The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1909-07-03
MINES AND MINING

southern Nevada towns are consider. |
ably agitated over the question of |
what place is likely to be chosen as
terminal of the new railroad from Ely
The price of rad!um is now eigh
million dollars per pound, accordin.
to an order given by British com
pany last week for IN grams. for
which they have contracted to pa,
$4,000.
With a stringer of ore which as.
says as high as 1897 ton, leasers or
the Seven Troughs Knickerbocker
company's ground, near Vernon, are
in fair way TO open a paying prop.
osition, according to latest reports.
The gold diggings in the neighbor
hood OF Fairbanks, Alaska, will yield
12,OO0,O0O during the present year,
according to reports received by a
Seattle bank. This bank expects to
handle about $6,500OO0 of this Alas.
kan gold dust
One hundred dollar silver, lead and
copper ore is being extracted from a
prospect hole in the Silver Island
Gently acquired by Salt Lake men,
who have secured a bond on a group
of five claims.
A company has been formed in Salt
Lake City, its special purpose being
the exploiting of patent iron fence
post and telegraph-telehone pole.
Utah iron, smelted by the Fink
process, is TO be used in the construcr
ton of the new product.
All records for copper production
on the American continent were
broken in May with an output of no.
| 900 pounds, as compared with
| O4,755. 900 pounds in April and 90
| $50 300 pounds in May last year, says
the Boston News Bureau.
Within less than a month and a half
! the Goldfield Consolidated has sent
out to the minis in gold bullion $777,-
| 400. represented in bricks handled
| through John 5. Cook & Co. The total
is the shipments for exactly forty
| four days. This means a strict aver
age for the time of more than SIT, $50
day
! ave feet of ore which s said to
run close to $500 ton in gold have
been opened at depth of only fifteen
feet from the surface in the Jumbo
nine in Hart, California, district.
| The strike was made in a 40-foot
open cut driven to the vein at po.nt
some distance down the hill from
the shaft
Hundreds of settlers, acting in con-
cert, have located every acre of the
Southern Pacific's undeveloped oil
land in the Colinga, Cal, field. The
result of suit now pending TO test
the validity of the railroads deed to
part of its undeveloped holdings, will
largely determine the course of the
recent settlers.
The third trial OF the famous suir
of the st. Louis Mining company
against the Montana Mining com
Dany, an English corporation, involv-
ng title to an exceptionally rich strip
OF mineral ground near Marysvlle,'
Mont, was begun at Helena last
Neea he property is estimated to
be worth S1,OO0,O0O
Last week there was shipped from
Salt Lake City TO the property in
Idaho of the Cannon Ball company
fifty-horsepower hoist and a sixty-five-
horsepower boiler, which will be in
stalled Immediately. This company
has the new mill practically ready for
business, and in July active produc-
IN Oh gold Dulllon wIll be under way.
Mines of the North Star distr ct,
utah, while working in a relatively
small way, are making a good show
ing. The Moscow is shipping at the
rate OF three carloads a week, the
Red Warrior is maintaining "a credit
able production, the Hub and the Ce-
| dar-Talisman are working in good ore
and several prospects are giving
?. omse OF soon entering the produc-
.ng class,
An omen cut which taps the great
strike at Mount Ellen, Salisbury
Wash district, at the depth OF IL feet
rom the surface, has opened ore at
tat depth which pans the almost UNI
believable values of 100000 a ton
in gold, according to the Tonopah
| Sun.
The recent landslide at Roosevelt
proved a blessing in disguise for the
mining firm of Caswell e. Curran, the
torrent uncovering for them the very
ground they were expanding much
money to reach, 1t being estimated
that this freak of nature saved them
$4,000.
So far as Glendale, or Salisbury
Wash, is concerned, the, disposition OF
the more conservative mining men Of
Goldfield is to await development be-
fore rushing in with money. The
| original owners are doing nothing