The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-11-26
MINES AND MINING.

The Tintic Standard. regarded :.
one Of the coming mines of Eurek.
Utah, is shipping its fourth carload !,
ore this week.
An extensive gold dredging projec,
has been launched in Beaver county
Utah, by eastern capitalists, wha
have acquired control Of nearly 4ooe
acres Of land.
One of the most important minins
deals that has been consummated dur
ing the past year gives the Chief Con
solidated Mining company of Eureka
Utah, long time option on the SEQ
tia mine of West Tintic
Shipments of ore from the camp a
Tintic for the past week amounted Ia
a total of "a carloads. This is est
mated at 300 tons and valued Al
$100, 000 1t is compared with 1874 car
loads for the previous week, or 81
cars less.
The drift from the 1,700-foot level Of
the Eagle & Blue Bell property in the
Tintic district was started on the 18th
In spite of market conditions the prom.
erty is continuing to send out a regu.
lar tonnage of about 70 to 100 tons OF
ore day.
Ray Consolidated shows in it's third
quarter of 1914 net earnings of 1920.
922, compared with $959,494 in the
previous quarter. There were pro.
duced 12,475,153 pounds of copper.
compared with 1S,748,34S in the prevb
GUS quarter.
According to advices from Gold
Circle, a 50-ton mill is being built for
the Eastern Star Mining company.
The crushing part of the mill will con.
sist of 7x10 Blake ore crusher, five
1,250-pound stamps and one 5x1S tubs
mill for fine grinding.
From Provo comes word that the
Eureka Lily Mining company has pur
chased from the Lily Mining company
the Lily of the West, Sampson and
Auroria patented mining claims in
the Tintic district for 1850 shares Of
the Eureka Lilly company's capital
stock.
One small shipment of about 4,OJO
tons of potash has reached. New York
from Germany, the first since the war
started, says the Boston News BIZ
reau. 1t is understood that the ship
ment was divided equally between
American Agricultural and Virginia
Carolina.
Shipments of ore from the mines OF
Park City, Utah, for the past week
amounted to total of 1853 TONS
This is estimated at $4,000. 1t is
compared with 2,12S tons for the pre-
vious record week, and 1906 tons the
week before that, making three heavy
weeks in rotation
The monthly cleanup of the mines
of Tonopah for October swelled the
shipping columns of Wells Fargo in
the past few days, when shipments
aggregating more than ten tons were
sent out to the refinery, where the
gold and silver will be separated, says
the Tonopah Daily Bonanza.
The firmness in copper metal prices
which has been noted for the past few
days continues and according to some
of the leading interests a fairly good
business is being transacted. Several
of the large International houses are
holding strictly to the 11hc price for
electrolytic, but in other quarters the
list figure is being shaded.
The Round Mountain Mining COM
pany, the properties of which are To-
Gated at Round Mountain, New, is pre-
pairing for an aggressive campaign
next year, with plans for hydraulicR
ing on large scale, says the Tonopah
Daily Bonanza. The company has ac-
quired water rights that will place it
in a position to operate placers for
FIVE months continuously.
Butte & Superior has issued its
quarterly report for the period ending
September 80. Net earnings show
$5541S6 compared with $372,9S4 for
the June quarter; total income was
S1,O27,576; net value of concentrates
zinc, $7SS,S02; net value lead concen-
trates, $2S2,033. Operating costs were
$52S,4S9, leaving net profits of $780,
1876 to which should be added metal
inventories of $4,000.
Arizona now has some new laws on
its books, which when operative, will
affect the copper industry. One, which
producers of that state believe will
work to the disadvantage of the min
ing companies, provides that so per
cent of the employees shall be citi-
zens of the state. This would make
1t practically impossible for the cop
per mines to get full working forces
as not much more than 80 per cent
now claim citizenship.
Reports received from the Latest
Out mines at Gilmore, Idaho, are to
the effect that a seven-boot body OF
high grade galena ore has been opened
up on the S0O-foot level There is
also report to the effect that the
vein opened up in the Allie is five sets
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