The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-02-04


pany Is now producing copper from its
own properties at the rate of about
30,000000 pounds per annum.
With a primitive arrastra stationed
in the backyard of his ranch home in
the Blackhorse district, Thomas Wat.
kins, father of the district, is treating
500 and 900 pounds of ore a day, from
which he takes $40 and $50 in gold.
Streaks of tale panning gold freely
have come into the shaft of the Seven
Troughs Humboldt company at the
depth of SIS feet. At the depth OF 10e
feet another cross-cut will be run, and
from present indications a good bodt
Of ore should be encountered.
The well of the Mt. Nebo Oil com
pany, in the Juab oil field, has at
tanned the depth of $50 feet, witt
work continuing in favorable forma
| ion. The artesian well which is be
| ing sunk for the state in Dog valley
the drilling rig of the Juab Oil com
pany being used in the work, is down
230 feet.
| Latest report from Seven Troughs
Is that six days run of the Hunting
ton mill recently installed on the
lease yielded 300 ounces of amalgam,
| two-thirds of which would be metal,
about equally divided in weight be-
| tween gold and silver. This means
| that the cleanup would be worth at
least $4,000.
A district two and a half miles wide
by six miles long, which is virtually
one vast deposit of copper, has been
discovered near Kamloops, b. c.,
about $50 miles east OF Vancouver
and 200 miles north of the boundary
Line. The discoverers are claiming it
to be the greatest copper discovery
in the world.
Preparations are being made to
blow in the smelter at Lemhi, Idaho,
within the next sixty days. The
mines of that region have been piling
up their ores in dumps and bins in
anticipation of the opening of the
smelter, so that there is no doubt of
there being sufficient tonnage at hand
to assure long run.
The Vulcan Shipbuilding Works, of
Stettin, Germany, affiliated with the
Krupp Steel Works. placed an order
in the domestic market last week for
a large tonnage of electrolytic copper
to be shipped in February. Four
other orders from German copper con-
sumers and factors are reported by
local copper producers.
The coal industry in the United
States has grown with amazing rap
idity. Since 1890, when this country
wrested the supremacy from the Unit
ed Kingdom, its coal output has in
creased so that at present we are pro-
ducing upward. of 200000,000 tons
more each year than the United King
dom, our nearest competitor.
The gold discovery made few
oping in way which gives promise
of adding an important section to
the Phoebe belt. At the depth OF 14O
feet Mr.. Rives has exposed well de-
fined quartz ledge twenty and twenty
five feet wide which yields for it's en-
lire width gold values of 81 and So
ton.
The William B. Thompson interests,
largely centered in Ely, have decid,
ed upon building railroad from Ely
to Goldfeld, according to the Boston
News bureau, and surveying party
will Immediately enter the field to i'm.
prove upon the present survey. The
new road will be 207 miles in length
and will cost between S3,500,000 and
$4,000,000.
The Copper River railroad, Jointly
owned by j. P. Morgan & Co. and
the Guggenheims, has been completed
from Cordova. Alaska, to a point
above Abercrombie Rapids. on the
Copper river, distance of about fifty.
four miles. The road will aid in the
early development of the great min.
ing region of the upper Copper and
Chitina rivers.
AS the result of decision by Judge
Hunt Of Helena, the farmers lose
their case against the Anaconda smell.
ter and the smelter will not be com.
PEELED to close down. The case has
cost more than half a, million dollars
eince the farmers decided their crops
were being destroyed by the fumes
from the smelter and brought suit to
put 1t out of business.
Thomas McFarlane, mining man
of San Bernardino, Cal, claims he has
at last made the long-expected diecov-
cry of diamond mine in that county.
His find is on the high mountains
which fringe Death valley, at point
where he can look upon Mt. Whitney,
probably the highest mountain in the
country, and down to the lowest point
on the continent, the pit of Death
valley.
According to report which seems
to be well based, Senator Guggenheim
has made the statement that should |
there be any legislation in Colorado
which affected his company adversely |
he would shut down all the smelters |