The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-05-28
MINES AND MINING

of large gold deposits in the East
Humboldt range, in Nevada, and OF
which Tiptop is the center. Is attract
ing a big crowd of prospectors and in
vestors,
Leasers on the Diamond Queen com
pany's property at Beatty, in the Ruiz
frog district, are marketing ore In
Salt Lake City that Is running high,
A carload sold few days ago carried
s2i7 In gold per ton.
In 1907 alone the production of iron
ore in the United States was $4,000
600 tons. or more than l.2o0 pounds
for each man. woman and child of our
$4,000. 200 population. And the produc-
ton is steadily increasing.
The initial discovery in the Zip Top
district of Nevada was made last Au-
gust by Mrs. Donald Mccarthy. for
merry a dancing teacher of Colorado.
who n year ago turned to prospecting,
She. however, kept her find a close
secret until about two months ago.
DIR. L. A. Crandall. the noted oil
expert, declares that around Juab oil
depth OF $50 feet in 400 to 550-barrei
quantities. while working to q depth
OF 1000 feet no less than six oil-hear-
ing strata will be encountered.
Word from Phoebe brings tidings OF
a fine strike OF lead and silver ore on
the property of the Nevada Phoebe
Mines company. At depth OF 400
feet the management has encountered
seventeen feet OF the ore, and 1t is one
OF the real excitement breeders OF the
season there.
Pleading guilty to the charge of
promoting fraudulent mining schemes
by the use of the mails, John O'Hara
was sentenced in the United States
district court at Denver to serve one
day in the county Jail and to pay a
fine of $500. The prosecuting attor'
ney recommended a light sentence.
Another splendid mining property
in Beaver county that has been en-
joying Rip Van Wrinkle sleep for sew
eral years will be In active operation
again before the end OF the present
month, according to the Salt Lake
| Herald. II Is the old Washington
company's property In Loeber gulch.
Not before the first OF July will tie
| United States Smelling, Refining 4
Mining company resume operations at
| its lead smeiter in Utah. In the mean
| time the company is expending In
| the neighborhood OF 100000 in in
stalling apparatus which will permit
| operations under the decree OF the
Utah courts.
A most important bit OF news To
silver miners is the decision OF the
! German government to resume the
coinage of silver on a scale that will
nually for the next five years. This
will absorb 10 per cent of the total
amount of silver that comes upon the
open market.
Tip Top, In the East Humboldt
range. In Nevada. is said to be al
ideal poor mans" camp. inst whaI
the wellinformed prospectors OF the
west have been looking for during the
last ten years. Prospects show al
twenty to thirty feet depth paying
quantities of ore worth $3.50 to SOC
per ton in gold.
Probably the most important strike
Of the winter in the Deep Greek coun
try has been made in the Clifton Cop
per Belt company's ground. A five
foot ledge has been opened up. th'
mass averaging SIS in gold. 5.6s pc
cent copper. 1928 per cent bfsmuth
159 per cent tin and SO per cen
nickel per ton.
On wednesday OF last week thu
management of the Utah Mines re
ceived q check for &2.1s5.7l, in pay
ment for the last car of ore receive,
in the local market. The ore as
sayed EOS ounces silver and ~ pc
cent lead, calling for sl26.40 per ton
There were S2.7s4 pounds dry weigh
in the consignment
1t is stated in Boston that there
no longer q Lawsonian connection
with Nevada Utah. There are be
tween 12.eoo and 3!s00 stockholders 1
this corporation. and the leading II
terests believe that the company
now prepared to stand on its merits
II is shipping from forty 10 sixty ca
, loads OF ore per month from IL
Phoebe properties.
When the republic was founded
there were, according 10 recent exper
: estimates. approximately 1000, 900
0o0.o 600 tons OF coal in the territor
; now forming the United States. Pra'
, tically none OF this supply was use
3 for over a quarter of century. bu
, during the seyenty.fiye years fror
, $50 to 1895 nearly 1000, 600. 600. 90
i. tons were mined
: Coal consumption is increasing 0
an astonishing rate. During the p
J | Rod for which statistics have bee
gathered. 1t has doubled during eac
I decade: OF late 1t has more tina
D doubled In 1907 the production wa
: about 450. ovo, GEO tons Al the pre-
. | emit rate OF increase the production
r 1917 will be 800 600. 600 tons.
The richest ore ever seen in Ii
r Bullfrog district was broken into la
I week at lease on the National Ban
q ground The shaft at depth OF IL
a feet shows a three-foot vein Of OF
J. which is spotted and scanned wit
a free gold twenty-five thousand dc
+ lars IL q conservative estimate Il
the richer portion OF the vein.
T The total production of iron ore
o the United States up to 1890 va
[ some 27s, eoo. zoe tons. in the next &c
= vsarx n was nearly ZOO 600 900: ar