The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1916-09-29
AROUND THE MINES

started on the Alta property OF the
Hellgate Mining company. Six men
are working and the new tunnel il
now in fifty feet.
EFFORTS are being made to make the
mining exhibition at the state fair at
Sait Lake this fall one OF the com
pietest that the industry has had for
a number Of years.
Flttsburgh-Idaho has been listed on
the Pittsburgh exchange and accord
ing 10 dispatch received from there,
Al Is showing considerable activity.
Doth there and in New York.
Solitude gulch in the Big Cotton
wood district has a newcomer in the
active list in the Swastika Copper
company. which is now developing
one Of the old patented properties.
According to a report from Ameri-
can Fork canyon, the Fissures Explor-
alton company. which is operating the
Pacific property, has encountered
more rich ore in driving it's drift
north.
Work on the Golconda mine. on
south mountain, has stopped for the
winter. The ground is so hard that
progress by hand drilling is impossi-
Die, and air compressors cannot be
installed until spring.
Goodsprings has been attracting
more attention the past year than any
other camp in southern Nevada. One
mine down there. the Yellow Pine,
has distributed 100000 in dividends
in the past seven or eight months.
Eastern advices are that the Utah
Metal & Tunnel company disposed of
all of its 1915 production of lead, ex-
cepting for November and December.
at $3.50 hundred pounds, while the
copper output has been sold up to
January l. 1917
Raising in the Albion from the drift
out from the Quincy tunnel is being
continued, and point 200 feet above
the main floor has already been
reached. A station has been cut, but
the raise will be continued in the
search Cor the anticipated ore body.
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Rico Argentine Mining company re-
port that the last of the new machin-
cry purchased about two months ago
has reached the property in Colorado
and will be installed in time for act
i've use of it in the immediate future.
The Old Crater, which adjoins the
Beaver Range mines on the south, in
the Mineral Mountain range in Utah,
reports a new copper strike. This is
at depth of 100 feet. where vein
eight feet wide is reported. The ore
shows both sulphides and oxides OF
copper
At the meeting of the stockholders
of the Ohio Copper Mining company
in New York last week no plans were
made for the reorganization of the
company. The persons present decid-
ed upon a conference between the
stockholders and bondholders on reor-
ganization.
With the installation of additional
tanks for the handling of the oxidized
ores, the teaching plant Of the Nevada
Douglas Consolidated Copper com
pany at Yerington, New, will be COM
pleted and be in a position to handle
500 tons of ore day, according to Su-
perintendent Archie J. Orem.
Work has been started on the re-
construction of the mill of the Con-
solidated Copper Mines company at
| Kimberly, New. The mill will have a
capacity of 500 tons day. The treat
ment in the overhauled plant will be
by the Callow fotation process fol-
lowed by table concentration.
From Provo came word last week
that operations will be resumed on
the old Grutli ground in East Tintic,
now held by the Eureka Bullion com
pany. Work on extending the shaft
from its present depth, twenty feet,
for about 800 feet when the ore is ex-
pected to be reached, will begin next
week.
D. c. lacking, managing director
Of the Utah Copper company, will be
in Salt Lake during the week TO make
an inspection Of the Bingham mines
and the mills Of the Utah Copper com
pany at Magma and Arthur. The new
concentrating plant which is being
built at Garfield for the Utah Cop
per company will also be gone over.
One of the miners who has been
working at the Belorophon In Ameri-
can Fork. canyon since April last,
came down from there last week and
reported to local stockholders that
some Of the better ore encountered in
the raise is being sacked and saved
for future shipment. This raise is
about forty feet above the main tun-
mel level,
According to the surveyor the
Shamrock property at Marysvale.
Utah. will within the next thirty or
forty feet get in the vein from which
high grade shipments have been
made in the past.
In the north end Of the Dragon Con
solidated property sinking from the
500 level to the 900 has been in prog
ress and should be completed in the
near future.
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