Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-12-17
The Metal Outputof Idaho
Latest Figures as Given by H. S. Woolley, AS
sayer in Charge, u. S. Assay Office.

The output Of gold from the state
made some increase. due lnrgely 20 the
activity In quartz mining The placer
output has remained practically the
same for several years. The inslnlla-
ton OF dredging enterprises along
Snake river, I'm Boise Basin and around
Warren may Increase this In the next
few years. I'm quartz mining the
greatest activity has been displayed In
the developments of the two youngest
though perhaps best known districts
OF the state. The Hump and Thunder
Mountain. In the former there was
large increase credited TO the Jumbo
and Cracker Jack mines the only two
which have entered the field as regu-
lar producers Several other proper
ties will be equipped with mills TINS
coming year ,..
In me Thunder Mountain district
development work has been retarded
owing TO the lnaccessIblIty Of the re-
zion. Several large companies have
been working their claims but install
latlop Of mills and reduction plants
has been impossible. The state wagon
road was not completed I'M 1908 and
an supplies and tools were packed in
The Dewey mill the only one IN the
locality has been running with five
and ten STAMPS and has been n regular
bulliop shipper. This mill was con-
structed with the special purpose OF
being packed In ON mules and horses
AS soon as the road Is opened a latg-
en- plant win be constructed.
This coming year other mining COM
panles viii rush machinery ana s1p-
plies IN larger quantities towards the
camp, with the expectation of getting
them IN before fall Active work VIII
begin ON the wagon road as soon as
the weather win permit and II will be
hastened to completion, The fact
that the large companies which have
been doing development work have
satisfied themselves as 20 the extent
and value OF the ore bodies sufficiently
TO warrant large expenditures for ma
chlnery indicates that the district viii
soon be In the list OF large gold pro-
duccrs.
The year Just passed has witnessed
the beginning OF an epoch I'M the min
inc Industry Of the state IN what may
be deemed the advent OF copper min
ing. While copper has been produced
I'm the state for a number of years in
small quantities. It was not until 1903
that the product was Of sufficient guam
tity to merit a place In this report.
Judging from the amount Of this metal
harvested within the year and the
known substantial condition Of the
mines from which It was taken cop
per mining can on a conservative bo-
Sis be reckoned among the fixed ana
important Industries Of the state,
The copper product is reported from
Custer county In the central portion
OF the state. whore the White Knob
. Copper CO. has established a large
smeiter az Mackay and from Washing
ton county on the middle western bor-
der. In the latter county the Ladd
Metals co. has established smelter at
Mineral for the treatment OF ores
from that locality and the Seven Dew
AS district. There Is no doubt but that
this district has very large bodies OF
high grade copper ore The only him
drance to It's extensive development Is
the lack Of communication,
IN IDAHO. BY COUNTIES, cALEN-
EAR 1903