The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-10-18
MINES AND MINING

er'ies IN which ore has been davaI
oped ueNet
Tha g +
me september production of Chino &
upper was 100000 pounds. co,nparaf /
WIN o'oS5,Ooo pounds in August II
produced 6.3l0,396 in July and |; "a, on. ,
in June. i'"oN
The September output of Ray ~,
'o'ida'ed was 100000 pounds. com.
pared with 6,625,Ooo in August Ray
produced 100000 in July and I 3eo ON
in June.
ore is showing in four ,llferant
races in the north workings of m.
Coluhlbus-Rexall. These are the main
'aee' IN the raise, and in both drifts
down III the new Wine.
Production by the Utah Conner com.
pany during the month Of Septemhe,
amounted To total of 1T.7S5O COG
pounds, according to figures released al
the New York headquarters.
During the past week the Mexicar
mill on the Comstock treated 496 ions |
| of ore from the Union Consolidated
mine and dump, the Consolidated yir.
ginia and the Sierra Nevada.
Shipments of crude first-class ore
ana product from the mills of Park
City last week totaled 1898 tons. The
aggregate is estimated at 500. 600. This
is compared with 2160 tons the pre-
vious week.
Directors of the Midwest Refining
company, at meeting in the Denver
offices last week, declared the regular
quarterly dividend of 81 IA share. or z
per cent, on its $50 shares. payable
November l.
Utah mining companies during the
first nine months of this year have
distributed dividends aggregating $14..
400, 100. That is compared to approx.
mately 81 100000 paid out in the same
period last year
Alta has had rather bad time the
past week on account of congestion of
ore'at Wasatch again. There has been
practically no ore hauled out of there
by the Salt Lake & Alta railroad in
the past week or ten days.
East of Nina, New, the small fur
mace at the Pepper ,cinnabar mine i:
turning out a 75-pound flask Of quick
$ and easily stands the high cost o
I transporting down the mountain b,
pack animals.
Production of quicksilver in tn
Int ~,
y 1918 was 1876 TASKS. according t
: +. l.. Ransome of the United State
geological survey, department of tn
i interior. The total production in 1871
was 35,954 TASKS.
II From Butte Mont, comes word tina
II one furnace of the ferro-manganes
u plant of the Anaconda Copper Mimi
l. company, located at Great Falls, Ia
/ been started in operation and the othe
u four will be in operation by Novembe
|, at the latest.
e Uncle Sam now has slowed away
his treasury gold coin and bullion n
I gregating more than S3.0Oo.0O00O
Last weeks statement by the FEEDER;
- reserve system shows gold reserves
le s.. O23. 55S. 900 on September 20. con
Dared with S2O24559,000 on Septel
III Der Is, a decrease of $1,001 600
" According to the United States &c
logical survey. South Dakota in 10
/" produced S7,364.233 in gold, 1861
ounces of silver, 10,707 pounds of 60
Der and 6S,0Sl pounds of lead, havil
4 total value of 81 ,526,9 05, as compare
y with S1,46O,644 in gold, 215,2o5 ounc
y IF silver and 81, 4O6 pounds of lead
!, 1916.
- There are IL Utah mining compani
!. in the dividend list this year. La
;; year there was a total of II mimi
companies which distributed cash
stockholders. The grand total for I'll
ie year was $40. 1850. The indicat
81 total for the year 1918 of Distribute
nc IF dividends by Utah mines is appro
80 nately S1S.15o.0oo.
- Aside from requirements of tho
no copper consumers who have contra'
for the production of war materi'
:. there is little demand for the met
ON says the Wall Street Journal. copT
:, is scarce and consumers who have
-, government business have given !
:, irving to get adequate supplies OF G.
:. DER and are endeayoring tn get alo
,.s With substitutes.
a The immense coal and iron mil
F.! md smelling works owned by BAL
Z ,e Wendell in Lorraine have been $
80 % German syndicate for the morn
- equivalent of 65,O00.O0O on the grou
9, hat they were chiefly owned 10y frei
-, citizens. The process by which I
.ho great property was transferred IT
~ French to German ownership is cal
- compulsory liquidation.
Unless the work which is now be
oh lone on the 500 level ut the prope
# tho Eureka PulIion should discl