The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1915-07-15
MINES AND MINING

u1u ~ tAA@f9OV. ~ ~ compared Win
2.siS tons the week before
Butte q Superior company filed lis
annual report for taxation purposes
for the year ended June /. II shows
the profits OF s2.s2S.44s. equal to 1915
per share.
Although the May production OF the
Utah Copper was the largest in its
history. I4.o53.765 pounds. II Is the
expectation that the June output viii
even exceed these agnres.
The famous Comstock lode Of Ne
yada Is a great assure vein. four miles
long. along a line OF fauiting OF the
Virginia range. II crops out on tho
east side OF Mount Davidson.
More than 2o0,000.O00 pounds Of
lead has been cleared for export from
the United States during ten months
ended April 80 This was record.
breaking tonnage, by wide margin.
Prince Consolidated officials have
announced an extra dividend OF al
cents a share This calls for $4,000,
and win be paid on August ?. II will
make nearly $4,000 paid out by The
Prince this year
II is rumored that there Is big
mining deal pending in Goldstrike,
and that Il win probably be eonsum-
mated following the visit 10 the camp
the coming week OF a number OF Salt
Lakers and men from distant cities.
Shipments OF ore from Tintic last
week totaied i6s carloads. This Is
estimated az s.450 tons. valued NJ
sell 900. and Is compared with Use
carloads the preceding week, which
was the heaviest in more than year,
Tintic's production during the first
half Of 1916 amounted 10 a total Of
AFRO carloads estimated At i3S.500
tons OF ore. valued at ss.4s0.0oo. The
total for June was Sos carloads. estt
mated at 2S.400 tons. and valued At
$4,000.
Against a normal capacity OF 600.-
600 tons OF spelter per annum the
zinc shelters OF the country within
the next nine months will have I'm.
creased their facilities 10 such an ex.
tent that capacity viii run ahead Of
100000 tons.
Utah men who now own and are op-
Grating the Polar Star properly OF
the Glover Mining company. located
seventeen miles from TObar, New,
have shipped ten carloads OF zinc and
combination lead-zinc ores 10 Utah
smelters since February !.
Leasers on the Eva Mining con-
panypany In Nebo district have sent
down a 22-ton carload OF lead.silyeT
ore. which sold for t72s.l6 and Melted
them S66093. Another carload Of
high-grade carbonate OF zine ore win
be on the market in few days.
While exports OF copper from the
United States to Europe continue al
a whole 10 run below last year. due
to cessation OF shipments TO Germany
Belgium. Austria Hungary and Hol
land. exports to other European coun
! tries show a material increase, sayl
| the Boston News Bureau.
Uranium mining will develop into
one OF the important industries oil
southeastern Utah within a few years
I in the opinion OF Homer e. Fem. rs
/ sistant United States forester at Og
den, who returned last week from q
| trip OF inspection during which hs
spent some time at the uranium mines
In San Juan county.
/ In the eleven months ended April
80, copper exports to Europe amount
ed TO 576.333.Ss5 pounds, Of which IS.
| 75s. 100 pounds were destined for Aus
tria. Hungary. Belgium, Germany and
| Holland. In the corresponding psriot
| Of last year shipments 10 those coun
tries amounted 10 50.s3s .267 pounds
Of total exports Of sll.i04.U2.
The following sign has been erected
on the Lincoln highway: Only sever
miles 70 Park City. UtAh's greatest
sllver-iead mining camp, elevation
1000 feet. Population $500. Toia
mineral production $3.50 1000, DiVi
dends paid TO stockholders over &A5.
900 900. see the wonderful mines, biz
reduction mills and q modern city.
Sent out by the San Francisco stoei
exchange as a special COMMITTEES q
investigate the new field. Thomas Rob
insou. president OF the San Francisco
exchange. and r. l.. Colburn. prom
inent broker on the Frisco board. de
clare that the Rochester. sevei
TrouEhs and willard districts presen
the biggest possibilities In the way o
future development OF any camp Il
the west
Efforts are being made 20 interes
officers Of the Butte & Superior min'
al Butte and AL other zinc producing
mines in the western United State
in the new natural gas helds. whiel
have been discovered near Casper
wyo. Natural gas Il the only fuel b.
which zinc may be Emelted cheApiy
and under present conditions zinc or
Is sent 70 the smeiters from a distancl
Of I.4O0 10 500 miles
That the Pittsburg Idaho Mimi
company. the property OF which is 10