The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-11-01
MINES AND MINING

iouuction by the Inspiration Con
per company the past month anona,
10 ''ooV,ooO pounds of conner v.h,el
is below its pormal. which
shipments of ore from tho p.,n
consolidated the past week 20 r..
smeiters amounted to 80 carloads
hmated at 1850 tons. CO.
This country at present produces A.,
proAihateiy half the steel consumed nv
the entire world Our furnaces ~
lay are producing ingots at the ratio
u 1o'ooo,UO tons per annum.
Shipments of first-ciass cruda
ana product of the mills of Park Citv
last week totaled 244O tons. These arc
estimated at $4,000. This is com
pared with l61 tons the nrevions
week. ou'
Aithough tin ore is rare in the great
western states, yet the spectacular rise
from 10 to 20 cents pound in nra-
war times up to ST pound now has
simulated the search for mines EN-.
oAdeiHs tln VdIueS.
AT the property Of the Unionvi,Is
Mining company, which has largo hold
lngs at the Once-famous e.,mn of I'm
lonviile, New, President J. A. Spiker
reports some sensa tional and highly
encouraging developments in the mon.
ing up of rich streak of high-grode
gold ore
Anaconda Copper company. taking
IN as 1t does number of diffarant
mines, is today the largest producer of
red metal in the world. The Septatn
Der output was 21,SOOOOO pounds
which is nearly 100000 pounds be-
low its recent normal. Labor troubles
now improved. was the cause.
According to Boston journal. there
is wide divergence of opinion among
copper men as to the course of the red
metal after the war. The argument
Of those who favor rising prices and
increased demand is no less convincing
than that of those who predict de-
Ginning quotations and Il surplus of the
metal.
Anaconda is reported from internal
tional financial circles to be accumu-
lated for foreign interests. which sold
out several years ago. The floating
supply of the stock is materially small
Ter than it was few months ago by
reason OF steady absorption by this
and domestic investment, according to
our reports
Two tunnel projects now under way
in the Alta ottonwoOds district are
being watched with more than passing
interest by the mine operators of both
Alta and Big Cottonwood. These are
the new lower tunnel of the Wasatch
Mines company and the development
bore of the Alta Tunnel & Transporta
ton company.
According to advices from South
Africa, noticeable reductions In pro-
duction of gold are shown in all re-
ports out of the great yellow metal
mining center. A semi-official report
says that the Transvaal produced 74O,
21O fine ounces of gold in August, this
being 16,41S ounces less than the re-
turns for the same month in 1917.
The production of gold in the United
States for 1917 was approximately
$S4, 100000, and for 1915 it was S10l,-
OBS, 100, showing decrease of 1888
per cent. This reveals the effect of
severe competition in the market for
supplies and labor, and the lack of a
protective stock of steel and other
necessaries to tide over a period of
stress.
Big Horn, where Utah people are
managing the Wyoming CONSOLE
dated Oil company affairs, is not the
only gas field in that state displaying
wonderful potentialities. The Utah
Wyoming has four gas wells, each es-
timated at 100000 cubic feet to many
times that amount of gas u day. But
over in the Big Sand Draw section
they now have whopper estimated at
6O,OOO,OOO.
Oil needs in the United States will
continue to increase after the war, Is
the opinion of II. F. Sinclair. presi-
dent of one of the large refining COM
panies. He states further that this in
creasing demand will see the nation
handicapped commercially unless Yam
kee oil men supplement the domestic
production by going into neishborihg
countries, such as Mexico.
In silver production. in 1917, Mon
tana led all states, with li,ooooo4
ounces, valued at S11,9S6, lop. other
states producing large quantities OF
silver during 1917 were Idaho. with
II. 4O2. 542 ounces with "A value OF 80
100000; Nevada, 11.21l634. valued at
50 237, 700: Utah. 13,360,9o5, 'alued at
81, O22OO: Colorado, 1921, 495, valued
at $1,000. 800 and Arizona, 6,n-,Zot
ounces, valued at 1913. 400.
n;ffin,,ltfas of those developing oil