The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-11-19
MINES AND MINING

Tentative plans are under way Ia
secure in Salt Lake q permanent
headquarters Of the American Mining
congress.
Fifty thousand shares of CardiR
stock were sold in one block in Salt
Lake a few days ago, the considera.
ton being $4,000.
Cripple Creek mines produced in o..
tober a total Of $1.168.4O3 in gold, an
increase OF more than 100000 aboye
the production of September. octo-
ber's total output of ore was 10000
tons greater than in September.
The Chief Consolidated mine at
Eureka has stopped the shipment Of
ore, temporarily laying of good por.
ton of the working force, and a gang
of timbermen has been busy making
repairs to the main working shaft.
John Kit, William Mitchell and s.
M. Simpson, who have been leasing
at the Sultana property In Tooele.
have about 100 tons Of high-grade ore
on the dump, and are forced to hold
the ore for a better market, says the
Eureka Reporter
The Mazuma Ore Reduction com.
pany is the name of the new owners
| of the Darby mill at Mazuma, one Of
the best equipped mills in the state
with its duplicating automatic samp-
lers, tube mills, stamps and cyaniding
processes, says the Lovelock Review
Miner.
The worlds production of silver for
the last FIVE years has ranged from
POI, 00O, 900 ounces in round figures to
224, 900, 900, a fair normal average be-
ing 215,00O,000 ounces. Production in
1871 was 228, 735, 889 ounces; 1912, ga.
1886 ounces, and in 1913, 212,491,76l
ounces.
The specie holdings of the five ma.
titns at war total $5,078,000,00O. The
United States holds in stock gold and
silver to the amount of $2,535, 100000. /
All told, there are stocks of gold and
silver amounting to $751;, 100000 held
by these nations to cover their cur
rency issues.
The Tintic Standard at Eureka,
Utah, is looking better than at any
time during the past year and the
management feels sure that it win
soon become one of the regular ship
, pers of the district. The ore body is
being opened both to the east and west
of the shaft.
: Placer mining in Limerick canyon in
the Rochester district is proving quite
profitable, according to James Moss,
who owns one of the claims. He came
> in from camp this week with $3.50
" worth of dust in one bottle and a.
number of coarse nuggets in another,
!. says the Reno Gazette.
Park City mines are doing them
: selves proud these November days.
: The shipments for the week just end.
! ed amounted to 2,128 tons, estimated
: at $4,000. This is the heaviest week
\ ly tonnage of crude first-class ore and
A concentrates from the mills shipped
' out of camp SO war this year.
It United States Senator Key Pittman
Of Nevada tells the Tonopah Miner
- that large eastern investors, who are
" normal traders in rails" and indus
= trials" are turning their Thoughts 70
e. gold and silver mining. He believes
that money will be generally easier
ID after the new banking reserve law mas
s been put into effect
The entire production OF goia
ID throughout the world from 1893 70
Oh 1918, inclusive, is calculated at Sl4'
lie 1873, 900, 900. From 1896 to 1918, o.
during the time when the worlds neea
d for added stocks of money was most
ar acute there was added in gold 80
% 395, 100, 900, or very nearly one-hali Oh
the whole supply.
40 The Griggs- Carter-C astleton cyanl0s
- mill, located at the May Day mine a.
:. Eureka, Utah, still is in operation anu
~ handling nice tonnage of low grauo
ore. Since the slump in the price u
/, silver the profits have been pracu,
be- :, cally wiped away, but the mill WI.
o. no doubt be kept busy as long as Wv
weather is favorable.
The American Smelling & Renhme
company has declared its resuia,
A. quarterly dividend on the preterle.
DE and common stock from earnhs'
during the quarter ended Septemosl
III 80. The earnings since .no,
have been sufficient, it is decIareu :
that the usual dividend is expects
for the last quarter of the year :.
re The world consumes silver for coll
ne age purposes and for use in arts az
ra' crafts. According to figures eonlpns,
'ln by the director of the United S'a. ~.
sts mint, the average yearly consumpuss y
Ae- of silver in the arts and crafts anu - Y
zee commercial purposes during the ~ ~
MS years ended with 1912 was llS'z'0's -
as ounces, while the consumpuon h
,.n coinage purposes in that hair uoe 10,
aus averaged for the entire VIZ"
1877, 100000.
=. Further particulars of the w. y
:. lions of the Nevada Consoloase 4
"a the quarter ending SeptemDei 80
a. show that the net earnings were "a \
NV 725, compared with $6l4,SlS ~ i,
| nreeadin0 nuarter but that the -