The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1915-07-08
MINES AND MINING


The Tonopah Mining company last
week declared the regular quarterly
dividend of % cents a share. payable
July 81.
An excursion TO Tintie on July Is
has been planned by the Utah section
of the American Institute OF Mining
Engineers
Upper Silesia, in Germany. has the
deepest well In tie world II is
Is 1850 feet deep.
The weekly settlement price of lead
OF the United States Smelling. REIN
ing 4 Mining company for the week
ended July % is s5725 per hundred
pounds
According 60 a rumor in mining cir.
cles, strike OF considerable impor-
lance has been made on the property
Of the American Flag company in
Park City.
During June the Pittsburg Idaho
property at Gilmore. Idaho, will mar
ked 1000 tons OF ore, This was
shipped both on company account and
by the lessees,
Fourteen sets OF leasers are now
working IN various parts of the old
Daily Mining company property at
Park City, Utah. Most Of the work
Is being done above the 500 level.
According to tho general manager
OF the Salt Lake & Alta railroad, the
amount OF supplies and freight going
| into the camp OF Alta il now three
times as much as Il was a year ago,
Preparations are maturing to put
the old Pittsburg mine on the ship
ping list this summer, says the
American Fork (Utahl Citizen. II is
well known that there are large bodies
OF good zinc ore on the property.
Shipments OF ore from Park City,
Utah, last week totaled 2.9is tons, es'
iimated at $4,000. This Is compar'
ed with 2,479 tons the previous week.
This makes two OF the heaviest pro-
duction weeks in the history OF Park
! City
Owing TO the successful operation OF
the oil fotatlon process, Butte a Sn.
perior has been able recently 10 pro-
duce concentrates OF 81 per cent Gino
content, This Is a substantial gain In
zinc content. which previously has
been found So per cent.
The first car OF coarse leadaIiveT
concentrates that has been shipped
from the Wilbert property In the Dome
mining district, twenty-five miles cas-,
of Arco, Idaho. since the mill started
was settled for last week. and netted
the company at the smelter t2.957.03
The marketed production OF sulphur
in the United States in 1914 was 327.
GA long tons. the greatest In the hia'
tory OF the industry. A statement by
tho geological survey placed valua'
ton OF s5,9g4.29 on the output This
is an increase over 1918 OF 1904 tons.
or $A74.2S7
Reports from the Rocher DE Boule
property IN Canada are that II has
this season shipped out approximate
ly 5000 tons OF ore. which averaged
per cent copper and 50 In gold to
the ton, The production Is said to De
60 tons daily. with more than 100 tons
for tife near future.
Oyertures have recently been made
10 the management OF the King VII.
liam Mining company for a bond and
lease on the property at Tintic. The
application has been made by practi-
cal mining men who know Tlntlc and
It Is understood that something may
come OF the proposition.
Western Manganese Mining com.
pany OF Denver has acquired through
bond and lease the Great Wonder
manganese claims. recently located
near Green River. Utah, and In build
ing good road to the claims. pre-.
paratory 10 getting out twenty ave
ears OF ore a month.
A placer is an unconsolidated de-
post accumulated by mechanical pro-
eesses. carrying one or more miner.
ais in commercial quantities. says a
government report All placers are
secondary deposits--that Is. the mate.
rial Of which they are composed WIS
originally derived by erosion OF bed.
rock.
There IL more activity among the
various properties operating In tho
Tintic district At present than there
AA8 NtNA Az past Aut ~
cent advance in the price OF lead has
added 10 the earnings Of all the larger
producers and a heavier tonnage Is be
ing produced as n consequence. The
forces at a number Of the principal
mines have been increased
Press reports that the United
States Smelling. Refining Il Mining
company has made arrangements to
forward carloads OF corn and otner
foodstuifa for the relief Of it's 1000
employees at PAchuca. Mex. indicate
a seriousness with respect 10 the
company's operations at its important
silver producer which is not quite in
accordance with the facts, says q Bos-
ton newspaper What has happened
il that the United States Smelling
company has offered TO cooperate 10
secure foodst Ifs for all the residents
Of Pachuca, which number about
SO 900.
According 90 a Boston authority.