The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1915-05-13
MINES AND MINING

court decision gives the West End the
apex rights ii its suit against Jim
Butler.
With arrangements practically COM
pleted for the financing of the Price
Mining company. the stock will be ad-
mitted to listing on the Salt Lake
Stock & Mining exchange.
Within the next thirty or sixty
days the output of copper in the Unit
ed States and Canada should be on a
scale greater than ever before Wit
messed. says the Boston News Bureau.
Increased price of copper VIII raise
the wages next month of 5000 men
employed in the shelters at Douglas,
Ariz.. and the mines at Bisbee, &C
cording to the new wage schedules.
II is reported that the Salt Lake
Route trains are letting off an average
of half a dozen passengers day at
Modena. They are bound for the new
Goldstrike camp thirty-eight miles be-
low.
The big drainage and transportation
tunnel of the Wasatch Mines com
pany, the property of which is located
in the Little Cottonwood district, will
be started some time between May
Is and June l.
Triumph is the name OF the new
mining camp in Nevada In which
George Graham Rice has become In.
terested 1t is in Churchill county,
| about 75 miles east of Fallon and
about rs miles east of Fairview,
Nevada mining conditions are better
| than they have been In many years
and the high price Of copper is going
! to cause the opening up OF many low
grade properties" says Frank M. Man.
son, general manager OF the Western
Ore Purchasing company.
According to a director, the Utah
Metal & Tunnel company, which is 10.
Gated in the Bingham camp next ia
Utah Copper and the Last Chance
property of United States Smelling, Ia
developing a body of silver-lead ore
(which was recently discovered.
Business on the Salt Lake Stock g.
Mining exchange in April shows an In
crease of more than 100000 over the
totals for March. The March totals
were 1880, 500 shares, valued at $685.
051.23, while those OF April we're 2,
040,602 shares, valued at $463,65565.
Neyada's newest mining camp, VIII
lard, nine miles out OF Lovelock, when
discovered a few weeks ago boastet
one lone tent, today II is a city o.
tents numbering fifty to sixty of these
himsy human habitations, some sub
stantial buildings and 100 TO 200 peo
Pile.
Shipments from the mines of Tintit
the past week amounted TO l3
carloads. This is estimated at $50
tons valued at $165,000, and is con
pared with 116 cars the week before
This is the heaviest weekly tonnag
forwarded by the camp SO far thi
year.
In final settlement of the judgmen
obtained by the Utah Copper compan.
against the county, the Salt LAX
county commissioners authorized tn
payment OF S31,79O to the company
The copper company sued for S35, 90
/
test.
The report OF |. II. Henahen, con
missioner OF mining, shows that tn
mineral production of Colorado for tn
year 1914 aggregates S34,25S, 779. II
The production OF gold was 1882
l74.07; silver, $4,617, 1926; the tots
production of minerals in 1913 wa
worth $34.S39,577,49.
Active work has started on the ion
tunnel being driven by the Big Co
tonwood Consolidated Mining con
pany, the property OF which Is locate
in the south fork Of Big COTTONWOOD
canyon. A force OF men is now q
work on the property, and II is intent
I'd to increase the force.
The Alta Consolidated mine will b
in a position TO continue shipment
regularly just as soon as the roat
ways will permit. according to Pres
dent Jacobson. Recent development
at the property lead him to beIiey
that It viii shortly become one OF Ii
heavy shippers OF the district.
Potash shortage in the United STATE
in 1914 was further accentuated /
the German embargo on export at II
end Of January, 1915. In spite OF Il
interruptions TO the normal trade
potash salts, the imports OF Salts pro
er In 1914 amounted to 4s5,s1s.4i
pounds, valued at 1918 1913.
Efforts are being made now to ha'
work resumed on the old Albion Nj
ing company property in Alta. 1t hi
an estimated production Of $1,000 90
Other than that done by leasers, lit
work has been attempted on the A
bion property since 1t was indirect
closed down by the panic Of 1907.
The Prince Of Wales property, loca
ed between the Little Cottonwood al
the Big Cottonwood canyons, al
which in the early days produced
the neighborhood Of 100000 worf