The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-06-27
MINES AND MINING

{ financial talent is preparing l" S'A'
work ON the oil fields that are SAID 10
exist a short distance from Fillmore
Utah.
Dick Colburn. who made the Rsl
Ton mine In GoldfeId, has bought the
interest Of Secretary J. p. Kane IN
the Red Top mine at Manhattan and
now owns control.
That no smoking be allowed behind
the rail Of the local exchange durlns
the regular call, Is a time-honored Gus
tom relig!ously adhered to by the
brokers Of Salt Lake
A prospector from Rosebud says
that an eightfoot ledge OF average
800 ore has been tapped on the
White Alps group, recently purchased
by Goss brothers of Salt Lake.
From the first Of February to the
first Of June the Goldheld Consolldat'
ed accomplished 1871 linear feet OIL
drifts. cross-cuts. upraises and shafts
and 81 COS cubic feet of stopping.
There is greater mining activity In
the eastern end of Beaver county, at
this time, than ever before known
and the properties being developed
are showing up most encouragingly,
John Hays Hammond, the mining
engineer OF New York, receives sal
airy aggregating 100000 a year.
which Is more money than any other
man ever received for his personal
services.
The treasury department on enc
14th purchased 100000 ounces OF sill
yer for delivery at San Francisco, at
67.15 cents per ounce, and also 100000
ounces for. delivery at Philadelphia.
at 67.27.
The tunnel that is prosecuting the
country on the property of the Old
Glory company in the Silver Island
district of Utah, has encountered an
eighteen-foot streak of very rich sill
YER and lead ore.
The Salt Lake valley shelters are
making every effort to do away with
the smoke nuisance. and are spend
ing fortunes In the installation OF
new devices which are expected to
solve the problem.
The balance of the machinery for
the Montgomery Shoshone mill has at
last been shipped, says the Rhyolite
Herald. Much of this was promised
in ninety days after the order was
put in, six months ago
A station is being cut on the 500
foot level of the Shoshone. at Rhyo-
lite, Nevada, and about $50 tons Of
ore per week are being taken from
the dump, loaded directly on the cars
and shipped to the smelters.
At the Wild Irish, in Gold Springs
district, the development work being
done goes to show that the mine is
about one of the biggest things in
Utah. Gold In its free state Is liter.
ally plastered over some of the rock
being mined.
The Ontario group of mines, stu
ated on Boyle mountain, fourteen
miles west of Ketchum, have been
sold to company of eastern capital.
lists, which will organize a corpora.
ton to be known as the Boston-Idaho
Mining company.
l.. Laudie, secretary of the Electric
Traction company OF Mercur, Utah,
visited the Clipper mines near HALEY.
Idaho, in which he is interested, re,
Gently He was SO we'll pleased with
the appearance of the property that
he secured an option upon all the
outstanding stock, about $4,000 out
OF the 100000 shares.
Cathode copper is exceedingly pure,
usually about 99.93 per cent copper
with hydrogen as the chief impurity.
says the Engineering and Mining
journal Objectionable cathode i'm.
purittes are two classes-those which
depress the electrical conductiyity
and those which make the metal
brittle,
mining engineer who has just re- /
turned from the Cobalt camp is M, |
thority for the statement that the
work now going on in that distric, ia
being carried out along scientific and
practical lines. with the result that
more is being accomplished in the
way OF developing the ore bodies than
ever before,
The old Dyer copper mine. in
Ctntah county, Utah. which has PRO 1
duced a great deal OF copper bullion !
from small smeiter that was built |
years ago To treat the ore on the |
ground. and which has since had |
many ups and downs, has. for the sec 1
ond time in its history. again passed /
into the hands OF James {. Gates NJ
Milwaukee.
The Higgtnson lease on the Jumbo /
Extension has opened up another /
body OF highs grade ore. the assay 1
running as high as s6l56 a ton. saws .
the Goldteld News The vein was 4
first encountered twelve feet yr,,,
the SHAFT In the south drift