The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-02-14
MINES AND MINING

The dump at STATIONS Indepenr
dence mine at Cripple Creek Is said
to contain 100000 tons of ore that
will average 1870 per ton.
Phoebe. New, parties are looking up
properties at Staieline, and II Is ex-
oected they will cast their ancho-s In
that awakening camp as soon as sur
face examination is possible.
The Boston News Bureau says that
the Utah-Apex company has closed
contract with the Utah Smelling com
pany with smelter at Ogden, Utah. to
treat $4,000 tons CT ore at minimum
of 1000 tons per month.
About 1000 pounds of samples Of
copper ore from the mines OF the Yer.
ingtop district were placed on display
in a window in SILT Lake lc1t week.
The collection embraces samples from
all of the principal properties in that
section which have been developed
Earnings of s2,750,000 by the Utah
Consolidated company this year would
Indicate a profit of IAN cents per
pound on 100000 pounds produced,
crediting gold and silver values
against copper costs. This would Be
equal to earnings of 1915 per share
C. C. Parsons, president Of the Han
napah Mining company, stated last
week that the unwatering of the mine
at Hannapah, New, was progressing
satisfactorily, and that 1t would be
possible to get to work on the 300-foot
level again within a couple of weeks.
The new board of governors of the
Salt Lake Stock & Mining exchange
nave organized by electing James A.
Pollock president; R. ]. Evans, first
vice president; w. J. Browning, sec
ond vice president; Fred r.. Davis,
third vice president; G. p. Norton,
treasurer and James a Shorten, Sec
rotary.
In ledge four feet wide the Wheel
err Gold Mining company, operating
in the Yerington, Nevada, region, has
Just encountered a body Of ore that
averages better than $1,000 in gold
per ton. Sixteen inches OF the material
runs z101.65, two feet assays $l,204.12.
and an eight-inch streak of it carries
s2,792.36.
A strike in the Jumbo Extension at
, Soldfield has just been made public.
The shaft is down 220 feet and the
bottom is entirely in shipping ore,
zone of which runs less than $500,
give from $4,000 to 5000 per ton. Ac-
while returns from some OF the ore
. cording to indications $4,000 ore will
soon be encountered.
/ Manager Walter James of the Black
Rock properties in Beaver county,
= states that new shaft has been start
ed on the ground to prospect the big
iron blowout that occurs in the
ground. The new shaft is now down
sixty feet and contract has just
t been awarded for another 100 feet OF
work in the same hole.
Several samples of ore taken from a
l. ledge discovered northwest of Paris
Is Utah. have been assayed and showed
IS $2,14625 in gold, and $451.23 In sill
Ie yer per ton. AS result there is
~ considerable excitement in and about
- Paris The strike was made by A. E
III Plyer an old prospector who had beer
lie grubstaked by three locomotive en-
re gineers.
y Salt Lake mining and smeltins
"A circles do not take seriously to the
claim recently made that several o.
lie the copper refiners in the nortf
pc south and east were piling up cop
A. per in order to create an artificial
shortage. The report to this effec
smanated from the east and eve
since it has been one prominen
source of conversation,
IN With the first days transactions az
gregating 204,S50 shares, the Goldhei'
lis stock exchange board inaugurate
,r- business on the 21st under the mos
et favorable and encouraging auspices
of The great volume of business whic
The members accounted for was n
%. surprise to the people of Goldfeld, 10
Is its success was foregone conciI
cit sion.
-iy Western Nevada is casting eyes u
Tn ward the new Mizpah mining distric
KS and it is considered that this regio
MS will make banner camp. Mizpah
-, described as being only few m'
ments walk from the track OF the ~
for vada Northern railroad, and when ID
70 Western Pacific road is completed III
ar' camp will be within fifteen miles
his this steel highway.
A phenomenal strike has been MAD
On the Major Harrison mine In Deal
Valley. Values assaying as high
sen $4,000 to the ton in gold and siiv'
'eA have been found in the groupings
la the lodges, of which there are sever
lot A shaft has been sunk on the ma
tn ledge, and at thirty-five feet In dep
the ore assayed over 5000 in gold al
silver, with to 6 per cent In ooppe
be- p.r
a. A smelter is to be built on Resi-
a., rection bay, near Seward, the ocea
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