sand" in the Virgin oil field,
| four are known to have oil in good
quantity, and the others have light
| showings of oil and natural gas ac-
| cording to the Virgin Valley Enter
rrise.
That the Hero Nevada Mines com
pany, operating near Farrell, Seven
| Troughs district, will start production
| as soon as the new custom mill at Ma
yuma is ready to receive ore devel-
| oped at the company's annual meeting
| held in Salt Lake City last week.
At no period in the history of this
| camp has so much practical develop
ment work been carried on as is be-
ing done this winter, says the Silver
| City (Idaho) Nugget Numapous tun-
| nels are being driven to open veins
at good depth, and the opportunity
| for investment of capital was never
| better.
One of the important events of the
week relative to the operation of the
| FRINGE Consolidated mine was
cutting of station on the 550.foot
| level and the starting of a crosscut to-
wards the rich assures, says the
Phoebe Record. The progress of this
work will be watched with keen in
| tercst
Mrs. NJ. E. McC;0ty Boise woman,
| has three claims in the Pearl district
which she is developing, the ore vein
being about five feet in width and the
assays averaging S1564 per ton. She
also has six other claims on Shaw
mountain assaying SC per ton, the ore
body being $50 feet wide and cya-
nide proposition.
Eight inches of ore Carrying high
values in gold and copper has just
been encountered in w. J. Wolsten-
holmes Big Mitt property in the foot
hills between Big and Little Cotton
wood canyons, fourteen miles or SO
southeasterly from Salt Lake City,
some of the richest streaks going
$4,000 to the ton.
Gas is still forcing water out be-
tween the casing at the Ontario well,
ut Ontario, Oregon, and small flow
of oil has been encountered-that IS
the oil arises with the water and the
fluid is visible The drillers are still
sanguine of striking a gusher, and
do not expect to bore more than 2,700
feet to obtain the same.
1t is announced that the third ship
ment of copper ore from the Salt
Iake-Californih company's property
In Del Norte county, California, has
just been settled for. The ore Is
shipped by water to the smelters at
Tecoma, and the grade of the ore Is
such that, after paying all transpor-
tation and smelling charges, the COM
pany gets about S29 a ton.
The Middleton Ore Reduction COM
pany, of Middleton. Idaho, has recent
ly completed its plant for the testing
and working of ores. This process Is
something new in this state but has
been in successful operation in Cali
fornia for several years. The process
employed is by amalgamation, concen
tration, cyaniding, chlorinaton and
by the Eureka ore reduction system
All kinds of base ores can be treated,
In connection with the Consolidated
Mines annual meeting at Goldfield on
January IL, the entire 100 stamps of
the new mill started at full capacity,
crushing ore at the rate of 600 tons
day The gross value of the ore viii!
be about $4,000 day or $720,O0O j
month. The daily production will be
greater than the $50 stamps of the IA.
nous Alaska Treadwell and the Home
stead combined
The Three Links Gold Mining g.
Milling company, limited, owners of
the Buffalo group of claims in the
Black Hornet district, in Idaho, have
recently purchased a five.stamp mill
which Is to be installed on their prop
erty so soon as the weather will per.
nit.
With no further material delay in
receiving material and equipment
construction work Of the Boston Sun
shine company's mill at Mercur should
be completed by the first of February.
according to George IT Dern, man.
ager OF the Consolidated Mercur COM
pany
The total production of primary re-
tned lead, desilverized and soft. from
domestic and foreign ores in 1908
was approximately 39l, 900 short tons.
worth, at the average price, s32S44,-
VOO as cOmpared TO q nrndnctinn OF