The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-04-29
MINES AND MINING

earnings OF nearly $2,O0O,0O0 Tor the
year.
1t Is expected that within the next
two weeks at least two of the Virgin
valley oil wells will demonstrate
whether the Virgin valley is TO be a
large producer or moderate one.
John D. Ryan, president of the in
ternationa Smelling & Refining com
pany. and managing director of
Amalgamated Copper company, has
returned to Butte and expects to re-
main in Montana some time.
The Margold lease on the Raw
hide Coalition estate, at Rawhide,
Nevada, is now raising $500 ore from
the new chute on the 100 level. The
high grade streak on the hanging wall
maintains an average width of ten
inches.
Copper production at the Steptoe
smelter for the month of March was
somewhat in excess of 100000
pounds. The promise of so per cent
increase over February production
was fulfilled with handsome margin
to spare.
The Boston Consolidated owns
forty-nine acres of impregnated mon
zonite carrying is per cent copper,
from which an estimated production
of 56,000000 tons of ore can be de-
rived. In addition to this there are
107 acres of l per cent ore.
The Hughes Construction company
of Denver has been awarded the con.
tract for the carpenter work and the
erection of the machinery in the
fourth unit of the Steptoe concen
TRAITOR The time allowed for the COM
pletion of the work is 80 days.
John Gllie, superintendent of the
Amalgamated Copper mines, is firm
in his statement that North Butte is
in excellent condition and he discred
it's that the mine is on the wane. He
maintains that on the 1,200-foot level
the value of the ore is growing bet
ter
An active season is predicted for
the mining camps of the Boise basin.
The miners of the district report I'M
usual activity at the various camps,
due partially to reported rich strike
by the Jupiter Gold Mining company
developing the Nichols claim, situated
about seven miles southwest of Idaho
City.
The Jumbo Plaster company of ST.
gurd, Utah, located near Richfield.
has its new eighty-ton milling plant
in successful operation, and is now
confronted with the necessity of en-
larging this plant in the near future.
The company owns good share of
the great gypsum deposits in that re-
gion.
That Yerington Copper has every
prospect of opening mine that will
compare favorably with the big ones
of the Yerington district is indicated
by the fact that the drift on the 400
foot level has been extended about 70
feet westward with full face of 15
per cent copper ore the entire dis
tance.
The Rye Patch Consolidated Mining
company, recently organized to take
over and operate the Silver Bell and
the Alpha mines at Rye Patch, Hum
bolt county, Nevada, has just received
report from its expert which would
indicate the possibility of the restora-
tion of these old producers to their
former fame.
Colonel e. A. Wall and Reuben May
who are promoting the establishment
of plant for the production of steel
castings in Salt Lake, state that their
aim will be to make the concern mod
ern in every particular. The ma
chinery to be installed will be of the
latest model, and scrap and pig iron
will be the material utilized.
Work of removing ore from the ia
nous new stope in the Combination
No. l at Goldfeld was resumed last
week, only one shift being employed.
The stuff is being taken only from
the fifth level, or $50 feet The rock
runs from 500 to 81 900 a ton gold,
and within five or six hours values
to the extent of $4,000 can be taken
out.
Both the Nevada Consolidated and
Cumberland-E have demonstrated
that they can produce and lay copper
down in New York, including every
possible charge, at s cents per pound,
thereby placing these companies in
the front rank of the low-cost pro-
ducers.
One who is in thorough touch with
United States Smelling affairs says:
THE differences of opinion between
r. ID. Evans and his co.dlrectors have
at last been adjusted, but only
through the purchase of Mr. Evans
stock and his elimination from the
company"
Equipped with plans for extensive
development of the remarkable ashes
tos deposits on Casper mountain,
Wyoming, A. f. Minium, general man
ager of the North American Asbestos
company, landed in Casper last week.