The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-07-18
MINES AND MINING

Lake Mining Stock exchange.
Most of the Utah mines elose,
down ON the srd, 9Th and sth, 70
the usual Fourth OF July rest.
An unusual interest in mining pror
critics in the mountains sourh Of Bu,
ley. Idaho. has been noticed durfn,
the past three weeks.
About q dozen men are being en-
ployed at the Camera maine. near al
bion. Idaho. and large quantity o
high-grade ore Is being taken out.
4 number Of quartz locations hav,
been made recently in Boulder can
yon on Land creek. In idaho. and
number Of the locators believe thel
have fortune. in sight.
The Human copper mine. near Their
mopoiis. Fremont county. Wyoming
that was recently sold TO Senator W
A. CiarR for 81 500. zoo, Is now bein,
systematically developed.
Mineral paint viii probably be ON,
Of the productions Of Czssia county
Idaho, In the near future. Two Ioca
lions were made recently, one OF 16t
and the other OF I2D acres.
Onlciais Of the Butte Mining com
panies centering In the east. estimate
that the June production Of the Butte
mines win show Z failing on Of 2s,
16i.131 pounds Of copper, as compared
with June last year.
Fifteen hundred tons Of ore Z day
are now being treated at the new
plant OF the Utah Copper eompany q
Garfield. BY the end OF the week an
other section Of the great mill viii b
placed In commission.
The shaft house Of the Strong mine
at Leslie. fourteen miles east OF Lara
ME, Wyo.. was totally destroyed BY
FIRE on the End The shaft was near
~ 400 feet deep. and all the hoistine
machinery was destroyed or damaged
Beginning early this fall, the largest
and most modern gold reduction plant
in Nevada and probably In the world
will be In operation at blair, In the
Silver Peak district. about twenty-five
miles northwest of Goldfeld. in Els
meralda county.
In spite Of fire and its attending
drawbacks. the Utah mine OF Fish
Springs continues to reward the ef-
forts OF the management with so gen.
erous hand that no decrease in
the usefulness OF the Organization has
been experienced.
The Gold Mountain Consolidated
company has placed the third shift at
work in both mine and mill. This or
ganization owns the Annie Laurie,
the Kimberly and the Mammoth
groups at Gold Mountain, and more
men are In demand.
For the first half OF the current year
the dividend payments reported to
he Mining World by eighty-eight gold,
silver. lead. copper. zinc and quick
liver mines in the United States, in
,luding Alaska territory, having an
outstanding capitalization OF $337,-
l55,727. amounted to the huge sum OF
|3s,560.s12.
The rnmor from New York that
he Guggenheim interests are after
he control Of all OF the Balaklala
properties in California, has called
attention anew to the recently or
,anixed Guggenheim company In the
,ast with a capitalization sufficient
o take In many Of the great mines
Il the west.
The extensive plant OF the Hanna
'ah mine, located about twenty-three
niles from Tonopah. New. was entire
? destroyed by fire on July 2. The
owners OF the mine are Sam
lel Newhouse of Salt Lake and A.
BEETLES. the well-known cyanide
san. The fire consumed all the build
ngs and descended into the shaft.
A private wire from Cobalt says
hat the Nipissing Mining company,
ow under the Newhouse manage
lent. has found another very rich
Elm four inches wide on No. 400. This
} adjacent to the Tretheway Tennis
ami. Hudson bay and orien proper.
los. This makes the second vein
truck IN two weeks.
The Skaggs property. In the Dolly
arden district In Nevada. which was
old about nine months ago to Bos-
1n firm. Is proving far richer than
,as first thought. The mines are be-
~ worked and are paying their own
'ay at the present time. The price
he property sold for was $50, 900,
he last payment having just been
iade.
Word from the camp OF Seven
roughs, Nevada, Is to the effect that
he Seven Troughs Mining company
last has caught the thieves who
ave been stealing high-grade gold ore
ON the Fairview group OF this Utah
roposition. A woman, the wife OF q
liner. has been arrested along with
er husband. and they are now In jail
Winnemucca-
The great sloo. boo.ooe smelter trust,
lad by Simon Guggenham. senator.
ect from Colorado, has fallen under |
10 ban OF the federal authorities. and |
gperts are conducting an investiga- |
on to determine whether II Is a COM
nation In violation Of law, upon
hich il is expected TO base a suit |
n dissolution Of the corporation and |
,ssibly criminal proceedings ON the |
Tidence being accumulated
There are not a few problems in |
'onomic geology that are Ms yet un-
lived. and are open for speculation.
ne OF these is the occurrence OF i'm