The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-04-30
AROUND THE MINES

/ for the week amounted TO total OF
100 tons estimated at $4,000. The
week before the total was 1,24s tons.
Forty men are at work in the fam
| Gus Gold Hill mine at Quartsburg.
three miles from Placeryille. Idaho.
A rich strike was made there just re-
Gently.
Work has been started on the first
unit of the big tailings teaching plant
at the Washoe shelters, anaconda,
Mont. The big plant will cost ST.
100000
Nevada Wonder Mining company
has declared a dividend of 10 cents
payable May q to stock of record
April 80. 1t is controlled by Philadel-
phia people.
The American Mining congress will
hold its session this year at Phoenix,
Ariz. 1t will be held in December. 1t
is said a fund of $1,000 has been guar
anteed locally.
There will be 30,00O,000 pounds OF
copper used in the electrification OF
the first section of the Chicago, Mil.
waukee & st. Paul railway, work on
which commenced April TO-
Performing in manner that is ex-
ceeding expectations all along the
line, the new 500-ton mill constructed
for the National Copper Mining COM
pany at Mullan, Ida, is being warmed
up.
Last week Jesse Knight announced
that the Goldfield Consolidated COM
pany had failed to exercise its right
under the $1,000,000 option to take
over the property of the Aurora at
Aurora, New.
Inspiration Consolidated Copper
company had $1,7S1 LAC cash on De-
cember 81 last, according to its sec
ond annual report. Current assets
totaled $1,S25,414, and current liabili
ties $127,836.
For the year ended December 81
Butte & Superior made operating
profits of very close to $1,000,000,
three-fourths of which were made in
the last six months of the year. says
the Boston News Bureau.
The value of the silver, lead and
zinc produced at mines in Illinois in
1913 was $336,963, according to ]. p.
Dunlop of the United States geol-
ogical survey. This is less than half
the value of the production for 1912,
which was $679.259.
The executive board of the Ameri-
can Institute of Mining Engineers will
meet in New York April "a, and at
that time a charter will undoubtedly
be granted for the organization OF a
section of the national organization
with headquarters in Salt Lake.
Shipments of ore from the camp of
Tintic for the past week amounted
to total of 1876 carloads. This is
approximately $500 tons, valued at
$175,O0O The production for the
previous week was 131 carloads, or an
increase for the past week of five
cars.
Stockholders in the Inspiration Con.
solidated Copper company are in re.
ceipt of the annual report ending De-
cember 81, 1918. 1t shows drill ore
developments of 6,S5S,OOO tons of ore,
total of S9,643,0 tons, most of
which averages LII per cent copper,
while the treasury contains $1,7S1, 900
in cash.
From Horseshoe Bend, Ida, comes
word that the. Mountain Chief mine,
seven miles from Placerville, is ship.
ping from Horseshoe Bend an average
OF two carloads of high-grade concen.
trates each month to the smelter at
Murray, Utah. The crude ore at this
mine is reported as averaging $500 in
gold values per ton.
The extension of the Idaho North.
ern up the Payette river from EN-.
NETT to Payette lake is causing a big
revival of interest among mining men
having property tributary to this
road. This railroad is the cause of
much development not only in min.
ing. but in agriculture. timber and
stock raising as Well.
Oil locations aggregating $3.50
acres have been made on the low
mountain range just Immediately
south of Elko in the past ten days,
says the Nevada Free Press. The
names appearing on the locations con.
sist of eighteen Ely people, eighteen
Elko people and thirteen whose resi-
dences are in the extreme east and
San Francisco.
An announcement was made at
Pittsburg last week that a company
had been organized to manufacture
from American ores.
Heretofore most ferro manganese has
been imported from England and
Germany. Edward E. Marshall is
president OF the company, which will
be capitalized at $4,000, 900 and To-
Gated at Dunbar, Pa.
Low prices continue to prevail In
both lead and spelter. The recent re-
iuction in the so-called trust price OF
cad has not been satisfactorily ex-
as yet. although it would seem
IS though the reduction was made
simply for the purpose OF inducing
consumers to buy more freely. says
he Boston Commercial.
Production of copper from ore
mined in Michigan during 1918 was
ISS'SSS.4os pounds. having a value OF
szl'oSI,2IS, the copper being calculat
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