The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-03-12
AROUND THE MINES

Dody recently opened on the SUI level,
hat runs 81 500 to the car.
Harry H. Hunter says recent devel-
opments in the Seven Troughs Coali-
ton properties has placed about $780,
300 worth of gold ore in sight.
The new gold field near Ray, Ariz.,
has been named Gold Greek. Several
Salt Lake mining men express the in
tention of going to Arizona to take a
look at the new field.
The hosting equipment and COM
nressor have been moved from the
Old Hickory mine to the Hoosier Boy
preparatory to a campaign of develop
ment at the latter property.
News comes from Searchlight that
Light Wheatley and John Howe have
bonded their Anaconda mine to Rog-
ers Bros. of Central City, Colo, and
Los Angeles, Ca, for the sum Of
$4,000.
Announcement is made of a divi-
dend of 80 cents share by the Gold
field Consolidated Mines company.
This disbursement will amount to ST.,
063 800, and brings the total dividends
paid by this company above $2S,0O0,-
600.
Labor conditions at the mines have
improved and big market for Utah
coal is rapidly developing in the
northwest, according to officials of
the American Fuel company of Salt
Lake, operating mines at Neslen.
Utah.
Robert T. Tustin has organized a
company in Chicago to operate the
Senate group of mines, near Galena,
and he will come out to start work
! there as soon as he can get supplies
in this spring, says the HALEY Qdaho)
Times.
According to late arrivals from the
Jack Rabbit, sixteen out of the TWEEN
ty-five towers for the Daly-Bristol
tramway have been completed and
the construction gang has moved
over on the Bristol side, says the
Phoebe Record
| At the Mcdonald Ely property near
Lane City two shifts are working reg
ularly down the Golden Gate shaft,
says the Ely Expositor. 1t is under
stood that a drift is being run at 800
feet to reach the area under the ore
deposits found nearer to the surface.
The price of radium salts varies to
some extent, depending upon the
quantity purchased and also from
whom purchased. The average price
for radium bromide in small quanti-
ties is $40 per milligram. Some max
ers charge as high as 500 per milli-
gram.
The worlds stock of gold December
81, 1912, of $S,4S0, 100000, as esti-
mated by director of the mint in his
latest report, compares with CORE
spending estimate of $4,841 100000
ON Janaury /, 1900, an increase in
thirteen years of 1883, 100000, or Is
per cent.
After having remained idle for sew
eral years, the Gold Chief property
in the Gold Chief mining district,
eighteen miles from Phoebe, will,
within the next thirty days, resume
operations, according to II. w. Rand
of Portland, who, with associates,
controls the property
In the Silverfield Mines property
near Millers, west of .Tonopah, Nev.,
five men are engaged in development
work and have opened a fifteen-inch
streak of the SIS ore, the chief val
ues being in silver and lead, with
some copper The find was made in
drift from the bottom of 230-foot
incline shaft.
The work of unwatering the shaft
of the Butte Zenith City mine, near
Nissler, has been completed and de-
velopment work will now go forward
rapidly. The station on the 500 has
been cleaned up and put into shape
and prosecuting on the level will be
resumed in March, according to the
Anaconda Standard.
Some fine looking ore is being de-
veloped on the Heines-Baldwin lease
on the White Rock property at Ma
tional according to a correspondent
in the Humboldt Star. High grade
ore has been taken from the footwall
in several places and the vein is
strengthening and widening out as
they drift to the south.
A prospector has recently made a
discovery about 65 miles north of
Tonopah The ore occurs in a great
porphyry dyke, sixty feet wide. in
lime formation, and at a depth of
nineteen feet showed twenty-five in
ches of ore which assayed $l11.S6
in lead and $3.50 in gold, and sinking
on the vein will now be resumed.
Work of sinking in the Minnesota
shaft of the Coppermines is now go
ing along in good shape and will be
pushed as rapidly as possible, accord
ing to the Ely Expositor. The shaft
was 215 feet deep and it is the inten-
ton to send it down $50 feet more,
where station will be cut and at
which depth drifts will be run to fur
Their up the deposit of highgrade cop
per ore in which development work
has been done for several years
through the Butcher Boy shaft.
The annual report of the Seven
Troughs Mining company for the year
ended December 81, 1918, was re-,
leased last week. 1t shows that the
operations of the company for the
year resulted in deficit of $3,2S3.04.
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