The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1906-11-01
MINES AND MINING

OF the state of Utah.
A report from Elk City states that
crew of forty men will be employed
at the Buster mine during the winter
In extensive development work.
There has been found to exist in
Utah possibly as great a variety of
commercially valuable minerals as is
to be found in any like area on the
face of the earth.
4 report has been received of an i'm
portant strike in the Bluejacket mine
on Crooked creek near the Salmon
river in the southerly end of the Buff
falo Hump camp.
tunnel is being driven on the vein
In the Black Warrior mine in the
Black Warrior district of Idaho. as
says of the ore encountered showing
values of $52.S2 per ton
Fire at the Consolidated Mercur
mines at Mercur. Utah, last week de-
stroyed number of buildings; but il
is not believed il will be necessary
TO close down any part of the work
ings.
With the increased output of the
mines of Utah has arisen the need for
increased smelling facilities and every
smelter in the Salt Lake valley has
either increased or is increasing its
capacity, until today the valley is
very important smelling center
A most striking feature of copper
mining in the Bingham district in
the last two or three years is the com
plete success of experiments made in
the treatment by concentration of the
so-caled disseminated ores, In which
small particles of copper sulphide oc-
cur disseminating through altered por-
phyry
Utah is putting on the market over
million and half tons of coal per
year. This supply comes principally
from Sewer, Emery, Carbon and
Grand counties, in the east central
part of the state. Three other coal
fields of less importance are the We
Der river, the Sanpete and the Iron
county fields.
Park City, which has long held the
reputation of being one of the lead
ing silver-lead camps in this country,
holds its own in the advancement
of mining in Utah. The OUTPUT for the
past year amounted to upwards of
100000 tons. The Silver King, the
Daly-West, Daly-Judge and Little Bell
are the heaviest producers.
Professor f. E. Fielding. for thirty
years chief consulting engineer and
expert on the staff of the Comstock
magnates, Mackay and Fair, has been
making an examination of the Chicago
Nevada companys properties in the
Dietrich district, eighteen miles out of
| Virginia City, and has nothing but
words of praise for that district.
The Utah & Eastern Copper com
pany, operating the Dixie mines be-
low St George, Utah, now has its cop
per smelter at Shem, few miles from
the mine, in full operation. From the
| treatment of about forty tons of ore
day approximately 1000 pounds or
| three and a half tons, of copper Is
being produced every twenty-four
| hours.
Alta the once famous Little Cotton
wood camp, has recently come again
into prominence. The production of
| lead, silver and gold from the old EN-
ma and Flagstaff properties during
the '70s and early sos amounted to
millions. After period of less &C
| tivity recent developments in this dis
trict are disclosing enormous ore
bodies.
| Utah has immense deposits of rock
| gypsum within her borders. The most
J important deposits occur in the cen.
/ trail and southern portions of the state,
in Juab county. east of Nephi, in San
pete and Sewer counties near Salina
| in Willard county at White mountain,
near Fillpore, and in Wayne county
in south Washington.
The great Sierra Madre mountain
; north of Ogden seem to carry Not only
many of the rare metals such as
tungstate, molybdenum and other such
| metals, but it has a ledge of the rare
stone. the garnet. which Is used sc
extensively as polisher for the met
ais, and the supply OF which in the
United States is not equal to the de
mand
As a result of meetings OF the di
rectors of the Nevada Consolidated
and Cumberland Ely Mining compa
MES in New York. the latter part o.
last week. IL has been agreed tha
the Cumberland Ely company viii
! have a half interest in the ss,00O,o0'
reduction works to be built by the Ne
vada Consolidated company. and tins
Cumberland Ely company also secures
a half ownership in the Nevada North
ern railroad. which was built by tn
/ Nevada Consolidated company M
is considered a first step In the uitl
mate consolidation of these Two prop
critics, both of which are controlled b.
the Guggenheims
At present the main WORKINGS "
the Crackerjack mine, in the Bunalf
uump district OF Idaho, are being ear
,ieA on in ore that ASSAYS more thai
s1oN To the ton. and this Is heins