The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1917-06-15
AROUND THE MINES

The May production Of Miami Cop
per was 4.gs5 3,S3 pounds copper, con-
pared with LIS 100 In April and g.
2i7,9O3 Ia March.
Hamburg has paid three consecutive
dividends and 49, have every reason 10
believe That II viii continue is dis
bursemcufS indefinitely.
Pan American Petroleum A Trans.
port company Iasl week declared the
regular quarterly dividend VI I - per
cent on preferred stock.
During the first quarter Of 1917
production fell on over - per cent
on account OF FIRE and repairs to the
shaft
Everybody in the east now seems
a. be friendly toward western mines,
was declaration made by Salt Lake
broker who has just returned from
New York. where he hnd been on bush
ness for the past six weeks
The Emmn Consolidated has ii force
Of men cutting out the deeper SHOWS
w INV hblth At'ltt HHL tAl9 '"aAhi -''N'
road through the lce-sn0w Is expected
to be connected up with the South
Hecln Sells road In II short time.
Five men are now operating at the
lilo Grapde Grubstake property Ia Ne
yada, where Salt Lake directors now
report Improvement In the principal
drift. This In cross-cut out go feet
from the main shaft The work Is
100 feet under ground.
Spain has long been noted for Its
ores Of mercury, silver, lend, zine, cop
per, iron and sulphur, and three years
ago potasslc salts were discovered In
the rock salt district OF Cnrdona Ia
Catalonia. Now the turn Of platinum
appears 10 have arrived.
General Manager Mcmillan OF the
DAILY West Mining company at Park
city, announces that the way the snow
In melting and the water TX beginning
TO promise accumulation In the lakes
that he expects TO resume operations
at the big mill within the next week
or ten days.
With the Utah mines receiving high
ar prices today for their metals than
ever before IN their history and ii bull
eastern market to lend the way, II IN
the expectation OF the obseryant men
that an advance In stocks on the Salt
Lake market is only question of u
few weeks.
What IL declared by those Interested
to be- the biggest gold strike made In
Nevada in years is In the three weeks
old camp of Verdun, located seventy
Ave miles southwest OF Ely. elghty-hve
northeast OF TOnopah and four miles
from Nyula. a stopping place on the
Lincoln highway.
Production OF platinum In the United
States last year Is estimated at 75O
troy ounces Ia 1912 Russia produced
100000 ounces. The worlds total In
1915 In estimated at S0.p32, compared
with total la 1917 OF 3la,520 ounces.
The nOrmal requirement Ia the United
States Is 10000 ounces yenr.
william q. Holding, one Of the best
known metalIurgists OF Salt Lake. who
came In last week from nm extended
inspection OF the Phoebe. Nevada. dis.
trict. said that he was confident the
numerous operating mines and the ad-
dltlonal prospects would be Suhstan-
TALLY heard from during tho year.
The narrow gauge railroad In Alta
district Il slowly pushing the eonstruc.
ton work east OF Tanners Flat. II Is
now out about 1000 feet TO the cnst.
The rails are being laid GU the old
railroad roHdhcd, which requires hut
little work 10 place Il In shape for the
ties
Returning from an Inspection uf the
Three Ktugs silver Mining company =
property at Park city. Assistant MIN,
agvr Macintosh said that the new
machinery ts now working perfectly
sad the miners have again resumed
hulStlpg muck from the shaft, The
shaft Is down about 2OO feet FROM the
gOO foot ieycl.
South Park OF American Fork has
large plans OF development work for
the summer. Az the South Park the
main objective OF the lower tunnel Is
to cut the Pacific assure, IL is figured
that this objective IL 2OO feet ahead.
As the tunnel Is nov $50 feet long this
viii brine lt in $50 feet, This tunnel
Is fest BY feet Il Is the eNpeeta.
ton 60 ultimately extend It To 2OO fees
IN order 10 tap Certain assures further
ahead
Rapidity In the sinking of mo,lsru
thoroughly timhercd triple-cumpart.
meat shaft, such rs has never hsfore
heen attained, goes to tho credit og
the men at the Ttntic Standard niue
Of Tntlc, With only tlftecn mru EN-.
played. ave on each shift. two mon
working ON cop and thrvc LA the hot.
tom OF the SHAFT With these mcu do.
ms ell the tlmbering aud also the
sharpening nj their tools. the shaft
has been sent down Sut feet "a tWvuty.
nine days This shaft is agJreu by
sewn feet, ,uo far ss the "holc is con.
crrurd. has two holstIag compartments
aud a manWRy.
Nevada Consolidated made a rart.rg-
larly large gain last year. 50 10 is ant
surprising that the hEurvs this -..,