The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1910-12-30
MINES AND MINING


Walker Bros bank Of Salt Lake has
commenced suit To- the district court
against the Biscuit Mining company
OF Cherry Creek Nevada, TO collect
"a Judgment amounting to- $1,000
An ore streak assaying - per cent
copper. IS per cent lead. l.6 ounces
silver and 90 cents gold was recently
cut In the RcNM tunnel In South Fork
Of Big Cottonwood canyon, near Salt
Lake
The Importation OF blister copper In
10 the United States during the FIRST
ten months Of 1910 has been 2O9,l32,.
1860 pounds; Of copper IN ore and
matte, 7OAlG4i2 pounds; total. 21g,
54SGO2 pounds.
j. W. Young, manager OF the Bully
Boy and Webster property at Mays.
vale. Utah. has let contracts tor the
installation OF mill at tnat property
and expects 10 have It all completed
and In shape to handle or. ~ the
early spring.
Austin. Nevada. district Is expert.
encing a big revival this fall There
are at least 900 men employed In the
district The Manhattan Consolidated
has l7j men. the Maricopa employs
sovcnty.hve men. and other properties
are showing unusual activities.
Copper curtailment is shown by
comparison OF the July output Of 1885,.
$4,000 pounds as against that Of DC
tober 1l5.9O0O0O pounds In round
numbers. Nevada Cons is given as
100000. against 5,25oOOO; Utah
Copper. 100000 against 7,4jOOOO.
Among the steady shipping proper.
ties Of Beaver county, Utah, none OF
the newer ones has better shipping
record than the Moscow Mining a
Milling company, which recently
| shipped four cars Of ore bringing the
company SS.i2i. or IN average Of 81.
/ 100 TO the car.
Grading has been completed FOR the
milling plant Of the Ahana Mining
/ company at Sacramento Pass and a
/ boarding house has been erected for
the accommodation Of the employees Of
| the company. where they are comfort.
ably housed after completing their
days labors. says the Ely Exposition.
Utah's coal production In 1909 OK
ceoded for the FIRST time In the history
Of the state n total of 2,000,060 short
tons The output. as announced by
the United States geological survey,
increased from l,SiG,792 short tons,
valued at S3.il9.33S. in 1908, to g..
2G6.s99 short IONS, valued at S3,7j7.
0G0. In 1909.
That the Standard OIL company has
had men In the San Juan oil field in
Utah for several months; that II has
acquiredian enormous territory dowr
there. and has gone 80 far as TO have
a pipe line surveyed from n point near
Bluff. ijO miles down into New Mexico
TO Gallup. In the information received
in Salt Lake.
Around the coal mines and cok'
plants OF Utah 3.429 men havd beer
employed during the past year. show
ing an Increase OF i3g over the mum
Der employed last year. The FREEDOM
mating nationality among the miner
is American. with the Greeks ant
Italians coming second and third re
spectively.
According TO the report OF the stat,
mine inspector OF Utah. the total pro
duction OF coal in Utah for the veal
ending November 80 was 2.52G,O9,
tons. an increase of 2oi.3Si over IN,
output for the previous year. or thil
amount 3j2.SGi tons were exported
while 3l9,i5i tons were imported
making a total of 2.225.6G tons use,
In Utah.
The weakness of the copper sharci
is attributed TO the weaker tone of IN,
copper market and moderate fallinl
on In consumption. Should the de
mand for copper show pronounce,
decrease from It's present level fur
Their curtailment In output would b,
necessary In order TO maintain presen
quotations for the metal.
What was undoubtedly the blgges
and most successful blast the worl,
ever witnessed In gypsum quar-.
took place a short time ago at the Nc
phi quarry Of the Nephi Plaster ant
Manufacturing company, One sho
brought down $1,000 tons OF almos
pure gypsum. Only 700 pounds o
black powder were used.
It is practically a settled fact tina
during the next two years all that ricl
mineral country lying between and ad
iacent to Marysvale, the Virgin OF
field, Silver Reef, the old Dixie min,
near St. George, across through Bun
keryille and down past Grand Gulch {,
Chloride. a little settlement on .thl
Santa Fe In Arizona, will be brough
into prominence by the rapid construc
ton OF two or more feeder lines iron
the various big railroad systems.
The mining industry is the secon,
largest In the United States, being eX
coeded only By agriculture The latte
contributes annually $500, 100000
worth of wealth TO the nations. Will,
the mining Industry contributes 81,
00O.0OO,OOO worth year
Although the marvellous surfac,
showlngs that caused tremendous
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