The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-04-25
MINES AND MINING

ooAt i~anC SanEitrTS at once.
From all reports Cherry Creek, Ne
vada, is having the most comforting
kind of boom that could be desired.
The directors of the Utah Mine of
Fish Springs met last week. and post
ed the usual dividend OF three cents
a share, or $4,000
The establishment and successful
operation of the new Utah smelter
near Ogden has given. great impetus
to subsidiary industries.
A rich find of high-gra galena and
tin has been made in the Black noun
tain region on the waters of Upper
| Wind river In Wyoming.
A new law in Utah now is that min
ing companies must have on hand
emergency medicines, stretchers and
such things for injured men
| The spur track to the Montgomery
| Shoshone mine has been completed
and the shipment Of the sl,000.000
| dump to the Salt Lake smelters has
| begun.
| Henry r. Merton and company, of
| London estimate the production OF
| copper throughout the world In 1906
at 711y675 tons, against 6S2,125 in
1905, and 664,000 the year before.
The treasury department on the
18th purchased 100000 ounces OF sill
yer at 66,062 cents per fine ounce;
| 100 ounces to go to San Francisco
and the remainder to New Orleans.
| Jack Leggett one of the prominent
and successful mine operators of
Butte. Montana. is now in Boston for
| conference with eastern stockhold-
ers of the Raven and Butte and Ely
mining companies.
The men employed at the Ontario
mine at Park City went on strike ON
the 18th, because of the attempted
enforcement of new rule which re-
quires them to enter and leave the
mine on their own time.
The entire capital stock of the New
house Mines and Shelters company
has just been added to the unlisted
department of the New York stock
exchange The companys March
output of refined copper was 100000
| pounds.
The spring report of the committee
of the Rhyolite Board of Trade shows
the mining industry of the Lee, dis
trict to be booming in a surprising
manner. Less than year ago the en-
tire district could have been tied up
for $4,000.
The Crown Point Consolidated Min
ing company, with headquarters at
Provo. filed articles of incorporation
with the secretary of state of Utah
capital of 100000 in a million shares
of 10 cents each.
Ore shipments from Park City for
the week aggregated 2,513.s4o pounds,
as follows: DAILY Judge. $4,000
pounds; Middlings, $4,000: Silver
King, S41,S40: DAILY West. 500 900; On
tario. 100000; DAILY, 100000; New
York, $4,000; total, 2.513,S4o
Much excitement is occasioned by
the report of rich strike at Mizpah.
| Nevada. Ore has been found at the
surface which runs as high as $1,000
to the ton in gold. silver and copper.
This ore carries as high as 1900
ounces in silver to the ton.
Sooner than one thinks, smelters
will be operated in Alaska. and then
the world will again be astonished by
the news from there. AS it Is now
the ore must be taken to Everett OF
Tacoma. 1900 miles by sea and 300 by
railroad, a distance of 1900 miles
1t has just developed that in ad
dition to the 100000 shares of new
Balaklala stock recently offered TO
\ derwritten at si5 through Haden
Stone & Co. 25 900 shares were also
issued to. them at the same price.
The directors of the Swan Hilder
Mining company me; in Springville
last week and raised the price of the
treasury stock cents. The advance
is the result of the recent strike on tn,
Lee-Echo claim in Nevada, which +
known in that state as Mormon Boy
The Brilliant shaft of the Ely Con
solidated company at Ely, Nevada
is now being pounded down througs
ore that is averaging 3 per cent cop
per. The shaft is over AS feet deer
and every foot of the distance from
the 400-foot mark has shown copper
values ranging from to as high al
! II per cent.
All of the miners employed in the
Mechanically mine. at Ely. Nevada
have struck for higher wages. ane
their demands have been refused b,
the management of the mine. There
is a remote possibility that a genera
strike. affecting the entire district
may be called to enforce the demand,
OF these miners. but this is not con
sidered likely.
During the first quarter of the cur
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