The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1909-10-16
MINES AND MINING

lhterSperScC with steel galena.
The DAILY West Mining company has
posted It's third quarterly diviend for
the present year. The regular amount
of 20 cents share, or a total Of s54,-
600, is to be paid to the shareholders.
A new strike of sensationally rich
gold ore has been made by T. ID. Wat
kins, father OF the Blackhorse dis
tricts in Nevada, In his Blackhorse
claim, in which was made the original
discovery of the camp.
While exploring a tunnel off the
200-foot level in the Jim Butler mine
at Tonopah, Congdon and Kendall,
who have a lease on that portion OF
the mine, discovered a stringer OF ore
which assays $70S to the ton.
The Nephi Plaster company is just
finishing, near Nephi, Utah. the best
and most complete plaster mill In the
west The mill Is of 200 tons day
capacity and is equipped with every
thing in the way of modern machin'
cry.
That the mine of the Shoshone
| Quicksilver company, in Nye county,
Nevada, of which Salt Lake men are
chief owners, is likely to become one
| of the worlds greatest producers or
quicksilver, is indicated by Information
just received.
The smelter recently blown In at
lodi by the Lodi Mines company Is
treating about sixty tons of ore day.
The capacity of the plant is 100 tons n
| day, and as soon as 1t Is thoroughly
limbered up ores from neighboring
mines will be treated to make up the
capacity.
Reports from Park City are to the
effect that the Iowa Copper property,
which started shipping about month
ago. has not only maintained its output
since that time, but has materially In
creased, additional teams having been
employed to haul the product from
the mine to the shelters.
The Huff electrostatic process for
separating zinc from other metals IN
ores, which promises to add millions
To the value of mines in Utah and
some other states whose ores carry
zinc, is favorably mentioned In the
annual report of the American Zinc,
Lead & Smelling company.
For the year ended August 1, Utah
Apex earned a net mining profit oil
1924, 1855, according to the Boston Com
mercial. During the year mining was
confined to the lead OF body on whicf
work began a year ago. The body
has steadily increased in size and has
responded we'll to development work
The Dayton lease on the Buckhorr
property, in the eastern end OF Sever
: Troughs district, has crosscut invent,
fleet in vein matter, with no hanging
wall yet iu sight The average of f1f
teen feet Of the vein is IS ton II
gold, it is said, while four feet on TIN
hanging wall side carries pay milling
values.
j. G.. Berryhill of Des Moines Ia,
, director of the Castle Valley Goa
company, has recently made visi
to the company's property in Ceda
Valley, where, aided by Consulting En-
| Sl1teT d. N. oclltll, ht SOiNS'Nu p''N
! for the company's tipple and for 1t
town at the mines, which is to b.
called Connelsville.
l A rich pay streak, ten miles Ion
i and hundreds of feet wide, has bee
uncovered in the bed of the uppe
; Kourgarok river in Alaska. The III
y usually light rainfall last summer pc
mitted the miners to reach the golf
One nugget found is worth $500. Tn
district promises to be the best in tn
9 entire Seward peninsula.
With the expiration Of the contrac
. between the Utah Consolidated Mil
:, ing company and the American Smell
= ing & Refining company next Apri
a net earnings of the mining compan
h should show substantial increas
over the results of the company's yea
q which ended December 81, 1908, say
q Tie Wall Street Journal.
l Highly favorable conditions are o
e tending the new developments fro
the bottom of the Joe Bush shaft
d the Inspiration Copper company, a
It cording to advices received in Sa
o Lake. Drifts are being extended
B. four directions from the bottom
that shaft, which was sunk the la
80 feet in sulphide ore averaging be
u ter than 2.5 per cent copper.
> Three sub-leases have been let G
. the upper two levels of the Mazuu
Hills mine. by the Mamma Min'
:. company, which holds lease upon q
n of the workings, according to the Sc
! Ell Troughs Miner. A pump has bee
3 installed and as soon as the working
a, are drained the main leasing compai