The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-11-28

pared scme figures as to prospective
earnings OF the company Tor l9oo,
after the Rio Del Monte gets into Iuii
oneration. which predicts total earn
ing of s4,735,OO0.
For Utah mines the present outlook
Is not half so dark as 1t would appear
at first glance, but for Nevada mines
the winter does not hold quite as
mich hope. But improvements may
he looked for in the Sagebrush state
in the near future.
Work on the Noble group OF mines
in the Seafoam district OF ldaho, mas
been suspended for the winter, on &C
count Of the cold weather and snow.
The ore is of fairly rich character
and work will be resumed as soon as
the weather permits.
Belgium produces about 24,ooo,ooo
tons of coal per annum, valued at soS'-
100000. The safety of the workers
has been brought to a high pitch OF
excellence, and the average death rate
from all causes during 190ll9O4 was
only SOTO per 10000.
At Cokeville, thirty miles east OF
MONTPELIER, Idaho, the old Collect
property has been purchased by
new corporation and they have
opened I'D q fine body of ore and al
ready have more than 800 tons on
the dump for shipment.
The areas in the United States pro-
ducing petroleum and natural gas In
commercial quantities are comprised
within five great fields, known as the
Appalachian field, the Lima-Indiana-
Illinois field, the Mid-Continent field,
the Gulf field, and the California field.
The products of the clay-working in
dustries of the United States in 1906
were valued at $161, 032,722, as against
$149,697, 1888 in 1905. gain OF $1l,325,-
534, or 7.57 per cent The brick and
tile products, the materials that enter
most largely in the structural and en-
gineering arts, were valued at $780,
591 1888.
A couple of Weiser, Idaho, capital
lists are prospecting for coal on Cove
creek, about IL miles from the city.
They have very promising indications
of large bed of Ignite. At the depth
of IA feet they struck a ledge of abou,
~ feet of peculiar looking stone which
coal experts state Is coal blossom
which they claim lies over the coal
bed.
From the Run Over" on Horse
| Hill, in the Yankee Fork mining dis
trict of Idaho, comes the news that
mining engineer, last week, took one
| pound of dirt from rick streak, and
panned IS worth of the yellow metal
making the ore worth about $1,000
| per ton. The richest part of the veir
is from six to eight inches wide, bu
the vein proper is much wider.
One of the largest deals ever made
in Wayne county, Utah. was made a
Loa recently by Thomas Baker, ]. A
Smith, l.. NJ. Chaffin and N. L. Shef
field. The deal is for a number of oil
claims located near Hanksville.,
was passed over from these parties t
Los Angeles company through 1T
agent, Nat Levy. The consideration
is s25,000.
During the month of October tn,
production of copper in the Unitei
States, Mexico and Canada fell of 81
$4,000 pounds, as compared with DC
tober, 1906. drop of over 80 per cent
Ten months of the present calenda
year have now passed, and the produt
ton of copper on the American cont
nent has shown a decrease of $4,000
900 pounds.
The Lead King Mining & Millin
company, which is mining in the hill
right back of the Nevada Consol
dated company's smelter town at Nj
Gill, New, was in the market las
week with the second carload of lea
ore from that property The lot {
approximately twenty-five tons wa
sold on controls assaying 1876 pc
cent lead and 3 ounces silver per tor
Both the Bingham Consolidate
(Heinze) and the Utah Consolidate
companies are planning to erect ne
smelters on the shores of Great Sa
Lake. Plans in the former case al
already finished, and plans in the Ia
ter case will be finished before Chris
mas.
1t is reported in Goldfield that Sc
ator Nixon and George Wingfield ha'
giyen an option on their stock in Il
Consolidated Mines company. amour
, ing to 100000 shares, to Barn,
, Barnea and other wealthy New Yol
operators, and that S600,0 600 has be-
paid on the deal
Manager Grant Snyder of the CT
, Mining company's properties
/ ophir, Utah, states that l,7OO tons
! ore were marketed during the pa
, month, while an entirely new o
. body fsrther west in the proper
: than was ever previously prospects,
, has been tapped.
Another gold quartz discovery is !
ported IN the hills east of McCammo
Idaho. The exact location of the ne
E md is being kept secret until t
: ground is staked OF. 1t is said til
l az least twenty claims win be locat
J IN mat territory as soon as the los