The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1915-08-19
MINES AND MINING

IN fhf. SNA pAuBe, New Work
~ an tnis property is to Be resume %O \,
u 1ne direction of Joseph o'Bryns ~
2; R Richards, manager !, ~
Ducknorn mine. declares ia, ~ .ns
,He r- practically in sight win run
the present mill for fifteen or ,na .an
ent. N'e'l ihoepend.
within the past two month. -
aIloaas OF anthony were sh,nnsd
rom Humboldt county Nevad .pps =
new York, bringing $500 II 4 nre
dicted that this amount will he ami
Gated within the next sixty DAYS
The figures showing the produc,,on
OF white arsenic in the United STATE.
III 1918 collected by Frank L, Hess
OF the United States geological sur
very, indicate an output amounting n
4'ofo snort tons. valued at $31s,147.
Inc report of Utah Copper com.
pany for the second quarter Of le15
shows net profit of $4.412.2sS. com.
pared with $2.167,415 in the first omar
ter. Surplus after dividends was 81.
7S7,SOS, compared with $949.O4s the
previous quarter.
July proved an unusually good
month to holders of stock in Ameri.
can mines and works, according to re-
ports made to Mining and Engineering
World. Disbursements totaled So
6SS,SS0 and were participated in by
hfty-one companies.
The new mill on the Buster prop
erty at Jarbidge, Nevada, is in full
swing and is grinding about fifty tons
OF ore daily. There are about seventy
five men on the pay roll in the camp
and with work now outlined, this num-
Der will be greatly increased.
G. H. Hayes, formerly associated
with NJ. ]. Monnette in the Hayes
Monnette Mohawk lease in Goldfield,
has bought the Dora Jane group of
claims in the Goldstrike mining dis
trict, located twenty weight miles south.
east of Modena, in Washington county,
Utah.
The Buckhorn mine in Nevada is
one of the rarest mines in the world
This is due to the formation. The
Buckhorn is perhaps the only goid
mine where the values are found in
basalt. The country rock is basalt
and this basalt has been mineralized
for 100 feet in width.
Shipments out Of Park City, Utah
for the month of July were among the
heaviest this year, and at the present
rate of shipments the production this
year will be the largest in many years
In 1911 the production of the camI
was 10000 tons. During last july
10,051 tons were sent out
The first car of phosphate rock has
been sent out of Paris, Idaho. 1t has
been known for some time that one Of
the very richest veins of gray phos
phate in the United States exists
about two miles up Paris canyon, but
not until recently has any OF 1t been
shipped out of the valley.
From reports made to Mining ant
Engineering World it is learned tina
ninety-seven mines and works hav
contributed $4S, 492, 497 to stakeholder
during the seven months Of 1915 ende
with July. These companies have tc
tai disbursements to their credi
amounting to $919,244.561 on their Is
sued capital of $516,697,7s4.
For the first time in many years th'
Lower Mammoth has money IN III
treasury that did not come in through
the assessment method. The compan!
is gradually accommodating treasury
At present the company has $2,S7T OF
hand. During July car OF copper
car of lead and two cars OF zinc or
were shipped by the Lower Mammoth
According to a statement that ma
inst been issued on the Nevada DouE
las Copper company, the new ieacnln
plant will be ready for operation aDou
the middle of this month. AFTER lou
Years of experimental work, the mar
aqement now believes that II ca
handle the sulphides and OXIDES .
though each will be treated oy u
ferent process. /,
In 1914 the total output OF coNe :.
the limited States was S4,555'Sl4 snoi
tons valued at sSS,3S4,217 oi Uni
% 3s5 e71 tons was made in oeehiV
ovens. with an almost total ioss
the by-products, and 1l,2ls,s4S snol
tons was produced in py-proauc
ovens with a recovery Of over -,
eoo 400 worth of by-products' or a.
Ororimately S1.55 for each ton oil cox '
Al the end of 1914 there we're ~
Tx coke ovens in the United o'a'e
Of which $500 we're by-product oven =,
and s3s46 we're beehive. Vi lne -. =
| n product ovens s67, or ll-5 per cen en-
ora idle throughout the year an D.
a. 45o or 47.s per cent OF the peen ~,
arens were idle. At the end OF 40 20,
mere were under construction S41 49, ns
t nTsnroduct ovens and sos new Oeen''
ovens. .h;ch Il
0vnected. will exceed the prices Q, - y
last month by a good margin, rs. = .,
in the copper market inc 80 - y,
80 was due to the denlalu' -