The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1909-09-04
MINES AND MINING

trating mill, to treat the ores OF
neighboring camps, has been secured
at Winnemucca, Nevada.
Patsy" Clark, millionaire mining
man of Montana, has undertaken the
rejuvenation of the old Cortez dis
trict. In Eureka county, New.
Directors of the Goldtield Consoli-
dated Mines company, at their meet
ing held in Chicago, posted the regu-
lar dividend of 80 cents share,
amounting to S1,065.000.
Louisiana, Nevada, Utah and Wyo.
ming produced sulphur in 1908
amounting to 369,444 long tons, val
ued at s6,66S,215, the greater portion
of which came from Louisiana.
Arrangements are being made to
reorganize the Panhandle Smelling
e Refining company and resume OPP
erations at Ponaeray, Idaho, within
sixty days. The capacity of the plant
is to be doubled.
The Utah Leasing company, which
is operating a lease on the United
States Mining company's old Tele-
graph mine in Bingham, is shipping
ore at the rate OF sixteen and
eighteen carloads month.
The first shipment OF ore from the
lower workings of the Little Bell mine
at Park City is on the way to the
smelter and the work Is In progress
which will result in the production OF
considerable tonnage regularly.
There has been a marked change
in the mining industry in the north
ern part of Idaho during the past few
months. Properties which have been
lying idle for over year have taken
on an appearance Of unusual activity
The second strike has been made In
the Atlanta group, in Goldheld, in
which something like 100000 had
been expended by owners and leasers
without result, until body OF pay
ore was encountered few weeks
ago in one of the leases.
You hear people say that the Utah
Copper company is making a big hole
In its property at Bingham, but let
me tell you that hardly speck OF Its
tremendous copper ore tonnage has
been touched up to date" said prom
inent Bingham citizen last week.
William A. Parish, well known min
ing engineer, is making thorough ex-
animation of the property OF the Ely
Central Copper company, in the inter-
est of the campaign of development
which is being inaugurated. The COM
pany has been financed, 1t Is said, for
strong operations.
After exposing five feet of rich
copper ore, the new shaft on the
seane-Wonder property at Tonopah,
Nevada, has again broken into free
milling gold quartz, the copper sui
phides having been entirely displaced
by the same character of quartz on
which the shaft was started.
Shortage OF lead in the ores avail
| able for the new smelter OF the Lodi
Mines company, which is operating
the famous Illinois mines. forty-five
| miles west of Luning, New, has de-
| layed the blowing in of the furnaces,
| according to advices from camp. The
plant was ready for business July l.
A strike has been made in The
property of the Mineral Mountain
Mining company in the Canyon Creek
district, about five miles from Johns
| Siding, Montana. Assays show 20
per cent copper, ounces silver and
80 cents in gold. This is far above
the Butte average and is causing no
little excitement.
The Lion Hill Consolidated COM
pany of Ophir received the settlements
| last week for a car OF ore, the car
| consisting of three different lots. or
lower grade, there being several
| thousand tons available, the assay
returns were $1.33 gold and 30 ounces
silver. The second lot assayed $3.50
gold and 100 ounces silver, while the
third was valued at S65.74 per ton.
Several weeks ago the management
of the Utah Mines Coalition company
OF Big Cottonwood drove the tunnel
into very good showing OF shipping
grade ore, and this was opened for
six sets along the strike of same. A
lime horse was then encountered, but
on being penetrated the ore came In
again stronger than ever, and the
tunnel now is progressing on a full
face of shipping grade.
Blue Cloud gulch, four miles west
of Helena, Mont, is the scene OF an
old-fashioned gold stampede, as the
consequence of strike made by
Fisk and Potter, Helena residents
They contended that the early-day
placer miners worked false bottom
and genuine bedrock was never
reached, and sunk shaft twenty-five
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