White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-01-28
MINING NOTES

w. e. Edwards, well-known mining
man, of British Columbia and Wash
ington, died at Salt Lake recently.
The Anaconda Copper company will
increase the capacity of its zinc con-
centrating plant at Anaconda and its
new electrolytic zinc refinery at Great
Falls.
While the Bunker Hill & Sullivan
Mining company soon will begin ship
ping ore to the Northport smelter,
there is nothing in this bearing on the
Bunker Hills smelter construction
plans, according to Stanley A. Easton
| The Northport smelter, being con-
structed by the Northport Smelling &
Refining company, financed by the
| Hercules and the Tamarack & Custer
Mining. companies, will be ready to
! blow in March 1.
The case of the Clark Montana Real
ty and the Elm Arlu companies against
the Butte & Superior company, in
volving title to Butte ore bodies the
most valuable ever concerned in the
annals of mining litigation, their value
running into many millions, was decid-
ed in favor of the plaintiff companies,
Federal Judge George M Borquin up
holding all their contentious of law as
well as geological
min vryh0
strike in the Clifton, Ariz, district
since September II, have telegraphed
the managers of the three operating
companies at 81 Paso, agreeing to re-
turn to work with the single provision
that the nonunion men now the So
called refugee camp" ats,:Duncan be
not allowed to return to work with
them in body. The strikers have no
objections to the men from Duncan
returning to work gradually, and sug-
gested to the managers that. the time
and methods of their return be left to
a committee acting in conjunction
with the managers.
An unprecedented demand for cop
sources resulted Monday at.-New York
in an advance in the quotation from
24% to 25A cents for delivery in the
second quarter of the year. A price
Of 81 cents a pound was reported to
have been offered for March delivery,
and rumors were current that 80 cents
was bid for delivery in February, but
this, however, could not be. confirmed
The market has been bare of avail
able supplies for almost three months.
ALI the leading producers are booked
to the extent Of their output well into
the last half of the year and:it is free
ly predicted that the demand will in
crease. Several of the agents of COM
panies producing the finer grade of
copper have virtually withdrawn from
the market and are not quoting prices
at all.
A body of gold ore assaying 5000 a
ton was opened at depth of 600 feet
| in the, shaft of the Surprise mine,
Republic district, few days ago, ac-
Directors of the H. E. M. and Au-
rora-Sampson Mining companies of
Wallace, Idaho, have agreed on con
solidation of the two properties. A
| The National Copper Mining Co..
which owns and is operating the Ma
tional mine and mill at Mullan,, Ida
no, has purchased 90 per cent of the
stock of the Homestake Mining Co.,
| The purchase of a block of $50, 900
shares of stock in the Constitution
Mining Co. by syndicate of Spo-
! kane investors was announced this
week, those taking over the block be-
New York Metal Market.
The metal exchange quotes lead Of
fered at $500; spelter not quoted.
Copper firm electrolytic, $24.25@
24.75.
Iron steady and unchanged.
Bar silver, 56s4c; Mexican dollars,
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