The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-06-18
AROUND THE MINES

a reflection of the general state of |
business. May exports held well. gov.
eminent figures showing 10000. OoC
pounds.
Good progress is being made at the
Ohio Copper mill at Lark in making
the changes that will increase its ca
pacity from little over 1900 tons a
day to 5000 tons a day
The American Flag at Park City
will probably ship between SIS. 900
and $4,000 worth of ore this month.
About 250 tons OF the l.0O0-ton lot 70
go to the DAILY Judge mill has been
mined.
Within the next thirty days the Col
den Arrow Development company will
break ground for the erection of a
ten-stamp mill and cyanide plant on
its property in the Golden Arrow dis
trict, northeast of Tonopah.
Word from Aurora. New, states that
George Killoy has made rich strike
about nine miles west of Aurora. He
has located nine claims and has two
partners with. him. Samples of the
ore run from $50 to 800 in gold val
ues.
A seat on the New York stock ex.
change has been disposed of for $42,-
600, which is close to the lowest price
at which seats have been sold in
years. When seats were the lowest
one was sold for $4,000. After that
they went up to $4,000, but have
since dropped down again.
The Florence mine produced 92,2lS
tons of ore during the month of April,
according to statement just issued
by President A. D. Parker from the
Denver office of the company, says
the Goldfield Tribune. The gross
value of the ore was $29.9l3.S3, or an
average value of S32.44 per ton.
Although the production of pyrite
in the United States in 1913 was $3.50
long tons less than that of 1872, and
s4S,l75 less in value the industry can
not be regarded as having declined
for the average production for the
last four years is greatly in excess
Of what 1t was in 1919 and 1911.
The raise which is being driven
from the LOO level of the Silver King
Consolidated at Park City is about tc
connect with the wAze from the 1850
This will permit a more economical
extraction of the ore, as II can be
dropped from the level above, tram.
med to the shaft and hoisted.
A special representative of the Bos.
ton News Bureau writes that paper
from Butte that the preliminary esti.
mate of Butte & Superior company g
May operations indicates one of the
finest records in the companys his.
tory, with a product of $3.50 tons of
zinc concentrates and $40 tons of lead
concentrates.
Stockholders in the Willow Greek
Gold Mining company are again in re.
ceipt of good news from the property
in Nye county, where work has been
going on for some months to develop
the high-grade gold deposit first dis.
covered by Blackwell and Pappas
says the Ely Expositor. Free gold has
been encountered.
Probably the most important deal
in mining circles in the American
Fork mining district to be made for
years was consummated last week
when Peter Miller, representing a
Bingham mining syndicate, secured q
ive-year lease on thee Pacific Mining
g. Milling company's property in the
American Fork district.
That the gelogist can save to the
practical oil man large sums yearly in
useless drilling is fact which is be
| coming more and more clearly recog
nized. 1t is possible for him to deter
mine from rock exposures the loca
ton and extent of rock folds, which
seem to constitute the principal con
dition governing the accumulation OF
oil and gas where LEY are present ir
The region.
Jumbo Extension started last weel
sending its ore regularly to the Gold
fed Consolidated companys mill fol
treatment, at the rate OF at least
! eighty tons daily. BY this arrange
men: it will secure the reduction N
its product at a minimum cost Of s.
per ton aud win save The cost a
transporting its ore over thirty-eieht
miles Of railroad 10 the leased Boa
ME Clare mill
Radiun, so much in the limeiFht al
pre- sent on account Of its fabulcu.
price and its alleged efficiency in IL,
/ treatment of certain diseases. Ia,
ocen produced IN The psf almost OK
cIus!vely from Ii.cEo.v71.. Flu. Col
o-ado and Utah carnotite ores lay,
recently attracted increas attention
as source oi radium, On account o
the large deposits available Thei
treatment. however, is difficult
With the royalties eliminated from
he oil lotation process through de
,ision Of the circuit court Of appeals
'or the Ninth sircuit, which include.
ne Pacific coast states. Nevada and
Montana the Steptoe Valley Smelt
ng company at McGnl has erected an
experimental pant that VIII be capa
DE Of treating 100 tons OF shines a
lay through oil concentration. says
he White Pine News
The west drift on the l70O-foot levei
II the Halifax Tonopsh mine is stii
icing extended to the trschyte con
act says the Miner On the uppei