The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1909-09-03
MINES AND MINING

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The site for a smelter and ooncou.
irating mill, TO treat the ores Of
neiFhborlng camps has been secured
vt Winnemucca, Nevada.
Patsy" Clark. millionaire mining
mau uf Montana. has undertaken the
regeneration OF the old Cortez dis
trict In Eureka county. New.
Directors OF the Goldncld Consoli.
dated Mines company. az their meet.
ing held In Chicago. posted the regt
lar dividend Ut 80 cents share.
amounting to Sio65,OOo.
Louisiana, Nevada Utah and wyo
ming produced sulphur In 1908
amounting to 3G9,i4 long tons. val
ued At tG.GGS.2ib. the greater portion
Of which came from Louisiana
Arrangements are being made to
roorganlzc the Panhandle Smelling
n Refining company and resume OPP
erations ut Pondcray. Idaho. within
sixty days The capacity OF the plant
is to be doubled 2
the Utah Leasing company. which
is operating lease on tho United
States Mining company's old Tele-
graph mine In Bingham, is shipping
ore at the rate OF sixteen and
eighteen carloads n month
The first shipment Of ore from tho
lower workings OF the Little Bell mine
at Park city IL on the way to the
smoltor and the work 10 in progress
which will result In tho production OF
considerable tonnage regularly.
There has been marked change
In the mining industry In the north.
crn part OF Idaho during tho past few
months. Properties which have been
lying idle for over a year have taken
on an appearance OF unusual activity.
The second strike has been made In
the Atlanta group. In Goldneld. in
which something like 100000 had
been expended by owners and leasers
without result. until body OF pay
ore was encountered few weeks
ago In one OF the leases.
you hear people say that the Utah
Copper company IL making biz hole
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me toll you that hardly spock OF It's
tremendous copper ore tonnage has
been touched up TO date" said a prom.
lncnt Bingham citizen last week
William A. Parish well known min.
Ing engineer. II making a thorough ex'
animation OF the property OF the Ely
Central Copper company. In the inter
est OF the campaign Of development
which ~ being inauguratod. The com.
pany has been financed, II Is said, for
strong operations.
After exposing i've feet OF rich
copper orc. the now shaft on tho
koano-wondor property Mt ronopah.
Nevada. has again broken into FREQ
milling gold quartz. the copper sui.
phidos having been entirely displaced
by the same character OF quartz on
which the shaft was started.
Shortage OF lead In the ores avail.
able for the now smelter OF the Lodi
Mines company. which In operating
the famous Illinois mines. forty.fyo
milos west OF Luning. New. has de-
layed the blowing IN OF the furnaces.
according TO adyiccs from camp. Tho
plant was ready for business July /.
4 strike has been made In Tho
property Of tho Mineral Mountain
Mining company In the Canyon Creek
district. about Ave miles from Johns
siding. Montana. Assays show ~
per cent copper. ounces silver and
80 cents IN gold. This IL far above
the Butte average. and ia causing no
little excitement
The Lion Hin Consolidated com.
pany OF Ophir received the settlements
last week for car OF ore. the car
consisting OF three different lots. OF
lower grade, there being several
thousand tons available. the assay
returns were sl.33 sold and 80 ounces
silver The second lot assayed $3.50
gold and 100 ounces silver. while tho
third was valued at sG5.N per ton.
Several weeks ago the management
OF the Utah Mines Coalition company
Of big Cottonwood drove the tunnel
into very good showing OF shipping
grade ore. and this was opened for
VA h'Ah ulNHR AiAN hAAAh' W HAAN's -
lime horse was then encountered, but
on being penetrated the ore came IN
again stronger than ever and the
tunnel now is progressing ON fun
face OF shipping grade.
Blue Cloud guloh, four miles west
Of Helena, Mont, Is the scene OF an
old.fashloned gold stampede, as thu
consequence OF strike made by
Fisk and Potter, Helena residents.
They oontended that the early-day
placer miners worked a false bottom
and genuine bedrock was never
reached, and sunk shaft twenty-five
feet lower. with the result that gravel
was again encountered. Mining OK.
peris declare the strike means 81 ,000.'
900 for the dlscoyerers.
We learn from a 2i.page booklet, re-
Gently printed by the Park Lity Rec
ord for the Commercial Club. that tho
greatest quartz camp In tho west has
produced more than SlOO,OOOOOO ana
there hasn't been 10 cents expended
In advertising its wealth
Recent DEVELOPMENT on a group Of