The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-07-01
MINES AND MINING

copper ore for over 40 feet.
Goldfeld. Tonopah and other
southern Nevada towns are consider
ably agitated over the question OF
what place is likely to be chosen as
terminal OF the new railroad from Ely.
The price of radium is now eight
million dollars per pound, according
to an order given by British com,
pany last week for 71a grams, FOR
which they have contracted to pay
S150000
With a stringer of ore which as
says as high as $197 ton, leasers on,
the Seven Troughs Knickerbocker
company's ground. near Vernon, are
in fair way to open paying prop
osition, according to latest reports
The gold diggings in the neighborJ
hood of Fairbanks, Alaska, will yield
| S12,000,00 during the present yeari
according to reIOrts received by az
Seattle bank. This bank expects to-
handle about $6,5000O0 of this Alas
kan gold dust
One hundred dollar silver, lead and
copper ore is being extracted from a
prospect hole in the Silver Island
mining district of western Utah. re-
| Gently acquired by Salt Lake men,
| who have secured a bond on a group
| of five claims.
A company has been formed in Salt
| Lake City, its special purpose being
| the exploiting Of a patent iron fence
| post and telegraph-telehone pole.
| Utah iron, smelted by the Fink
process, is to be used in the construcr
ton OF the new product
All records for copper production
on the American continent were
broken in May with an output of 110,-
| 1853 900 pounds, as compared with
| 04,755,0 GOO pounds in April and 9O,-
| $50, 300 pounds in May last year, says
the Boston News Bureau.
| Within less than month and half
the Goldfield Consolidated has sent
put to the mints in gold bullion $777,-
100, represented in bricks handled
through John s. Cook & Co. The total
is the shipments for exactly forty
sour days. This means strict aver
age for the time of more than S17,66O
a day.
.Ive feet of ore which is said to
run close to 5000 a ton in gold have
been opened at depth of only fifteen
| feet from the surface in the Jumbo
nine in Hart, California, district.
he strike was made in 40-foot
| open cut driven to the vein at a point
some distance down the hill from
| the shaft
Hundreds of settlers, acting in con-
cert, have located every acre of the
Southern Pacific's undeveloped oil
land in the Colinga, Cal, field, The
! result of a suit now pending TO test
the validity of the railroads deed to
part of it's undeveloped holdings, will
largely determine the course of the
recent settlers.
The third trial OF the famous suit
of the St, Louis Mining company
against the Montana Mining COM
pany, an English corporation, involv-
ng title to an exceptionally rich strip
of mineral ground near Marysville,
Mont, was begun at Helena last
jeer. he property is estimated to
be worth s1,O0000O
Last week there was shipped from
Salt Lake City to the property in
Idaho of the Cannon Ball company a
fifty-horsepower hoist and a sixty-five-
horsepower boiler, which will be in
stalled Immediately. This company
has the new mill practically ready for
business, and in July active produc-
ia gold pu.non VII be under way.
Mines of the North Star distr ct,
Utan, while working in a relatively
small way are making a good show
ng. The Moscow is shipping at the
rate of three carloads a week, the
| 2ed Warrior is maintaining a credit
able production, the Hub and the Ce-
l&r-Talisman are working in good ore
and several prospects are giving
promise OF soon entering the produc-
ng class.
An open cut which taps the great
strike at Mount Ellen, Salisbury
Wash district at the depth of 12 feet
rom the surface, has opened ore at
at depth which pans the almost un-
Delievable values of 100000 a ton
in gold, according to the Tonopah
Sun.
The recent landslide at Roosevelt
proved bless ng in disguise for the
mining firm of Caswell & Curran, the
torrent uncoyering for them the very
sround tley We're expending much
money to reach, it being estimated
hat this freal, Of nature saved them
$4,000
So far as Glendale, or Salisbury
Wash, is concerned, the disposition OF
SAe more conservative mining men OF
Soldfeld Is to await development be
, | fore rushing in with money. The
original owners are doing nothing
and have scarcely stuck a pick in the
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