The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-01-17
MINES AND MINING

H. P. Madden has bonded for $4,000
the group of seven mining claims
owned by Morris Roberts and An.
thony Zurich at Ely, Nevada
An authority on mines, who is fam.
liar with the Sonora field. says that
the output of copper in Sonora. Mexi-
co, for 1906, amounted to l7s 200 200
pounds.
The big Greenwater merger. that
has been talked of for some time, has
been consummated. The new com
pany will have capitalization of s25-
100000, with 100000 shares.
1t is stated that in the Keane
Wonden companys mine in Death Val
ley, $650000 worth of ore has already
been blocked out, and the free milling
will average better than SIS
1t Is now certainty that combin-
alton of interests in the Manhattan
district will erect a great custom mill
ing plant this coming spring, or as
soon as weather conditions will allow.
Ore that assays ITS ounces in sill.
yer and Is per cent lead has been
struck by Henry Welland and Joseph
Foster on their Victor claim about
three-fourths of a mile east of Phoebe,
Nevada.
January was a happy day for the
Consolidated Mercur company and
portion Of their employees, for two of
the battery of six roasters at Mercar
were placed in commission after
close-down of several days.
During the past year more annual
assessment work was performed in the
! Deep Creek district than before in any
five years combined. This condition
has been brought about by assurance
| that the Western Pacific railroad will
be completed to shipping points with
in the early months of the present
year.
A good old-fashioned stampede is
on toward the new copper and gold
district known as Mizpah, Ely and
surrounding Nevada points providing
the material for making this rush as
| picturesque as is usually the case in
| Nevada. The Mizpah district is To-
! Gated six miles east OF Spruce, north
west of the Dolly Warden section.
E. P. Jennings, mining engineer,
! gives some extremely interesting fig.
ures in his report regarding the prob
able earnings of the Nevada Douglas
Taking the daily capacity at 1000 tons
of 31s per cent copper ore, after de-
| Quoting all expense, the annual profit
of the company will be $2.760000. or
more than so per cent of the COM
pany's capitalization.
By vote of three to one, the mem
bers of the Butte Mill & Shelter
mems union have decided to make a
demand on the management of the
Boston & Montana smelter for an in
crease of so cents day for all en-
ployes who work on change shifts in
the various departments. The men
are at present, and have been for
several years, receiving So day.
Mines valued at over 500 100000 in
the Bullfrog district OF Nevada were
awarded to e. A Montgomery by
Judge Sewell of San Francisco, last
week against the claims of c. b.
Flemming, who had sued for a half
interest because of a dispute in the
gIub-stake agreement Ii is now stat
ed that the properties will be trans
fered to Charles Schwab, the
steel king.
ITO those who have supposed that
the Comstock lode is worked out IL
may be of interest to state that the
actual production from the Ophir mine
alone, during the past week" says Su
perintendent Franklin Leonard, Jr.
in recently submitted report
amounted to seventy cars of ore, as
saying s94 per ton; thirty-six cars as
saying $33 per ton; seventy-fve cars
assaying $22 per ton, making tota
of 231 cars of high grade ore.
The deposits of the Yerington dis
trict are classed as contact metamor
phic ore deposits by the economic
biologists. and may be described as
masses of metamorphosed and miner
allied limestone resting upon an intru
sive granite, the granite having fur
nished the necessary heat and heated
mineralized solutions required tc
convert the adjacent limestone into {
massive garnetiferous rock impreg
| mated with copper ore
The richest shipment OF ore eve'
sent to market from any mining CAM
on earth was a lot of fifty tons ex
pressed from the Hayes and Monnett'
lease on the Mohawk at Goldfeld. las
week The consignment is valued a
one million dollars. Six armed guards
accompanied the ore, which went u
the Seiby smelter near San Francisco
Express charges were eight thousand
dollars. Twenty sacks of the ship
ment were filled with ore worth nj
ty thousand dollars per ton.
Word from the east is to the effec
that strong Pennsylvania men of none,
had decided upon building railroad
. into Manhattan, Nevada. from Aus
, tin or Tonopah. the points OF easies
: approach from q railroad builder