The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1910-10-15
MINES AND MINING

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The engineers in charge of the Ma
son Valley smelter plans are now de.
signing the two blast furnaces, the
plans assuming very satisfactory
| shape.
Rumors has it that the interests be-
hind the proposed merger in the Little
Cottonwood or Alta mining district of
Utah are none other than Hayden,
Stone & Co., of Boston and New York.
The contractors driving the Snake
creek drainage and operating tunnel
into the Park City mountains, report
that during the past month they have
sent the bore nearly 300 feet ahead.
Shipments of ore are being made to
the Tooele county custom copper
smelter of the International company
by the Iron Blossom, the ore being
very silciOus rock in demand for
copper ore reduction.
One Of tie most important pieces of
work now being done by the United
States Smelling, Refining and Mining
company is the trying out at Kennel,
ing gases in copper ore smelling.
A strenuous effort is being made by
a committee of stockholders of the Ma
tional Exploration company, headed by
Frank p. Knight of Boston. to redeem
the proposition for shareholders from
the depths of bankruptcy into which
the concern has been thrown lately.
The churn drill operations on the
territory in Arizona of the Inspiration
company are reported to have demon
strated the existence of the ore de-
post for 1000 feet in length or east
feet, plenty of untouched ground yet
to be heard from.
Eastern capital has been interested
in the Brinson coal mines, IA miles
from Idaho Falls, and machinery has
been purchased and is now en- route
there, which when installed will give
capacity of 100 tons per day. The
coal is said to be of superior quality
tor cooking purposes.
The Old Sam mine, in the Shelton
district of Idaho, was discovered and
located in 1902 by Sam Bass. who
was grubstaked by w. J. Turner, Bob
Burns and the Howeth brothers of
Mountainhome. They bonded the
property to a Lincoln, Neb., company,
which has developed it to it's present
stage.
The mines of the world are now
producing at the rate of 1,S0O,000,0 900
pounds of copper annually, between
FIVE million and six million pounds
daily. That this amount can be ap.
proximately doubled in the coming ten
years is far and away beyond the
realm of possibility, says George l..
Walker, the copper expert
That the management of the South
| Utah Mines and Shelters corporation
expects to have the mill up to its logi-
cal capacity by the time October pass
es into history is vouched for by Sup
crintendent Il. II. Lundquist, who
came up from the mine at Newhouse
to confer with Samuel Newhouse at
Salt Lake a few days ago.
Senator w. A. Clark says there have
been mines opened in recent years
whose sponsors claim that they can
produce copper cheaper than in
Butte. ut is easy to skim cream from
milk" he says, but when some OF
these low-cost producers get deeper
they will find that the copper costs
them as much as 1t does the Butte
mines.
A. f. Holden, president of the
United States Coal AID Oil company
has issued a statement to the stock
holders, to the effect that the Island
Greek Coal company has been organ
lied for the purpose of absorbing the
United States Coal and Oil company
which latter organization has been
one of the active and attractive prop
ositions on the eastern markets fol
some time past,
John Dern of Salt Lake City, who
was elected president OF the American
mining congress, is one of the fore
most mining men in the west and his
standing in the mining regions Of
| u TAU anu the lhtSIlhOuhIaih SOuhI'
in general is of the very best. He il
president of the Consolidated Mer
cur Mines company of Utah and ha
been for many years an ardent worke
in the councils of the American min
ing congress.
From figures on the worlds Goa
supply in recent British publication
the bureau of manufactures of tn,
, department of commerce and labo
has compiled statistics showing tina
the United States, with 690,43S pei