The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1916-06-30
AROUND THE MINES

nave been shut down.
A director of the Inspira ion corro- Z
company says it is now producing AZ
the rate of 125,OOO,O5O pounds conner
annually. 0pp7i
Iranby Consolidated has declared
us quarterly dividend Of 50 pavab1e
august l to stock of July Ia an in.
crease of 30 cents a share
Production of coal in Wyom,ng :,
1918 was 6,554,O28 short tons, an in.
crease OF 1875 tons, or more than
per cent, as compared with 1914
Two prospectors a few DAYS ayo
located an enormous body of tung.
stem ore, three and one.half miles
southwest OF Mount Montgomery
Nevada, and only one mile from the
Southern Pacific tracks.
The Anaconda Standard saws tba,
100 men are now employed at the
Rocher de Boule mine in Canada The
production is about 1900 tons a
month. The ore viii be shipped to
the smelter at Tacoma.
Work is to be resumed by the Phil
Valley Gold Mines company in Wash.
tngton county, Utah. 1t was on this |
property where about five years ago |
| $1,000 gold ore was dicevered on the |
surface in the camp now called Gold
strike.
Ore running $24.4O in gold and s29. SO
in silver, total value of $5378, fgur-
| ing silver at 65 cents an ounce. was
discovered last week on Sunflower
hill, the property of the Rochester
Merger Mines company at Rochester,
Nevada
Nevada Consolidated is said to be
producing now at the rate of 10000 900
pounds of copper year. This is less
than half that of the Utah Copper. It
is figured that the company in 1916
will earn near $3.50 a share on the
outstanding stock.
The United States will within the
coming year be producing more than
800, 900 tons of zinc annually. Shelters
which depend on the foreign ores are
sending mining engineers throughout
the western fields in the quest Of zinc
ores and concentrates.
Tom Buell., the successful mining
man of Round Mountain, closed a deal
. last week whereby he, with Tonopah
associates take over the property OF
. the Anthony King Mines company
located eight miles south of Austin
says the Reese River Reveille.
! Judging from his first inspection oil
, the new Sawtooth mining district in
Willard county, forty-fve miles south
west from Oasis, on the Salt Lake
Route, L. Holbrook, well known Sal
/ Lake mining man, declares that it ii
! his opinion that it will make good.
Gold, silver, copper and tungsten de
!, velopment throughout Humboldt coun
e ty continues strong. In a quiet wa
the work of making mines progresse
Il and results are proving the worth G
the great northern Nevada mine are
and bespeaking prosperous mine era
While the production of ore fror
y the Wedge assure at the South Heel
&c of fifty to sixty tons, yet interest
10 centered keenly on the new strike r
LII Gently made in the heart of the min
u The ore is said to average SIS to
~ or better.
:, Plans are being perfected by eng
or neers in Salt Lake and San FTancist
10 to generate electricity from the slac
NJ beds in the coal fields of Utah. Wit
"a. in six weeks an experimental plal
mr. will be established at some point
IA. Carbon county, where tests will
conducted under all conditions.
Managing Director lacking la
week spent some time in an inspectl'
IN of the big porphyry mountain at BIN
ex' ham where about twenty steam shC
la els are now tearing down 10000 to
of ore daily, besides the waste a
the company trains over the hlgh Il
nc are transporting most OF the ore
the two mills near Garfield.
. Reports just brought down from [
Albion are that the work from
Ouincv level is now prospecting WI
is thought to be the Gree.y insure,
force of men is both raising and or
ing at favorable points. The grou
is heavily mineralized while the al
is following a streak OF two TO Il
inches OF good commercial graoes'
supt. S. F. Snyder OF the {.
Tungsten company has come IN IT
the Idaho property with thirty
sacks of ore, says the Salt Lake II
aId-Republican. This makes III Sa
extracted so far this month, A
ond vein of ore has been openel
third is anticipated. A small
in Salt Lake is turning out %
cent product.
Mining companies throughout L,
with the exception of the Titan I
per company and the silver mines
Park City and Eureka, were Ias' -"
notified that smelters Of the III
mountain country had more tnah
!. could do to smelt the ores when
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