The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-05-31
MINES AND MINING

10 Sl4.lU per TON
The Ogden Buckhorn people. who
have encountered high grade copper
ores in good quantities in Coldwater
canyon, tributary of Ogden canyon,
are building a good wagon road up to
the mine.
The Rabbit Foot group of four
claims, at Rosebud. Nevada changed
hands last week. This group has al
ways been held at 100000, but the
| price it sold for has not been given
to the public.
1t has been popular belief that
iron was little known to The ancients,
| but Lepsius believes that the Egyp-
tians used it for hand instruments,
and that it was prepared in smelling
furnaces 5000 B. C.
The Lemhi Telephone company is
now building line from Salmon City
| down through the Gilmore and the
Birch Creek country past the Weimer
mines and on to Medicine Lodge, nine
miles west of Dubois, Idaho.
| The Eureka mine, at Bullion, above
HALEY, Idaho, is showing from six
| inches to two feet of solid galena, on
the fifth Or lowest level, This Is at
| a vertical depth of 400 feet. Besides
the galena there is some concentrate
| ing ore.
In Nevada twenty years ago there
was but one method employed in pro-
viding funds for operating mine
that was not individually owned or
held in simple co-partnership, and
that was by assessing the holders of
interests.
Last year the Transvaal contrib
uted nearly one-third of the worlds
gold supply, that is, 5,7S6,617 fine
ounces, valued at $119 ,45S,737 second
place being held by the United States
with approximately 4,649,313 ounces,
$96, 101, 400.
The Gibraltar Mines Syndicate has
sent another car of ore to the Salt
Lake ore market. This Is the second
shipment of ore from the Gibraltar
since the railroad has reached the
camp of Rhyolite, the first going 1851
to the ton.
The Washoe smelter OF the Anal
gamated Copper company turned out
in excess of 100000 pounds of cop
per in April. The output of the Great
Falls smelter of the Amalgamated is
between seven and eight million
pounds monthly.
United States Senator George s.
Nixon and George Wingfeld have pur-
chased the Pittsburgh Liberty mine at
Masonic, Nevada, for 100000. The
deal was closed after two days de-
liberation. Masonic is eighty miles
south of Carson City.
Um Rus, the ancient gold mine In
Egypt, that was reopened by an Eng
fish company, has been closed down,
and the company has gone into liqui-
dalton. The first ore produced aver
aged an ounce of gold, but deeper de-
velopment has proved disappointing.
1t is stated on good authority that
a strike of great Importance has been
made in the long tunnel being run by
the Gold Coin Mining company on
their property in the Black Lake min
ing district in the Seven Devils dis
run $50 to $40 per ton having been
uncovered.
A third vein has been cut In the
main tunnel of the Revenue mine, in
Beaver county, Utah. The discovery
was wholly unexpected, but wei
come surprise. The new vein is
three feet wide and was encountered
at a depth of ITS feet Assays on the
rock show 1t to be an excellent grade
of milling stuff
Every mine in Rock Springs Is
closed and business Is paralyZed as
a result of the labor troubles Union
are being held every after
noon and evening. Nearly every
miner in the camp is now member
Of the union, and the majority of the
other laborers, the organization ctiiig
about 400 strong.
Rosebud, New, Is all wrought up
over an oil discovery within sight of
camp. Three men, while prospecting '
about eight miles southeast of camp,
stumbled upon strip of territory,
eight miles wide and
welve long, which has every appear
lnce of being the cover or lid of I
great reservoir Of petroleum. 6
The report of the Anaconda Copper
for the year ended Decem- q
,er 81, 1906, bears out the contention {
# Amalgamated Copper interests
hat the production of their mines {