The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-01-25
AROUND THE MINES

- 81 = ~ w anu 'htt'-A ct NV
duets compared with "a ears in No
Nember.
Some new prospecting Is going on In
the Hamburg Mines property at
Phoebe, which Is expected Ia bring re-
Sults In the next fifteen or twenty
feet OF work,
Construction uf II trnmway from its
mine IL the tracks If the Denver *
Rio Grande railroad is being consider
ed by the Mammoth Mining company,
according to an announcement made
last week
Wyoming today is attracting more
attention In oil circles than possibly
any other western state outside Of
California. Ii has IA daily production.
estimated all the way from 10000 to
10000 hurrcls
Reports from the Nevada Douglas
Indicate that the company has been
able To increase its shipments from
1000 to 1000 tons weekly since the sec
ond furnace of the Thompson smelter
was blown in"
Preparatory to turning over the
mia Comstock has made It's final clean
up, consisting Of two cars Of lead and
| zinc ores which are expected To aver
| age about So ton.
The report that the establishment of
| an oil exchange in Salt Lake is con
| templated has created stir among
! brokers operating on the mining cN-
change and may bring about the list
| ing Of oil stocks on the board OF the
! latter concern.
Announcement is made that the re-
| Gently organized Colony oil company
has entered into contract whereby
the Universal Exploration company
! will drill fifteen wells on $3.50 basis
on its property In the Thornton field.
Is u report from Wyoming.
That the vast deposits of oil shales
and saturated oil sands Of Utah will
be producing long after the oil wells Of
all the known fields of the country
have been exhausted is the opinion OF
DR.. Z. 5. Coke, managing director of
the Cedar Butte OH company, oper-
auug near Nhltcrocks Ia the umtnh
| basin.
The same high grade ore body re-
Gently found ou the 200 level Of the
Eureka Mines property has been en-
countcrcd on the 800 level, according
To information received from the mine
! The ore body on the 200 level has
wideued considerably with develop
mcnt and the limit has not yet been
found The values are reported to b,
holding up well.
Reports have been received by the
officers of the Tooelc-Gold I'm com
puny that work on the property Is pro,
crossing satisfactorily and TINT II
chute of ore has been struck The
company is now sinking "A Wine ai
one Of the Chutcs which leads direct
~ towards another ore flssurc AT the
junction of which II Is expected u
body of pay ore win be encountered.
Work now In hand nj the Three
Kings Consolidated at Park city GOV.
ers the installation 81 light pumping
machinery Oh the zoo loot level, whcr,
II station has been cut out Manager
Elliott said that lac expects to have
the pump working in the next two OF
three weeks. 1t will have capacity
of 100 gallons "A minute, while the Wa.
ter coming in Is not more than - gal
Ions.
Returning from Phoebe, VI. &. God
be, general manager of the Prince
Consolidated. reports everything pro
crossing fuyurably al mine and mill
The mine continues It's heavy produc
ton of forty five 10 flfty-iyc ears OF
ore shipped weekly to Utah smeItors
while the recent achievements mt tn,
New BuIIouyilIe mill is source OF
satisfaction go the directorate of tho
company
Preliminary estimates hy John H.
Northrop of the United States gcDlogi,
cal survey. department OF IA" interior
Indicate that the quantity of pptrO,
lrum, produced ana marketed In the
oil fields Of the United States in lgi1
reached the record breaking total 81
3Il .Suuoup barrels, ii quantity nearly
- per cent greater than the former
record output Of 300 7GI.las barrels
established ia 1910.
4 highly encouraging report lass
been received from the Nevada Ciuua.
bar property, situated lu the Black
Pine mountains of CU-siu county
Idaho. 4 few days ago samples tukeu
from the JuuuH ut point where sink
ing bias been slurted. gave assay val
u,a of 1913 ounces silver. 2.Ia4 per cent
copper. a. per cent uuHmuuy II pcr
/ cent uH4tEsIIkpr Is I.r cent arsenic