The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1917-08-10
AROUND THE MINES


Uncle sam Is today the worlds lar
gest producer Of silver. Prior "a 1914
Mexico occupied that position.
From New York came word last
week that the Mldvale SteclN second
quarter show net profits 81 ST. Pa
Mr.. compared with Sr=.u2G,Gs7 for the
FIRST
u was reported from Denver last
week TINT the Salt Greek litigation of
the Midwest Oll company had been
settled ont ~ court and ihal II would
help the field.
Mines Of Park City, Utah, during the
month of July produced total 81 1873
tons Of ore estimated at 100000.
There were twelve mines IN the ship
ping list In that month.
The Nevada Consolidated June pro-
duciion was q. sI0ls pounds Of cop
per. compared with 7.231,o7s in May
and G.72T io2 10 April. The July pro-
duction figures ARE expected 10 show
possibly 7.OOOu pounds
with oil supplies declining. with coal
rates going az, Secretary Lane Of the
interior department says every avail
able water power plant should bee con
verified into 81 hydrn-cIectric plant aud
congress should onnc' law to encnur-
age development.
A compilation by the National city
bnnk nf New York shows that the sill
ser production Ut the United States Is
now double that of McXicn and three
tunes that of Canada, which holds
third rank among tha silvcr-producins
countries 81 the world.
World production or silver has ma
terlally declined since the beginning ut
the war. The total output IN 1913, the
yenr Immediately preceding the war,
was 223 300 900 ounces, but dropped to
l00.G2G.OO0 Ia 1914, l70,57iOOo In 1919,
sand 1T2.3S4.OO0 Ia 1910,
Union chief has pushed It's new
wlnze down to nearly the 8oofoot
point below the main tunnel level, nhd
a streak ~ more than u foot OF iron
ore Is coming Ia the bottom, Is the re-
port brought up from the Snntnquln
district In Utah last week
According Ia the Phoebe Record,
Superintendent McCuu;ey of the
Greenwood Leasing company Is much
elated over what appears 10 be very
Important strike OF mgh'grade silver
le,td ore IN the Greenwood lease
whtch occurred early In the week
From Zig Muddy held, Wyoming,
comes word TINT interest now ccntcrs
IN the deep wells drilling ON sections
Nos. ~. " and 10 la the Zig Muddy
field. Theao three wells are each down
npproxlinately 1000 feet, aud Il viii
be close race as to which will finish
first
Probably not Ia the past eight years
have there been over one or two times
when the snles az the Salt Lake Stock
Mining exchange exceeded those oil
July n. The total amounted to $685.
O2T,T5. During the gig Alta boom
days two or three yeurs ago the sales
a number vt times ran Into S1O,Ouo
but those days were rare.
The three-furuace milllon-dollar
An,eltcr Of the Bunker liill'Sulliyan
company at Kellogg. Idaho, Is In fun
operation. The next addition VIII Dc
xlne electrolytic plant rms was
decided upon recently Such plant
viii be n boon 10 iHlnes on Pine creek,
where the ore runs largely To zinc
The O..W. Il, & n. extension makes
line creek ore available.
In the distribution Of our surplus
silver very large proportion goes To
Europe the remainder chiefly " the
orient. Ia the fiscal yeRr 1910, the lat
est for which complete figures are NOW
available. We exported SOS,
OOO worth vi silver, OF which Sal,ot2,
90 went 10 England SS.2iooO0 to chi
ma and Hong Kong aud Sl.Sso,kS tc
South America.
The worlds chief producers Of dt
! yer are the United States, Mexico. Can
ada. Peru. Japan spain, Australia ant
emile. lea the order named the United
states having produced Ia 1913 tol
which figures of all countries ure avail
able. T4Bl ,OOO ounces Mexico. 10.
$4,000; Canada, Is. t0i 900 :. Peru
a tanWa. Japan, i.uSnuDO, spain
a.5aaOn. Australia. SS21 .u0, werl1
total. tTu.a1IWp0
The camp OK rark city, Utah, has
been a heavy producer tor nearly aAli
century. It's total production a
roughly estimated az SlaoN1Hn t'
Sau0 uuoUn II has dividend rvcors
estimated al nearly Sta.0b1OO0. rw,
81 Its mtncs have known dividend rec
nrds each 81 more tnBu SilVooH
with third of morc than SGtsonOO
This makes StiuuoUSU Cor these thyc'
companies alaue
since tho dcm.se Of the old golt
cuiup ot Mrrrur, Utah mining mex
have hgsu syurry ius around vvnsld
rrublr in -sJr,h OF possible other yei
low metal camps ia the state. Il y
declared that che Fortuna ludvpsud
yurc Mines company has hit upon d
property ia thr Henry mountain
Which mas ndJ somewhat e. the dv
Crpastu. -plI production Of the stat,