The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-07-29
AROUND THE MINES

director of that company TO the bos-
ton News Bureau.
The old Geyser-Marion mill at Mer-
cur, Utah, was destroyed by fire last
week. The mill had not been in OPP
Grafton for ten years, but there was
some material In II Oh value.
Mining conditions in the Boise bas'
in, in Idaho, are getting better rapid
ly. and the various properties are en-
joying new era Of prosperity, which
means much to that district.
Recent shipments of first class lead
ore from the Utah Apex mine IN B.ng-
ham, sent directly to the smelter, have
averaged in gross value better than
$22 a ton, with a tendency of the lat
ter lots TO run higher.
Allegheny district, Sierra county,
California, is attracting the attention
of the mining world from the fact that
a number of very important disclos-
ures have been made in that section
within the past five or six months.
1t is the intention of the company
owning the Edna mine, 20 miles north
of Idaho City, to install 100000 plant
for the treatment of their ore. The
plant will embrace stamps, tube-mill
and filter press and cyaniding pro-
cess.
That the recent find of high grade
silverlead ore in the Consolidated
Andes claim at Park City is of con-
siderable Importance to the Silver
King Coalition Mines company was
shown by the active demand for the
stock
Twenty years of patient prospect
ing has revealed the ledge on the
Jack Waite property near Murray,
Ida. where large quantities of ga
lena ore and boulders carrying ship
ping lead and silver were in the
| gulch, SO near the surface that the
| action Of the water would have dis
closed them in the course of time.
A company has recently been incor-
porated for the purpose of mining
and marketing black marble and
onyx, in the rough or polished as re-
quired. The quarries are situated
some two miles northwest of Pelican
| Point on the west side of Utah lake,
and less than a mile from the San
| Pedro railroad
| The steamer st. Croix arrived at
Seattle from Nome on July 22, with
| 100000 in gold dust and bars On
| the way down the st. Croix stopped
| at Cordova and the passengers were
taken up the Copper river on a spe-
cial train forty-nine miles to the camp
where a s3,000,000 cantilever bridge
is under construction across the river.
Production will be resumed at once
! from the Victor shaft OF the G. y. ID.
| Consolidated at Goldeld. The extrac-
| ton of ore was suspended while this
shaft was being sunk from the 800
| to the 450foot level, where the ore
has been exposed again and good
| tonnage of pay ore Is assured. This
ore carries a high percentage OF cop
per and is shipped to the smelters of
| Utah.
| The fourth unit of the Steptoe val
in commission. 1t may be some
| little time before machinery
is thoroughly broken in and
running smoothly. 1t will handle,
however, from 1000 to 1.20o tons OF
ore per day from the start and in
connection with the other three units
will create a steady demand for fully
1000 tons of ore per day
| Scores OF prospectors are engaged
| in mining on the mountains in the
vicinity of the Horst-Powell and
Handspike copper properties on the
! Little North Fork. in the Coeur
d'Alenes since the Idaho Northern
railroad began making surveys for
! branch line up the Little North river.
| Every foot of mining ground has
been locaaed within ten days, accord.
ing to advices from the north
In two of the wells which are being
drilled in the Virgin oil field-those
of the Interstate Oil company-are
excellent indications, it is said. that
oil is about to be encountered in the
second oil sand. Overlying that sand
| is a 400-foot stratum of hard lime
stone.
The first shipment of high-grade ore
from the original strike at EIlendale
netted the owners trife more than
$4,000 ton, according to the Tono-
pah Sun. The consignment com
prised fivestons of rock, the total sum
received having been something over
$4,000.
A report of the. receiver of the
Idaho Smelling 6 Refining company
owning the Panhandle smelter at Pom
deray, Idaho, shows that the concern
has total liabilities, exclusive of CAPT
tai stock to the amount of $501, ,559. %
and that its total resources are $222,-
2i4.9S.
The Belmont mine near Marysyille