The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-01-24
MINES AND MINING

W htN veins nave just Defn
opened in the Tahsman eompany's
Beaver county mines.
There is a report in circulation to
the effect that the big assure for which
the tunnel on the Mcdonald Ely prop
erty, at Ely, Is headed. has been
reached.
During the week a total OF 365. 05l
shares OF stock, with a selling value
o. s272,47i.7S. changed hands on the
floor of the Salt Lake Mining Stock
Exchange.
Three new strikes of importance
were made at Vernon. Nevada. last
week. In one mine assays show val.
ues Of from 37i5 to sl776 In gold per
ton.
The Bleak Pearl mill in Boise coan-
ty. Idaho. has arranged for the install
lation of electric power from the
BoisePayette power plant, and 10 ex.
pected to be again in operation any
day.
The Tunnel Oil company. OF vernal
which owns oil placer claims In Gar
Geld county. Colo. and proposes to de
velop them, filed articles OF incorpora.
ton with the secretary OF state OF
Utah last week.
At a meeting of the directors OF the
United States Smelling. Refining Il
Mining company. held in Boston re-
Gently. II was decided to place the com
mon stock OF the company on z per
cent notwithstanding basis.
For 1906 the United States produc.
ton OF copper will aggregate 975.00o.-
600 pounds, an increase of only about
4 per cent over 1905, which compares
with an increase of 10 per cent in 1905
over 1904" says Daniel Guggenheim.
Senator Clark. of Montana. makes
the prediction that the figures for 1906
will show an increase In copper pro-
duction OF probably less than per
cent The average price will probably
be in the neighborhood Of 1874 cents.
There is a disposition on the part OF
the Seven Devils miners, who have
heretofore done all their railroad bust.
ness at Council TO wait for the com
ing of the Huntington road down the
Snake river. and cut Cuncil cold. as
this road will be much nearer to them.
Lemhi county. Idaho. has suffered
much through mining inaxperience.
There are today about GOO stamps In
the county, OF which only ABOUT 100
are in operation. The others have
been put up on mines where the ore
proved TO be too base for stamp mill
treatment.
Lemhi county Is one of the most
favored counties In Idaho, or In the
whole west. in Its coal deposits, IL IL
claimed. The deposits are known to
be very expensive: probably they
will prove even far larger than now
anticipated. when the country is prop.
erly developed.
BY virtue of a compromise effected
last week In Salt Lake City, between
James McGregor and the directors Of
the Silver King Mining company. all
former differences existing between
these interests are buried, and n new
era dawns for all Park City within the
very first week of the newly born year.
Blast furnace Stag is piling UP In
vast quantities at all OF the smelt.
ing works In the western mining
states. II cannot be said 10 have be
come a nuisance as yet, for the dumps
cover only very small area. and they
are not the menace to agriculture
and other industries that tailings piles
are. Their worst feature is that they
represent by-product for which as
yet no use has been found. says the
Mining Reporter.
Thirteen cars loaded with Goldfeld
ore. valued at 100000 arrived in
Vallejo Junction. Cal. on the attn.
where II will be treated In the reduc-
ton works and turned into SHINING
bars Of gold and silver Each car con.
tanned 100000 pounds OF ore. carefully
sacked
A mine opened in an absolute Wild
erness that In about two years Pre-
duces approximately s. 500. 900 worth
of ore from less than 10 per cent OF
its whole area AT an expenditure OF
only s225.e00, must merit the conf
ienrn p, ,,estors. Such q mine Is
the Nipissing.
The mining district surrounding the
little old town OF Ida New. is com
ing to the front with rapid strides,
and in spite of the former days cf
greatness at Ida. when the camp was
one ol the most active in tAe west
the future bids fair 20 hold still greater
things.
Quartz shot full Of free gold. rock
picked samples OF which would IN
doubtedly assay up into the thousands
Of dollars per ton, has been encoun
tered In an entirely new vein on the
225 foot level Of the Cedar company
mine In the North Star district
Beaver county. Utah.
A great amount Of underground
work Is going on at the Fsirview
Eagle, says the Miner. Three shifts
are worKing levels. A timberihg crew
has recently completed the Ts-foot sta
ton, and are well along the the sec
ond In the meantime the sinking has