The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-06-10
MINES AND MINING

According to the Tonopah Sun, 5000
ore has been discovered in the Pioneer
lease, and the ore is being sacked for
shipment
One hundred thousand dollars WIS
taken out of the Eldorado mine at AL
lesheny, Cal. in sixteen hours, the
richest strike in the history of the dis
trict.
standard custom mill for the camp
of Ramsey, Nevada, has been decided
upon the plans and specifications for
the first 100-ton unit now being in
preparation.
A strike has been made at Frazer
wells, north of Tonopah, in a forty
foot shaft, that runs as high as $40 in
gold the assays running all the way
from $40 to $40
Gold is being taken from the Round
Mountain mines in Nevada at the rate
of $4,000 a month, and the chances
are that this total will be greatly in.
creased this month.
Editor Branson, of the Tonopah Sun,
who recently visited Manhattan 10 in
vestigate its placer workings declares
that it Is another Klondike, with some
advantages in favor of Manhattan.
new insulating material discov-
cred by an English scientist, in coal
tar product, is said to be stronger
than rubber, to stand higher tenn
perature and to be unaffected by most
chemicals.
Gold mining in Georgia, first at
tempted by the Spanish explorers who
learned from the Indians that mug
gets were to be found in the streams,
has been carried ON continuously
since 1925.
New English blast furnace for
the manufacture of pig iron is said
to utilize 81.7 per cent of the heat,
whereas a common coke crucible fur
mace employed in making steel uses
but 1.43 per cent.
The first recorded use of the word
kerosene was in a United States pat.
ent issued in 1855 to man who
claimed to have invented and discov-
cred new liquid hydro-carbon, to
which he applied the name.
valuable placer strike is reported
to have been made seventeen miles
south of Tule and six miles from
Eureka valley, feeder to Death val
ley. quantity of the surface stuff
showed upon assay 1925 to the yard.
The Phoebe New Record an.
nounces that a smelter with capacity
to meet the requirements of producers
OF the camp will be built at or near
Phoebe. the enterprise being backed
by men with ample means to carry
1t to a successful conclusion.
The present bullion output of the
mills of Nevada indicate an increased
production over that of any previous
year, and an increase above the esti.
hate of $1S,000,000 placed upon the
gold and silver production for 1909 by
the state bullion tax collector.
A decrease in profits ranging from
40 to 65 per cent is shown by the as
sessment statements recently rem
dered by the mines of the Occur
d'Alene district in Idaho, which pro-
.duce practically so per cent of the
output of lead in the United States.
A streak of high grade silver ore,
described as almost native" has
been found by the Mountain Dell Min
ing company in the raise which is
being driven to connect its 300-foot
tunnel with its inclined shaft at the
property near American Fork, Utah.
The owners of the Big Giant Gold
mining property, situated ten miles
northeast of Boise, have recently
closed deal which means an addition
of over 100000 to the treasury and
it is the intertion to at once put the
mine in shape to make 1t dividend
payer.
An organization to be known as the
Homber Mining company has beer
formed by Salt Lake capitals tol
the purpose of taking over and de
veloping group of claims in Box Ell
der county. The group numbers fiji
teen claims carrying silver and leat
values.
A silver nugget believed TO be the
largest in the world, has recently
been discovered in the Cobalt-Gem
property at Cobalt, Canada. 1t is five
reet six inches long, two feet five
inches in width and sixteen inches
thick, weighing 5000 pounds. 1t is Il
per cent pure silver, and is valued a
$4,000.
That there has been regeneration
in mining operations at National, tn,
rich mining camp in northern Hum
boldt county Nevada is evidenced b.
the fact that number of leases have
been let recently, and eXtens.Ne ID
ing operations are in progress in tina
district.
The ella Copper company is anothe
Arizona copper proposition which /
is confidently expected will maxi
some honorable history for that stat
and for its sponsors. The propert.
has low grade copper, but It is pre-
dicted that the deposit is almost in