The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-12-19
MINES AND MINING

lead.
Word from the Bullfrog district OF
Nevada il TO the \ Feet that the Bull
frog Gold Bar company win have its
new milling plant all ready for opera
ton by the middle of the current
month.
A couple Of Denver men have In
vented a machine that will perhaps
become very valuable to placer min
ers. II is an arrangement by which
they say all OF the gold In sand gravel
Is saved.
The treasury department on De-
cember 4th purchased 800. 600 ounces
OF silver at IS S2s cents per fine
ounce. or isis 100000 ounces Is 20
be delivered In San Francisco. 100000
In Denver and 100000 la Philadelphia.
II Is being talked around that mine
owners OF Utah win have to get to-
gether and build works that will make
them independent OF the present
smelling concerns. or accept long.
time contracts at greatly increased
rates.
The Quincy Junior Mining 4 Mill.
ing company. At HALEY. Idaho. has
closed down the mill for the winter,
but development work In the mine il
self will not be allowed TO pause dur.
ing the coming months OF mill mac
tivity.
The reports OF a combination of
smelling interests In Utah and Colo
RADIO for the purpose of advancing
smelling charges, and especially on
ores from Goldfeid. Mr. solomon
Guggenheim AYERS. are without foun-
dalton.
About 500 men are now on the pay
rolls of the Con. Mercur, at Mercur,
Utah, and they are producing such
results that local circles expect a re-
sumption OF dividends before the year
1908. The new shines plant is treat
ing 400 tons of ore per day.
There are several properties near
Boise where an abundance of ore may
be had that carries gold values rang
ing from So to IS per ton that can be
treated at a good profit by the cyan
be erected in the near future.
The production OF quicksilver IN
the United States In 1906 was &c ,23s
TASKS of seyenty-five pounds each,
valued at s95s.6S4, as compared with
| 30,451 TASKS, valued at $1.I03, l20, in
1905, decrease in quantity of 4213
! TASKS and in value of $l444 S6.
Without waiting for action on the
| part of the Nevada Conolidated com
| pany, the powers in the Cumberland
| Ely company have decided that there
shall be no further delays in hurry
ing to completion the great milling
and smelling works al McGill. New
A definite plan of reorganization OF
the BalakalaIa Copper company ha.
not been decided upon, although the
| New York management of the com
pany has submitted a tentative plan
to some OF the larger Boston inter
ests. whereby a third will be organ
lied, and through this vehicle an az
sessment of 81 per share is proposed
Three mining companies operating
| ih hAC Nctai VI FAtotiC hiBtlitts IL
northern Idaho, east of Spokane, dis
tributed among their stockholdei
during November dividends to tn,
amount OF $4,000. making the tota
disbursement to date in 1907 1867,
500, and $31 .635.S07 since the discoy
cry OF the mines.
With demand for the metal at
standstill, prices for copper hav,
eased of from last weeks figures
The domestic consumers refuse Il
nibble, even though such tempting
prices as 10 Is cents are quoted, witt
the result that the foreigners are pick
ing up copper here and there at ad
vantageous prices
AS producer OF the precious met
ais Nevada occupies a high plac'
among the states and territories o
the Union. In value of gold produc
the state is outranked only by Cole
RADIO, Alaska and California. while IL
silver output gives 1t fifth place. Col
orado. Montana, Utah and Idaho TAX
ing precedence
All of the mines of the Anacond
company, the Butte & Boston CON
pany and the Washoe, Parrot an,
Trenton companies will be closed am
the operations OF the Amalgamate'
cooper company confined 10 the prop
critics Of the Boston 4 Montana CON
pany, which embraces the larges
mines in the Butte district
The directors of the Amalgamate'
Copper con oany have voted to con
tinue curtailing the output OF cope
from the mines of the company a
near as possible on parity with tn
present basis Of consumption. IL wa
also decided TO authorize the opera'
ing officers TO close or continue Il
operation such mines and smelter
as they deem best
Three mills in the BuIlfrog dis
trict Of Nevada produced during Nc
vember the handsome total OF 1881
900 worth Of bullion, the leader bein
the famous Montgomery Ssoshon
company The other two mills wer
the Bonnie Glare and the Keane Won
der.
The Goldneld Mine Owners ASST
citation has given notice 10 the miner
union, declaring that by reason OF n
strike all former agreements are car
celed. This IS regarded as evidenc
Of fght TO the end that the mine