The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1916-10-27
AROUND THE MINES


tons. valued at $175,sSO.
November lead is now quoted at a.
hundred. November spelter is quot.
cd at Ss.625; December, at $3.50.
It is reported that a deal IA now nm
Tor the control of the Original Ban.
mock property in Montana. One story
Is that the price named is aDuye S1.25
a share.
Reports from the Bannock Gold are
that the new tube mill should be op-
Grating In about ten days. An operat.
ing estimate is 81 mine and 50 mill
costs a ton.
Directors of the wilbert Mining
company have declared a dividend OF
cent share. This requires the
payment on the 100000 shares is.
sued Of $4,000.
From Idaho comes word that Ed
Solomon and Stanley Van Camp of
Salt Lake have made a strike OF rich
ore on Yankee Fork, near the old
Bonanza mine in Custer county, Gold
and silver values predominant.
Returning from Montana, E. L. New.
mouse reports that the leasing opera
lions at the Butte-Duluth are makina
satisfactory progress. The ore is be
ing given thorough testing in order
to secure the most efficient mill treat.
ment.
Reports coming In from Deep Greek
are that alreasy the graders are com.
mencing to work out of Wendover on
the 45mile branch to be constructed
into the mining district. The south,
ern terminal will be near Gold Hill,
the principal mine SO far developed,
With a view to making connection
with the old upper workings and to
AFFORD better ventilation, a new raise
is being sent up by the Rico-Argentine,
The new water flow continues, show.
ing the looseness of the formation,
making 1t favorable to ore deposition.
Utah people have taken over an.
other group of claims in White Pine
county, in the Schellbourn range sec
ton in Nevada. The ground is four
teen miles from the railroad. The
new company has been incorporated
1t will be called the May Queen Min.
ing company.
The writ of certiorari, applied foH
in the United States supreme court
as the last remaining instrument OF
the defense in the case of the Conk
ling Mining company against the Sill
yer King Coalition Mines company,
has been denied, according to a mes.
sage received from Washington.
Information coming in from Tintio
is that the drift the Iron Blossom 10
sending north on the 1,700-foot level
has shown a assure carrying several
inches of high grade copper ore and
that the massive limestone has start
ed to bed. These two conditions are
considered Of much Importance.
From present indications, the o. X.
Silver of Indian Springs, Tooele
county, Utah, will erect a mill next
spring in order to handle the large
volume Of low-grade ore that has been
developed while the company has
been extracting a satisfactory and
profitable quantity of high grade.
The superintendent of the Bullion
mine, situated seven miles west OF
Jean, New, in the Yellow Pine mining
district, says that the mine is now
shipping to the Salt Lake market lead
concentrates ayaragipO egg m 4ay rIoh
er lead ore than is being shipped to
the same market by any other mine.
An official of the Bingham Coalition
Mines company is credited with the
following statement: THE company
is now mining very good grade Of
lead ore at the rate of about $50 tons
a month. This ore Is coming from the
Julian tunnel level and while 1t il
small, it is of good grade and easily
| mined"
According to statistics furnished by
the Engineering and Mining Journal
in the current issue, dividends dis
bursed in September by mining COM
panies reached a very high total, as
has been the case every month during
the year. Payments of forty United
States mining companies making pub
lice reports amounted to $26,799.712,
as compared with $10,70S,720 in the
corresponding month last year.
The verdict of the United States
court in favor of the plaintiff in the
case of the Riverside Dairy 4 stock
| farm against the American Smelling
& Refining company. Is reversed by
| the United States court Of appeals for
the Eighth circuit The verdict for
the plaintiff given before former
Judge John H. Marshall in May. 1915,
was for $4,000 as damage from smelter
smoke. In the reversal the circuit
court assesses the costs TO the plain
tiff.
Alunite deposits in the mountains Of
Utah may develop a source OF Amer
lean potash, in the belief of govern
ment scientists who have been con-
Quoting laboratory Investigations I'M
der the direction of the bureau Of
soils. The Investigations were prompt