The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1917-06-22
AROUND THE MINES

Roads are Improving and soon all
American Fork district should .
hive Of mining industry. according TO
those interested In that section.
Anaconda Copper Mining company
is expected 10 close the first half OF
this year on June 80 with earnings II /
something like S37. 100000 which |
would be equivalent TO SIG "a share,
or So for full year.
The entrance Of the United States |
into the war has given additional inn |
petus TO the Inquiry for all the bascr
metals, 1t is said in trade circles, but !
lead has been among the last To feel /
the effect of this stimulus.
The Moscow of Beaver county.
Utah, shipped out thirteen carloads OF
ore In May. April was about the same
tonnage. These are estimated at $50
tons of this, three cars were zine
and the balance lead-silyer.
From Wyoming comes word that the
earnings Of the Midwest Refining COM
pany were in excess Of $l.00O.OOO ia
May. This is the best showing ever
made by the company. which has been
in business only three years.
Utah is yielding more than 200O00,-
e1n pounds of lead year and 1900
coo ounces Of silver. Present local
settlements Indicate the value of
Utah's 1917 lead at more than $20.-
O0O. ZOO, and silver .$ll.0O0.OO0.
According to the Goodsprings Ga
zeste, the production II the mines of
that district in May totaled 2i2 car
loads. The yellow Pine was the larg-
EST producer with As cars, or three
more than in April and an Increased
! tonnage Of $50 tons.
There Is new quartz showing Oh
the lGO0-fOot level of the Ridge & Val
ley. and two feet Of quartz has ap.
| peared ON the 200 level of the Godlva.
and they have started TO stope on the
1910 level of the Eureka Mines, WAS
! the word from Tintic last week.
| East Tintic is about 20 launch out
into the biggest mining boom Of Its
history. according TO \. +. Hansen aud
| l.. w West. who have just returned
from looking over the district. Mr.,
Hansen is president of the Copper
Uranium and Mr.. West is a Salt Lake
broker.
The Eureka Bullion shaft is down
$50 feet. The machinery was being
repaired and the visitors did not g
down into the big cave. The shat
has 90 TO 40 feet To make the bottom
OF the cave which il is skirring. Much
OF the cave is reported to be heayii!
mineralized.
shipments Of ore from the mines o
Phoebe to the smelters of Utah tn
past week totaled 81 carloads. TIL
is estimated ut 300 tons of ore. TIL,
shippers were Prince Consolidated, D
cars: UNada Copper, 3; CONSOLIDATED
Nevada tab, >; and one each from
Hamburg Mines aud Snyder Mendhi
lease,
News received from the Hamburg
mines at Phoebe. Nevada, demon
strates the claim of mining engineer
that there are two great ore bedding
between the tunnel lerel and the sur
face The ore bedding just above tn
tunnel level Is IA rich producer, assay
Ing from $40 To ST5 ton, with a larg
tonnage.
Howell Mining conpany's new lowe
tunnel Is now in 90 feet, according
TO one OF the directors of the com
pany. The work Is almost entirely Il
the uuartZite The latest report fror
there this week IL that some ifon /
coming ia the face, and II is though
that one Of the cross assures is bein
approached.
When asked relative TO the mex
dividend of the Daily Mining company
Col. r. A. Wall said that IL viii b
officially announced In few days.
viii be 10. cents share and payahl
on July /. 1t will amount to Sl5.OO
On April 10 the old Park City min
distributed $4,000. and the new dis
trihutiun will bring the 1917 dividend
up to $4,000, or 70 cents share.
Leading biologists of the world, Ia
Guiding fhose Of the United States geC
logical department, state that In Tint
basin ia Utah Is located the most o.
tcnsiYe oil field In the world. Geolog
cal indications are such. - they ~
in their reports that the presence q
an immense oil lake-prObably man
akes-are certain.
From Juneau. Alaska. comes th
story that regardless Of what may d
done ia retaining the main working
OF the Treadwell mine, which wer
Hooded recently following cave-il
thu fate Of the -glory hole" is scale,
This famous open work Of the secOn
largest gold mine in the world Is {
become a failing pit.
In 1916 the crude platinum mine
ia Colombia, estimated Ht 25,O0
ounces, was refined In the Unite
States. and reports received from d.
nestle refinsrs show that 2SOSs Cuncc
Of metals Of the platinum gro-P an
recovered by them from all sources
foreign and domestic. q which 24.5l
ounces was platinum.
by the end 81 the month the chic
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