The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-11-21
MINES AND MINING

15O5 Is. f4.6S and 1852 per cent cop
Der respectively Is the record that tne
Nevada Douglas Copper company is
setting for November.
The shaft of the Casting Copper, az
yerington, is down 10 feet, ahd the
average of the whole distance is 40
per cent copper The highest assay
secured was 1873 per cent copper.
Adyices from the Virgin river neld
are 10 the effect that twenty-iour rigs
are now at work drilling wells, ana an
ora of activity such as has never be-
fore heen known in southern Utah is
now manifest.
Ieasers working in the Eclipse
property. in the Seven Troughs ais
trsct. are sacking ore as fast as possi-
bile This ore will run about Sloo 10
the ton on the average, but some OF II
is of very high grade.
The miners Of Park City have voted
to go back TO work Inc properties
affected by this action OF the miners
are what are known as the Bampereer
properties, comprising the famous on-
tario. Daily West and the DAILY.
Three oil wells have been sunk with
satisfactory results in the Virgin OIL
field of southern Utah during the past
sixty days, and there are at least
dozen more rigs in commission, ana
new strikes are expected every day
That the district of Rosebud, New, is
waking up to its opportunities anu
that work is now started or READY 10
he started upon several groups idle ior
manv months, is the good word re-
ceived frcm that district last week
Considerable interest has been
aroused throughout the west over Con-
gresham Bartlett's plan to have tne
coming session of congress pass an aco
by which all assessment work on min
ing claims for 1907 shall be done away
with.
At last the old reliable mining camp
of Phoebe, New, has railroad. Inc
advent of the railroad was accepted by
the people of Phoebe in very quiet
manner, but it is determined TO cele-
brate the event in a proper way when
the opportune time arrives
The production of the Butte mines
in October was but S,376,000 pounds,
or 1853 500 pounds less than the esti-
mated output for September, and 49,
| 1877. 500 pounds less than the monthly
| average for the first six months of
! 1907. The October output was the
smallest in the history Of the big
mines
One of the really spectacular dis
coveries during the present resurrec-
! tion period of mining in Nevada is the
property once known as the Catlin
! group, 60 miles east of Tonopah. The
rock contains values of 5000 to the ton
and so far the new company has
blocked out $4,000 worth of such
rock.
The Degolia and Atkins tungsten
mines on the Mojave desert, recog.
nized as the best paying mining prop
critics in the west, were closed down
Saturday of last week and almost a
hundred miners handed their checks
when they reported for work. The
cause is said to be trouble with the
miners
Excellent progress attends the sink
ing of the large new working shaft at
the Cumberland-Ely on its Veteran
mine This shaft contains four com
partments and is five feet six inches
by twenty-six feet inside timbers. Sink
ing and raising" is in progress, ant
it will be completed in about two
months.
V. L. Butler, manager of the Butler
& McKinnon Diamond Drill company
of Butte, Mont, has been in Phoebe
looking over the district with a view
of determining the possibilities OF
work in this section with a diamond
drill. with the result that the Nevada
Des Moines property will install a
drill at once.
The Utah Copper company, accord
ing to Boston officials, is now the
largest producer of copper in Utah
wrestling that honor from Utah Con
solidated, During October it produce
100000 pounds. OF this 2,4OO .OOC
pounds We're obtained from it's new
concentrating plant, which produced
1000 tons from concentrates averag
ing 80 per cent copper.
! II. N. Day, the Centerville, Idaho
mining man, is handling a large body
of black sand from the old placer dig
gings, employing quite a number q
men. 1t is run over Whitley tables
saving the monaZite which sells foI
5000 per ton. Monazite is one of tn,
rare metals that has become quite val
liable during late years on account O.
It's use in the manufacture of metal.
for gas lamps.
Another oil well has been tapped n
the Virgin river field. The strike wa.
made in ground owned by Goldflelt
company headed by Mckenzie. tn,
wealthy mining operator of that camn
on section IA, which begins about 9 90,
feet west of the original well of tn,
Virgin City company.
A seat on the New York stock OK
change was sold last week for $50 o0C
the lowest price recorded since 1908
when seat was disposed of for ss7
200. The high record price was reache,
late ia 1905, when a seat brought sos
00o, and sale for like sum was re
corded early in 1906.
b The mysterious mission of wei
known