The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1909-12-25
MINES AND MINING

down are finally appearing in the
eastern press.
The first carload of "coalette" pro-
duced at the plant of the Superior
Fuel & Briquette company, at Coal
Vile, was shipped last week to the
Salt Lake market.
Preparations are being made for the
Inauguration of a campaign OF active
development work on the property OF
the Ely Resurrection company in the
Robinson district
1t is stated that John. Hays Ham.
mond will act as intermediary in the
consolidation of the Utah Copper COM
pany, Nevada Consolidated Copper
company and the Boston Consolidated
Copper company,
Contact. a new mining camp in the
northeastern part of Elko county,
Nevada, about sixty miles from Wells,
now boasts a population of more than
200, and development work Is going
steadily ahead, despite the inclement
weather.
Important strikes have been made
in doing assessment work on the
Lorin Hall group of four claims, adj
joining on the west the Harrington
Hickory patented ground of the Ma
jestic Mines company. In Beaver
county, Utah.
Petroleum lands ITO the extent OF
three million acres lying in Caifor
mia, Utah and Oregon, have been
withdrawn from entry. This is a
temporary measure to promote a pro
posed revision of the laws controlling
the disposition of such lands.
From absolutely good authority 1t
Is learned by Mining Age, New York,
that prominent copper people have
been in Washington recently with a
view of presenting the plans they
have in view regarding the contem-
plated combination of copper mining
interests.
reappraisement of the property OF
the Colorado Fuel & Iron company
places the assets of that company.
when was threatened with bank
ruptcy few years ago, at $1O0.556,-
476.O6. The total liabilities are given
at $S1 ,24S, 147.66, showing balance OF
SIS, OS,3274O.
During 1908 the United States con.
tributed more than one-half of the
worlds production of copper, the ex-
ports of copper from this country hav-
ing been 618.613,S42 pounds, the larg-
est amount recorded. These facts are
contained in report on the subject
by the United States geological sur
vey.
Work of cutting the. station at the
1,0OO-foot level of the New York Bo-
nanza company's shaft has been COM
pleted, according to the Park Record.
and pump has been lowered to
handle the water. Drifting to the
ledge will from this time on be prose-
cuted diligently, and 1t is expected
that the ledge will be cut inside of $50
feet.
Rehabilitation of the old White &
Shiloh and Trinity mines, near Battle
Mountain, Nevada, has been inaugu-
rated by the Golconda Mines com.
pany, of Paris and London, by start
ing the work of driving a 3,300-foot
tunnel, which will afford permanent
drainage and permit of sinking the
White e Shiloh shaft to much great
er depth.
With power drills eating into an
ore face 80 by 40 feet in dimensions.
breaking 80 to 40 tons daily, with an
average value of $45 and $50 ton;
and with streak 10 to IA inches wide
which ranges from 500 to 81, 400 a
ton in values ready for extraction, the
leasehold of the Pioneer Leasing &
Milling company is admittedly in fine
condition, says the Rhyolite Herald.
When finally rounded out, the eng
genheim copper merger may have ex-
tensive smelling and refining facili-
ties, for it is now planned to take over
the Garfield smelter and the Balti.
more refinery These two plants, to-
gether with the Utah Copper com.
pany, the Nevada Consolidated, and
Boston Consolidated companies, will
constitute the greater part II not all
of the combination.
Though a little Temporary embar.
rassment has been occasioned In the
work at the Daly-Judge mine in Park
City by the heavy flow of water which
burst through from its course above
the 1900 level the first of the week,
the permanent results will be just
what the management has been striv-
ing for in its efforts to drain this part
of the mine, to permit of the more
extensive development of the ore
bodies.
Jules Lebarthe. manager of the
Consolidated Smelling company;
Trail, British Columbia, the largest
smelter in Canada, and one of the
foremost in the world, himself one of
the most prominent metallurgists in
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