The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-09-12
MINES AND MINING

'oohihg more encouraging and hopefuI
right now than 1t has for twelve or
fifteen years.
A twelve-inch vein of itch galena ere
was uncovered fifty feet below the sur.
lace in The Basin property at Wallace.
Idaho. last week. Senator Hepburn is
one OF the owners of this mine.
| A strike OF gold in the grass roots
IN the Len Flank claim on Michigan
nil. near Centennial, Wyo., has made
excitement At thirty feet a three
foot ledge showing $40 to the ton was
uncovered
The largest and richest natural
suice box in the world, and perhaps
the greatest deposit of gold on earth,
is to be found in the combined gold
OF the black sand concentrates OF the
Snake river, Idaho.
The Washington Mining & Milling
company. operating rich gold proper
| ties on Bear creek In the Marshall
lake district, is running a night and
day shift. the stamp mill being kept in
operation sixteen hours out of "a.
| There Is great deal of metal min
ing going on in the region radiatins
from Pocatello. and the opening OF
good coal measures In that section will
do more to build up southeastern Ida.
no than anything that has ever hap
pened.
The North Star mine, on the east
| fork of Wood river. vii, soon join the
ranks of producing mines. Two years
and half ago the Haley mining blu
| reau secured lease UPON II. with al
option to purchase at ahy time within
Eve years for 100000
A man named La Point has been a,
work on the Snake rive. below Parma
Idaho, installing a small plant for saw
ing the values from the river sands
This plant has been worked for some
time and the results are so satisfac
tory that large one is to be installed
Work at the Petit mine at Atlanta
Idaho. Is being rushed. The power
plant is being put in, and 1t will be
one OF the fine ones of this part oil
the state. The plant will be supplied
through fiume 1890 feet in length
from which fall of So feet is secured
The manager of the Rainbow com
pany's properties in Little Cottonwood
district reports having tapped high
grade silver-lead ores in that proper
ty, and he is now certain that he Is
going to make a mine of II. The ore
shows 1S9 ounces of silver, 25 per
cent lead and 40c In gold, with some
copper.
A Spokane dispatch gays that Thos.
l.. Greenough, millionaire mining man
and former partner OF Peter Larson.
has announced the purchase of 22.00e
acres of placer ground in Fremont
county. % miles from Lander. the
nearest railway point, and will spend
100000 in improvements on the
property.
Oil locations are being made nine
miles south of Levan. in Juab coun.
ty, Utah, and the locators believe they
will develop some phenomenally rich
oil properties. Oil was shipped from
this section, in small quantities. sever
al years ago, but lack of capital and
proper facilities resulted in a cessa-
ton of development.
The Mink Creek coal mines. near
Pocatello, Idaho. have been opened TO
4 depth of 800 feet on the dip of the
vein, which is twelve feet thick be.
tween walls and which has a pitch OF
between 80 and So per cent from the
horizontal The qualify of the coal is
improving with depth. and the mine
win undoubtedly make fortunes for Its
owners
The anthony district Of Utah is Ia
the northeast corner of Garfield coun-
", about 200 miles from Salt Lake
City. A rancher discovered the anti
mony properties some twenty-six years
ago. and but little work has been
done. But now Montana capital has
taken hold of the proposition and a
1OO-tpn concentrating mill 10 handle
the lower grades OF ore Is nearing com
pletion.
Sheridan county, Wyoming. coal
mines have practically doubled theh
CAPACITY since last season, and the
coming winter will witness by far the
greatest business ever handled IRON
the field. Anticipating the tremen-
dous tonnage. the Burlington has pur-
chased 100 new engines OF the heay.
lest type of freight locomotives. ana
added 5000 cars to its equipment
sheridan operators say " SUFFICIENT
miners can be secured the output VIII
| practically double that of any pre-
yious year.
According to producers OF copper
the supplies In consumers hands are
lower than they have been In years.
One uroducer says even the copper In
| the form OF scrap has been practically
| consumed. and that manufacturers can
! not stay out of the market two weeks
| longer.
II is stated that the Big Giant prop
erty. near Boise. as Il stands would
| keen a l.oO0-ton plant running. II IS
| the plan of the company. however al
tor making a working test to deter
mine finally what process Is adapted 10
the ores. to put in mill OF goo tons
| capacity
The Hecla mining company. OF the
| coaur d'Alsne district. OF idaho. last
| week maid a regular monthly diTT
aand OF SEQ 600 on Tuesday. This Is at
| the rate Of . cents a share. and 10 tot Il
Maid for the year Is s452.ooa, and me
rand total OF all dividends paid .
! 1890 geo