The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-01-30
MINES AND MINING

cents per share. OF $4,000 in all.
| A quarterly dividend of one-half OF
per cent was declared by the Anal
gamated Copper company on the 10th
The previous quarterly dividend was
| per cent.
Copper Is still being shifted 10
Europe In an attempt TO lessen
stocks here and stiffen the market.
| but the effect does not meet with
| much success.
Ore shipments In pounds from Park
City for the week ending January IS,
were as follows; Silver King. s3l .0o0;
DAILY Judge. 100000: DAILY West, 3oo.-
| 900: total. $4,000.
The Utah Copper mill and mine are
running full blast. At the mill from
seventeen to twenty ears day are be-
ing used and at the mine from seventy.
| fiye to one hundred cars a day.
An appeal has been issued to the
Salt Lake valley farmers to accept the
proposition of the Utah Consolidated
company to pay $l25.o00 and stand
| for damages in order TO run its valley
smelters another fourteen months.
Utah mine operators representing
more than fifty producing mines and
| practically all of the productive
camps. held a most enthusiastic meet
| ing In Salt Lake City last week and
organized the Utah Mine Operators
association.
| Ii is announced that the mining OPP
orators of Montana have secured the
services of prominent member of
| the American Mining congress, who is
| TO organize a State Mine Operators
association. such as is under forma
| ton for Utah.
To exploit and advertise the oil in
| terests, Juab county, Utah, Is to have
weekly newspaper devoted entirely
to these interests, known as the Juab
| County Oil Derrick Experts have dis
covered well defined oil belt four
miles long and 500 feet wide.
Down ON the lower levels OF the
Mohawk mine at Goldfleld, the man
agement has opened twenty.four feet
| of ore which will not average below
| $3.50 to $500 per ton. and with prac-
ucally no ground yet developed in pro-
portion to ground available.
II is learned ON reliable authority
that a concerted effort is being made
by the mining companies of Nevada
and other western states To create
greater demand for silver. and in that
manner influence the government to
increase its purchase OF the metal. The
nj iG n off an hal
silver.
What differences that have existed
between the Miners union and the
Mine Owners association Mt Phoebe
| in relation to the wage scale have been
satisfactorily adjusted for the present
at least. As a result the Nevada.
Utah corporation has very materially
increased it's working force at the
Day mine.
Last week thirty-flve mechanics
were sent from Salt Lake City TO Nc.
GIL, New, TO work on the big milling
and smelling works at that place All
but a few of the men sent out were
brickmasons, and the object. IL is said.
is to rush construction work so the
mill and smelter may begin opera
tons by April.
The directors of the Boston & Mon
tana Consolidated Copper and Silver
Mining company, one of the constitu.
ent companies OF the Amalgamated
company, last week declared a quar-.
terly dividend of 81 per share and 81
extra. This compares with 81 a
share regular and 81 per Dhare extra
three months ago.
Just now, after two OF three months
of retrenchment in production and
house cleaning" the copper trade Is
assuming somewhat better atmos-
phere appearance Prices show frae-
tional recovery. and with easier
, money even the copper share market
is improving, and the prices will prob
ably soon hover around Is cents.
For some time past there has been
developing a tidal wave of discomfort
between the smaller mines and the
American Smelling L Refining com
paNy, az a result OF the arbitrary man
ner IN which ore treatment charges
are regulated. AS a result the small
producer is talking of independent re-
fneries as a means of getting even"
review OF the metal market of
1907 shows some interesting features
II appears that the slump did not affect
all the metals to the same degree,
says Mining Science. Silver. for in
stance, lost only 25.7 per cent of it's
high value; copper. on the other hand.
slumped of 81 per cent. Tin. lead and
spelter each lost from 40 per cent TO
Al per cent
Henry Louis. in the Mining Science.
calls attention to a matter that will
prove of Interest TO mining engineers
and mining writer's. He states that II
h a well-known fact that ore chutes In
a mineral vein do not, as q rule. coin
eide with the dip Of the vein. but make
an angle with II In the same way that
lenticular masses often are obiique TO
the direction of maximum dip OF the
| place In which they lie. He suggests
that the word pitch" be utilized in
describing the angle OF the ore chute.
At the regular annual meeting Of
the Utah Copper company. January
"a. the stockholders viii be requested
to act upon an amendment OF the Ger
! tifcates OF Incorporation increasing