The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-08-20
MINES AND MINING

wor,s al Ciear Greek were
.s o.Aeo twenty-six days. This yaar
days. os tnirteen
A new mining camp has 49,
Drought to light half way be,wssn
. nawicn and Silver Bow, on the cas-,
s,ope Oh the kawich range, and al the
LOOT OF the range that separates ,hs
i.eVeiiie range from the Kawich
The report comes from Par. r,.u
,nat John J. DAILY and John Mcsor,ey
nave taken an option on the Boulasr
Basin group Of claims in the ponar,.
riat section. and that they have nm
same. v'e''0V LUZ me
The continued activity that is being
.aken In American Fork CANYON. ana
tue prevailing spirit at every claim
mHere men are developing proper.
Ties, shows the confidence which az
perienced men and miners have in tha
district. an tne
WINE the management is having
mighty little to say about conditions
II comes from a good source that the
cactus property OF the Newhouse
Mines & Shelters corporation IN
Beaver county, is developing In a
manner that is altogether gratifying.
for the quarter ending June 30. the
Utah Copper company's gross pro.
auction of copper amounted to II.
56S,3s0 pounds. The average cost
Tor the quarter was sic cents per
pound on the net copper resulting
after allowing smelter deductions.
James Hague of New York, a well.
known mining engineer and president
OF the North Star Gold Mining com.
pany of Grass Valley, Cal, died at his
summer residence at Stockbridge.
Mass, aged seventy-two years. Mr..
Hague was consulting engineer for
the state of California for several
years.
Eighteen inches of shipping ore
was encountered on the face of the
tunnel on the Martin & Gourdier
lease at a depth of eighty feet on the
Mazuma Hills at Seven Troughs last
week. The strike occurs in a big
parallel vein 600 feet west of the ia
nous Mazuma Hills vein in entirely
new ground.
Speaking of the Elk mining district
of Idaho, the Elk City News says: "A
wild boom is not necessary in central
Idaho. The districts have everything
that is required for legitimate min.
ing. The country is ripe for the rail.
road, and its builders will get their
share Of the money that goes with
the prosperity"
Good progress continues to be made
in the erection and equipment Of the
new 600-ton mill Of the Goldfield Con-
solidated company. All the retaining
walls and heavy foundations are COM
pleted and the water storage tanks
are erected and in commission. A
locomotive and six cars have arrived,
and are satisfactory.
The Bingham Butte Mining COM
pany of Bingham. Utah. has started
a campaign of development work
that will begin giving results at an
early date. 1t is the intention of the
management to send the shaft on
down another 100 feet, then to up
raise on the ore body now developed
at the deepest level.
While not desiring to give any date
on which the Daily Judge company of
Park City will cut loose with three
shifts both in the ore bodies of the
mine and in the mill. General Man.
ager George w. Lambourne stated
last week that the force of miners
employed on development work was
being added to right along.
The new hosting equipment OF the
Pioche-Pacific Mining company at
Phoebe, Nevada, has been installed,
and is now doing splendid work. The
hoist was set above the new shaft
which was over so feet in depth at
that time, and the shaft is now down
at least 100 feet. BY the time the $50
foot level is gained 1t is expected that
the Zero vein will have been encoun-
tered.
The entire hosting plant OF the
Copper King company has been pur-
chased for the Red Warrior mine in
Beaver county. The plant consists of
a large gasoline engine. compressor
and other machinery and is of suffi-
cient capacity to handle large
amount of ore.
Another shipper has been added to
the list of Phoebe producers in the Old
Timer. The property is one of the
noted old producers of the Phoebe dis
trict. although it has not been count
ed on as a shipper for many years.
The value of the ore shipped runs
from $50 on up.
A deposit of asbestos, in the form
called mountain cork.
has been discovered near Henryyille.
II is in a vein about four feet wide,
lying between sand and spar. In APP
pearance the stuff is not unlike gyp-
sum and in weight 1t is probably no
heavier than cork.
The total production of coal In
Idaho in 1907 was 6.50s short tons.
having spot value of s2s.4s4. says
the bulletin OF the United States geo.
logical survey Ignite beds occur In
several areas in Idaho. but little min
ing has been done until within the
last FIVE or six years
The new stamp mill of the Stuart
Gold Mines Holding company at its
Cocomongo property. FIVE miles from
cherry Creek. Nevada. was started q
few days ago under suspicious cir
The new plant consists
NJ for Nissen stamps with a capacity