The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1910-09-10
MINES AND MINING

opment of hydrocarbon properties in
the vicinity of Myton and Duchesne,
Utah.
The Alta Oxford company, a new
corporation recently formed at Sandy, |
Utah, by a number of influential cit. !
liens has let a contract in the Alta |
district for fifty, feet of tunnel in a |
promising property.
The Yellow jacket, on yellow Jack.
ct creek, 16 miles from Forney, Idaho,
which has lain dormant for the past
Is years. is again in commission. A
new clubhouse and other buildings
have been completed, and the mine
has been re-timbered.
A message from the National
camp in Nevada is to the effect that
the officials of the National company,
on whose ground the wonderful Stall
Bros lease is located, have purchased
the lease from the owners, and that
possession has been taken.
The Snowslide and Hardscrabble
claims, situated near the Pittsburg-
Idaho in the Gilmore district, began
shipments last week, by wagon route.
to the Lemhi smelter at Hahn. The
ore, which is lead-silver, by wagon
route, is good for about $50 per ton
A. w. Shaw, wealthy Chicago
mining man, who holds bond and
lease on the Desert Mountain Mining
& Development company properties,
in the Dugway mining district, near
Deep Creek, has arrived in Salt Lake
and expects to spend some time at the
mine.
Salt Lakers returning from the va
rious mining camps and business CEN
tiers of the state of Nevada agree that
there never has been "a time in the
resurrection period of the past few
years when the opportunity for max
ing money was more favorable than
right now. 81: i
Opening of copper mine which
promises to rival the big ones OF Bing-
ham and Ely is reported from Cave
valley, Lincoln county, Nevada, where
vein thirty feet wide is said to be
filed with ore which averages per
| cent copper, ounces silver and ~
cents in gold.
The Duluth & Lemhi Mining COM
pany, owning fifteen claims adjoining
the Dark Horse mine in Lemhi dis
/ trict,' Idaho, have just struck a fine
body of gold-bearing rock, two feet
| wide on the foot wall of an eight'foot
vein. Assays run from $25 to SIS in
| gold to the ton.
With the expiration Of the agree
ment between the Wyoming coal mine
operators and the coal miners. on
August &c. a number of the Salt Lake
coal dealers are anticipating an in
crease in the price of coal in Salt
Lake the coming winter, especially OF
the Wyoming product.
The Argentic mines of the Wood
River district, according to advices
from HALEY, Idaho, have been taken
over by syndicate formed by Joseph
Swift and w. d. Bohm Of Salt Lake,
who are installing machinery prepare
tory to prosecuting an extensive cam
paign of systematic development.
The mines of the Chino Copper com.
pany are located at Santa Rita, N. M,
copper camp, pure and simple; and
the fact that the Chino company has
blocked out at this time practically
5000, 900 tons of ore averaging 25
per cent copper is evidence that 1t
will be big camp for some time to
come.
Viewing the metal situation from
the standpoint of the prospective
growth of production and consump-
ton, George l.. Walker, the Boston
Commercials copper expert, believes
firmly that copper is selling lower now
than it ever will again while the pop
ulation OF the world continues to in
| crease.
1t Is understood that the United
States Smelling, Refining & Mining
company Is meeting with splendid sue
cess in the operation of its Huff elec-
tristatic zinc concentrating plant at
Midvale, Utah, the daily capacity Of
:, which is approximately fifty tons.
i The capacity of the plant is to be in
creased, 1t Is said.
At meeting of the Utah branch
Of the American mining congress, held
in Salt Lake City, 1t was unanimously
voted that an attempt would be made
to secure a delegation of at least 100
people to go to the annual convention
of the congress, which will be held in
Los Angeles, September 26 to October
1. The Utah delegation will probably
go in a special train.
Fully one.half of the ore of the
Santa Rita mines of New Mexico is
to be won by the steam-shovel pro-
nnSc rail line 10 now heinP con.