The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-11-12
MINES AND MINING


anthracite and bituminous, in lsOh
was but little short of half olllion
short tons,
II IS estimated that fully 25,OOO,OOO
mounds of copper have been pur-
chased from the leading copper agen-
cies during the past week or ten days
The mining outlook in the Little
North Fork country is improving very
materially as development work pro-
crosses. says the Occur d'Alene Jour
nal.
The United States, including
Alaska. produced but sixty-two tons
of tin in 1907, about one-twentieth OF
/ per cent of the total output of the
world.
The prospects are encouraging for
lively season next year in the Buffalo
Hump country, according to reports
made by A. F. Shultz, principal owner
of the Del Rio mine.
The Granite Copper company, oper
ating in the Mineral range, in Beaver
county, is getting out a shipment OF
ore which is expected to run about ID
! per cent copper, with some lead, sill
! yer and gold.
Aluminium may be soldered with
a solder made from tin and zinc or
| tin, bismuth and aluminium. The lat
! ter is the more malleable If pieces
are to be further worked after join
ing.
Grindstones and pulpstones pro-
duced in the United States in 1907
were worth $S96022, the best record
in the history of the industry. Ohio
produced nearly So per cent of the
total
Pennsylvania mined S6,O35,412 net
tons of anthracite coal in 1907, ex-
ceeding the best previous years pro-
duction by more than 100000 tons.
1t is estimated that 7,000,000,000 tons
remain unmined.
A good stike of eight inches OF
copper ore has been made on the
Liberty group of claims, six in num-
her, located near Borax and adjoin-
ing the Amazon-Dixie on the north,
says the Wallace Times.
The Tanana district of Alaska this
year will send out only about $4,000
600, although the actual output of the
district has been $S,O0O,000 The other
$3,OO0000 remains in the dumps, as
water has not been available for
sluicing up.
The Ponderey smelter has secured
freight rates that make it possible to
get ore from all points in Montana,
Idaho, Washington and Oregon at rea-
sonable rates, thus opening the whole
new concern.
The North Butte company has fin
ished the station ON the 2,200-foot
level, and commenced prosecuting to
the vein, which should be reached
very shortly. Cross-cutting has been
commenced on the 2,OOO-foot level and
is progressing well.
saltwater Bill' Gates, miner and
explorer of the northland, who
amassed a half dozen fortunes in
Alaska only to lose them in various
exploits, including his matrimonial en-.
tanglements, has landed in Spokane
from one of the boom mining camns
OF Nevada, where he cleaned I'D a
tidy fortune.
indications are that the crosscut
from the bottom of the 75O-foot shaft
OF the Seven Troughs Mining company
Is approaching the vein opened to
some extent down to the 500 level.
according to advices from the camp
AFTER cutting that vein something like
% feet remains to be driven to reach
the larger assure.
Steps have been taken toward tho
organization of mining company to
develop mining claims in the vicinity
OF Spirit Lake, Idaho. A party of
prospectors have been working ON
claim few miles from the lake and
tney assert that they have found ore
rlch enough and in large enough
quantities to make mining pay
The Mammoth smelter of the Unit.
ed States Smelling Refining and Min.
ing company will have copper pro-
auction this calendar year of 80 600
600 pounds, larger output than has
yet been recorded for all the smell.
ers in California combined in anv one
year. 0''o
The famous Cracker Jack mine
near Calendar, Idaho. is to be 70.
opened within month with a force ot
twenty-five men. The property was
SOLD last summer under foreclosure
proceedings and was bid in nv Mike |
Sweeny, a well known mining man of |
Spokane VI
A strike has been made in the lion
Hill Consolidated company's propertv |
at Ophir that borders on the sensa. |
uonaL Officials of the companv do
clare that two men have taken on+
more than $1,000 worth of the ore
turing the past week in doing deyel. |
opment work.
II is learned from very reliable
source that the famous Peacock mine
IN the Seven Devils country has been
thoroughly examined by a numhar of
eastern capitalists during the nast
week with the result that thew bo,.,
iaken up the proposition of financir,
It's development. WIS
win orders for Keene cement
amounting to several carloads a dav
TOT an indefinite period. already in
hand, the Jumbo Plaster and Camort
company and the Keene Cement CO..,
pahy are pushing with renewed vigor
me installing of their LARGO ,,Io...