The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-04-11
MINES AND MINING

outside OF Goldfeld, with the excep-
ton Of Tonopah. has been affected by
the local labor war
A big strike has been made, In the
Ramsey Comstock, at Ramsey, Ne
yada. Seven feet OF sulphide ore has
been cut that averages $50 to the ton.
The latest rush to take place In
Nevada. Is to Cedar Basin, Lincoln
county. where a number of likely cop
PEI propositions have been staked
out.
A fierce fire Is burning In the 600
foot level in the Homestake mine at
Lead, s. d., and 1t may become neces-
sary to food that part OF the work
ings to put out the flames.
Specimens of the Dreamland ore.
Of Rosebud Nevada, are ON exhibit
ton in Salt Lake City that fairly daz-
zles one, being very rich in silver
The rock assays $500 in the white
metal
The Cave mine, in Beaver county,
seven miles east OF Milford, Utah, is
about the oldest producing mine In
Beaver county. II has produced over
81, 900. 900. and has millions yet to be
uncovered.
A prominent mining man states
that it is almost impossible TO get
'skunked" on the Seven Troughs
Eclipse ground; wherever a bit Of
quartz is found there you can get
good paintings.
Dream Gulch, with a record of
100000 produced In four short sea
sons, was discovered directly as a re
suit of dream. 1t was one of the
first placer claims discovered in the
Couer d'Alenes district.
News has been received of an i'm
portant gold strike in the Golden
Crest mine at Murray, Ida. Murray
is one of the pioneer camps Of the
Occur d'Alenes and lies about twelve
miles north of Wallace, the principal
town of that district.
During the month of March a total
Of 1.129,175 shares of stock. with a
selling value of $1,126.23S.54. changed
hands on the Salt Lake mining stock
exchange. The trading Saturday
brought out 1850 shares, with a sell
ing value of $25.224.
The Honerine West Mining com
pany was in the market last week
with a fifty-ton carload OF ore that
would net the company $4,000. This
IS the third carload of ore shipped
from this company's Stockton prop
srty within the last sixty days
The Mountain Bell company has a
fine property in Muldoon gulch, in
Idaho. A tunnel is being run to tap
an ore shoot at q depth of $50 feet.
This tunnel will have to be driven
about 100 feet farther to reach the
ore. A mill has been ordered for the
mine having a capacity of fifty tons
day.
Salt Lake operators have just or.
ganized the Steptoe Lead and Cop
per Mining company to operate a
group of four claims in the Duck
Creek district, northwest of Ely and
within q mile and a half of the big
Steptoe smelling works of the Ne
vada Consolidated and Cumberland
Ely companies.
Another rich strike was made on
the Nevada Wonder mine Monday of
last week. large ledge of very rich
ore being broken into in the winze
Of the Badger claim. The ore is sim
liar to the other rich ore which is
found on the big mine, but IL is
thought to be richer than any which
has been encountered heretofore.
The crosscut on the Eagles Nest
vein at F'airview, Nevada. has lift the
hanging wall. The vein proves to be
twenty,six feet wide. A conservative
sample has been taken across the en-
tire twenty-six feet, including ledge
filling. low grade, medium grade. high
grade and all. and the average values
obtained are s32 per ton.
A large amount of ore has been de
veloped in the Mutual mine in
Muldoon district. in Idaho. and the
property is ready to be equipped with
a 100ton mill which is to be put on
this season. The company is work
ing twenty men. IL has constructed
a road two miles long TO connect
with the county road, this having
cost $4,000.
When II comes to the production
of copper. the mines OF Utah are in
high regard, but 1t is seldom taken
into consideration that Utah holds
the property whose company makes
the most economical saving of cop
per OF any organization in the coun-
try OF similar importance This com
pany is the Utah Consolidated; IL pro-
duces copper at a cost of only 5 cents
a pound.
With the present plans OF develop
ment well executed the Federal Ely
company. Of Ely. Nevada. bids fair