The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-02-07
MINES AND MINING


Utah. before the present year has
given way to 1908.
A remarkable rich strike was made
last week on the former Walker Lake
Indian reservation. Nevada. In the
Wild Horse No 2, ore being uncovered
that assays $23G.s0 10 the ton.
Inc news comes from Ely, Nevada
that the shaft OF the Salt Lake-Ely
company has dropped into solid body
Of high grade copper ora and that
there is no longer any question about
the future OF that proposition.
Strikes of high grade ore in the
DaIy-West mine at Park City are be
coming Of such frequent occurrence
that the management declares 1t Is
afraid to enumerate them, as to do so
would be 10 invite incredulcus criti
.ism.
Word comes from Goldfield that the
machinery ordered some time ago fos
the Goldfeld White Rock Leasing
company, the corporation controlled by
Harry Joseph and j. U. Eldredge, Jr.
Of Salt Lake, had arrived on the
ground.
Refund Mountain camp is located on
the east side Of the Big Smoky val
ley, about half way between 1onopah
and Austin, Nevada at an altitude OF
from G000 to 6400 feet, the total ele-
walton OF the mountain from which
the camp is named being not more
than 400 feet above the adjacent val
ley.
Favorable reports are being re
ceived from the Ramey Ridge and
Crooked Creek districts, which are sit
uated about 40 miles north OF Thun
der Mountain. A large number OF
prospectors are engaged in developing
numerous properties in these sections
and very gratifying results are being
obtained.
Joe Crimson is doing business at
his coal mine, about fourteen miles
east of Idaho Falls, Idaho, and has
Just installed an engine and a hoist
to take care of the trade. as nearly
all the farmers around Ammon and
Iona are using the COAL. and recon
mend it. 1t is selling for $500 at the
mine.
Work on the Guggenheim properties
at Ely Is progressing steadily along
the lines originally laid down. Devel
opment at the Veteran group is par
ticularl. satisfactory Here great
blanket of ore has been opened UP
whose dimensions so far disclosed are
so feet In depth, 1870 feet in width and
20 feet in length.
The United States Smelling com.
pany is assembling at Chrome, N. j.,
the largest metalurgical works in
the world Investment in these plants
win exceed $3,000.00O. 1t already has
copper refinery of "a present capacity
Of 14.O00,0 900 pounds annually and is
building fully equipped smelling and
copper converting plant.
A leading interest in Utah Consoli
dated says that while full figures for
the fiscal year of the Utah Consoli
dated have not yet been received 1t Is
known so far as can be determined,
that the company earned $2,750,OO0
tor the year and 1t Is estimated that
for 1907 the company will earn be
tween $4,000, 900 and $4,000, 900.
A deal has been consummated In
Goldfeld which places one of San
francisco's most prominent business
men in the local field. That man is
40 less a parsonage than John d.
Spreckles. the sugar king. owner of
the San Francisco Call and various
other large enterprises on the Pa
! cific coast, and the property Is the
Blue Jacket group.
Joseph E. Game. of Salt Lake, a
| German mining engineer and Tono
nah geologist, have secured an option
On the famous Ludwig bonanza The
Ludwig has been one of those rich
and rare propositions that has earned
good money and gone along without
making any noise in the world In
prosecuting development work last
year $l75.000 worth of rich ore was
shipped.
An assay sheet from the Cactus
mine discloses the fact that the samp
| ling of ore covered by twenty-five sets
OIL mine timbers gave returns of o.
up to 25.4 per cent copper, Sixteen
If the twenty-five sets of assays
snowed percentages ranging ali the
way from 11.9 to the highest, while
an average of the lot attested the
presence of better than 15 per cent
copper.
J While doing some development work
ON his mines In the Mason Pass sec
ton In Nevada recently, Pat Gal
lagher opened up fine ledge of cop
per ore. varying in width from two Il
four feet. The ore Is mixture o.
sulphide and carbonate and average
samples taken from the ledge show
| the ore contains from fifteen to TWEEN
ty-tive per cent copper. and from 81
to IS in gold.
Ely Is designed to be one OF the
greatest copper producing districts IL