The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-03-25
MINES A ND MINING

The Ipava Coalition Oil company
nled articles with the county clerk OF
Salt Lake county last week. The new
companv will exploit claims In Wayne
county.
s. e. Bell. who Is said to represent
the Standard Oil company. is reported
to have secured options on $4,000
acres of oil lands in the vicinity Of
Byron, Wyoming.
vein 30 feet wide. which pans
plenty of free gold clear across has
lust been crosscut by w. n. Horner
and associates in property adjoining
the Auburn mine in Chafey camp.
Recent developments in the famous
old Ophir mining district of Utan
would indicate that Ophir is destined
to be the next camp of the state to
become rejuvenated and successful In
an ore producing way.
With the coming Of spring, after a
winter that is without parallel for its
heavy snowfalls. the International
Smelling & Refining company has set
in full motion again its big smelling
| project IN 1OOele valley.
! 1t is announced that James Breen.
a close business associate of +. A.
Heinze, has been making an investga.
ton of Phoebe properties and the Sup.
position is that the Miners Smelling
company is planning. to enter that
field.
For the first time since December.
i
| 1907, the Daily West Mining company
of Park City, Utah, has found itself
in shape for dividend consideration.
and the directors of the company met
on March 10, and decided to post 80
cents a share.
The copper mines of the country are
not curtailing to any considerable ex-
tent. Should demand for copper
spring up and be maintained. the
mines could not increase production
| 100000 pounds month above the
present rate of production.
Members of the various committees
of the American Mining congress, to
/ serve the ensuing year, were named
at a conference of the executive com
mittee recently held in Denver. Cap
tain Duncan MacVichie, of Salt Lake,
is the vice-president for Utah
Harry d. Brown, we'll known
| broker of Los Angeles, is missing, and
felony warrant for his arrest is in
the hands of the city detectives.
Browns liabilities are said to amount
to nearly 100000 with his assets but
small proportion of that sum
The production of copper in the
United States, Mexico and Canada for
the month of February shows a falling
off of 100000 pounds compared with
the high production months of Novem-
Der and December, and a falling off
OF 100000 pounds from January.
The engineers, who will control the
work in the Alaskan gold fields for
the Yukon company, have completed
ali arrangements to go into the frozen
north, and start the plants in opera
ton. three weeks earlier than has
been done in any previous season.
The official report of the Nevada
Consolidated Copper company shows
large production during the first
three months of this year. says New
York dispatch. The original installa-
tion is now in full operation and last
month 10000 tons of 2 2-10 per cent
ore were placed in the Steptoe smell.
ter
The Mining World of Chicago be-
lieves that 1t has found a compromise
by which the warning factors in the
lead tariff matter can be brought to a.
safe and sane agreement, and In so do
ing shows that it is not only the east
| ern consumer or manufacturer who,
wants free lead, but the smelling in
terests as we'll
The new mill at Marshall Lake.
Idaho, has started up and is doing fine
work. The mill has two batteries OF
three stamps each. Each stamp Is
1850 pounds and the capacity of the
mill is thirty tons in twenty-four hours.
Two Fruvanners and two Whitley
tables are used in concentrating and
are working fine.
Discovery of a new ore body of en-
ceeding richness has been made on
! the Combination No. | of the Console.
dated at Goldfield. 1t is the most i'm
portant find made in this camp for
year. 1t is in ground that has hitherto,
been uneXplored and the trend of the,
ore body is toward the Old Kalfus,
lease on the Mohawk
On the Owyhee river within thirty
five miles of Nyssa, Ore, indications
point to highly mineralized section
only awaiting development That coal
exists in paying quantities has been
| demonstrated. Within twenty-seven
miles of town ca good vein has been
encountered on which development
work is now being prosecuted.
The annual report of the United
States Steel corporation was made
public March II, and showed that for
the year ending December 81, 1908. .
gross receipts of $4S2, $40 were