The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1910-08-06
.MIitEsAN MINING

y.tgaTnples of gold ore, said to be
WORTH nearly So 900 to the ton have
been received at Libby, Mont, from
mines near that place.
The Yampa smelter of Bingham will
be closed down indefinitely on August
/, meaning the loss of work to $50
men and the monthly payroll expen-
diture of $40 700.
Production of the Utah Copper com.
pany for June, according to advices
from the east, was about $3.50 900
pounds, or about 100000 pounds less
than its May production.
The proposed merger of the Raw
hide Coalition and Rawhide Queen
companies has been passed upon ia.
vorably and agreed to by e. w. King
who owns control of the Queen.
Passing of control of the Jumbo Elk
tension Mining company from Thomas
Locthart to "a syndicate of foreign
and eastern capitalists" is confirmed
by late dispatch from Goldfeld
While but little is being said con.
corning the coal mining industry in
Utah, that industry is rapidly taking
its place as one Of the most impor.
tant wealth producers of the state.
There is a strong probability that
Rawhide will come to the front as
gold producer on large scale, and
that the camp may one day rival Gold.
field in the matter of bullion produc,
ton.
The mines of the Consolidated Fuel
company at Hiawatha, twenty miles
southwest of Price, Utah, are now pro.
daily. and it is planned by the com.
pany to increase this output to 1000
tons a day within a short time.
The coal fields in Carbon county,
Utah, are employing thousands Of
men and the wealth that is turned
out by these properties is enormous
The Importance from an industrial
standpoint cannot be overestimated.
That Jarbldge is yet entitled to con.
sideration as a mining camp is shown
by the authoritative report that at
this time one claim is being held
down with guns, while within the last
| few days a gunplay was made over
another property, although no shot
was fred
On Fall creek, about two and a
half miles from Placerville, Idaho,
the Moline Mining company is oper'
ating it's dredge. This dredge has
one of the best records of any in the
basin for successful operation, having
run on an average Of eight months
each year for the past six seasons.
Samples of goldcopper ore, running
as high as $4,000 ton, have been
taken from strike made by George
Buckner in Decker canyon, Wasatch
county, Utah, according to apparently
trustworthy reports. The extent of
neither the main ore body nor the
rich streak is known at this time.
The grading for the new mill of the
Amalgamated Nevada Mining com
pany's property at Blackhorse. New.
is almost completed, and a force OF
carpenters has been sent to the prop
erty to construct the various build
ings that are needed. Actual construc
ton on the mill will be commenced
early in August.
The governments action in increas
ing the price of coal lands in the
Price, Utah, section has had the eff
feet of preventing the wholesale seiz
ing of the lands by the companies al
ready in the field, and has tended tC
keep out the small men, who cannot
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price was increased from $40 to $50
an acre, up to 5000 and $500 an acre
Monazite is phosphate of cerium
lanthanum and other rare minera
earths with variable percentage %
silica and thoria. In color it ranges
from greenish to yellow to brownibf
and has a specific gravity of 55, A
present the bulk of the, worlds sup
ply for the preparation of thoridn
nitrate used in the manufacture o
gas mantels is imported from Brazil
but now Idaho is coming to the from
as producer. !.
While it will be perhaps another
month before the Tooele plant Of the
international Smelling company will
be turning out copper for the market
the lighting of fire by Governor Spr!
on Monday in the first of the five
reverberatory furnaces was an i'm
portant event, in that it marks the be
ginning of operations by what is de
stined to be one of the worlds great
est custom smelters.
An odd illustration of the truisn
hat wealth often knocks UNDECIDED a
our very door is afforded by a remark