The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1909-09-11
MINES AND MINING

SOIllt lllllC 10 llt OluCl NnlOu othu
to have gone out for the closing of the
UNDERGRADUATE mine ana mill at
Delamar, Nov.
within the past few weeks several
good strikes have been made in the
Alta district and in the surrounding
territory that has tended to lend in
terest to the work that is now being
carried on there.
The Denver & Rio Grande during
August shipped 5000 cars, or 30c,,
tons, of ore from the Utah Copper aud
Boston Consolidated mines to the
smelter at Garfield. This is an aver.
age of 200 cars per day.
A deposit of saltpetre has been
discovered at the mouth of Greenwich
canyon, near Richfield, Utah, the dis.
covery being GOO feet in length, with
the depth unknown until further de-
velopment work is performed.
Owing to to the good results that
are now being obtained at the old Fos-
ter property close into Phoebe, it is
understood that big company will
shortly be organized to take over the
old bonanza and convert it into a divi-
dend payer, If possible.
The Sewer Con. mine, near Rich
field, is said to be in almost as virgin
a state today as when it was first dis
covered 1t has never had a chance
to make good" and yet it is ac-
credited with production somewhere
in the neighborhood of $250,000.
Considerable excitement has been
aroused in Bingham recently over a
strike reported to have been made in
the North Bingham Mining company
property in Barney canyon. This is
the company in which Uncle" Jesse
knight is the controlling factor.
Geological conditions are fit for the
finding of oil around Moab, in Grand
county, is the opinion of II. Il. Peter
son, a mining engineer of Oakland, Cal.
Grand valley country while on his way
to Bluff to examine the oil fields.
According to Milton Moore presi-
dent of the American Asphalt associa-
ton, which owns number of gibson
tie claims in the Uintah reservation,
the amount of hydrocarbonates ex-
tracted from that district has nearly
trebled in the past seven or eight
years.
Nevada's mineral production during
the first quarter of 1908 was $780,
92152, and for a similar period this
WAR o1p coz TNI,ig iu
increase of nearly 200 per cent, max
ing the estimated total for the year
1854, 540.76, as compared with $14,-
373,545.36 in 1908.
YeringtCn, New, is coming to the
front in support of the proposed road
to the Nevada Copper Belt Railway
company, according to news received
from the camp. At a meeting held at
Yerington the people of that city sub.
scribed for $4,000 shares of the $780,.
900 of bonds allotted to them.
Although Cherry Creek, Nevada, has
been silent as to the mining activi-
ties In that district, there has been
much work done in the past few
months. The new Star mill is nearly
completed, and when finished, will be
one of the finest, latest improved ore.
reducing plants in the state.
Manager George H. Dern, of the
Consolidated Mercur Gold Mines com
pany at Mercur, denies that there is
any intention on the part of the man.
agement to close up the mine and
mill. He declares there Is no truth
to the story that the output at the
mine was not keeping up to its ex
penses.
The advance of ! cent a pound OF
the tariff on zinc contained in ores
made by the new tariff law, should
operate to increase not a little the
production of zinc mines OF Good
Springs district, according to H.
Hardy former sheriff Of Salt Lake
County, who is now operating at Good
Springs.
Senator Kearns and his associates
have the utmost confidence In the
north end of the Tintic district, as
shown by the action of the officials OF
the company, authorizing Manager
c. Sullivan to install diamond drills
and to proceed to explore the grounC
a distance of 1000 feet below the bot
tom of the shaft.
Something distinctly new, in the
form of a siX-inch streak of ore which
gives assay returns OF 1922 per CEN
copper, in addition to 1924 per cen
lead and 1464 ounces in silver anC
$l60 in gold, mas been encountered II
the bottom of the winze from the 100
foot level of the Phoebe Metals com
pany's Point mine.
The Cole-Ryan people are organizing
company to take over several prom