The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-05-07
MINES AND MINING

oih inc 0Oiu OFOWn VEIN at COiu OiFEles
Nevada. which crops for $500 feet
through the company's possessions.
Child. Cole & Co, the Salt Lake
brokers, are getting out q new map OF
the Park City, Utah, district, which
they declare win be up to date in ev.
cry particular.
Thirty thousand miners employed
In the Pfttsburg. Pa, district resumed
work last week. In accordance with
the agreement reached ut the Toledo
joint conference.
Salt Lake City has at last received
patent to its asphaltum mine at
Thistle. Utah. The mine was pur..
chased by the last municipal admins
trati0n for $1,000.
The Shenango valley steel plant,
operated at Newcastle, Pa, by the
Carnegie Steel company. resumed
operations last week with fun force.
About 1900 men are affected.
The president of the University Of
Idaho is looking for a graduate who
is capable OF holding the chair Of as
sociate professor of mining and met
allurgy. at salary of $500 q year.
The Virgin City on district is sit
uated in the southwestern corner Of
Utah. near the eastern boundary Of
the Basin ranges. The region is
drained by Virgin river and its trib-
utaries.
Reports from Silver City, Idaho,
concerning the Potosi mine are very
encouraging. the statement being
made that over 10000 tons OF ore are
in sight. and the ledge is constantly
improving.
Development work is being vigor-
ously prosecuted in the Common
wealth mine, in the mountains near
Milford. The shaft is now down 500
feet and the indications are bright for
the future of the mine.
The shipment of gold from the Unit
ed States to Europe has begun, much
to the satisfaction of the mining men
OF the west. When Uncle Sam can
spare gold for Europe, better times
are in view for the miners.
The Nipissing Mines company has
issued its annual report, covering the
period from February 1. 1907, to De-
cember IL, 1907, which shows a total
income for that period of $1,320,762
and net profits of $923.7sS.
Among the improvements that are
in contemplation for the Chicken
lucky mines in Phoebe, Nevada, is
smelter plant, which will be construct
ed at Bullionville, the company hav-
ing plenty of ground and water for an
ideal site.
The recent big strike made by leas-
ers in the Golden Treasure property
at Seven Troughs, Nevada, has been
hailed with Joy by the owners, mostly
Utah men, who expect to begin devel-
opment on a large scale as soon as
the leases expires.
The news comes from Ely that at
the recent trial run of the first sec
ton of the big McCill plant every
thing worked much better than had
been expected. The plant is to be
placed in regular commission during
the coming month.
A Butte dispatch says: Butte
Coalition has opened large body of
copper glance in the Rarus mine on
the 1,100-foot level. 1t is from two to
four feet wide and 100 feet long and
Is estimated at 1000 feet high Engi-
neers estimate that this body of ore
will have gross value of nearly
100000
Fully two hundred people went
from Ely to witness the concentrating
of the first copper ores at McGill from
the big mines. Many had never seen
ore treated in this manner before,
while many more went for the pur.
pose of satisfying themselves as to
the complete success of the latest ma.
chinery in handling Robinson ores
The news comes from Newhouse,
Utah, that conditions are much i'm.
proved at the mines. They are add
ing to the ore reserves at the mine
each month. and are making Roadway
In opening up new ground that Is ex-
pected to add to the wealth of the
property.
A bar Of gold bullion. worth about
$1,000, was shipped from the Wheeler
mine at Yerington, Nevada, last week,
the bar being the result of a two
weeks run at the company's little mill,
following a close-down for a month.
owing to the breaking of some of the
machinery
As a result of a combination of cir
cumstances. the Lincoln Mining COM
pany. operating at Pearl, Idaho. has
gone into the hands of receivers. The
property Is evidently a good one, but
for year or SO the management has
had lots of trouble through lack of
electric power.
The estimated total world produc-
ton of quicksilver for 1907 was 96,s76
TASKS. which was the smallest amount
reported for number of years, with
the exception of 1905. OF this amount
the United States produced 20.50o
TASKS, which was 5,73s TASKS less
than in 1906
At Cuprite. seventeen miles from
Goldfield, native sulphur from SIS to 30
per cent pure has been discovered in
an enormous deposit within a mile of
the railroad. The big Goldfield chlo-
rination mill will use the STUFF in the
future, instead Of importing refined
sulphur from Los Angeles.
A mining boom such as character
lied the Thunder Mountain and Buff
falo Hump districts Is on in the Four
Mile district in central Idaho, caused
by the reported discovery of n solid