The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1915-05-06
MINES AND MINING

Utah, has resumed operations.
Reports from the Fortuna Gold
Queen are that the new adit is cutting
the vein ten feet wide and exposing
especially high values in the yellow
metal.
II is reported that North Butte is to
be exchanged for Anaconda share for
share. Both are now about s3s This
will give Anaconda control OF nearly
the entire Butte district
Shipments of ore from the mines OF
loads, estimated at $500 tons, valued
at $4,000. This Is compared with 123
carloads the previous week
When the directors OF the Victoria
Mining company held their meetings
at Salt Lake the other day they decid-
| ed to resume the shipment of copper
ore from the 900 level OF the mine.
| Shipments OF ore the past week
from the four leading producers of
Park City amounted to a total of 1860
tons, estimated at $4,000. This il
compared with 1900 tons the week
before.
While the Tintic Standard property
in the eastern end of the Tintic dis
trict is still inactive, it is generally
understood that everything viii be in
readiness for the resumption of work
within the next week or ten days.
Max Dunn, an engineer from Spo-
kane, Wash, has been making an in
spection of the Black Eagle group OF
claims in the West range, in Beaver
county, Utah, in all probability with
view Of resuming development work
at once.
Indications are that the Butte & Su-
perior company for the month Of April
will break all production records and
with the extraordinary price ruling
for spelter this can only mean that
profits likewise will surpass all pre-
vious figures, says the Boston News
Bureau.
The drainage tunnel which the Wa
satch Mines proposes to run from a
point $4,000 feet down the Little Cot
, tonwood from the Columbus tunnel
will unwater the mine to a depth of
about 100 feet below the lowest work
ings in ore.
While making a recent inspection OF
the big territoy, one of the directors OF
the King David company knocked on
piece Of outeropping ore and brought
!, 1t home for sampling. An assay made
in Salt Lake gave returns of 6.5 pei
n q oil nd
cents in gold.
- Utah people have reorganized the
= Bannock Gold Mining company al
\ Butte to take over a property at the
, camp Of Bannock, Mont. 1t is said the
= property has produced $1,000,000, the
ore averaging 500 ton. Samples OF
q. 10000 tons estimated blocked on
!. averaged $1,000 ton.
y Nevada Copper Mining. Milling
Power company has completed thu
| final arrangements with Mr.. Num- ant
| his company, and actual construction
| work on a power line to this camp viii
i be begun within the next ten days o
i not later than two weeks, says tn
H Contact New Miner.
II Bingham and Garfield that the bi
4 mine of the Utah Copper is again moN
II ing probably not far from its norma
II tonnage of 10000 tons daily, and tina
the Magma and Arthur mills are opel
ating night and day and probably nc
] far from capacity.
A Bringing up from Goldstrike, Utah
4 new camp in Washington county.
4 big specimen chunk OF 100000 to
ore. Rolla E. Clapp, H. G. Snyder an
i Fred Redding have returned to Sa
Lake They dug this sample out of
vein $50 feet from the surface an
high-grade is being sacked at the %
4 foot level.
81 Utah stockholders of the Jumbo E,
tension Mining company are in receiI
Il of a notice of special meeting to
III held May 20 at Phoenix, AriZ., the pu
pose OF which is to increase the ca
". italization from 100000 TO 1.750,0(
shares and with 100000 of the ne
To- shares patch up the Apex litigatic
of now on with the Booth company.
he 1t is given out by officials Of Il
by Alta Tunnel & Transportation cor
re- pany that four feet Of carbonate OF
TT is showing in the raise. This is at
Ct point 900 feet in from the portal
ms the tunnel in Silver Fork of Big CO
III, tonwood. The proposed course OF u
he tunnel is toward the Prince of Wall
and will make under the Michiga
nd Utah.
as Since the Cardiff Mining compai
tai made its strike in the lower tunn
nj. last October il has shipped approx
&c mately 1900 tons Of ore, which h
I'D netted the company about $50 a TO
cy or $4,000.
1T Production OF ore by TOnopah min
I'm the past week totaled 10 760 tons. {
ed timated at s2I9.64O. says the Tor
pah Miner.
Under the management Of tho nj
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