The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1910-08-13
MINES AND MINING

Copper exports for Ju'y were 22,875
tons as against 22,96S in June, and &c..
GAG in July last year.
The Opex company sesumed devel.
opment work Wednesday, after an
overhauling of the equipment.
1t is reported in London that the
visible copper supply on Aug. 1 was
99,239 tons. a decrease of 1920 tons
for the past two weeks.
The Ninety.nine Copper company,
operating in the Good Springs district,
in Nevada, made its first shipment
of copper ore this week.
The No. l shaft Of the Consolidated
Phoebe Mines company will be sunk by
contract to the 1,2OOfoot level Su.
perintendent William Lloyd has been
receiving bids for the work.
The postoffice at Delamar, New,
was discontinued the list of the month.
Since the closing down Of the BAN.
berger-Delamar mines the town has
dwindled to almost nothing.
The ninth quarterly report OF the
Utah Copper company will be pub.
lished this week in New York, show
ing the working record of the COM
pany for the second quarter Of 1910.
The leasers on the Silver King
property at Alta have their first car
of ore about ready for the market the
rock being silver-lead bearing. Messrs.
Winwood and Wonder control the
lease.
A. report from New York yesterday
declared that $4.5O0.0O0 in gold had
been obtained for importation. This is
by far the largest amount that has
been secured for the United States
this year.
The Highland Mary mine in the
Highland district. close to Phoebe, has
been added to the shippers from that
country. The mine is sending IN an
ore similar to that taken from the
Mendha-Nevada.
That Utah has one of the richest
counties in the state in Wayne county
and that it will develop into big oil
county as well as a great mineral sec.
ton is the opinion of S. w. Mulberry
of Salt Lake, who has just returned
from that part of Utah, where he To-
| Gated 5000 acres of oil lane and a
number of lead and copper mining
claims.
1t is stated that the foreign visible
| supply Of copper this week amounted
to 99,239 tons, a decrease of 1920 tons
during the past two weeks. Exports
of the metal have been materially re,
tinguish between decreased exports
and increased consumption to properly
account for the shrinkage of this sur
plus.
What may develop into one of the
big placer properties in the country
has just been taken over by Salt Lake
parties, and within short time, II
enough water can be developed
dredges will be put in to work the
thousands of acres of mlneralized
gravel that has been located in Hum
bodlt county, Nevada 10 miles north
OF Seven Troughs.
Boston advices are to the effect that
the Nevada Douglas Copper company
on the purchase price Of the Ludwig
mine at Yerington, making a total of
$3.50, 900 paid on the purchase price OF
$4,000 for this well known property
This company's additional payments
are reported to be due well into the
copper production period and will fall
due when profits are logical from &C
tual operations.
The operations at the Utah Copper
mine at Bingham, Utah, are extending
to the very heart of Upper Bingham
where there is a population OF abou
1000 people. The north half of the
town has already been purchased, in
Guiding densely populated puruor
called Commercial Gulch. Nearly al
of these houses have been razed tC
the ground, the families having sough
homes further down the canyon. Th'
few remaining families are packing
their household effects preparatory t
leaving in few days.
The report shows that this grea
copper mine, which has been decided
by some of the best judges to ne tn
greatest in the world, is earning BET
ter than $6,OO0,O 900 year. The compan
is now handling close to 10000 ton
of ore day, or close to one-third o
million tons a month With IN
plants running through the 2O,uvU ton
of ore a day, as they are beini
equipped for, and good road facilities