Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-07-29
AROUND THE MINES

ing power behind the Ohio Copper
company is the statement given by
director of that company to the Bos-
ton News Bureau.
The old Geyser- Marion mill at Mer-
cur, Utah. was destroyed by fire last
week The mill mad not been In OPP
Grafton for ten years, but there was
some material in it o. value.
Mining conditions in the Boise bas-
in, in Idaho, are getting better rapid
ly, and the various properties are en-
joying a new era of prosperity, which
means much to that district.
Recent shipments of first class lead
ore from the Utah Apex mine N B.ng-
ham, sent directly to the smelter, have
averaged in gross value better than
500 a ton, with a tendency Of the lat
ter lots TO run higher
Allegheny district, Sierra county,
California, is attracting the attention
of the mining world from the fact that
a number of very important disclos-
ures have been made in that section
within the past five or six months.
1t is the intention of the company
owning the Edna mine, 20 miles north
of Idaho City, to install a 1000 plant
for the treatment of their ore. The
plant will embrace stamps, tube-mill
and filter press and cyaniding pro
cess.
That the recent find of high grade
silver-lead ore in the Consolidated
Andes claim at Park City is Of con
siderable Importance to the Silver
King Coalition Mines company was
shown by the active demand for the
stock.
Twenty years of patient prospect
ing has revealed the ledge on tne
Jack Waite property near Murray
Ida, where large quantities of ga
lena ore and boulders carrying ship
ping lead and silver were in the
gulch, so near the surface that the
action of the water would have dis
closed them in the course of time.
company has recently been incor
porated for the purpose Of mining
and marketing black marble anC
onyx. in the rough or polished as re
quired. The quarries are situated
some two miles northwest Of PelicaI
Point on the west side of Utah lake
and less than a mile from the SaI
Pedro railroad.
The steamer st. Croix arrived a
Seattle from Nome on July %, will
100000 in gold dust and bars. o.
the way down the ST. Croix stopped
at Cordova and the passengers wer'
taken up the Copper river on a spe
cial train forty-nine miles to the CAM
where a 100000 cantilever bridg
is under construction across the river
Production will be resumed at ono
from the Victor shaft of the c. y. L
Consolidated at Goldeld. The extra'
ton of ore was suspended while thi
shaft was being sunk from the 80
to the 45O-foot level, where the or
has been exposed again and a goo
tonnage of pay ore is assured. Thi
ore carries a high percentage Of col
per and is shipped to the smelters
Utah.
The fourth unit of the Steptoe va
ley smelter at McGin, Nevada, is no.
in commission. 1t may be som
little time before machiner
is thoroughly broken in an
running smoothly. It will handle
however from 1000 to 1909 tons {
ore per day from the start, and
connection with the other three unit
will create a steady demand for full
1000 tons OF ore per day.
Scores Of prospectors are engage
in mining on the mountains in tn
vicinity OF the Horst-PoweI an
Handspike copper properties on tn
Little North Fork in the Coet
d'Alenes since the Idaho Norther
railroad began making surveys for
branch line up the Little North rive
Every foot Of mining ground hi
been locaaed within ten days, accor
ing to advices from the north
In two of the wells which are bein
drilled in the Virgin oil field-thos
Of the Interstate Oil company-al
excellent indications, it is said, tn;
oil is about to be encountered in Ii
second oil sand. Overlying that san
is 400-foot stratum Of hard linn
stone.
The first shipment of high-grade OF
from the original strike at Ellenda
netted the owners a trife more tina
$4,000 a ton. according to the Ton
pah Sun. The consignment cor
prised five tons of rock, the total SUI
received having been something ov'
$4,000.
. A report of the receiver Of II
Idaho Smelling & Refining compan
owning the Panhandle smelter at Pc
deray. Idaho, shows that the conceI
has total liabilities. exclusive of car
tai stock, to the amount of 1901 $50.
and that it's total resources are $22:
! 244.93
The Belmont mine near Marvsvili