The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1915-04-22
MINES AND MINING

elared the regular monthly dividend
of e5 cents.
The old Santa Rosa mine, about |
twenty-eight miles from Keller, Cal. ,
purchased two or three years ago by |
Tonopah interests. has resumed oper-
atoms.
The apex suit between the Booth /
Recognized Mining company and the
Jumbo Extension interests has been
settled 1t is authoritatively announced
al Goldheid.
Eastern directors of the Utah Con- !
solidated Mining company have is
sued a report for 1914 showing profits
OF S565.665. compared with $685. 40
in 1913 and S566,sSs in 1912.
Shipments Of ore from the Tintic
mines the past week totaled LOG car
loads. This is estimated at $500 tons
valued at $4,000. II is compared
with 1913 carloads the week before.
With greater activity in the Deep
Greek district than there has been in
years, property owners are becoming
interested in concentration, with the
result that three jigging plants have
been installed.
One OF the Tonopah newspapers
advises men without work to keep
away from that Nevada camp. 1t
adds: Similar conditions prevail at
Goldfield, Round Mountain. Manhat.
tan and other southern camps"
Miami Copper company made net
| profits of 100000 from operations
/ during the quarter of 1915. Its Febru-
airy production is Appropriated g.
100000 pounds, which figure was
somewhat exceeded In the longer
month OF March.
Steady progress is being made on
the pipe line which will carry water
for the placer operations at Round
finished and the pipe line will be com.
pleted SO that hydraulic operations
can commence by June l.
From the old Daily mine at Park
City already this month one 50-ton
carload OF ore has been shipped while
an equal amount was sent to market
| in January and again in March and
$50 tons in February. This ore is
all coming from the raise above the
500 level.
March was a big month in copper.
Not only were heavy sales effected,
but they were booked at advancing
prices which carried electrolytic up
from 14A cents on domestic business
early in the month to i6 cents at It's
close The advance was oyershad-
owed by the 2-cent rise in Lake.
Two OF the largest and most impor'
tant of the Anaconda Copper Mining
company's properties have reopened
after a suspension of nine months
for the High Ore and seven months
for the Diamond. The High Ore mine
will employ a force Of about 700 men
and at the Diamond about 500 men
will be put back to work.
A satisfactory outcome Of litigation
that has put a damper on the camV
Of Cherry Greek, New, for the last
six months was effected last week
when the Nevada Star Mines company
paid out $4,000 to forty lien claim
ants and freed the Old-time silver
properties that have produced mil
lions in the past from legal compiled
tons.
T. l.. Oddie, former governor ol
Nevada, has returned from the new
gold camp of Willard. about ten miles
from Lovelock, says the Reno Ga
zette. He stated that It gives promis,
of becoming a fine camp. The rici
gold values were discovered Sunday
and Joe Ray named the camp OF
Monday after Jess Willard who woI
the championship from Jack johnson
, on that day.
. Since its discovery in the early 70i
} the career OF Cherry Creek. Nevada
has simply been a tale OF one mis-
: fortune after another The downward
: trend in the price OF silver caused l
large portion OF the population I,
seek more prosperous climes. but tn
= faithful ones remained hoping tina
through some sort Of necromancy tn
camp might once more regain IL
pristine glory.
+ Organized for the purpose Of driy
ing a long tunnel along the quartzite
limestone contact IL the Big Cotton
wood district which tunnel will ru
| practically every mineral bearing fl
sure that intersects the contact an
" which will tap the Wasatch mine
property at a depth Of l,40O feet be
low the present workings, articles O
incorporation OF the Alta Consolidat
ed Mining company have been filed d
Salt Lake.
b An investigation OF the Moorcroi
: oil field. twelve miles north Of Moo
!, croft. Wyo., by v. H. Barnett, OF th
: United States geological survey. I
I, determine, as far as might be. tn
possibilities of the held. is reporte
: In the Surveys Bulletin 5sl-C. rscen
, ly published The presence OF oil !
this field has been known for al leas
. q quarter 81 century, and man