The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-02-27
MINES A ND MINING


camp. has been connected with the
outside world by telegraph.
The CRANKY Copper company, in
Canada. is again operating to almost
full capacity. but the other boundry
smelters are still closed down. In De
cember all the boundry smelters were
shut down.
Wonder and Fairview, booming
mining towns a year ago, are prac-
ticalIy deserted today. A hundred or
more, practically all the towns con-
tanned, started across the hills last
week for Rawhide.
The estimated production Of copper
in January was 100000 pounds In ex-
cess of the December production. but
100000 pounds behind January last
year. and 30,000.e00 pounds less than
the normal monthly output.
One thousand miners employed by
the Crerar Clinch Coal company of
Chicago, went on strike at Duquoin.
ILL.,, last week. The trouble originated
over the price of powder which the
operators have been selling to the
miners
The Boston News Bureau figures the
production of copper In the United
States, Mexico and Canada for the
month Of January at $4,000, 900 pounds.
comparing with S4,935,143 pounds in
January. 1907. and 1926. 400 pounds in
January, 1906.
Rawhide fever is fast causing the
depopulation of the town Of Ely, SO far
as idle men are concerned. every man
who is not working, and many who
are. determining to size up the new
camp for himself, to gee just what
there is to 1t.
Ore shipments in pounds for the
week ending February Is. from Park
$4,000; Silver King. 372.740; total.
746,740 pounds. The total shipments
for the month from the Silver King
were 1,352,640 pounds.
A circular has been issued In which
it is stated that the mills will be
working full capacity by June l. and
that the Utah Copper company is
then assured a production of $4,000.
600 pounds per annum at a cost of s
cents a pound, including all refining.
transportation and selling charges of
the refined output
1t is planned to have the milling
plant at Magill, Nevada, handling not
less than 10000 tons of ore day be-
fore the end of the year, and, includ-
ing the crude ore from the Veteran
mine and other sources, the smelling
works will be reducing to bullion pos
sibly 5000 tons of copper-bearing pro-
duct.
That the rumored developments of
the Giroux Consolidated Copper COM
pany will be carried out, their plans
including building additional concen-
traitor facilities, Installing a long pipe
line for securing water for it, opening
their townsite project in the early
spring, is the latest reports from Ely,
Nevada.
The climax of the boom at Raw
hide, Nevada, came last Friday with
the announcement that Balloon and
Grutt hills are practically solid
mass of free milling gold ore. The
townsite is located ON the two richest
claims in the district, and lot owners
have transformed their dwellings into
mining claims.
Clarence Eddy, who has been max
ing tests to verify his theory that the
sunken bed of Death valley contains
sufficient value in precious metals to
make 1t all dredging proposition,
has received returns of an analysis
made in Oakland, CAL. resulting in
! $3.50 gold and silver per cubic yard
and values in aluminium.
The first 2,000-ton unit of the con-
centrating mill at Magill, Nevada, is
practically finished, and work is being
crowded on four more sections, all of
which will be ready to go into commits
sion by the time the first ,500-ton
unit of the great smelter works Is
ready to receive ore. about the end OF
June or early in July.
Thomas F. Kelley. the millionaire
Chicago operator, made final payment
last week in the sum of $4,000 for
the McGarry group of twenty-four lode
and one placer iron claims in the Iron
Springs district, Iron county. The
total sum paid for the property was
S225, 500 This undoubtedly means
blast furnaces and mills for this dis
trict.
At the meeting of the directors of
| the Nevada Utah Mines and Shelters
corporation held in Portland, Me, on
| the 18th. II was voted by stockhold-
I, ers to take back 100000 shares of the
| stock issued to an individual who can
J not pay for them. President Learnard
/ says important negotiations are now
| pending of great ultimate benefit To
| stockholders.
| James F. Burns. defendant in the
famous suit brought by James Doyle
! and involving claim for stock in the
| Portland Gold Mining company
! amounting to nearly one million dol
| lars, has filed a motion in the district
| court at Council Bluffs. Iowa, for a
| Grange of venue. the Doyle Burns
case has been twice tried before a
| jury, the verdict in the first trial hav-
/ ing been for Doyle and Ia the second
] and last trial for Burns. Before the
| jury trials Doyle took judgment by de-
| fault for over s7S0.000.
The news comes from Magili, Ne