The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1915-06-17
MINES AND MINING

The production for the week at Tin.
tic. was lie carloads. estimated at
$500 tons valued at sI45,0O0. This is
compared with lls cars the week be-
fore.
Shipments OF ore from the mines OF
Park City, Utah. last week amounted
to l,T40 tons, valued at 5000, com.
pared with LIZA tons the previous
seven days
Prom Goldstriks. In Washington
county, comes word that the strike in
the west drift OF the Goldstrike Con-
solidated is much richer than was
nrst supposed.
II is reported from GOldstrike. Utah.
that the Bee Bees new shaft has
opened ore of considerable value. The
shaft was started on an outcropping
vein about ten days ago.
The cleanup of the Seven Troughs
Coalition last week amounted to S..
800. The dividend checks for the last
quarter were mailed June 8. making
the second for the present year.
The new ore body cut by drifting to
the southwest along the Flagstaff fis-
sure in the Columbus Extension prop
erty continues to widen, according to
reports received from the mine.
In the north end of the Iron Bios
som property. located in the Tintic
district, the work of sinking the winze
from the 600-foot level is under way,
the winze now being down more than
$50 feet.
The barytes mines OF Missouri, Ala.
bama. California, Georgia, Kentucky
North Carolina, South Carolina and
Virginia dug 51,547 tons during 1914,
for which they received s16s,715, or
2.9s a ton. g
During 1914 the people OF the Unit.
ed States used S4,315 short tons Of re-
fined barytes and paid $447,35S for 1t,
according to statistics compiled by
James NJ. Hill of the United States
geological survey.
According to Boston authority, .
real famine" has developed in the
spelter market. The Boston News
Bureau says that the shortage, II ex.
tended over full year, would amount
to over 100000 tons.
Stock OF the Bannock Gold Mining
company has been listed on the Salt
Lake stock and mining exchange, and
started OF with a lively whirl with
22,500 shares. bringing from 80 cents
up to 70 cents share.
The Tintic mine operators are re-
1otcing over the rise OF lead to IS, and
hope TO see II go higher, and that It
viii carry silver up with It. On the
annual production OF $4,000, 900 pounds
NJ lead 1t means about $25O,OOO to the
camp.
According to a Boston director, the
operating profits Of Utah Apex com
pany for April were $l9,l74, compared
With $4,000 in March, The company
treated 1898 tons Of ore, compared
with 1888 tons in the previous
month.
The first carload OF ore for the
present season from the Alta CONSOLE
dated Mining company's property, To-
Gated in the Little Cottonwood dis.
trict, near Salt Lake, arrived at the
sampler last week. II contained &c..
900 pounds dry weight.
Production of ore in the camp Of
Tintic In the month OF May amounted
to q total Of $40 carloads. This is es.
timated at $4,000 tons valued at
100000 It is compared with $50 ear.
loads in April. $50 in March, 297 n
February and 430 in January.
The total production of Portland &C.
ment in the United States In 1914, ac-
cording to Ernest +. Burchard of the
United States geological survey, was
SS,230,170 barrels, valued at $s1 1884,
36s; the production for 1918 was 92,-
097,131 barrels, valued at S92,567 1856.
Joe Peasley, a leaseT who has been
working for some time on the Albion
at Alta. IL taking out ore from one Of
the old upper tunnels Already he has
extracted several tons OF good com.
mercial grade. This level is in 700
feet and Is above the old long tunnel.
President NJ. r. Evans OF the Rexall
Mining company says he will send
competent man up to make an exam
ination of the property with view of
starting work in the near future. The
Rexall has an old tunnel In about 800
feet we'll up the mountain but Il
opened no ore.
Mining operations at the Prince
Consolidated are running along like
clockwork, according TO the manage
ment. The new double compartment
working shaft from the sixth level Is
now down 100 feet A station is boz
ing cut and crosscut will be sent
out for the ore.
The quantity OF domestic fiuorspar
reported to the United States geologi.
cal survey as marketed in 1914 was
S5,116 short tons, valued at &570.U41.
compared with 1850 short tons
valued at S73G,2s6, marketed In 1913.
q decrease In quantity OF 20.l64 short
tons and In value OF Sl66.24j.
Teams began hauling ore last week
from the Alta Consolidated property.
located in the Little Cottonwood dis