The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-03-18
MINES AND MINING

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over 500 to the ton.
There is considerable interest being
manifested in the range of noun
tains Immediately east of Mazuma,
Nevada, where there are a number OF
properties where silver and lead pros.
poets are said to exist
Ten years ago the rank of the cop
per producing districts of the country
and their yields in pounds were as
follows: Montana, 216.979,3S4; Mich.
igan, 158.G69, ,09S; Arizona, 110,823.-
S64; California, 21,453.229 Colorado,
1O,S7O, 500; Utah. 5,3S5,246.
Utah Consolidated has declared the
usual quarterly dividend of so cents
a share, payable April 10, to stock OF
record March 80. transfer books to-
close March 30, 3 p. M, and reopen
April 81. The annual meeting OF the
company will be held April 10.
1--WE have three feet OF ore which
pans s4O0 per ton in gold" was the
message received in Salt Lake last
week by NJ B. Dudley and H. G.
Christiansen the principal owners OF
erty of the Hilltop, Nevada, district.
The February statement of the
Copper Producers association shows
that the stock of marketable copper
of all kinds on hand at all points in
the United States March / amounted
to 173, ,284, PAS pounds, an increase OF
29,000,000, as compared with Febru
ary l.
A strike of native bismuth is the
latest for Deep Creek. Driving a
shaft which was expected to cut out
body of lead ore, the miners en-
ployed by the Clifton Copper Belt
Mining company made a strike OF
what is said to be-a0 per cent bis
muth.
Following closely on the news that
the Lost Packer management was de-
veloping banner amount of rich ores
on the 700-foot level of this Idaho
property, comes the word that the
ore has now been encountered in the
S00-foot level, and it is richer than
ever.
The copper production in Arizona
last month was 26,500,0O0 pounds. The
Copper Queen led with 9,150,000
pounds; the Calumet and Arizona and
Superior of PittsDurg made 100000
pounds, and Senator Clark's United
Verde mines gave forth almost 3,000,-
COZ pounds.
The recent strength and activity in
Ray Consolidated is based upon the
steady increase in the company's ore
reserves and the fact that the Hay
den-Stone syndicate has taken up the
$1,S00,000 of bonds upon which it had
an option, and the company is now
we'll financed
j. r. Weimer Of Salt Lake City,
who took bond for the Laurel Hill
group in the Elk City Qda) district
last summer, has started a crew at
work. The claims We're located by
alike Prichard, one OF the few sur
vivors of the early placer miners, and
at one time were worked on a COM
paratively large scale.
Lack Of water has compelled a sus
pension of operations at the DAILY
West Mining companys milling plant
at Park City. The lakes on and above
Bonanza Flat, from which a supply
of water is obtained, are said to be
so filled with snow and ice that there
is nothing of fluid nature left to
run through the pipes.
The output of copper from the
mines of Utah for the month of Feb
ruary amounted to 7,3SO,0O0 pounds.
This is a reduction of 100000 pounds
compared with January, but compares
with about 100000 pounds in Feb
ruary year ago. The greater pro-
portion of the output was the product
from the Garfield smelter.
The annual report of the Pittsburg-
Silver Peak Gold Mining company,
operating at Blair, New, announces
that during the past year 105,67O tons
of ore were treated in the company's
mill. The bullion receipts amounted
to $S4S,713,44, while the operating ex-
penses were $499,7S9.S2. making the
net earnings $94S,932.62.
The Boston Sunshine milling plant
at Mercur is about ready for opera
ton, and Is probably in commission by
this time, the last piece of machinery
arriving the later part of last week.
The mill will have daily capacity Of
200 tons, and is said TO be modern in
every particular.
There are more men at work in
the Seven Troughs district of Nevada
than at any time in the camps his
tory. No sooner does work cease on
one property than several others start
up. There are seven active proper
ties in the Vernon end working their
full quota of men.
A fifty-ton carload of ore that will
run better than 500 a ton in gold
has just been shipped from the Buz-
zard mine, twelve miles south OF
Battle Mountain, Nevada. The Buz-
zard Is prospect that was picked up
few months ago by syndicate OF
Salt Lake mining men.
Years ago Mark Twain lived in
Humboldt county, Ney near the