The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-07-19
MINES AND MINING

The Utah mine contributed to the
grand total of posted dividends for
the past week by posting the usual
dividend of 3 cents per share, or
$1,000 in all
A company known as the Dietrich
Milling company, and composed Of
Utahns, has a lease upon the old
Comstock dumps, al Virginia City,
Nevada, and affairs have Just BEEN
shaped correctly for an era of pros
perity.
Jesse Knight of Provo intends to
become coal operator and railroad
man. He has acquired coal lands in
Uintah county. Utah, and within few
months will begin the construction OF
a railroad to the coal measures which
he owns.
After a period of nearly fifteen
years of inactivity, the Detroit min
ing district, which lies about thirty
miles northwest from Oasis, Utah, Is
again about to take on new life. The
formation of the Detroit district Is
a counterpart of Tintic
Reports are current that f. Angus
tus Heinze is connected with the new
Miners Smelling company, just incor-
porated in Maine, with $10,OOU,O00
capital The new company, it Is UNI
derstood, will build a 3.000-ton smelt-
er in the Salt Lake valley.
Great excitement exists at Centen-
NAL, Wyoming, a lead of gold ore bear
ing samples that run as high as I'll 900
to the ton having been discovered west
CT that place The lead can be fol-
lowed for seven miles, and in places
the vein is 100 feet wide. A trench
| fourteen feet deep shows rich ore to
| the bottom.
| A New York woman who is prospect
| ing in Nevada has determined to be
| comfortable, and to do so adopted male
| attire, wearing overalls, shirt and
| large straw hat A woman with nerve
| enough to suffer the privations OF a
year among the mountains and deserts
of Nevada certainly deserves to discov-
er bonanza.
The Iron Age says. Our monthly
blast furnace statistics show that the
production in June was 2,247,42O
tons against 2,20l 900 tons In May.
July starts with twelve more stacks
in blast than were In operation on
the first day of June, and the outlook
is that the production will be well
maintained
Since the first of June the Ameri-
can Smelling & Refining company has
cut the price of lead 55 cents per 100
pounds--that is, the company has
lowered the settling basis with the
| producer that much. Yet there is
nothing to show that the metal Is any
more plentiful than it was a month
or six months ago.
Railroads and water are the two
| things most needed in the Lee, Me-
| vada, district, but these are coming.
| 1t Is stated that twelve-inch pipe
| line will be run into the camp by
Rhyolite capitalists, and that spur
track from the main line OF the Borax
Smith railroad track will be run into
| the town and to the mines.
In all probability business will be
very quiet in Owyhee county, Idaho,
after July 20 The 400 miners at
Silver City and De Lamar have made
a demand on the Trade Dollar and
De Lamar Mining companies for an
increase of 20 cents a day after
July 20. The owners declare the
limit has been reached in wages.
Preparations are now being made
at the Honerine at Stockton, Utah,
for the sinking of 20O.foot shaft be-
low the train tunnel level and ground
will probably be broken within few
days. This shaft is to be equipped
with hoist, pumps, etc, and every
necessary precaution will be taken to
see that nothing binders the work,
once 1t Is under way.
1t is now planned by the Balaklala
to begin breaking ore in August, to
have supply for beginning opera
tions of the smelter by September |,
wnen it Is expected TO be ready to
treat both Balaklala and Trinity ore.
The tramway will be completed by
that time and Manager Brown Of the
Trinity is said to have his property in
shape to Immediately begin produc-
tior.
North and east OF North Platte river
in east central Wyoming is broad.
low, dOmal mountain mass, with o
maximum height of about 5000 feet
above sea level, which Is known as
the Hartvile uplift and which is SIM
liar in many respects to the Black
Hills of South Dakota. Throughout
this entire area copper is so widely dis
tributed that, although no large deposit
has yet been discovered valuable beds
of ore may at any time be found.
From all indications and according
to the statements of some of the most
reliable mine owners and residents oi
Julian and the back country mining
districts, an assayer and chemist
papnad Howard hos invpptab npu,