The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1909-08-28
MINES AND MINING

ming produced sulphur In 1908
amounting to 369,444 long tons, val
ued at s6,6G8,215, the greater portion
OF which came from Louisiana.
The Idaho Mining company, operat.
Ing In the Pierce City district, is COM
pleting a second dredge for the high
placers adjoining the town Of Pierce
and IL expects to begin operations in
short time.
The total production of both aDthra-
cite and bitumirous coal in the Unit
ed States in 1908 showed a decrease
OF 64,520,726 short tons or 13.43 per
cent In value in the production of BIZ
luminous coal
The Nabob Mining company, own.
ing twenty-one claims, of which two
are patented, three miles from Ward.
ner has more than $4,000 worth OF
ore on the dump awaiting mill.
There is much ore in sight.
| The total number of men idle be-
cause of labor troubles in 1908 in the
| bituminous regions was 145,145. The
total number OF working days lost in
| the bituminouS regions alone was s.
449,938. compared with 4G2,392 lost in
| 1907.
The consumption of sulphur In Che
United States, comprising the domes-
tic production, the imports, and the
sulphur content of the domestic and
Imported pyrite, was 791 ,402 long tons
In 1908, an increase of about $1,000
tons over that OF 1907.
l.. +. Williams of Lewiston, Idaho,
has sold to the Bradley interests In
the Bunker Hill & Sullivan Mining &
Smelling company for $4,000 the
Black Lead property in Lolo Pass
country, 1875 miles east of Lewiston.
The property was located by Mr.. viii.
liams Is years ago.
The management of the Wonder
Mining company, operating in the
Occur d'Alene district, in Idaho, re.
ports striking ore few days ago. The
vein at the point of intersection is
richly mineralized with lead carbon.
ates, crystallized lead and iron oxides.
1t is IL to Is feet wide.
The coal mines of the United States
during 1908 gave employment 10 a
total OF 69O,438 men, against ESQ., 92
in 1907. The increase in 1908 as
compared with 1907 gives reasonably
fair indication of the condition OF the
labor market. The surplus of labor
was general throughout the country,
While the record of accidents in
the coal mining industry in 1907 was
the worst in the history of the coun-
try, the record made in 1908 was a
favorable contrast to the year preced
ing. In the twenty-five states from
which reports have been received
2,450 men were killed and 6,772 in.
jured in the coal mines.
The total production in the United
States of coal during 1908 was 415,-
S13,G9S short tons, having a spot
value of S532,316,117. or this total
74,347,107 long tons, with a spot value
of $3.50, 17S,S49, was Pennsylvania an.
thracite and 332.573.944 short tons,
with spot value of $374,135,262 was
bituminous coal and Ignite.
The superintendent of the Snow.
storm Mining company, in the Occur
d'Alenes, says in his annual report for
the fiscal year ended July 81, that g..
338,310 pounds OF copper was pro.
duced, together with 661,471 ounces OF
silver, of net value of $536,359. The
net profit on each pound of copper
was approximately three cents.
That the leasing system will be re-
newed in Goldfield upon scale even
larger than during the so-called boom
days, Is assured, Practically every
one of the Wingfeld properties is
now thrown open to leasers upon IA
activity in the hills to the east not
equaled since the early days Of the
camp.
The United Gold corporation, recent
ly incorporated, has to some extent
developed in the Sunny Jim mining
water, ledge forty-nine feet wide,
from which shipments of twenty-five
tons day of high grade gold ore are
to be made pending the completion on
the ground of a mill of 1000 tons a
day capacity.
Both custom mills In the Gold
Circle (Nevada) district are being
operated steadily, according to word
received from camp last week, and
for the new mill for the Rex
mine is being hauled in from the rail
road. The strike in the Ripsaw lease
is holding out well in sinking. there
being large body of milling ore with
a four-inch streak which is said to
run $40 sackful.
After two years, DEVELOPMENT, dur