The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-05-24
MINES AND MINING

ouiii"n shaft, according To the word
Drought from GoodspringS.
Between fifteen and twenty forr-
horse teams are busy hauling ore and
concentrates from the Pacific Ameri.
can Fork district, Utah, 10 the rail-
road.
dividends paid in April, 1918. by
'ilifty companies making public returns
amounted to ST,27G.O0l. compared with
~ i'J6I13S paid by forty four conlpa-
Mes in April 1917.
Preparations are now being made for
rather expensive campaign of work
az me property of the Showers Con
sohdated company, in the southern end
OF the Tlntic district.
0if in Dixie well No. 3 has been
encountered ninety feet from the bot
tom OF the hole. The oil was found
standing fifty feet above the point the
dr1ll had reached when the report was
filed.
The Utah Copper company produced
4O,fSS,l1l pounds of copper during the
first quarter of 1918, as compared with
oo'SO2, 193 pounds in the fourth quar-
ter OF 1917, according to the quarterly
report of the company.
Confident that the old Miller mine
IN American Fork, Utah, district has
not yet given up all its wealth. Kirk &
Leavell, who have the property under
lease, are preparing to sink shaft
and do some deep prospecting.
Much copper ore of fine grade is be-
ing mined from the ffssure recently
opened in the Garrison Monster at
Gold Hill, Utah, and the ore is to be
opened through the deep tunnel that
has its portal near the company's head
quarters.
The report of the Chief Consolidated
Mining company for the first-duarter
OF the current year shows total receipts
of $76T, 1888. of which SJO5.544 was
from ore sales. Disbursements amount
ed to 1888, 423, leaving balance April
i last of S379,51J.
Smelter returns from the last car
load of ore shipped from the Nixon
Nevada show that not only has there
been no falling off in the high-grade
values of the product of that porperty
but there has been an actual increase.
taking the shipment as a whole.
While no official announcement to
the effect has been made. it is under
stood that the West Toledo is pre-
pairing To carry on extensive explora-
tions by means of diamond drills. The
The development work at the property
Is progressing very satisfactorily, ac-
cording to reports.
contract for extending the main
working tunnel at the WOodawn an
other 200 feet has been let and the
contractors left for the mine last week
to resume work. The tunnel is now
in 1O5 feet and the formation indicates
that the expected fissure will be cut
within n short distance.
Henry /. Moore, director of Nevada
Douglas Consolidated. who has had its
copper marketing in charge states that
the company now has on hand 2.2J0,-
90 pounds of the red metal not yet
sold. Some advances have been made
on this output, but not enough to pay
the cost of its mining Hence the net
profits from it are still unrealized.
Word has been received from Alta
that the ore shoot which has been fol-
lowed for considerable distance i'm
the Mack-Hansen lease on the old |
DPin NJ oil haI Rtf1
fifteen inches TO nearly three feet |
The ore has been continuous for sew.
eral hundred feet, but has narrowed |
to few inches in width in places
NThe report that the Mammoth mine |
has been closed is in error. Work is |
under way there. although the force |
is somewhat smaller than il has been, |
about thirty men being on the payroll. |
Last week many of the employees of |
the Mammoth mine quit because the |
company had failed to follow the lead |
of other mines and allow the men two |
pay days month.
Samuel NewhouSe was In Tonopah |
last week, following I'm inspection of |
the holdings of the Louisiana Consoli- |
dated Mining company at Tybo. Mr.. |
NewhouSe returned from the famous |
old camp with the feeling that its |
showing will. at no distant date, cause
the camp to feel again the throh Of /
activity, even greater than during its
halcyon days. when It's output was
thousands Of dollars a month, and 81 I
ranked with the best producers Ia the
state.
The establishment of new weekly
shipping records Is becoming "a habit /
with the Tiutic Standard. All doubt
as To ore resources al the Standard
have been settled Tor some time, bur
the problem of getting the ore G." the