The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1909-01-02
MINES AND MINING

year will reach 100000 gross tons.
and the value of the product is estt
mated at s20,OO0.000
In the mineral production OF Aus
tralia, gold represents % per cent
The East Coolgardie field yields 80
PER cent Of the commemorative gold.
The Thunder Mountain district OF
Idaho, of which little has been heard
Tor some time. appears to have como
to life again, and is sending ont re
ports of rich strikes being made.
Nearly the entire gold output OF
South Dakota comes from Lawrence
county, where the Homestake mine.
one of the worlds most profitable
low-grade ore mines Is situated.
Driving FIVE feet. four and one
quarter inches of complete six.foot
tunnel In an hour and half Is the
record made at Boulder. Colo, few
days ago by the Harms tuEneler.
There were 1850 men employed IN
the coal mines of Utah during 1908,
u decrease of 9S over last year. The
average amount of coal produced to
each man employed was 1856 tons A
total of 353,305 pounds OF explosives
was used this year.
Some sensationally rich gold ore
from the North Mountain Mining com.
pany, whose property Is located at
Cherry Creek, Nevada, was being ex.
hbited in Salt Lake City last week.
The samples shows the presence OF
ore at the rate OF $1,000 a ton.
Mileage amounting TO $1,150 win be
paid TO three witnesses who came to
Boston from Valdez, Alaska, and Ia,
coma. Wash, to testify in the trial
of Henry ID. Reynolds of the Reynolds
Alaska Development company on
charges of fraud
zone of the greatest needs in con
nection with our mining laws is the
establishing at the different mining
camps, whetScr coal or metal, of n
class or school for the practical dem
onstration Of first aid to the injured"
says Coal Mine Inspector Petit In his
annual report to Governor Cutler OF
Utah.
The mines OF Nevada produced In
1907 gold, silver. copper. lead, and
zinc to total value OF 1851 .4S6,
according to a report by Charles G.
Yale. just issued by the United States
geological survey as part of an ad-
vance chapter from Mineral Resourc.
es OF the United States, Calendar
Year 1907"
w. l.. Hobbs and J. B. Heenan OF
Riverton, Wyo., have leased from the
Arapahoe Indians. living in the Wind
River reservation, 1900 acres of land.
believed to he valuable for the min
eral deposits It contains. The lease
provides that royalty OF 8 per cent
he paid the Indians on all ore taken
from the lands.
The net profits of the Homestake
gold mine of South Dakota for the
past twelve months are $4,000, acr
cording to reports given forth by the
largest shareholder in that property
For the current year this property has
milled 1,4S7 900 tons OF ore. Net FRO
fits are running at about SO cents fer
each ton of ore treated.
mere were l,off,ofJ lOnS Ol COdi,
valued at $2,957,75 mined in the
state of Utah this year. This is a
decrease of 122,S02 tons, or GO per
cent, over 1907. There were 1879
tons of coke produced, decrease ~
190,497 over last year. The hydro
Carbons mined this year amounted to
1870 tons, worth 1882, 200.
nh.
company has drilled nine wells in the
Spring Valley oil district in Wyo-
ming and are to drill eleven more
as fast as the work can be done. The
company's pipe line is in operation.
and oil Is being delivered to the re
finery at Spring Valley station az the
rate of twenty-five barrels day.
When the new ore rates from
mines along the Tonopah & Tide
water railroad TO Needles go into ef-
feet on January cath, they are expect
ed to make valuable many tons OF
low grade ore which are now lying
on the dumps and in addition they
will make profitable the operation OF
many mines producing low grade ore
The quantity of copper given as the
output of the mines of the United
States in 1907, based on reports col
lected by field agents of the Geologt
cal Survey from all mining companies
in the country which produced copper
during the year, was SAT l54,015
pounds, a quantity 2.5 per cent less
than the product of the smelters for
the same period
For the first time since its organt
zation the American Smelling Il Re
fining company is confronted with
the problem of competing with what
will be a very formidable rival, says
the Wall Street Journal, speaking OF
the advent to the field Of the Cole
Ryan combinations 100000 Inter
national Smelling e. Refining com
pany which is building its first great
| liant near Salt Lake City.