The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1911-01-14
MINES AND MINING

the 200 level of the Demijohn.
The oil found in the Spring Valley
district in Wyoming is classed among |
the finest grade found in any field in
the United States.
At a depth of $40 feet oil is said to |
have just been struck in well No. 2 OF
the Texas King Oil company of
Spring Valley, Wyo.
Shipments of ore from the DAILY
West mine at Park City have been
resumed. Last week the output from
the mine was 609,5O0 pounds Of ore.
A report from Santa Rita, N. NJ, is
to the effect that an important body
of sulphide ore has been discovered
on the Chino at depth of 500 feet,
Park Citys ore shipments for the
first eleven months of 1910 amounted
to 152,716,319 pounds. The total for
the previous year was 155,293,0O0
pounds.
John Ferris, said to be an old Utah
prospector, is reported to have made
a rich discovery of gold.silver ore at
Mormon Basin, east of Burnt river,
near Line, Ore.
The total silver reduction of the
United States during 1910 is estimat-
ed at fifty-six million fine ounces, OF
which Montana led with eleven mil
lion and Utah close second.
More than $96,OOO,OOO in gold was
mined in the United States during
the past year Africa led the world
with more than $175,000,000 Aus
tralia was third with $65,0OO000.
California last year regained first
place among the goldproducing
states which she had lost to Colorado
in 1897, due, it is said, to the develop.
ment of dredge mining. Alaska show
ed falling off.
At a meeting of the stockholders OF
| the Utah Consolidated Mining COM
pany last week, it was decided to
keep the Tintic mine closed during
| the inclement part of the winter. 1t
has been shut down about month.
During the year 1910 the local gov
eminent assay office at Salt Lake
City purchased 4S,791 standard
ounces of gold, of a value of $907,749,
and 1851 ounces of silver, of a
value of $S,556, grand total of 1916
305.
1t is said that the Virginia Mining
company at Park City has about %.
900 tons of lead-zinc ore blocked out
1t will take advantage of the HUFF
electrostatic process of concentration
at the United States Smelling, Rein.
ing and Mining company's smelter at
Midvale.
Important developments are looked
for from the No. well in Spring Val
ley, Wyo of the Texas King Oil &
Gas company, which recently struck
a heavy flow of oil at depth OF a
little below the S00-foot point. The
well is now down SIS feet and still in
the oil sand.
Some rich silver-lead ores have
been reported shipped in years past
from what is now the Lowe Mining
company property, situated thirty-five
miles southeast of Battle Mountain,
of men has just been put to work on
the property.
Last week the Ophir Hill Consoli.
dated Mining company commenced
its long drain tunnel. This tunnel
will be 5000 feet in length, and will
not only drain large productive ter.
ritory, but will give several hundred
feet additional Stopping ground, and
also afford an avenue for facilitating
the haulage of the ores from mine to
mill.
The new International smelter al
} Tooele, Utah, is handling 600 tons OF
copper ores daily. This is 100000
pounds. Four per cent extraction
means 1880 pounds of copper turned
out daily by the smelter, or 144O0C
pounds month. At twelve and three
fourths cents a pound, the daily pro
duct is worth over 5000; the monthly
over $4,000.
Production of gold fell off all over
the. world during 1910, according to d
preliminary estimate prepared by
George f. Roberts, director of tn,
mint Mr.. Roberts is of the opinion
that any possibility of any embarrass
ing oversupply of gold, with the at
tendant rise in prices which econo
mists predicted to go with it, has
been passed.
That the new smoke consumer re
Gently installed at the American smell
ter in Murray, Utah. is a success II
demonstrated by the fact that car
loads of arsenic, collected by the new
smoke device, are being shipped reg
, ularly from the Murray plant to Seal
tie to be refined.