The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-09-03
MINES AND MINING

reported 10 have been
made In the Carney Copper groun
directors of the Utah mine of Eysb
springs last week declared the ra,r-
lar dividend OF three cents a sh.r
$1,000. vi
Inc famed Occur d'Alene district
Oh Idaho has produced gold. silver
lead and copper mineral to the vross
value OF approximately SITS. 200. 900 to
date since 1884.
from perfectly reliable source n
IL learned that an ore body has been
uncovered In the Bradburn pronartv
at Marysvale for a distance or over
10 feet and the values run from 400
to $1,000 per ton.
A report has reached Sumter Ore
mat a most wonderful rich strike has
Just been made in the Red Boy mine.
me strike was made on the 700 level.
and is said to be the richest vein Of
ore ever uncovered in the district.
The old Colconda mine near Baker
City, Ore, has JUS been sold at sher
ms sale for claims amounting to $50.
900, which claims were held by hard
ware firms and supply houses. The
property was at one time q great pro-
| Queer.
Montana men have secured a work.
ing bond on the Hay Fork quartz
claims owned by Leo and Antoine Tn.
ternahrer. says the Idaho City World.
A payment Of $1,000 has been made.
The bond was given for two years and
half
From Beaver county comes the
news that the Stalwart lease on the
Talisman property is working in from
eight to fourteen inches of ore that
runs 1000 ounces in silver with high
lead values. The find is ON the 200.
foot level.
Not In twenty years has the mining
outlook in the vicinity of HALEY,
Idaho, been so bright All the mines
are working as large forces as posi-.
BILE, and the ore bodies seem to i'm.
prove in richness with every foot OF
development.
A new compressor will be installed
soon at the Utah-Bingham mine In
Bingham. Ore shipments are also to
be inaugurated and it is said applica.
ton will shortly be made to list the
stock on the Salt Lake stock and min.
ing exchange.
Fifty thousand dollars is the value
of the first five days production on
the Mohawk Jumbo lease on the Gold
Wedge at Goldfield. Stopping was
started on Monday, and every avail
able man was used for whom a place
could be found in the mine.
A prominent and conservative min.
ing man declares that there is now
beginning at HALEY. Idaho. the big
gest mining boom that the west has
ever seen; that it will be- on merit,
strictly, Wildcat us barred, and that
it will last two or three years.
President George M. Nix Of the
Dolly Warden Mining company, oper-
ating in the Dolly Warden district, an
nounces that he has financed deal
in Chicago by which the company re-
ceives large amount of money for
carrying on its development work.
Constant rapid improvement of a
proposition which was most promis-
ing at the start is the word brought
from the Alta company's mil q out
from Mackay, Idaho. The tunneI has
been driven 1G5 feet on ore giving
assay values of $40 In gold, 1855
ounces in silver and per cent COP
per-
A mill run of fifteen tons of ore
from the Wihuja Gold Mining COM
pany's lease on the estate Of the
Seven Troughs Therein Mines COM
pany, made the other day in two
eight-hour shifts at the Kindergarten
mill, turned out a bar of bullion
weighing 224 ounces and valued at
$500.
Representatives of a majority of
the stockholders in the Hogan mine
at a meeting recently held at Elk
City, Idaho, voted to double the
capacity of the present plant, which
is now handling 125 tons of ore per
day at net profit of 5000. The stock
holders also voted $4,000 for improve
ments.
The Potosi mill at Silver City.
Idaho, is nearing completion. but is
now awaiting the arrival OF the bal
ance of the machinery. In the mean
time the cement floor is being laid
about the battery, track from mine to
ore bin is also being laid, and 1t will
now be only a short time until the
mill is completed.
More than so names, including
those of the most prominent mining
men of Utah, and all of them thor.
oughly representative. have been
signed to the roster of membership in
the new Utah Branch of the Ameri.
can Mining congress, and a meeting
for permanent organization is to be
held during the week.
BY unanimous vote the Salt Lake
Stock and Mining Exchange has ap-
proved the action of its governing
board in accepting the proposition Of
Samuel Newhouse to give to the ex-
change a magnificent site for a stock
exchange building. providing only that
the recipient of the gift will erect
thereon a suitable building.
Robert Francis. superintendent Of