The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-07-02
MINES AND MINING

TIC Tor the week ending June IL
amount TO fifty-four carloads.
The Lost Packer mine at Custer.
Idaho. will make at least s5o0.ooo
worth Of matte at its smeiter this sea
SON
The directors OF the Republic Steel
and Iron company last week voted not
TO declare the regular quarterly divi-
dend of Ia per cent on the preferred
stock
A German technical journal has
gone to the trouble Of estimating that
the water of the whole ocean contains
in solution over 1000 900 tons of pure
silver.
Two weeks cleanup OF the Mamma
Hills mill at Mazuma, Nevada, yielded
$20. 1000. The mill Is extracting 80 per
cent. and concentrates go $500 q ton
as result Of this first cleanup.
Tintic is preparing to celebrate the
building of the Knight smelter in fit-
ting style on the LIST of July. The
plant. 1t Is understood, will not be
ready to go into commission until
after the Fourth
| Deposits OF antimony on Coyote
creek. in Garfield county, southern
Utah. have been worked systematically
since 1880. and it is reported that
more than 100000 worth of ore has
been shipped from this region.
The keystone Mining company.
operated in the Park City district.
has listed its shares on the Salt Lake
stock and mining exchange, where 1t
was given place on the big black
board and formally called for the first
time last week.
/ Directors of the Utah Consolidated
have declared regular quarterly div
idend of so cents per share. This Is
the same as the two previous declara-
lions and compares with 81 nine
months ago and SLIPS and rs cents
extra year ago.
The Utah mine of Fish Springs is
gradually increasing its production.
Good weather, with the resulting good
roads. is making 1t possible to haul the
ore over the seventy-fve-mile desert
road to the railroads in much better
time Just at the close of last week
a car of ore was released from the
sampling works.
Activity in the Sierra Madre mining
district, just north of Ogden, was re
sumed last week, when Don Mcguire
and a party of men began work on
the tramway which Mr.. Mcguire is
building in the district to facilitate
; the handling of ore and supplies. The
tramway. when completed. will have
, cost over $4,000.
The extraordinary deposit of meteor
ties near Canyon Diablo, Ariz.. which
has occasioned much comment and
discussion among the leading geo
logists of the country, Is being mad,
the subject of study by Prof. Georg'
p. Merrill and Writ Tassin OF the de
: partment Of geology Of the Unitet
{ States National Museum.
, The Uncle Jesse Mining and Millini
company was incorporated at Prov
last week. The company owns sever
patented claims In north Tintic. Tn
property OF the company has alread,
been prospected Even on the surfac
I the lodges have shown some exceI
tional values. The company has
capital of 10000 shares.
In the mammoth 100-ton mill at tn
Consolidated Mercur mine. at Mercul
Utah, the shines plant installed fe,
months ago is meeting with marke
success, and one of the vexing prol
lens of the industry Is ceasing to wo
!. ry the management The metho
!. used for treating the shines is a moe
ification of several processes whic
S have proven cumbersome.
The Balakalala Copper compan
u will soon begin work OF installation
a copper converting plant. which wi
cost $4,000. says the Boston New
e Bureau It will be of sufficient capa
ity to convert the matte into blists
copper for an annual production I
n 100000 pounds of copper. which
s' the expected output of the Balakal
company when in full operation.
Thomas Cooper land commission
OF the Northern Pacific railway, test
fed at the federal rate hearing befol
special master at st. Paul, that Il
coal lands owned by that compaI
save the railroad $2.77o.000 a year ar
are worth to the company 100000
on All of the coal used by the road we
. OF Bismarck. N. D., comes from !
own mines, said the witness. and Z
AZ pecially from its Boslyn mines.
Is A decision was rendered last wet
: In the suit of the Ontario Silver MI
nd ing company Of Park City against q
ed wasatch and other irrigation col
IA panies. in which the right and title
!, the use of water emerging from d
- drain tunnel Of the Ontario mine W
a- involved Under the terms OF the
We cision II is decreed that the defer
in ants be restrained from interfere
with or claiming any right to Z
NJ water.
al c. o. Baxter and associates a
making preparations to begin acti
oil operations In the Rangely field \
me Baxter was in vernai for day or T.
NY the first of the week and left
igs Rangeiy TO look after the proper
.;al leased from the Coitharps. says
- vernal Express.
Colorado is not an important q
- reproducing state. The annual p
u.s. duction rarely reaches I0.o0o.'