The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-07-30
AROUND THE MINES

west from Battle Mountain.
The production Of silica. excluding
gem material and sand. in the United
States for 1913, is reported by the
United States geological survey as
232,192 short tons, valued at $953.S32.
Some OF the sixty to seventy tons
Of ore which are coming daily from
the South Hecla at Alta is reported
to assay 10 to II per cent lead, %
ounces silver and 80 cents TO 81 in
gold to the ton.
From Nevada comes a special that
the new mill OF the Aurora Consoli-
dated is now running and hftean
stamps are pounding away at the ore.
The mill will be running at its full
capacity in few days.
Work has been resumed on the
property OF the Black Rock Copper
& Gold Mining company located in
Willard county, Utah, a few miles
westerly from the station of Black
Rock on the Salt Lake Route.
Shipments from the mines of Tin
tic for the past week amounted to
total of 1870 carloads. This is esti-
mated at $500 tons. valued at $780,
900. This brings the camp back to
near its normal after the holiday jol-
lifcation.
The Nevada Packard mine has
opened up a body of ore in tunnel c
near the bottom of the hill. The rock
is heavily impregnated with horn sill
yer and one-third Of the values are in
gold. Six feet wide assays $50. The
entire ore shoot is sixteen feet wide
and the remaining seven feet assays
$27.
Daily clean ups on the plates of the
stamp mill of the Seven Troughs Coal
ition mine are now averaging $500
day at an expense of $500, according
to l.. A. Friedman. general manager
OF the company. The ore is coming
from the lower levels, where the bet.
ter grades are averaging Sl33 ton in
gold.
The Jim Butler Tonopah Mining
company will very shortly commence
a most extensive campaign of devel-
opment work from both the Desert
portion OF which has already been
started by commencing a series OF
raises ON the South and Occidental
veins.
he ~ ha utn
smelter near at hand, there is not
able increase in the activity of zinc
mining, says a Leadville (Colo), dis
patch Already a number of contracts
have been signed up by the new con-
Germ, assuring a plentiful supply OF
material for the running of the plant
indefinitely.
The government of the new Chin.
ese republic is starting out to build
a firm foundation for future national
prosperity by adopting new and lib.
eral regulations governing mining I'm
der the empire mining. like other in.
dustries. was hampered by excessive
taxation and pIohibitive regulations.
says the MINING w OIlu.
Located in low range of hills
few miles northwest from the
old town OF Corinne in Box Ell.
der county, Utah, is a group OF
claims showing surface deposits OF
lead-silver ore recently Incorporated
into company called the Gold Mug.
get Mining Picked samples OF the
ore have given returns up to $50 to
$40 ton.
In consequence of the excellent ex.
traction being made upon it by the
ten-stamp and eleven concentrating
table section of the Goldfeld Consoli
dated mill devoted to its treatment,
practically all of the higher grade ore,
in addition to the entire output OF
milling rock, OF the Jumbo Extension
mine is being shipped to the local
plant. says the Golddeld Tribune.
The mineral production of the Phil
ippine Islands for 1912 is estimated at
S,756,S73. while in 1918 it was ST..
972,290. Three mills are operating in
Masbate, one In Benquet (although
two other small mills are being built
in this district. and one has recent,
ly been erected in Lower BenQuet, Lu.
bang district At Consuran, Suriago
hydraulic sluicing plant is being in.
stalled.
The number OF men employed in the
coal mines of Montana. in 1918 was
1850, and they worked an average OF
| 22S days, against S.44O men for an
average OF go days in 1912. The
mine workers OF Montana have a good
efficiency record. and in 1919 the
| state showed the best average produc-
ton per man per day among all the
coal producing states.
After twentyseven months of ex.
p.oration work during which they haye
unwatered the old workings and drift.
ed many feet, J w. Hardy. a.
Smithson, James McSorley and asso.
eiates have reached the stage where
they declare the Old Cave mine. abou,
nine miles east from Milford, Utah
VIII again take its place among he
gold silver and lead producers o,
the state
stockholders Of the Seven Troughs
coalition Mining company are in re.
ceipt from General Manager L. A.
Friedman the sent annual report end.
ing June 30. showing returns OF ss4,
SSslS, cash in bank OF ss2l5s and a
prediction OF the management tina,