The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1915-03-04
MINES AND MINING

1856 In the previous quarter
Ore shipments from Rico. COLO, Ia
January amounted to total Of seven
tytwo carloads, estimated at -''V'
tons. valued at 10000 to $4,000.
This transfer Of silver TO India mas
already commenced, shipment Oh
sterling bars OF a value OF AZVV'VVo
having been made from LONDON on
January IS TO Bombay.
II is stated that good ore has been
found in the Rochester Silver Clouo
mine at Rochester. says the Tonopah |
Daily Bonanza The owners are IN
creaslng the working force.
The Utah Copper company, the nrst
Of the big Developments OF low~grade
ore. has been running since 1904 ana
has according to its statements
earned s40,789, 900, OF which $25,Slo'OOO
has been distributed.
There is little change in copper.
The large agencies continue to quote
| IAN cent? a pound for electroiytlc'
/ while offerings by second hands nave
/ been made as low as l4h cents. Some
/ producers believe the lull Is about
| over
Copper exported from the United
States during the calendar year 1914
totaled $40, 08O, 1922 pounds, according
to government data just at hand. This
is about 8O0O0O00 pounds below the
previous years total, but 65,OOO,OOO
pounds in excess of the shipments OF
| 1912.
Operations have been resumed at
the Gemini in Tintic. A force OF SIX
ty men has been put on, and this Will
be gradually increased until the old
working force OF more than 100 men
will be employed. The mine has
done little since the outbreak OF the
war
The Nevada Cinnabar company of
Salt Lake, operating at lone, New, re-
Gently made shipment OF $50 TASKS
OF quicksilver, of seventy-ive pounds
each. The furnace at the mine is Civ
ing satisfactory results, and it is prob
able that production will be increased
at an early date.
Export to China by the Internationa
7 Banking corporation on steamship
I Korea from San Francisco OF so large
t an amount OF silver bars as $375,00(
D worth at one time, totaling 754,00I
\ ounces, together with 100000 ounces
e more by other banks, is chiefly tn,
result of irregular sailings, says tn
I Boston News Bureau
+ An important strike has been mad
}. in the old Horn Silver mine at Fris
b co, Utah, twenty miles to the west
}, and about halfway between Milfor
! and the famous Newhouse mine. TIL
story is that not only the Horn Silve
il will be benefited by the discovery, bu
/. that King David will be given a ne'
il impetus as the find was made near it
3 lines.
,. That the new 1OO-ton mill of tn
,, Rochester Mines company at Rochet
ter will be running within the mex
! ten days is the confident belief OF 4
y A. Codd, president of the Rocheste
q Hills Mining company and the Nevad
l. Short Line railroad, two of the mos
d important factors in the great silve
If camp OF Humboldt county, says tn
Reno Journal.
n Relative to the worlds copper situ
n ton and the exports of the Unite
a States, which are estimated at 80
IN go per cent of production, a Bostc
A. statistician says that Il is not stranl
0. that after the heavy copper buying
Tust ,s.,l 4.
j., ton should ensue. Big orders do n
4. flow into the market every day, al
:. their absence should cause no CO
Germ.
"A According to an English authorit
a the worlds production of gold la
year as officially estimated WI
=, E9l, 254.0O0 compared with E93,45
- 600 in 1913 and 96,077 900 In 1912. II
: decrease in 1914 compared with 10
= is Es.19S,0 900 and compared with 10
EASES 600. Total product OF the Br
: ish possessions In 1914 was { $500
" 900, or about IS per cent OF the tot
Estimate for the United States is CT
An 600. zoo.
sc The output ot zinc in Belgium al
W Germany amounts to 10000 tons p
annum. against $4,000 tons for I
e' United States Much OF the Belgi
n and German ore supply comes fro
% Australia, notably Broken Hin. y,
South Wales, and from Algeria a
IS other foreign districts. These or
~ have too much lead to be handl
he probably in the smelters Of Gre
IL Britain, for which reason they ha
be been treated ON the continent
gh The Occur dAlene district has 10
90 had the distinction OF having I
greatest lead mine in the world and
uE IS not improbable that il may so
IN earn the additional distinction o. h.
lr ing the greatest zine mine in {
hul world also, SAYS the Wallace tIdah
de Miner. The Interstate Ia ,iahan n,
he ranks Smong the worlds greatest Al
.ot mines, ana as us great ore body
al turther eNi.oy,d the conviction gro
that d AL eventually take the Il