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

the annual meeting OF the Utah Con
solidated company viii be held on
April 81.
The treasury department last week
purchased lis, 800 ounces of silver for
delivery at Denver and San Francisco
at 5000 cents per fine ounce
There are persistent rumors of a
possible resumption of mining opera,
tons at the Anaconda mine. and prob
ably at the North Butte and Butte
Coalition mines at Butte.
Perhaps no district has been born
in Nevada during the resurrection
period of mining ilrat has had such a
hard fight to fame as Rawhide. The
camp is over year old, and the boom
has just started.
The sixty-two-mile transmission line
| that is to carry electric power from
the Beaver County Power company
| plant to the Cactus mines and mills
OF the Newhouse company. is now
nearing completion.
The mines of the Boundary district
| Of British Columbia during the year
1907 produced 35.50o.o00 pounds of
copper at a cost ranging from 10 Ia
cents at the CRANKY TO IA cents at
the Dominion mines.
About the only argument one hears
against the use OF silver nowadays,
says Mining Science, is that IL Is
too heavy and clumsy for common
use; that pocketfull of silver pulls
the clothes out of place.
Today silver is selling at about -
cents per ounce less than ii did year
ago, when trade expansion required a
larger supply of small coin and when
the more important buyers who ship
to the far east were In need of the
metal.
Advices from Iron county are to the
effect that remarkably heavy fall of
snow has occurred there and the re-
suit will DE that freighting from
Lund into the Virgin River oil coun.
try will be retarded for perhaps TWEEN
ty days.
The Graehl Mining and Milling
company of Brigham City has filed a
poration in the Office of the secretary
of state. The company is capitalized
for 100000. and owns nine claims
near Brigham City.
On account of the labor troubles at
Goldfield, the production of its mines
continues to be nominal. The Com
bination mill reduced during the last
week in February GOO tons and the
Kinkead mill ITS tons of an aggre-
gate value of about $4,000.
At the Yampa smelter. Bingham. an
average OF about 600 tons OF ore
day Is now being reduced TO base bul.
lion, and this is being shipped to the
refineries at Crome, n. j., for refining.
Gradually the smelling works are
being brought up to their highest
point of efficiency.
New rollers and screens are being
installed in the Shoshone mill, says
the Beatty Miner. Work in the mine
has not abated. The fact that the ore
chute has been entered on the 500
foot level of the mine, and the ore
found to be richer than in the levels
above, places the Shoshone on a paS
with the best mines In the state.
Daniel Guggenheim. president of
the American Smelling & Refining
company. says: Copper, in my judg-
ment. has taken the place formerly
held by steel and iron as the index OF
business conditions. The metal felt
the reaction last year months In ad
vance Of steel and general mercan.
tile enterprises. Indications point to
a turn upward in the tide"
Sarah E Kayick has filed an action
againt w. b. MacSherry, in the Tnird |
District court, to recover $1,000 and |
interest from January %. 1906,
in all to $2.493.33. which
she paid to the defendant for 1000 |
shares of stock In the Sierra Nevada
company.
Ore buyers in the Salt Lake valley |
are now prepared to take all the ore
they can get. II is said. but operators
are apparently la no hurry to resume
production SO long as the metal mar
ket remains at its present stage. And
yet metals are not so low as the,
were four years ago
A mining corporation capitalized al
$4,000, with shares at one cent each.
has been organized In Ogden, under
The name of the Rare Metals Mining
company. II is the purpose Of the
company to develop it's property in
he Weber mining district In Weber
county at an early date.
The enormous sales OF copper for
export. amounting In February tu |
over 100000 pounds.
las called forth statements TO the eff
iect that the American consumer had
much 10 learn from his foreign CON
Detitors in the matter of securing
ow cost copper supplies.
Thus far in February the United
States Metals Selling company has
'old $4,000. 600 pounds Of copper. the
,ulk of 1t TO England and Germany.
These sales have cleaned up the sur
Illus supplies OF copper held by the
concerns which sell through the Unit.
d Metals Selling company.
A prominent; and reliable mining
nan, after a visit to Rawhide. Nevada.
avs: Never In my mining expert
nee have | seen as much free gold.
nd gold that is gold. as the camp Of
q n bfda uhruad IN IL f.rcdfrfE I