The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-05-06
MIN Els A ND MINING

! The Croesus mine at HALEY, Idaho
| Is prepared to ship between COO and
| 200 tons of ore as soon as the roads
are in good condition.
[ The Round Mountain Mining com.
pany cleaned up $4,000 profits during
March, and it Is believed when the re-
ports for April are in. increased prof
| its will be shown.
A genuine gusher is said to have
| been opened in the Bluff oil field by
| Thomas Brice. Considerable new
| drilling has been started in various
portions of the field
Fifty leases on Manhattan, Nevada,
placers are being worked, the aver
age production being about $1,000 a
| day and new strikes of rich gravel
are reported almost daily.
1t is announced that negotiations
for the purchase of control of the
Bingham Amagamated Copper com
pany have been reopened, with good
prospects that a deal will be made,
Five metallurgical works, with an is
sued capitalization of S2l0,169,350,
paid TO shareholders during the four
months of the year S4,55604i, and
since organization $S763S, 293, a return
equivalent to AZ per cent.
The sensation in southern Nevada
| mining camps at this time is the
Hampton stope in Goldfeld Consoli-
dated, where the company has in
sight $S,000000 of ore, no portion of
which it had three months ago.
The biggest thing in lease in Ne
vada, since the days of the Hayes
Monnette bonanza, is the Lucky Boy
lease at Hawthorne, which, 1t is said,
is producing high grade silver-lead
ore at the rate of $4,000 a day.
Word comes from the Philadelphia
Western property at Hilltop, Nevada,
that the breast of the tunnel is show
ing two-foot vein of remarkably rich
gold ore, about the finest gold rock so
far found in this property of rich ore.
The Wabash mine at Park City,
again hopelessly flooded despite the
improved pumping facilities installed
some months ago, is likely to remain
closed until arrangements can be
made to construct an adequate drain
age system.
At Pioneer, in the Bullfrog district
of Nevada, two new strikes are re-
ported on the Starlight property,
while the original Pioneer lease is
greatly increasing its production. The
new mill at the Mayfiower mine is
proving a success.
The rejuvenation of Gold Circle. fol-
lowing the recent disclosures of great
bodies of rich ore in that camp, Is
being materially felt at Golconda.
which IS the nearest railroad point to
the camp, saws a camp correspondent
Of the Humboldt Star.
The Seven Troughs Merger Mining
& Leasing company has let to Klayer
& Ray the contract to sink 200 feet
in the shaft in he company's lease
on the Thericn rroup. The shart Is
now 1856 fee deep At 235 feet a
crosscut viii be run to the vein.
Twelve Canadian properties, all
but one located in the Cobalt section.
have during the past four months paid
in dividends 1851, 429, and since In
corporation. but a few years ago. So
297, $50. Nipissing leads with 100000
for the first four months of the year.
N. F. Rasmussen. one of the own
es of the Lost Cave group Of claims.
in Four Mile district. Beaver county,
reports the opening in the property of
vein which shows good values in
gold. silver and copper. The vein Is
ten feet wide with values clear across
The number of men killed in mine
accidents in the United States. for
each one thousand men employed. has
heen increasing steadily for ten or If
teen years. During 1907 the last year
for which complete records have been
received, the number killed reached
5000, and about three times as many
were injured.
The Humboldt Queen, one of the
old-time mines of the Humboldt range
OF Nevada is to have reduction works
to treat the thousands of tons of low
grade ore blocked out and left in the
slopes by former operators. as well
as the new ore that is being devel-
oped.
The towns OF Hawthorne and Lucky
Boy Nevada. few miles distant, are
both booming in consequence of the
startling production record of the now
famous Lucky Boy Mine, a silver-lead
proposition. Leases are in great de-
mand and much new work has been
started.
Shareholders of North Butte are de-
handing that officials of the company
make an official statement in regard
to conditions in the mine-a state
ment of more definite nature than
those which have come from the d.
rectors, according to Boston dis.
patches.
Development work is to begin at
once on the Western Utah Copper
property in the Deep Creek region Of
Utah Development work has been
abandoned in this property for the