The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-12-03
MINES AND MINING

'oiu' county, Nevada. has in the -.
FIX months improved fully loo -
eent IN It's ore showing and general
outlook according to the mansga
ment. se-
Inc Demiiohn Mining COMPANY h..
encountered the ore on the 2oo L.
OF Its mine in the Phoebe district Tsa
values run about 200 ounces in silver
"V TO 40 per cent lead and SO and ga
in gold. anu -
Flfteen cents for copper before the
end OF this year is confidently M
dlcted among the metal brokers Most
Vi the large producers have disposed
Oh their output up to January ana
even into February.
The news comes from Ely Nevada
that another big smelling works is 10
De erected in the Steptoe valley on.
Iosite the Ely Townsite companv's
foldings. for the treatment of custom
ores of the Ely district.
The recent discoveries OF oil in tho
hew Bluff Utah fields, are attracting
the attention of oil experts and nros.
pectors all over the United States and
they are arriving on the ground from
oil parts of the country.
Word has been received at Centen.
eial' Wyo., of a snowslide in the noun
tains above Albion mine at Coope,
Hill. The Albion property was dam.
aged and the mountainside was
shaved clean of timber No one was
injured.
The great Seven Troughs lode has
been encountered in the cross-cut from
the 750-foot level and conditions are
being revealed that constitute the
greatest work of demonstration in the
history OF the district, says the Seven
troughs Miner.
Ihe report comes from Goldfeld that
few days ago four-thousandp pound
erllling apparatus being used by par.
ues searching for oil twenty miles
from Goldfield, was blown twenty feet
INTO the air by the force of a natural
Gas explosion.
One of the richest strikes reported
from Beaver county in many years has
been in the Silver Horn group OF
claims in the Star mining district.
about eight miles southwest of Mil
ford. The values run from 600 TO
400 ounces in silver.
The Kindergarten mill completed
It's run of thirty shifts Wednesday and
made one Of the greatest clean-ups in
the history of the plant, says the
Seven Troughs Miner. The run will
result in total output of $4,000, com
ing from less than 200 tons of ore.
Operations have been resumed by
the Sweetland Mining company in the
Narrow Gauge mine, in the Wood
Eiver, Idaho, country, with every pros
pect of success. The mine workings
and machinery have been placed in
good condition and pumping and
hosting has begun from the lowest
level
The ten-stamp mill at the Cracker
Jack mine, in the Buffalo Hump dis
trict of Idaho, is running steady. The
plant has been in operation for about
two weeks and twenty men are en-
ployed at the mine. The mill will run
throughout the winter and develop
ment work will also be carried for
ward.
At the Truett lease, on the Happy
Hooligan claim of the Coalition, the
winze, which is now down seventy-five
feet below the 70-foot level, has cut a
streak of high-grade ore than pans
free gold in large quantities, indicat-
ing values of $500 a ton for a width Of
eight TO ten inches, says special from
Rawhide.
The Hecla Mining company at
Burke, Idaho, has begun sinking from
the 900 to the 1,200-foot level to tap
the ore body at greater depth. The
Hecla is one of the best equip
red properties in the Occur d'Alene
district. and its ore bodies are becom-
ing larger and richer as further depth
is obtained.
The Goldfield Consolidated. in run
shaft TO the Mohawk, ran into a new
\ Elm, which gives promise to be a very
valuable addition to their present ore
reserves. The vein is about six feet
v ide. and for the whole six feet will
average better than $50, exclusive of
a high grade streak.
John Dern of Salt Lake, director OF
the American Mining congress, has
received a letter from Secretary J. F.
Callbreath of the association. now at
Pittsburg, in which he says the COM
ing session of the congress promises
10 be a notable one, and that the
Tittsburg people are giving very sat
IL factory cooperation.
At a meeting of all mining opera
tors of Occur d. Alenes held in Wal
lace. committee was selected to go
To Washington and enter protest
against any action which the congress
siURal committee may take towards
reducing the present tariff on lead and
zinc ores, when that matter comes up
for discussion November 20.
Three feet of solid gray copper ore
carrying values in silver all the way
IRON loco TO 1000 ounces 10 the ton.
IN addition TO a large quantity of con
centrating ore, has been opened mp in
the property of the Butte q Coear
c Alene Mining company at Wallace.
Idaho.
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