The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1916-12-08
AROUND THE MINES


The ore from the Belorophon Of
American Fork assayed IS cents lead
and 35 ounces silver to the ton.
Machinery has been sent down "a
Phoebe. consisting of hoist. cable. etc.
TO equip the winze on the Price level
OF the Demiiohn.
Nearly a carload Of high-grade ore
Is out on the dump at the White
Chrystals at the head OF Rocky Hol'
low. Fortuna, Utah,
The Tonopah Belmont last week de,
elared its quarterly dividend OF 12h
cents. II IL payable January to stock
OF record December Is.
A dividend OF 80 per cent on thu
preferred ,Hock of the Colorado Fuel
& Iron company was declared at
meeting OF the directors held at Den.
YER
ore recently taken from the north
drift OF the Belorophon al American
Fork gave an assay OF sos TO the ton,
The ore showed 65 per cent coppeI
and IS ounces silver.
Utah Copper company's production
last month OF 20,325,520 pounds was
slightly under September's output OF
70 .462 .256. but an increase OF l0.0sd
pounds over the August figure.
Utah people who were examining
the Bullion Mining company's prop
erty at Goodsprings, New, have re-
turned and they are enthusiastic over
| the splendid possibilities OF the mine
and the enlarged pill.
Water has been reached at tho
| Eagle a. Blue Bell at Tintic, accord
| ing to the management. The main
working shaft struck the water at the
2,01S-foot level. II had been the expec-
tation to get water at about the 1850.
Nevada Packard Mines is the first
company in the new camp OF Roches-
| ter. New. to announce a dividend II
will distribute the sum OF $5S,234.60
upon its 1.l64,692 shares of outstand-
ing stock In the form OF a per cent
dividend.
Production OF the mines OF Park
City during the month of November
amounted to 7.7T7 tons. according 20
the preliminary figures. This In es-
timated at little more than 5000, 900.
1t Is compared with the output IL DC.
Der OF $3.50; in September. $500. and
$500 in August,
During the past year there have
been over forty shipping mines In the
Good Springs, New, district. The
district heretofore has been worked
entirely upon It's own resources. II be-
ing possible for the owners OF any OF
the producing mines to operate their
properties without capital or through
leasers.
Utah Copper eompany's October
production amounted to 20,325,520
pounds of metal. This is compared
with 20. 462 1855 pounds extracted in
September. the banner month Of the
company. The August output was 2O.-
315.4t0, This makes little more
than 6l,0o00O0 pounds for the past
three months
The federal court at Butte. Mont.
not only refused TO restrain the Butte
& Superior company from declaring
further dividends and from dispoaing
OF It's assets or increasing the eapae-
ity Of it's Rotation plan. but also dis
charged the company from further
performance Of this order issued No
vember IA, 1913
Three feet OF good ore has been
opened in drift from the Copper
Prince tunnel of the Michigan. Utah,
according to an official The tunnel
IL In 1900 feet. II encountered a rs
sure and d drift has followed II for
several hundred feet, where the ore
was found. The values run well up
In lead. copper. gold and silver.
General Manager c. Ed Loose OF
the Big Indian Mining company and
party OF Salt Lake business men
have returned from the Moab section
OF southeastern Utah, where they
went TO look over progress being
made in the construction OF a 300.ton
mill for the treatment Of large de-
posits Of copper ore owned by the
company. The work on the mill is
being pushed forward rapidly.
II has been rumored around for
some time that a big Bingham mer.
ger is In the wind While those con.
nected with IL say that IL is too early
In the day TO give out details. yet Il
is practically certain that a consoli.
dation Is under way on the east side
Of Bingham. II would take in ground
running up 10 the Utah Copper and
Ohio Copper and from the town OF
Bingham easterIy and southerIy out
toward Lark, embracing an acreage
possibly bigger than that OF the Utah
J Copper.
At the Uyada Copper. at Phoebe,
New. the output OF sixty tons per dag
is being steadily maintained under "a.
yorable conditions. the ore averaging
from to per cent copper.
Many thousands Of tons OF ore that
will carry from al to per cent COP
per and from 81 to sl2 in gold are al.
/ ready hinekah ruf ana ~,g,ysg.... III