The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-02-26
AROUND THE MINES

| the copper exports tOtdled StoZ4 tOhhi
since February /, 1922; year ago.
1928.
January proved to be much bet
ter month in the iron and steel trade
than many expected, says the Iron
! Trade Review
The January production OF the Ari-
IONA Copper company was 3.474,O00
pounds OF copper. compared with o.
100000 In January. 1913.
The Lady Bryan mine in Beaver
county. Utah. just south OF the Mos
COW, has opened up "a new body Of
good ore on the 300 level. 1t is re-
ported
1t il reported that In addition to
the Daly-West's contemplated new
mill that the King Con, Glencoe and
American Flag may erect plants at
Park City this summer
The Consolidated Salt & Refining
company. whose salt beds and pump
ing plant are between GARFIELD and
the shores OF Great salt Lake, is get
ting ready for the season cam
paign
Shipment Of ore from the mines of
Tintic last week amounted to l4S
carloads This is estimated at 1900
tons, valued at $4,000 Last week
the total was 158 cars. or $50 tons
heavier.
From Ray. Ariz. comes word that
l.. S. Gates and associates in the new
gold find there have refused Sl00.000
Tor the property Free god has been
discovered out Of nineteen claims
from the original find
During the month OF January the
camp OF Rico, Colo. produced and
shipped out total OF sixty carloads
Of ore. OF which the Rico Argentine
is credited with twenty seven car.
loads and the Rico Wellington with
twenty-ninc cars
An investigation by the United
States geological survey Of supposed
oil territory near Oroville, Cal. has
given negative results the oil SHOW.
Ing" on the surface of water having
been found to be caused by the pres
enoe of iron oxide
The new mining town and camp of
Carbonite in Death Valley. Cal, is
now looming up as the latest sensa-
tion OF the western mining world. The
fact OF a town growing in Death Val
ley Is making all the old timers sit
up and take notice.
The Florence-G oldfeld Mining com
pany has issued its annual report
covering mine and financial opera
lions for the year 1918. The mine
Is now shipping from 700 to 1000
tons month. During the year ore
valued at S2S.SS9 was produced, or a
recovery value OF $91l a ton.
Butte has produced more than G..
Oo0,0oO.O0O pounds of copper up to the
close OF 1913. more than $50, O00. 900
ounces of silver and more than 1900.
600 ounces of gold. as taken from the
government statistics. with zinc In
vast deposits, rivaling or exceeding
the other metals yet to be heard from.
Judge William II. King of Utah, rep
resenting western mining men. has
protested to the senate mines and
mining committee against the adop-
tion of the Walsh bill prepared by the
interior department for the control
Of the radium mining industry and the
manufacture of radium by the govern
ment,
The Western Utah Transportation
company which Is about to start the
new auto truck service between Wen
dover and the Deep Creek country,
offers to haul ores worth less than 500
ton from the Ferher district to Wen.
dover for So ton For each addi-
tionai s. In value the rate would be
twenty-five cents ton higher
Ia 1907 the proportional loss of life
from mine explosions was 30.S per
cent. As a result of the researches
and the educational campaign car.
ried ON by the engineers OF the Blu.
reau with the cooperation of state
mine inspectors. mine operators and
the miners, the proportionate loss OF
life had been decreased in 1912 to
12,7 per cent
When pit mining operations are be
gan by the Consolidated Coppermines
company new feature 20 steam
shovel mining in this district will De
included n the plans. according to
the Ely Exposition This will be the
creation Of stock piles built UP out of
the low grade ores from which a large
percentage OF the copper contents
win be recovered by simple l,aeh-
Ing process.
The first discovery of oil in the
Douglas. Wyoming. field was probably
made In 1894, when in the construo.
tlon Of an irrigation tunnel in the
northwest quarter OF section i6. town.
ship e north range 20 west. sand
stone more or less saturated with
heavy oil VAS found In the top OF the
tloVeriy formation. Since this dis
covery several companies have put
down wells az different times until az
ptvsvat some ttty or sixty borings arr
scattered over the Brenning basin.
From the old Yosemite mine at
bingham several carloSds OF ore
month = now being mined. This ore
is coming from the 500 level where
the Sork Is now in promising block /
OK grCund On the 500 and I.iO0 lev. /
els other development work is under
way
Reports from operations q the SOC {
ton experimental mill u th,, Inspir.-