The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-04-23
AROUND THE MINES

Mining company for the month OF
March will total in the neighborhood
of $4,000.
Samples Of ore from the Antelope
Springs mine in Humboldt county,
New, were received at Salt Lake and
assayed during the past week showing
value of SIS smelter returns to the
ton.
Utah Consolidated Mining company
of Bingham has issued its annual re-
port for the year 1913. showing salei
OF copper and other metal, $I,8S9.845;
net surplus. s636,470 for year, and div
idends paid. $4,000.
A new automatic gold separator ma
chine which has been undergoing per
lection in Salt Lake for the past sew
eral years will soon be given it's firsi
real commercial trial on the fioul
gold placer stands or Idaho.
Another new ore discovery in the
Opohongo is beginning to add to- the
recent popularity OF that Tintic mine.
This is in the old tunnel level which
from. the Ajax-Gold Chain side gives
depth in opohongo of 400 feet from
the surface.
The final figures for the Portland ce-
ment industry in 1918, as obtained by
the United States geological survey on
March 16, show a production of 49,.
097,131 barrels. shipments of $685.
377 barrels and stocks on hand IL,
220,32S barrelsl
1t is declared in a communication
from Miami, AriZ., that the new Inter-
national smelter now under construc-
tion at that place will be one of the
largest and most complete in the
world. The total cost of the plant will
be approximately $2,500.O0O.
Actual mining experience is to be
given the students taking the course
in mining at the state university at
Tucson, Arizona, in a shaft which
they will sink on the university
grounds. Encounter of minerals is not
expected. but actual ground work con-
ditions will confront the student min
ers.
Angus Cameron of the Radium Com
gotten out at the mines twelve miles
west of town shipped to Philadelphia
at once and the local teamsters will be
kept pretty busy all this week convey
ing the 100 tons of carnotite into
town, says the Green River (Utah)
Dispatch.
A. w. Kelley, who is well known in
the Ely district through his large min
eral holdings prior to the building of
the Nevada Northern, and through his
identification with the Cobre townsite.
is going to be responsible for the start
ing of renewed activity in the old
Wood River district of Idaho, says the
White Pine News.
of American mines and works made
during the first quarter of 1914, re
ports of which have been received by
Mining & Engineering World. the year
gives promise of breaking all records
According to these reports "a com
panies have paid dividends so far this
year, totaling S24,7S5,556.
Shipments of ore will be resumed
from the old Croesus mine near HALEY
Ida. as soon as the roads dry up, says
the Wood River News-Miner. The
Croesus mine. few miles west of the
city, is still looking fine. The large
ore body which was cut at the bottom
OF a Wine below the S00-foot level
some months ago still maintains its
size and richness
American mining properties classed
as gold, silver. lead-zinc producers,
sixty-tRree in number, declared divf
dends during tie quarter totaling ST..
167,Ss5. This compares with 1885,.
IT'S paid in the same period in 1913
with "a companies contributing. The
sixty-three companies paying divi
dends in 1914, have to their credit to
tai disbursements of $2O5,O73, 100.
With the opening of spring the
American Fork canyon mining district
in Utah is taking on more activity than
usual. From reports that come from
the mines, from those who have spent
most of the winter in the district. the
results of the winters work will mean
more ore shipped from there than
there has been since the days OF the
Tying brothers, who shipped in the
neighborhood of $1,000.U00 worth.
After having bcen for the past four.
teen years steafastly clinging to the
idea that weolth .or him lay hidden
in the hills near Morgan, Utah, and
backing up his faith with good hard
work year in and year out, word
comes from there that Frank Troxler
has finally struck it rich. II is said
that in a tunnel or incline he has
cut a ledge Of ore which assays as
high as $50 to the ton.
At Rattlesnake, ten miles from Typo,
Jim Hillyer has two groups of four
teen claims which have an excellent
showing and are held under advise
ent by a Salt Lake syndicate. says
Tonopah paper. This is the old Key
tone group. on which great deal OF
work has been done. and the project,
II carried through to consummation.
means the erecting Of mill and the
prosecution Of work on large scale
Out of 100000 shares of issued
stock 55O.0cO were represented at the