The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-03-14
MINES AND MINING

February the production OF copper
has been low, owing to the severe
weather and shortage OF coal.
Everything new points in the direc-
don OF one of the greatest copper
mining booms the country ever saw
in the Yerington. Nevada, district
The Michigan crowd that now con
trolls the Sheba property at Min City,
New. is rapidly rounding that propo
sitton into shape for heavy produc-
ton and earnings.
More than $4,000. 900 has been spent
by the big mining companies of the
Robinson mining district of Nevada
during the last twelve months for
extension purposes.
number of important mining deals
are pending at HALEY. Idaho which
when consummated, will put nun
Der of the older mines of this district
again ON the active list.
One-fifth of the worlds production
of copper, or 300,000,000 pounds an
nually, is the estimated capacity OF
Calumet & Hecla within the next few
years under its present policy OF
progress and expansion
The most important asset of the
Calumet & Hecla is the old Calumet
conglomerate, SO called, which has
returned in the thirty-six years of
its successful mineral activity $l1o,'
100000 in profits to the company.
The prediction is made by an en-
thusiast from Wonder. Nevada, that
within the next sixty days one of the
biggest booms in the history OF Ne
vada will take place in this camp and
run the population we'll beyond the
1000 mark.
In what is known as the COL north
crosscut on the 600foot level of the
Cactus bonanza of the Newhouse
Mines company, machine drills are
ploughing their way through ore
which the daily sample assays show
to be averaging ZIG per cent copper
Prominent stockholders Of the Bis
cult Mining company, of Cherry Creek,
Nevada, confirm the reported strike
of splendid proportions upon the $50
foot level of this mine, and that each
foot that is gained by the management
upon this deep level is sending the
workings into finer quality of re.
sources.
The Daly-West mine, at Park City,
Utah, at the present time lifts its mill.
ing ores all the way from 1000 to L.
$50 feet through perpendicular shaft,
puts it through the mill and then
drops the product down the mine again
and send 1t out through the Ontario
60O-foot tunnel to the loading station
at the old Ontario mill.
Thomas w. Lawson has started out
on an advertising campaign to boom
| Nevada Utah stock. He is publishing
| a four column ad to announce that he
| has his engineers investigating the
property. but in the meantime will
poom the property In the market on
| the supposition that engineers reports
will bear out his expectations.
At a meeting of the Nevada Con
solidated held in Portland, Maine, the
shareholders voted to ratify the sale
Of a one-half interest in the Nevada
Northern railroad to the Cumberland
ely Copper company. This action was
merely formal and followed the issu
ance of new stock by the Cumber
and-Ely some time since
d. w. Ellis has sold the Bonanza
group of nine claims south OF thu
Gerean property and adjoining the
Velvet group, near Ely, to Francis
Sherrard and Christian Hermenson
Ely investors, for s20,0o0 cash. The
Velvet group, adjoining the Bonanza
group, was recently sold by the Phe
by brothers for $4,000.
Out of the numerous meetings helC
At IOlDTduO opIlHSS W tOiHiufi way
| and means for beginning the work OF
the deep drainage tunnel at Cripple
| Creek has come at last definite de
cision TO proceed with the money nov
available and trust to the liberality o
beneficiaries who have not yet entered
the list, to plank down the remainder
at the proper time.
The Idaho Consolidated MininI
company has reached depth of 1G
feet in the shaft being driven in th'
Relief claim. near Bellevue. and eS
peet to go Is feet further. A larg
shipment of the latest model machin
cry is now en- route and large fore
of men viii probably be put 10 worl
in the near future.
A well known mining engi Zee
says. The only limit to mining ac
tivity In the west Is the inability 4
get materials for construction. Goa
for power, and labor for the mine
and mills. There is no other clout
on the horizon that anybody actual,
at work can see. We dig the none,
out of the ground there, 80 that W
don't have to ask for new money, eN
cept for promotion"
Two loads of Wonder district ore