The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-01-11
NJ INES A ND MINING

Manhattan, Nevada, closely re
sembles the camp of BullfIog in thai
it is a great milling proposition.
II. P. Madden has bonded for $40 OO(
the group of seven mining claims
owned by Morris Roberts and An
thony ZURICH at Ely, Nevada
An authority on mines, who is fam
ilar with the Sonora field says that
the output of copper in Sonora, Mexi
co, for 1906, amounted to 100000
pounds.
The big Greenwater merger, that
has been talked of for some time, has
been consummated. The new com.
pany will have a capitalization OF $685.
100000, with 100000 shares.
1t is stated that in the keane
Wonder company's mine in Death Val
ley, $650,000 worth of ore has already
been blocked out, and the free milling
Will average better than SIS
1t Is now certainty that combin-
alton or interests in the Manhattan
district will erect great custom mill
Ing plant this coming spring, or as
soon as weather conditions will allow.
Ore that assays 175 ounces in sill
yer and Is per cent lead has been
struck by Henry Weland and Joseph
Foster on their Victor claim about
three-fourths of mile east of Phoebe,
Nevada.
January was happy day for the
Consolidated Mercur company and a
portion of their employees, for two of
the battery of six roasters at Mercur
were placed in commission after a
close-down of several days.
During the past year more annual
assessment work was performed In the
Deep Creek district than before in any
five years combined. This condition
has been brought about by assurance
that the Western Pacific railroad will
be completed to shipping points with
in the early months of the present
year.
good old-fashioned stampede Is
on toward the new copper and gold
district known as Mizpah, Ely and
Nevada points providing
the material for making this rush as
picturesque as is usually the case In
Nevada. The Mizpah district is To-
Gated six miles east of Spruce, north
west OF the Dolly Warden section.
e, p. Jennings, mining engineer,
gives some extremely interesting fig
lres In his report regarding the prob
able earnings of the Nevada Douglas.
Taking the daily capacity at / 1000 tons
If 32 per cent copper ore, after de-
luctlng all expense, the annual profit
# the company will be $2,7GO,OOO or
more than so per cent of the COM
'any's capitalization.
BY vote Of three to one. the mem.
ers of the Butte Mill Il Smelter.
len's union have decided to make
emand on the management of the
oston & Montana smelter for an in
rease Of so cents a day for all EN-.
Ioyes who work on change shifts In
lie various departments. The men
re at present, and have been for
sveral years, receiving So a day.
Mines valued at over $2O,OOO,OOO in
e Bullfrog district Of Nevada were
~arded to E. A. Montgomery by
ldge Sewell of San Francisco, last
eek against the claims Of C. B.
emming, who had sued for half
terest because Of dispute in the
ub-stake agreement. 1t Is now stat.
that the properties will be trans.
red to Charles Schwab, the
eel king.
ITO those who have supposed that
Q Comstock lode is worked out, it
~ be Of interest to state that the
tual production from the Ophir mine
me, during the past week." says Su.
rintendent Franklin Leonard, Jr,
recently submitted report,
mounted to seventy cars of ore, as.
Iing $94 per ton; thirty-six cars as
ing $33 per ton; seventy-fye cars
saying $22 per ton, making a total
231 cars of high grade ore.
The deposits Of the Yerington dis
1T are claSsed as contact metamOr-
C ore deposits" by the economic
,IOgists, and may be described as
sses Of metamorphosed and miner.
,ed limestone resting upon an intru-
G granite, the granite having fur.
he'd the necessary heat and heated
leralized solutions required to
vert the adjacent limestone into
sSiVc garnetiferous rock impreg
ed with copper ore
he richest shipment of ore ever
t to market from any mining camp
earth was a lot of fifty tons ex-
Ssed from the Hayes and MOnnette
Sc on the Mohawk at GOldfeld, last
*. The consignment is valued at
million dollars. Six armed guards
the ore, which went to
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