The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-05-20
MINES AND MINING

Nevada Hills property at Fairview.
Nevada.
Under the Biock-Wallop law passed
by the last Legislature. the famous
coal camp at Hanna. Wyoming. will
soon be a dry town, as no new liquor
| license will be issued except in in.
| corporated towns OF the state.
| In the Black Horse mining district
! of Nevada. the Ohana company is sink
| ing q shaft, and at depth OF 100 feet
| six.foot ledge Is exposed, over two
feet of which gives average assays OF
| S4.4 ounces silver and sol ounces gold
| per ton.
The Jack Pot Mining company.
| whose property is situated at Her
cules, in the Wonder mining district
| of Nevada, is to commence active
work within the next thirty days, and
| number of improvements will be
made.
Goldfield has gone Cripple Creek,
Colo one better on gold production.
An official report of the April produc-
ton of the mines of the Cripple Creek
section gives the total at $1,354.525
Goldfield produced during the same
period about $2.536,725.
John ID. Ryan, president of the In
ternational Smelling and Refining
company, in an interview published in
a Denver newspaper, emphatically de-
MES that any rate agreement has
been entered into between the Inter
national and American companies.
The great coal merger in the east
has been completed, five big companies
having been merged into one. The COM
panies have a combined capital stock
of $37 $50, 900, and own and control
100000 acres of coal lands in Mary
land West Virginia and Pennsylvania.
The old Highland Boy Smelter at
Murray is being rapidly RACED to the
ground by the big force of steel work
ers who are now on the job. All the
steel is being shipped to Tooele as
fast as torn down, where the Interna-
tional smelling plant is being erected.
A mill of $50 tons day capacity is
nearly ready to be placed in opera
ton at the Austin-Manhattan Consoli-
dated mines, at Austin, Nevada Ex-
| haustive tests show that the ore can
be milled for s1.40 a ton. The new
company has expended about 100000
getting the mines ready for produc-
ton.
Indicative of the present copper sit
uation, some figures on the recent
copper sales in the east will be of in
terest. Since May / there have been
i25,000,000 pounds of the red metal
sold, one firm alone selling about So
100000 pounds. the average price re-
ceived for which was Is cents per
pound.
Lorenzo d. Cunningham, a negro
employee of the United States mint
at New Orleans. was arrested as he
was exhibiting a real gold brick. Cum
ningham confessed that he had stolen
the gold in graduated form from the
separating division of the mint and
then moulded it into the oval shape
in which it was found.
The Golden Reef mining stock was
listed last week on the Salt Lake ex-
change. The company is capitalized
for 100000 shares of stock, par value
20 cents. OF the original 81 900 shares
of treasury stock $4,000 shares have
been sold. There is the sum of 81, 100
in the treasury, and the debts of the
company amount to $1,400.
Because Of the demand of the west
and southwest for precious stones the
prices of diamonds and pearls are to
be increased soon. Prosperity in those
&c nv ha nj
Lane dealers with causing them to do
more than 100 per cent more business
in precious stones last April than
during the same month last year.
According to assayers and others Of
a mathematical turn of mind, the at
mosphere in the building used at
Cananea, Mexico, one night last week
as a theater, was worth nearly $780,
900. A travelling Italian opera COM
pany was billed for performance,
and an old ore house, the largest
building in town, was fitted up for
the show Before the performance
was over the stamping of feet by peo-
pie in the audience had set the gold
dust flying from the cracks and
crevices of the old ore house. Tho
gold laden dust was so thick it made
people sneeze.
The monthly statement Of the Cop
per Producers association for April
shows the stock of marketable copper
of all kinds on hand in the United
State April l, 1S2,279,902 pounds. The
stock of surplus copper was increased
during the past month by 9lS,17l
pounds.
What has turned out to be one OF
the most severe accidents in the his
tory of the Consolidated Mercur Gold
Mines company at Mercur was that OF
last week, when eight teaching tanks
settled to such an extent that their
valuable contents were lost TO the