The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-02-28
MINES AND MINING

ne total uiViuends PAID by ldahd
mines for the year 1906 is approx!
mately s7.000.0oo,
The Dreamland, in the Rosebud sec
tion of Nevada. is In four feet OF ore
that win average, $3.50 per ton.
Parties returning from the east de-
clare that no state Is better regarded
by capitalists for legitimate mining
investments than Utah.
Lumber costs anywhere from $50 to
SIS a thousand delivered at the mines
in the Ely. Nevada, district, and in
many instances 1t cannot be pur
chased even at that.
What gives many indications OF be
ing rich copper region has been dis
covered few miles northwest OF the
town OF Schwab. near what is known
as Cow Greek. in California.
An unfayorable water season. as
well as diminished activity in deep
gold mining in owyhee county. re-
duced the gold production In Idaho in
1905 by about 100000 10 si.075.600.
The mining district OF Good
Springs, New. while giving very little
news OF results to the outside world,
Is registering achievements OF merit
that cannot but impress the average
seeker after results
One curious fact is that only two OF
the six blasting accidents in Idaho
last year occurred in the Occur
d'Alenes, which uses so to IS per cent
of all the powder used in the state.
and one OF these was in prospect
hole only twenty feet deep.
Superintendent James II. Beveridse
OF the Emma Copper company has no
tilted the Salt Lake Offices OF the com
pany that the drift has gone into the
recently encountered ore body for
| total distance of forty feet, and the
| ore is growing richer with each shot
The property is located in Alta dis
| trict. Utah.
j. w. Burnham. manager of the
| Southern Pacific company. operating
( the property in the Sierra 7Madre dis
/ trict, near Ogden. says that while the
company owns a copper mine OF spien-
| did proportions. the management Is
showing up gold values that make oil
the property proposition OF addition
al interest
| In the Lee and Echo districts OF
/ Inyo county, California. are 10 he
found conditions existing that seldom
| attach anywhere else on the globe
| The veins are wonderfully well de
| fined in both sections. While tht
4 surface showings as rule are not sc
] great. even shallow depth has shown
splendid ore bodies.
In the very complete review by thf
state mine inspector of the great min
ing section OF the Occur dAienes. J
Is shown that this district last yea
produced IS per cent OF the lead, y
per cent OF the silver. So per cent o
the copper. IS per cent OF the xin'
and 5h per cent of the gold and al
the anthony of the state of Idaho.
There were seventeen fatal acct
dents in the mines of Idaho In 1906
as compared with twenty in 1905, tel
in 1904 and twenty in 1908. Six
this years accidents were from explo
sions. four from falling ground, fou
from falling down chutes and MI
holes. and one each from handlinl
timber, tramway and a fall from stag
ing.
Following the consolidation of tn
nrincipal producing mines in the GOLD
field district, it is announced that
new Combine has just been formed {
take over other producing mines an
a few OF the largest producing lease
now operating in the several prove
sections of the district The ne'
company win have capital
Sl.0000 900.
A deal was closed last week tina
gives to Salt Lake one of the bigges
mines in the Yertngton district. IN
81 .oO0, 900 option on the famous Luz
, wig mine that was held by Joseph ]
Game and Max Junghandel, the latte
Of Tonopah, was purchased from thei
, by Frank J. Hagenbarth at an az
, vance that gives the vendors goo
round sum.
Within two years Ely will be pr
ducing more tonnage than Butte"
a Nevada mining operators conci1
sion. "A single claim In the heart
, Butte today will bring anywhere frol
! quarter to q million dollars just O
account of it's location, and upo
which there may not he a single spec
! | of visible copper What will Ely
: in two years or less
: The committee representing II
farmers of Salt Lake valley who o
!. tanned injunctions against the oper
o ton OF the various smelling plants {
/ account of the damage done by fum'
: and gases to vegetation. officially a
n nounces that an agreement has bee
= made with the American Smelling
T. Refining company that viii permit u
operation of the works in the fntur
/. From the manner in which Seys
Il | Troughs stock Is passing hands {