The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1915-05-20
MINES AND MINING

Compared with the "Seh ~
trading on the Salt Lake mining eA'
change last week shows decrease
IN volume OF $4,000. or about 80 per
cent
C,re shipments viii start from INC
Alta Tunnel and Transportation coni-
pany's property, located In the DIE
cottonwood district within the present
month. according to General Manager
Fred V. Bodhsh.
pelat,va 10 other properties in the
I oyelock Rochester districts the re
view. Miner says that at Willard 'he
sensation OF the week Is on the Honey
Rec, A foot OF SIS ore has been open
ed for 800 feet.
permanent receivership for the Gold
field Merger Mines company went mo
effect at Seattle last week when
carl Johanson OF Seattle, temporary
receiver assumed his new duties 10
which he was appointed.
Assay returns from an average sam
ple of the ore body encountered re-
Gently in the Alta Tunnel and Trans
portation company's property returned
o. per cent in copper, q per cent
in lead and 1917 ounces in silver 10
the ton.
Shipments from the camp OF Tintic
the past month of April amounted to
a total of $50 carloads. estimated at
% 600 tons Of ore valued at $725.OOO.
This is compared with 356 carloads in
March. 297 in February and 430 in
January.
Men are now actively employed on
| the property of the Price Mining conf
pany, which is located in the south
| fork of the Big Cottonwood district,
| one-half mile south and west of the
Cardiff mine and south OF the old Car
Donate mine.
Late reports from Nevada are that
the Glover Mining company has open
ed another large body Of zinc ore,
which samples from 1892 per cent up
to 4S per cent. One shaft is entering
a big lead body, which is spreading as
| it deepens.
Ernest L. Godbe, who, together with
Anthony II. Godbe, negotiated the deal
Tor the sale of the Empire Copper
property in Idaho, has returned to
Salt Lake from making an inspection.
He reports 1t is IL splendid condition.
The Empire was purchased by Utah
interests for $350.000.
Five thousand tons of $50 lead-silver
IL, fuht ~
soldated mine, located in the Little
Cottonwood district, according the
general manager. This lies between
the 44O-foot drift on the main tunnel
level and the raise that has been driv-
en- upward for 100 feet.
Two hundred and twenty miners
are now employed on the Empire, at
Mackay, Idaho, the pay roll is $4,000
a month and the output Is $500 tons
OF ore month. The Empire is a cop
per mine and the present high price OF
the red metal has stimulated the Man
agement to push production to the
limit
Utah coal mines are working from
two to three days a week and it will
be FIVE years before the mines of Car
bon county are back on n full-timC
! basis, according to +. l. Carpenter
| president of the United States Eue
company, who has recently made ar
| inspection of the mines In Carbon
county.
The Busy Bee Mining compang Il
preparing to resume operations on ii
property in the Beaver Gold district
in Utah Its board of directors at
recent meeting decided to have IN,
property surveyed for patent, in III,
near future, and to begin mining oper
atoms with the expectation of making
q producer.
The Utah Cooper company is no
only running at capacity but ever,
endeavor Is being made by the mar
agement to increase the output. 1t !
, expected that the copper production
during the present month will be b.
! tween 100000 and 100000 pounds
! depending upon the grade of the or
\ that is treated
pumping out and cleaning up the tun
nels of the Fort Hall property. fou
miles south of PoCateno. A force o
! ten men have charge of this prelluI
I mary work and rs soon as the min,
is free from water and gases a larg,
force of men will begin operations 10
the purpose OF opening mp / section o
the mother lode OF chalcopyrites au,
to prepare ore for shipment.
That the Prince of Wales Assure
which trayerses the entire length o
the holdings of the Antelope an,
Prince OF Wales Mining company, con
, trolled by Walker brothers of Sal
-, Lake, is one Of the strongest an,
A richest assures in the Big and L'tt
+, Cottonwood districts and that one O
9 the biggest ore bodies ever found /,
Utah will be developed there. is tn
d opinion Of : g.. Mack. who is nov
4 operating a three-year lease on Prime