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Show MINES AND MININfr I Tho camp of Park City Is again ob tho up-grndc, and It will bo only & BVJ short tlmo until tho camp has ro-gained ro-gained Us old-time prestige Al Meyer and T. D. Murphy, acting for John W. Gates of Now York, havo-secured havo-secured control of tho Combination Fraction Mining company of Goldflold, securing 501,000 shares of tho titoclc at a prlco of $1.1 C per share 'H During 1007 tho United States pur-chased pur-chased for colnngo purposes a total of 14,770,500 ounces of silver, or np-proximately np-proximately ono-fouith of tho inctal produced In tho United States, says tho Engineering & Mining Journal. On March 30 tho Utah court will hear tho petition of tho United Slntcs Smelting company for a modlllcatlon, of tho famous Judgo Marshall tumo decision, which has shut down every BVJ copper smelter In Salt Lako valley. Tho Washoo coppor smeltery nt Anaconda, Mont., havo' rcsumod tho smelting of coppor. Tho Washoo cop-per cop-per ameltera nro tho largest la tho world, their capacity being tho re due-1 itlun of about 10,000 tons of oro dally. Forty miles north from Dragon, on tho Colorado side of tho lino, Colo-inulo Colo-inulo people havo eight oil wells al-Toady. al-Toady. This is higli-grado oil and can' .bo utilized for Illumination. Tho wells 'BH nro Bhallow as yet, but tho oil nrshcsi out with water. Detectives and olucors of tho Stato-pollco Stato-pollco force, by' a search warrant, last tteolc confiscated about two tonn of high grado oro in tho home andnsttay shop of J. C. Homes at Goldflcld. Tho oro Is claimed by tho Goldflold Flor-enco Flor-enco Mining company. Following tho news of tho unwator- BVJ lng of tho American Flag lovels byj thu uplondld work In tho Ontario drain BH tunnel at Park City, comes tho report that tho management has oncountorcd HJ tho rich gold and silver chuto 100 fcot lower than that at which It. created so v BH 'ravorablo a mention sovcral weeks A veteran miner, Bpcnking of Raw- BVJ hide, Novada district, snys: "Tho for- BVJ motion is pockety nnd tho ground near1 Hfta tho surfaco la cut up with gash veins. It Is possiblo that somo fow mines will bo mado there, but lira real source of tho ore, which Is scattered ovor a broad area, has not yot been located or at least proved." Thu ivport coined from tho Severn Troughs district of n rich strlko In tho Kindergarten. In a five-foot, vein Is two feet of whlta quartz, through which is scattered stuff that runs. ,$10,000 to tho ton and hotter, and thoro Is enough of this plcturo' rock to rnlso tho valuo of tho two foot to fig-urcs fig-urcs that are staggoring. A rancher living about four miles south of Juab station recently started to sink a two-Inch woll in order to fl get water for his stock. At forty-threo feet tho churn drill tapped a flow ot water that was so heavily charged fl with gas that tho work had to bo fl abandoned. Oil, wntcr and gas nro- fl still gushing from tho bore Tho tonnngo reduced from tho gold veins ot Mcrcur during 1907 nmountcd to about 7000 tons per day, tho treat- fl ment being cnllrcly by tho cyanldo fl method. About COO men aro employed In tho district, and tho recent lm- provomcnts in oro treatment will do- much to mako 1008 far moro profit- nblo to tho mlno owners. At a special meeting ot the Welmcr Coppor company, hold last week, a. now board ot directors and officers. way chosen and statements mado at tho meeting disclosed tho fact that tho company Is somothlng llko $12,000" or $13,000 In dobt, with $10,000 ot tho amount duo to Frank G. Worthing,, son-ln-lnw of John B. Welmcr, pro- motor of tho company. Becauso at tiro arrest of H. H. Pain,. a mombor of tho board' ot directors BVfl of tho Transcontinental Mining, Tun- fl n el and Transportation company, In. London, a thorough investigation of tho affairs ot tho company will bo made Tho company han been flnan- BBS clng tho Vldler tunnel in tho moun- tnlns west of Georgetown, Colo., and. most or tho money invested was ob-tallied ob-tallied in Engluml. 11 With tho formal closing ot tho lend plant ot tho United States Smelting-company Smelting-company at Bingham Junction, on HBSJ March 11, tho entire smelter in all Its. departments la at a standstill for tho present nt lenst. However, bo confl- BftSJ dent nro tho official of tho compar.7 of Judgo Marshall making n fnvorablo modification or tho Injunction, after ho has been shown, what tho compuny can do In tho matter or controlling, tho gases, that they havo retained quito a forco of men to do repair nnd. construction work. Tho presenco ot all In paying qimir-titles qimir-titles in San Juan quantity, Utah, has boon predicted for many years by pnR geologists and othors who havo stud gffl led tho character of tho country near Bluff. For this reason tho report or IlW tho recent strikes comes na on grcnt: WlPy-surprise Tho coppor ores in tiro different IsSr camps of Utah carry an appreciable? ffiVV perccntago of both gold and silver,. wWi notably at Park City, Cottonwoodi. WK Altn, Frisco, Bingham, Deop Crcolt I'Vi' and other mines that In copper mining: ' hnvo carried their works down tot ifft-i' great depth. .JM J.' Lying on tho western slope of tho- . J&'1 ' dlvldo between tho Salmon. and Snako- if'S'i1 rivers at an elevation of 4500 foot fV V nbovo sea lovol and 3500 feet nbovo 'I .'Jtf. tho Snako river tho Bluo Jacket mine 'p'-ffSF In rapidly assuming proportions of a 1 1 vulfC -I big coppor mlno, says the Grangovllloi 'nlJ Standard-Nows. v?j Captain Duncan MncVlchlo Bays- twSHij that ho Is satisfied that tho Ajmalga- mated Coppor company la starting its jHH Butte mines for tho purposa of Inaug- uratlng steel trust methods and crush- lng as much of the Ufa out of tho fl small-fry In tho coppor uroduclnji. world as possible. |
