The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-06-06
MINES AND MINING

- s-aS AAahnfdaf, MLfCu are
earning from IS to s5 per cent IN
profits on ore that averages from IS
to sli.l0 per ton.
The Ogden Buckhorn people, who
have encountered high grade copper
ores in good quantities In Coldwater
canyon. a tributary OF Ogden canyon.
are building a good wagon rad M 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 $4,000. but the
price it sold for has not been given
to the public.
IL has been popular belief that
iron was little known to the ancients.
but Lepsius believes that the Egyp.
ians used it for hand instruments.
and that il was prepared In smelling
furnaces 5000 b. c.
The Lemhi Telephone company Ia
now building a 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 It
vertical depth OF 400 feet. Beaides
the galena there is some concentrat-
ing ore.
In Nevada twenty years ago there
was but one method employed in pro
viding funds for operating a mile
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 fne
ounces. valued at $119,45S,737, second
place being held by the United States
with approximately 4,649.3I3 ounces,
$50, 101, 400.
The Gibraltar Mines Syndicate n~s
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 Amai-
Copper company turned out
In excess of i7,000,000 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 :.
Nixon and George Wingfield have pur.
chased the Pittsburg-Liberty mine at
Nevada, for 100000. The
deal was closed after two days de.
liberation. Masonic is eighty milen
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.
iation. The first ore produced aver.
aged an ounce of gold. but deeper de
velopment has proved disappointing |
1t is stated on good authority that |
, strike of great Importance has been |
made in the long tunnel being run by |
he Gold Coin Mining company on |
heir property in the Black Lake min |
ng district In the Seven Devils dis |
.rict, Idaho, a vein Of ore that will |
'un $50 to $40 per ton having been |
A third vein has been cut in the |
main tunnel of the Revenue mine, In |
Beaver county, Utah. The discovery |
vas wholly unexpected. but wei. |
,ome surprise. The new vein Is /
hree feet wide and was encountered |
IT a depth of It's feet. Assays on the |
'ock show ii to be an excellent grade |
If milling stun.
Every mine in Rock Springs is
'losed and business is paralyzed as
, result of the labor troubles. Union !,
are being held every after
loon and evening. Nearly every |
miner in the camp Is now a member
II the union, and the majority OF the /
,ther laborers. the organization being |
bout 400 strong.
Rosebud. New. Is all wrought up |
,yer an oil discovery within sight of
amp. Three men, while prospecting
bout eight miles southeast of camp,
stumbled upon a strip of territory,
approximately eight miles wide and
weiye long. which has every appear
nee of being the cover or lid of
,reat reservoir OF petroleum
The report of the Anaconda Copper
ompany for the year endei Decem-
'er 81. 1906, bears out the contention
4 Amalgamated Copper interests
hat the production of their mines
asst year showed little IL any de
rease, Notwithstanding the extraor.
mary demand for the metal in this
ountry as well as abroad.
Harry s. Joseph. secretary of the