The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1909-05-22
MINES AND MINING

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Nevada.
Under the Block Wallop law passed
by the last Legislature, the famous
coal camp at Hanna, Wyoming VIII
soon be a dry town. as no new liquor
license will be issued except In In
corporated towns of the state.
In the Black Horse mining district
of Nevada. the Ohana company is sink
ing shaft. and at depth of 100 feet
a six-foot ledge is exposed, over two
feet of which gives average assays OF
S4.4 ounces silver and 5.91 ounces gold
per ton.
The Jack Pot Mining company.
whose property is situated at Her.
cules in the Wonder mining district
of Nevada. is to commence active
work within the next thirty days, and
number OF improvements will be
made.
Goldheld has gone Cripple Creek,
Colo, one better on gold production.
An official report of the April produc-
ton of the mines of the Cripple Creek
section gives tue total at 1884 .525.
Goldheld produced during the same
period about s2,536,725.
John ID. Ryan, president of the In
ternational Smelling and Refining
company, in an interview published in
a Denver newspaper, emphatically de-
MES that any rate agreement has
been entered into between the Inter
national and American companies.
The great coal merger in the east
has been completed. five big companies
having been merged into one. The com
panies have a combined capital stock
of SS7,650000, and own and control
100000 acres of coal lands in Mary
land, West Virginia and Pennsylvania.
The old Highland Boy Shelter at
Murray is being rapidly RACED to the
ground by the big force of steel work.
ers who are now on the job. All the
steel is being shipped to Tooele as
fast as torn down, where the lnterna-
tional smelling plant is being erected
A mill of $50 tons day capacity is
nearly ready to be placed In opera
ton at the Observation-Disclosures Console
dated mines, at Austin. Nevada. Elk.
haustive tests show that the ore can
be milled for s1.40 a ton. The new
company has expended about $500, 00(
getting the mines ready for produc
ton.
Indicative of the present copper sit
uation. some figures on the recent
copper sales In the east will be of in
terest. Since May | there have been
;25.000.00 pounds of the red metal
sold. one firm alone selling about so.
000,000 pounds. the average price re
ceived for which was 13 cents pei
pound.
Lorenzo d. Cunningham. negro
employee of the United States mini
nj New Orleans, was arrested as he
was exhibiting a real gold brick. Gun
bingham confessed that he had stolen
the gold in graduated form from the
separating division of the mint and
then moulded 1t into the oval shape
in which It was found.
The Golden Reef mining stock wal
listed last week on the Salt Lake ex
change. The company is capitalized
for 100000 shares OF stock, par value
20 cents. OF the original 81 900 share,
of treasury stock. $4,000 shares have
been sold. There is the sum OF 81, 100
in the treasury, and the debts of th'
company amount to 81 400.
Because OF the demand OF the ives
and southwest for precious stones the
prices OF diamonds and pearls are t.
be increased soon. Prosperity in thos,
sections Is credited by the Nader
Lane dealers with causing them TO d.
more than 100 per cent more business
in precious stones last April thar
during the same month last year.
According TO assayers and others o
mathematical turn OF mind the at
. mosphere in the building used a
Cananea. Mexico. one night last weel
] as a theater, was worth nearly $40
: 900. A travelling Italian opera com
: pany was billed for a performance
7 and an old ore house, the larges
building in town. was fitted up 70
! the show. Before the performance
was over the stamping OF feet by pee
! pie in the audience had set the gol,
dust flying from the cracks ar'
crevices OF the old ore house. Tit
I. gold laden dust was so thick it mad
lpeoSle sneeze.
5 The monthly statement of the Cor
per Producers association for Aprl
. shows the stock OF marketable cope
. of all kinds on hand in the Unite'
State April /. 1s2.27g,902 pounds. Tn
y stock OF surplus copper was increases
+ during the past month by slsiT
q pounds.
What has turned out to be one o
!, the most severe accidents in the his
, tory OF the Consolidated Mercur Col
= Mines company at Mercnr was that o
7 last week. when eight teaching tank
I settled 20 such an extent that thei
valuable contents were lost TO tn
" company
Mining companies operating In Ne
vada will not have TO file or send 3
, stockholders their first report, as re
auired by the new wildcat" bill. Ut
e III June, 1910, according to an Jpinio
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