The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1916-11-24
AROUND THE MIN

Production of the mines of Tonom Al
the past week totaled 1857 tons ~
ued at $191 ,566.
Favorable reports continue to CO.
in from Indian Queen and King Da AlIlk1
in Beaver county, Utah, where W Y
has been going on continuously -
several months. "A
Officials of the Original Bannd ~;
now estimate that they have ab1 ~
10000 tons of ore blocked out n NJ.
ore ranges from 4 to per cent o. w
per and 81 in gold to the ton. wy
Reassuring conditions are descrir M
! at the properties of the Alta Consr VAL
dated, Sells and Michigan Utah RIl
General Manager A. C. Jacobson " N;
is in close touch with the situation YbN
Alta.
Whether the enormous influx "a U
gold from Europe constitutes a bleA \ 81
ing or a menace will be the foremo pas'
topic for consideration when the j In
visory council of the federal reser "
board meets in Washington this wee
Mines Development company, whiM 10
is working the Arrowhead in Ird nm
county, Utah, has received settlemeI III An
for the fourth carload of ore.
weighed $4,000 pounds dry weight an III
averaged $29.67 a ton, or 1894 ~
gross. al,
Many millions of dollars were save mol
for the government by a decision him
the district court of appeals at Was II
ington on November Is that congres In
has the right to fix the value Of cod "l
! lands in Utah and other intermour but
tain states. mo
Reports from the Yankee are tina bw
the shaft in the Humbug ground
! still in high-grade ore. For three d
four days not a sampling ran undeN
200 ounces silver and some reached \
up to 600 and 700. Some of this or Ter
carried well in lead and SIS to $40 il SoI
gold. by
The office of the Rex Consolidated
Mining company, with properties 4
| Wallace, Idaho, has been advised By
the general manager at the propertJ
that the sorting plant and tramway Oh
the company started Thursday and
/ that the mill started Friday of las
week.
Energetic operations are being card
ried on at the large domain of thes n
Selma Mines company in North Tin@
tic. The company is now employing Y
a force of eight men and the main p
crOsscut is being pushed off to ths Y
east to tap at depth some of the
north-south assures.
Since the oil flotation process has
begun to replace cyanidation in gold
refining the most satisfactory kind Of
oil for this purpose has been the sub
| ject of good deal of discussion. One
of the most interesting of the discov.
cries along this line Is that the oil OF
sagebrush may be thus utilized.
A director of the Logger Mining
company announced last week that
the lower tunnel is now in $50 feet
1t is expected that another twelve
feet will crosscut the Logger vein at
a depth of about 100 feet. This lower
adit is making to gain depth on ore
opened in the 440-foot tunnel above,
1t is understood that tractors will
be used to haul some of the best
grade ores from the Deep Creek mines
before the new railroad begins to OPP
crate, and that the idea is to get it out
while the present high prices of met
ais continue. The Gold Hill mine is
said to have 100000 to 100000 tons Of
ore.
The Utah Copper company has de-
cided to issue an extra dividend of So
a share at once, the result of unpre-
cedented business, 1t is announced in
dispatches which were received No
ira dividend will be on 1,624,5OO
shares, representing a total payment
of $4,S73,50O to shareholders.
Much of the machinery for the Big
Indian mill has arrived at Crescent,
Utah, and will be freighted to the
mine within the next few days. The
force at Big Indian, consisting of thir-
ty men, is building houses and laying
the pipe line from La Sal to the mill
site. Work is being rushed and the
erection of the mill will commence
shortly.
Salt Lake officials of the Midwest
Sulphur company last week received
a sample consignment of the kind Of
product their Wyoming mill is now
turning out. One sample of the brim'
stone was run hot into a barrel and
weighs 14O pounds. Other samples
are crushed, making flour sulphur
All this stuff analyses 99.5 per cent
pure. 1t brings in carload lots SAY
ton for the birthstone and SAT a ton
for the -four sulphur.
The magnitude of the mining indus
try of the United States was shown
by c. A. Upper of Chicago in an ad-
dress before the Mining Congress IN
which he said that the amount con
tributed to the wealth of the nation
by its mines totalled $19,79S,92S'So''
in tho Iosf tan yaarS and that the re-