The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-10-24
MINES AND MINING

his oldtime Park City mine with its
dividend record Of $6,600,000.
Thompson, Towle & Co. figure that
he weaker spelter market, with a
lrop from 1915 to $40. reduces the
Butte & Superior earnings about
s27 900 monthly, or the equivalent OF
about $1.15 per share per annum.
A car of good grade ore was pro
duced by the Tonopah North Star
property during the past week, and
there are many who believe that pro-
duction will be steady from now on,
not of large proportions.
Ohio Copper in September produced
6S5, 900 pounds Of metal, which is
about 1000 pounds under August's out
put. 1t is estimated that the company
is making a profit of to cents
pound, or approximately $4,000 for
the month of September.
The management of the Tonopah
Merger company has been compelled
to cease development effort on the
1,17O-foot level on account of the
heavy flow of water, the daily flow
Of 100000 gallons being greater than
the capacity Of the pumps in use.
Placer gold was discovered at Lees
burg, Idaho, in 1866, and soon there
after lode deposits were recognized.
Lead-sflver deposits were worked ac-
lively in the sos, but not until the
advent of the railroad did this in
dustry reach its maximum Importance.
Two interesting discoveries have
recently been made at the mining
camp of Manhattan, New. One was
gold nugget that was worth over
| $500, putting anything heretofore found
in that section in the shade, and the
second was the iawbone of masto-
don.
Probably so per cent of the lead ore
mined in Lemhi county Idaho, is the
product of the oxidation and carboGa-
ton of galena, pyrite and zinc blende.
The ore is remarkable for its even
tenor, averaging about 80 per cent OF
lead and fifteen ounces of silver to
the ton.
1t is reported from Fish Springs
near the line between Tooele and
Juab counties, that H. NJ. Buck, who
took a lease on the Galena property,
is preparing to make a shipment OF
ore via Oasis. The ground adjoins
the welI-known Utah Mine, and its
silver-lead ores are somewhat SINH
lar.
During September, the Braden com
pany handled 77,314 tons Of ore, the
total copper in the concentrates being
1,9S0,O00 pounds, with the blister cop
per produced measuring 1,332.0OO
pounds. In the old mill the extrac-
ton was 7120 per cent, while the ex-
traction at the new mill was 57-04 per
cent.
The Engineering and Mining
Journal states in its October IL edi-
ton that the lead market is democrat
lied as a result Of the apprehension
that a further cut in the official price
of the metal on the part Of tie leading
sellers is imminent, ana great deal
of the metal has been pressed for sale
/, in anticipation thereof.
1t does not take very much ore
that averages las ounces of gold and
i, 1O3 ounces of silver TO the ton to
, bring in a good round sum, and the
/ five sacks of Willow Creek Mining
7 company's rock, sent by express &c
; Salt Lake, gave assays as above
stated, the lot bringing in smelter
r net the sum of s625.
The Goodsprings district, long tht
a zfn
I considerably aroused over the diseov
I cry of what appears to be a good de
post of vanadium ore on the West
, minister property. The owners fount
the rock and sent it to Washington
for examination, the result being tina
it was pronounced per cent van
= adium ore.
There are nineteen mining district
= in Lemhi county, Idaho, which in ger
eral is one of the more importan
d mining regions of the west, Situate
e in the east-central part Of Idaho, tn
q county has until recently been di
icult of access, but with the exter
W sion of the railroad to Salmon in 1s1
Il mining activity in parts Of the are
10 took on new life.
ID Crosscutting to the Halifax vel
. from the l,100-foot level Of the shat
is now making good progress wit
: two shifts of miners, and the erosscu
i is now out ffty-five feet from tn
= shaft, and will probably have to
= extended about another $50 feet b.
fore encountering the downward e,
= tension of the vein on its norther
= dip, says the Tonopah Miner.
N The annual report of the Sout
African Mines department has issue
N the following figures of mineral PR
1T duction during 1912 Gold. 9.10S,7s
d, ounces; diamonds. 5,071,SS2 earats
u coal, S.117,O7S tons; coke. 1880 tons
Id copper, 1880 tons (45.95 per Gel
Id GU; tin, 1882 tons 1854 per Gel
lie Sn.); silver, contained in gold bullic
Id o.cS 0lQ no ounce