The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1915-09-24
AROUND THE MINES

Unusual activity In mining ID oeihs
exhibited in West Tintc.
The Iowa. Copper-Apex people al
Park City have decided to install an
electric blower to help the air SHAFT
In 4.foot vein iron pyrttes is show
ing.
Production OF the mines OF Park
city, Utah, the past week totaled l.
125 tons valued at $4,000. This Is
compared with 1869 tons the previous
week.
Shipments OF ore from the mines ct
Tlntic last week totaled l23 carloads
This Is estimated at 6.l50 tons valued
at $4,000 II is compared with lSl
cars the week before.
The first ore from the new strike IN
tho Miller mine, which is being OPP
Grated by the Williams Leasing COM
pany OF Park City, was brought down
from the mine September IL.
Three new faces of ore, one Of mill
grade and two OF frst-class shipping
ore have recently been opened up in
the old Gemini mine, is the good word
that came from Tintic last week.
Provision having been made for
handling the increased flow OF water
exploratory work is again in full
swing at the property of the Silver
Pick Consolidated Mines company at
Goldfield.
According to a report from Colora,
do Montezuma. in Summit county
one OF the older mining districts OF
the state, is about to be rejuVenated
and made one of our larger producers
Of valuable ores.
From Goldstrike, In southern Utah,
comes word that during the past week
another shoot Of ore has been opened
In the upper workings of the Hamburg
claim. Samples of the ore carried $50
In gold to the ton.
During the past two weeks the
Prince Consolidated company has
shipped from the Phoebe mine total
OF ninety-seven carloads of ore. This
Is estimated at 1850 tons, valued at
close to $4,000.
Number of shares OF the Utah Cop
per company held at present by
French investors is 100,754, which
compares with 1889 in the early part
OF July and the high point of 2O9,230
in the middle Of December, 1913.
The Dry Canyon district continues
to send out a heavy tonnage of ore.
Numerous lessees are operating on
the various properties and prepare
lions are being made to mine on a
more extensive scale than heretofore.
The Alta Consolidated is rapidly
developing its great bedded lode,
which has been proved to be from
twenty to thirty feet wide, and this
immense ore deposit will undoubted-
ly become one of the company's most
valuable assets.
The output Of recoverable gold
from Nevada mines in 1914 was 555,.
4O2.47 ounces, valued at $11.4S1,1 1888.
and Of this amount 1923 per cent was
derived from dry or siliceous ore.
Since the first of June, when the
roads from the mine to the sampler
became hard enough to permit regu
lar ore shipments, the Silver King
Consolidated mine of Park City has
marketed $3.50 tons of ore. having q
net value Of 100000 or about SAL Q
ton.
II Is stated that the new caterpil-
lar traction engine and the four steel
wagons to be used in hauling the
Scotia ore to the railroad, will be de-
livered in Eureka within the next two
weeks and that Immediately thereaf.
ter this mine will be in shape to start
shipping.
The new plant OF the Utah Minerals
Concentrating company seems to
have passed through the experiment
tai stage and the officers of the mill
are getting things in readiness for
an extensive campaign of work on ore
which will be purchased from the
mines OF the district.
The shipping OF phosphate out of
Montpelier has been indefinitely sus-
pended. and J. ]. Taylor, manager of
the San Francisco Chemical com.
pany's mines here for the past eleven
years. has been removed to Pomona,
Cal. to take charge of the compan-
les business at that point
The new mill. under construction
AZ Silver City. will no doubt be an
important factor in Tintic's prosperi.
ty and reports Indicate that other
mills are to be erected here. The
Knight-Dern mill will be ready for
operation about the first OF the year
and its initial capacity win be 800
tons day. with prospects Of It being
enlarged until II will take care Of
fully 1000 tons Of ore every twenty
four hours.
Figures compiled by c. f. Sieben.
thai OF the United States geological
survey. from reports by all zinc smelt.
ers operating during the first six
months OF 1915 show that the produc-
ton OF spelter from domestic ore in
that period was s07, 6S4 short tons, and