American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1914-05-21
AROUND THE MINES


closing Of the mill.
II is claimed that since April 1 a
lease on the Michigan-Utah has aver
aged a carload OF ore daily, the ore
averaging $3.50 to s12 net smelter
returns.
The Great Western Development
company has purchased the cyanida
plant at Galena and VIII move It to It's
property in humboldt county, says the
Reno Gazette.
Federal Mining & Smelling com
any last week declared It's usual quar-
eriy dividend OF ~ per cent on pre-
erred stock, payable June IS t. stock
Of record May %.
The Lake Superior corporation. In
Guiding subsidiaries, report net earn
ngs for the nine months ended March
81. 1918, OF 1888. 1874. an increase OF
$4,000 over the same period last year.
Recent assays made from the rich
streak in the Lucky Deposit property
in White Pine county. Nevada, owned
by Utah people gave returns of 10
ounces silver, a trace In gold and 1871
per cent copper.
In his suit Just started asking for a
r~eceivership for the Coppermines Con
solidated, Col. Il. A. Wall says he
owns $1,000 shares in the Giroux and
300 shares in Butte g. Ely, two of the
merger properties.
Just as soon as the turn comes and
investments in stocks are resumed.
the legitimate mining issues will bs
the first to receive the beneficial eff
fects of the new impetus" declares a
prominent Utah mining man.
On the eastern claim in the Coco
mongo district a few miles from Cher
ry Creek, Fred Borchet and r. A..
Nuckols have recently opened a streak
OF rich ore which they are preparing
to mine and mill. says the Ely Exposi-
tor.
An experimental teaching plant ara
rived at Ludwig this week for the
Nevada-Douglas company and is being
set up to make tests OF the ore by the
process that the company has been try
ing out for the past several months,
lNhgn Auf AtiihhAOn AiHtos
Wyoming has been famed for years
for its valuable mineral deposits, but
In many parts of this western oun ry
there are rich sections which have
never been %prospected because of their
distance from the railroad; and the
great cost in proper development Of
small-paying bodies.
Phosphate rock was produced and
sold in the United States in 1913 o.
r the amount of 1907, O21 long tons, val
,, ued at s11.767.O 92, according to w
: C. Phalen of the United States geo
4 logical survey. This was an increase
! over 1912 of 1859 long tons in guam
tity and S91,31S in value.
Q Deposits OF chronic iron ore occur
in Maryland and the adjacent portion
II Of Pennsylvania, In North Carolina and
in Wyoming, but the only deposits
y operated in the United States within
recent years are In California. M
II merous deposits have been reported ID
t%hirty-two counties Of that state.
There is no unwieldy surplus of cop
per at the present time. the worlds
visible on May I standing at 135 S94,
900 pounds. an increase of $500 ,00(
pounds In April. Foreign stocks in
l. creased 100000 pounds. not surpris
ing with such large receipts from
this side. says the Boston News 30
49, reau.
n About fifty men are now employed
at the star mine and mill near Cherr.
a. Creek, New. where twenty stamp.
were dropping last week on ore iron
id the mine. II is planned to gradually in
or crease operations until the mill ca
be kept running three shifts, as COZ
Il siderable ore Is developed in the min
u and a steady production can be main
tanned.
a Former Governor Jewett Adams hai
te leased the tailings of the old Reveill
&c min In Nye county to Matt RosenthaI
IN at present. residing in this city. say
ra the Carson Appeal. The tailings ar
% supposed to contain considerable va
as ues and are from the immense tor
mage OF silver-lead ores treated at tn
mill over twenty years ago and whic.
TO have since lain dormant.
r The value OF the secondary me
De ais" exclusive of gold, silver. plat
az num-, and iron. recovered in the Uni
~ ed States in 1913 was s72.S45. 600, a
III cording to ]. p. Dunlop. of the Uni
r. ed States geological survey. Eve
this large figure Is a decrease con
10, pared with 1912, when the value W
81. $4,000. The term secondary
applied to metals recovered froI
-, scrap metal. %sweepings. Swimming
dresses. etc, as distinguished frol
primary metals. which are derive
from ore.
Notwithstanding that there is stiI
considerable snow on the ground.
oa force OF men under Erick Nelson ar
"a engaged In clearing away the wrecl