The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-10-29
MINES AND MINING

bout 1872 900, 900 pounds of blister cop
ger in 1913, as compared with H.
zoe, 900 pounds in 1912. Labor trou-
lies greatly reduced the output in
Y13.
Advices from Washington are that
he chances are pretty slim OF getting
through the proposed enactment eA-
smpting mining men holding unpat'
anted claims from the required 500
claim assessment work for 1914
Third in Importance among Missou-
lis mineral industries is the mining
II coal, the production of which ce>
creased slightly from 4,339,S56 short
:ons, valued at $7,633,S64, in 1912, to
l,318,12 tons, valued at $7,4GS,3OS, IN
1913.
Utah produced 14S,O57, 45O pounds of
blister copper in 1913, as compared
With 32,150,052 pounds in 1912, accord
ing to a report just issued by the
United states geological survey. The
smaller production in 1912 was due to
.abor troubles.
The Tintic district made a produc-
lion of about 9250,000 pounds OF Bills
.er copper in 1913, as compared with
About 100000 in 1912. The produc-
:icn of copper from the Tintic district
3 largely incidental to the produc'
lion of other metals.
The Butte & Superior company was
'orced to close its mine and mill DC
tober Is owing to an accident to thS
Black Rock shaGt. The company was
employing about 1,150 men and all but
1850 will be out of employment, q few
being retained to repair the shaft ana
make some additions to the mill.
Missouri leads all the other states in
the production Of two important met
ais, lead and zinc, and in the produc-
ton of two relatively unimportant
minerals, barytes and tripoli, accord
ing to a statement made public by the
United states geological survey in CO.
operation with the Missouri state sur
gey.
Shipments Of ore from the camp OF
Tintic for the PAST week were heavier
than any week since last July, or in
nearly three months The production
amounted to 12S floads. This is es
timated a. 6,4OO tons and valued at
$16O, 900. 1t is compared with III
cars TO, the previous week, or about
$50 toAs more.
Gu. seven miles north of the town
Of '1onopah there is a thriving pros
pegting camp that has all the showing
rI a good, permanent producing area,
says the I Mopah Daily Bonanza. The
district has been exploited since 1906
and a good deal of work has been
done from time to time in the way OF
assessment work.
Ore containing more gold than rock
in which the yellow metal has beer
deposited by the forces of nature IL
every tiny seam and cavity in the
quartz until gold is the predominatins
feature of the samples displayed, Ii
being taken from the Quo Vadis mine
about twenty-three miles southeast O
this city, says the Las Vegas (Nev..
Age.
Very astonishing news has been re
ceived from the Big Four Leasing com
pany on the Rochester Mines company
property, says the Lovelocks Review
Miner. In prosecuting to the east from
the main workings the company has
uncovered the main east ledge, ter
feet two inches, that makes the mos'
wonderful showing of anything thus
far discovered in the mine.
Park City, Utah, has been noted al
steady producer OF silver-lead ore
for the past thirty-six years. Produc
ton was begun in the seventies by thu
Ontario, which was the first large Pre-
Queer. The DAILY West, Silver Kin,
Coalition, Quincy, Daly-Judge, Silve
King Consolidated and other proper
ties followed later The present an
nual output of the camp is between
$3,500,000 and 100000.
Henry Delaney, who has been witt
the Beckwith-Quinn sheep on tn
range in the vicinity of the head o
Gray's river. east and north iron
Cokeville, was in Kemmerer last weel
and displayed some excellent speci
mems of copper ore, which had beel
pronounced by minearologists to b
of the peacock grade, says the Cam
era. Mr.. Delaney believes that h
has found one of the rich lodges 0
the state.
What is said will be the larges
! jaw crusher of the Blake type eve
manufactured in the world for reduc
ing rock has been ordered from tn,
Traylor Ngineering company of New
York The opening is to be five an
one-half feet by seven feet, and thi
massive machine will be fed by
steam shovel.
The total exports of domestic Leaf
In ore during the six months from
March to August. 1914, inclusive, az
gregated 72,750.O00 pounds, valued a
| 81 $4,000. this being the first recor,
OF such exports.
Lessees on the Iowa-Copper Copper
Apex property on Scott hill. nea
Park City expect to cut the fissur
that they have been driving for with
in the next thirty or forty feet The
will continue work all winter.
In less than thirty feet more o
sinking the Eagle & Blue Bell shat
will have reached the i.70-foot leve
With the present crew of miners mai
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