The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-08-22
MINES AND MINING

The mill OF the silver Peak val.
caida Mining company at Blair. Ne.
vada. is now In commission.
II l. asserted that ieasers In the
Seven Troughs district are making q
big thing out Of their leases. ana the
entire district is ON the eve OF q
boom.
The sum of 100000 has recently
been raised with which to continue
the development Of the oil lands
owned By the Standard Reserve com
pany in Uintah county. wyoming.
1t is announced that a deal has been
| practically closed and terms agreed
| upon that viii soon result In the
consolidation Of the West Quincy and
Thompson Mining companies prop
critics At Park City.
st. George Is at fever heat over the
oil boom. People are coming and 60
ing continually milIionaFiex, capital
lists. clerks. miners and Iaborers Of AL
kinds have dropped everything and
made rush TO the oil regions,
Last week force Of men WAS put
TO work on the water system for Ma
yuma. Nevada. Engineer Mills has
made . preliminary survey and finds
that the distance from the springs
near the head Of Burnt Canyon to Ma
yuma il ave miles.
Pearl district. In Idaho. IL becoming
very active camp. six organixa-
tons are now working upon ores.
while at least twenty more are dilt.
gently operating their possessions with
every confidence OF striking the COW
eted chutes in good time.
OH has been struck In the Mcleod
well. two miles west of Reno. Nevada.
ON the Trnckee river. Every vacant
spot on Ave sections has been fied
ON and several derricks have been
contracted for, The oil Is OF light
specific gravity with paraffn base.
The Paraffine virgen OIL company
OF ST. George. Washington county.
filed articles OF incorporation with
the secretary OF state last week. The
concern IL to engage In the oil bust
ness In the newly discovered fields In
southern Utah and Is the FIRST incof.
poration since the discovery OF the
field
All trouble In the Seven Troughs
mining district has been settled by
the mine owners agreeing to pay union
miners IS instead of 81 for eight
hours work The miners have been
on strike for more than q month and
in that time nearly every mine In the
Seven Troughs district has been
closed down.
II does not often happen that min.
ing organization Is so fortunate as TO
begin operations upon property sim
altaneously with shipping ore from
the same to the market. That. how
ever. is the Initial record OF the Utah
indian Peak Mining company. located
about thirty miles west OF Lund. in
the Needle range OF mountains.
Chaotic conditions still character
ize the market for copper. There IL
absolutely no sign OF any large buying
movement for future delivery. and the
consumers. large and small alike, are
stilr feeling their way along cautious.
ly and buying only from day to day
In sufficient quantities to keep their
plants employed on such orders as are
received.
The average petroleum Of the world
gives on about per cent OF gaso
line. Some OF the Ohio, Colorado,
Pennsylvania and Kentucky petroleum
give of much more than that, but the
petroleums Of California. Texas. Kan
sas, Louisiana, Illinois, Indiana, Okla
homa, Indian Territory, West vir-
ginia. Tennessee and Kentucky do not
materially help the Illuminating oil
world
The new methods employed at the
Consolidated Mercur eompany's big
works at Mereur are turning out and
meeting every expectation and prom
ise of the management As the Mer-
cur ores contain a little gold that Il
is impossible to recover by any pro
cess, II is thought that the present
method OF handling the rock will
prove as nearly perfect as II Is pos
sible to devise.
There Is still golden harvest TO be
gathered from the grayels OF the Klnn-
dixie valleys The government has
Just completed an examination and
survey OF gold-bearing grayels OF both
high and low grades. II Is estimated
that In the neighborhood where gold
is known to exist and from which gold
10 the value OF ss4.Ts0ooo has been
taken by crude placer methods. there
remains ss3042 sea. which NAV be re
covered at q profit by hydraulic min.
ing. dredging and other advanced
methods OF gold recovery
The famous litigation over the
property OF the Eltigre Mining com
pany waa settled last week at Mexico
City, when the supreme court decided
in favor OF the Eltigre Mining com
pany as against B. r. Graham and the
Ensanada Mining company. The lit
igation began IN July. 1905. waen the
Graham interests secured the property
by force, and has since run through
all the courts of Sonora several times
and been before the supreme conrt
Of Mexico five times. The property
is valued al $1,000 900.
The Blair Press expresses the cpsn-
ton that the great gold milling plant
Of the Pittsbure silver Gold Mining 4
Milling company which Is 10 treat the
fnfuntafn Of gold ore deyeiofs.d ia the