The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1917-09-07
AROUND THE MINES

IL estimated az 400 tons
Howens tunnel Is now In 100 feet,
and the new working shaft Of the Car
diff is down @2j feet, where station
will bee cut at once preparatory to
drifting Tor the ore body
Word received from the Moutnnn-
bingham Consolidated is that the big
tunnel IL now Ia 5IG3 feel II IL nd.
Iruncing into the Fortuna end Of the
property at the rate of 10 5 feet u
day
According to word from Park cay.
the New Quincy Il shipping out this
week a carload 1T good grade lead
silver ore from the new disclosures
The consignment Is estimated az more
than 10000 pounds.
Several well known Salt Lake men
were recently down in Beaver county
10 inspect the Golden Reef CONSOLE
dated Mining & Development com
pany's property located north Of the
old Horn Silver mine.
In 1916 California ted In the prHluc-
tion of gold with t,Od3, 3O2 fine ounces,
of a value Of sci $50, 100 Colorado
ranked second With SO, 5000: Al
askn third with SiG12i, 500, aud Nc
yada fourth with $0,O6i 700
Now that the Salt Lake 4 Alta rnil-
road has been taken over by the u, 4
X. a., Il is stated by mining men oper-
.uting In the Alta district that already
the line Is being furnished with more
ears aud that the ore output from the
camp IL increasing.
Six men are rcconstructing the Star
mill In Star gulch aud putting in ta-
bics uf the latest pattern and other up
t0-dato machinery, says the Wood
River Times. four horse team Is
kept ON the road hauling supplies to
the mine from HALEY
Work has been resumed at the Edo
RADIO Gold Mining q Milling property
located few miles north of Ogden.
The Eidorudo has 800 acres Ia II
strong mineral zUne. II has done up
wards at 5000 feet OF work aud has
blocked out considerable ore,
The Tonopuh Extension Mining
company shipped early last week TWEEN.
ty.flve bars of bullion 10 the smelters,
the total weight Of which was 81 300
uunccs. The company has pluced up
on the shipment n conservative est.
mate Of 81 per ounce, making the APP
.prOXimate worth Of the bullion SOL 300
Montana Ted Ia silver production In
1915, with 1920, i0O Nevada pro.
,iuccd SoO00,GOO; Utah, $S,0It, 900;
Idaho, ST,Gll 500; Colorado, Sl,087 300:
Arizona, $l,30Ld0O California, $l.27l,-
no; New Mexico, St,i3sOOO, Gold
WAS produced In twenty-one states aud
silver In twenty-fonr during the past
year
Two and a half feet OF ore has came
ia the Esther adit of the Eta May
Mining company, according to word that
has reached Frank Jurdinc, manager
of the American Fork property The
tunnel Is Ia only about - feet. 1t was
started hut short time ago aud has
already reached an ore shoot Ia the
vein.
The highest price ever paid for sill
yer locally Is found In quotation
which was received from the treasury
department at Washington at Salt
Lake ON August 30 by Charles Gam
mon, United States aSsaycr, Tho quo
iation Is 80 cents an ounce, During
recent years the quotation on silver
has been as low as % cents,
Gold and silver To the value OF SlI1..
bi3,8OO were produced during the
calendar year 1916 In the United
States, including Alaska. Figures of
the bureau of the mint and the
geological survey, made public August
-. show "a gold production OF l,i70.O57
tine ounccs, valued at So 5t'O, 500, aud
"a silver output OF T4,li+,Su2 ounces. Of
"a value OF SIS,0aa,ooo,
The yellow Pine Is steadily prose
Uutlug tho work of opening the great
ore body encountered In the 200 level
north drift. but as set the limits are
not fully defined. says the Good,
springs, Nov. Gazette, Toward the
north the drift IN stin following along
tho strike OF the vein, which Is now
opened for distance Of about $50 feet
north aud south, with no indication OF
she cad In sight
The historic State Line stamp mill,
Installed by Whitaker Wright, motor.
Ious English promoter, aud known to
minipE engineers as one of the hand
sdnvst and custlIvst pieces ~ mill
construction, Is being removed from
near Gold Mountain, Esmcrlau county.
20 Willow Greek. where Crosby and
Giooiguan viii use It Tor high grade
gold property la tbc eastern end ut
Nye county, Nevada The min CON
sists al ten stamps and Is one OF the
oldest la the dessert country,
Developments at the Consolidated
copper Mines property ia the Ely
tN"y1 district have recently been III
"a must satisfactory character. aud IL
- sale tao Say that the company is
9"N earning at rate uf much more
flan Sl.fAbUo per uuuum lhc official
estimate made at the close uf the