The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-06-14
MINES AND INNING.

ne ana Consolidated has sbinnea
TWO cars of ore during tho ns ','p i
weeks and the third car Il nov, ~
ready to move "o" ABOUT |
work at the Lucky Shepbord etc.
ated IN the West Tintie dis,ri,.t ''u
DeseIe' mountain, is progresslpg 4,
SATISFACTORY manner, ACCORDING ~, 80, |
received from the property.
beginning July ! decrease =,
PeIlsauoh and accident benefit ra+as
lor mining companies of Nevada 49,
an increase in the same rates for NIL,
ing companies have been apnonnnad
Application for listing on tho SaI,
Lake Stock & Mining excbon,o
oeeh made by the Tintic-Delaware MIN
ing company. The Tintic-Delov.ana
property Is situated in the West r1nt,o
country. Aiii'lc
New blood was injected into +ho
Iohopah-Gold Mountain country Nv.
week when ten claims on the Dtvide
were taken over by the syndicate
represented by John Kirchen. II
McHlurray and John II. Miller.
Discovery of four-foot vein of o,u
per-sliver ore within sixteen miIas 80
san Lake was reported last week nv
the Free Metals Mining company The
company controls six claims at tha
mead OF Holbrook canyon. ahont siv
miles from BOuntiful.
Mexican Petroleum comnapr t. -.
largest producer of crude oil in Mexico
producing last year 1S,45O.s73 barrels
Mexican Eagle company. Lord Cow.
dfays concern, is the second largas+
win l6,922,32 barrels. and Pnnn.1Iav
fuel company is third, producing 4.
l29297 barrels.
Mexico is the third largest producer
OF crude oil, following the Unitad
states and Russia. During 1917 Mex.
leo produced in excess of 55ooO oOo
barrels. Production in the Tinted
States was more than 341 900 900 bor.
REFS, ana in Russia it is estimated ar
100000 barrels. !
one OF the most important deals re-
ported in eastern Nevada for some
time was closed last week, when DIR
w. ). Bennett and associates of Cody
Wyo., purchased outright the old Silver
Eagle property near Ely and took an
option on the adjoining property.
known as the old Taylor mine.
That eastern capital is becoming in.
terested in the oil fields of western
wyoming is indicated in the announce.
ment that the ChadakOin Oil & Gas
company of jamestown, N. Y, had ac-
quired more than 1000 acres of drilling
lands in Lincoln county and plans to
begin development Immediately.
Hush and Beane, who are mining
manganese ore from the property of
the Chief Consolidated Mining com.
pany at HOmansville, Utah. have made
arrangements to install lowering
drum, threerail track and unloading
and loading platform for the more
rapid and less expensive handling OF
this ore.
Although two other properties rank
ahead of it on the shipping list, Tin
tic Standard established a new high
record for weekly output during the
past seven days by sending twenty
cars of ore to market from the TintiC
district. Dragon headed the list with
fOrty-three cars, and the Chief Con
sent out twenty-SiX carloads.
The ore shipments from Park City
for the past week were reduced con
siderably by the inactivity at the Sill
yer King Consolidated. According tC
information available, practically the
| entire force at the Consolidated has
| been taken to the California OmStocB
| where development work is being
pushed as rapidly as possible.
The Manganese association, Inc.
which was recently taken over by the
Sterling BOraX company of California
says Las Vegas, New, correspondent
is arranging to double the output OF
manganese at this point, and before
| the middle of the month the tonnage
will show a material increase to keel
| pace with the needs of the steel man
ufactures.
One hundred thousand dollars seems
to the layman like large price to pay
for the completion of an oil well. Ie
that sum and more has been expended
in putting down certain deep wells il
| Wyoming, which have since paid fol
themselves ii number of times over
and are continuing to produce wealth
in abundance. The price looks high
but the wells are Il highly profitable
investment at the figure.
Two Goldtield men have made {
| rich strike in Northern Nye county
| Nevada. They have uncovered
| strong vein for a distance of 800 fee
by open cuts, and have two shafts
down to depth of fifty feet each
showing high grade ore from the sur
face to the bottom in both shafts, ant
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