The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1916-08-04
AROUND THE MINES

are DlACtu at VO'NNN'N |
In five days recently the feeuS
peak tunnel was advanced forty feet'
o- At the rate Of eight feet day'
and four feet to the shift
Sbipments of ore from the Bingham
mathematical Lark side Of the prop
erty are now going forward al w.
rate of TWO to three carloads a "eeA'
or about $50 tons.
Two new strikes have been Hldue
ON the Janet Copper Mining x MIL
ing company's big property out III
Uintah county, fifty-five miles soutn
of Rock Springs, Wyo.
Shipments from the old Congor
mine at Bingham are now going on a'
the rate of one carload OF good COM
mercial ore a day is the information
confirmed by one of the officials OF
the company.
The hoist ordered for the Creole
Mining company's property, located
in the Lincoln mining district and ad'
Joining on the south the Crott MIN
ing company's property, has arrived
al the property and will be installed
in the near future.
The new camp at Janet, WyO, IS
established. the force organized and
the work is beginning to make
show. There is good wagon ROAD
connecting with the railroad. The auto
makes the trip from Rock Springs in
less than five hours.
The Yerington Mountain Mining
company has made the final payment
on the purchase of the Adelaide mine,
located twelve miles from Golconda,
New. 1t was owned by the Glasgow
& Western Exploration company. The
price is not given out.
1t is understood that shortly the
Montana Bingham will resume the
| driving of its big development and
! transportation tunnel 1t is now in
4,048 feet. This will be carried in
probably 900 feet further 1t would
still be in Amalgamated territory.
From the Walker property in Cali
fornia comes the news that higher
grade of ore has been struck in the
tunnel. This is at a point just be-
yond the shaft. The tunnel is said
to have penetrated ore for seventy
feet, which will average close to
per cent, or $50 grades.
The Utah Copper company during
the first twenty-five days of July
smashed all records for getting ore
from the mines at Bingham and the
mills at Arthur and Magma have
broken the records made for the frs
twenty-five days of June in the ton
mage of ore handled at the mill.
Miners equipped with machine drill
are now engaged in drifting to th
! north and to the south on the ore
body struck recently on the Crof
property, located in the Lincoln min
ing district of Beaver county and ad
! joining the old Lincoln mine, one O
the first mines opened up in Utah.
= Stockholders of the indicator Cor
solidated Gold Mining company, Opel
ating in the Cripple Creek distric
have received checks for the quarterl
D
share each. The net earnings for tn
quarter, it was announced, wer
$1S500O, making a total for the hal
year of 100000.
That Lemhi county, in Idaho, is O
the eve of the greatest revival in tn
mining industry that it has ever e.
perienced is the opinion of men |
a position to know. More propertie
are being equipped for active mimi
, operations and there are more cor
panies operating and shipping OF
than for a number of years.
q Recently the C. P. Tungsten cor
> pany shipped from its Salt Lake plal
4 500 pounds of concentrates. This pr
a duct has been averaging about So
>. per cent tungsten acid. The cor
. pany is pushing operations at i
q Idaho property, where new low,
\. tunnel is being driven into the mou
=. tain to secure depth on the produ
:, tive vein.
The experiments in zinc refinin
q which have been conducted by Il
l. American Smelling 4 Refining COZ
b pany at the Murray plant. of the COZ
pany and at the Anaconda smelter
Montana, have proven successful. al
the company will install a number
10 plants throughout the zinc ore pl
n ducing territory in order to cut t
Of cost of smelling and to save t
III freight rates incurred in sending t
lie ores to the eastern centers.
N Values OF the mineral production
the United States in 1915. accordi
to preliminary figures compiled by I
United States geological survey. W
- approximately $2,373,O00 900. a gain
- $25S,O00 900, or more than IL per &C
=, over 1914 The value for 1915 h
- been exceeded but once-in 1918
- when total Of $2,439, 900 900 was
su corded.
Designed and constructed to hant
500 tons of ore daily, each of I
III eighteen sections of the Inspirati
-. Consolidated Copper company m
NJ has been putting through 900 tons I
a. day, This has had the effect of ra