The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-07-05
AND MINING

In week ending June l, 1914 ooo |
tons OF bituminous coal were produced
compared with 11,199.Oo0 tons in nre-
ceuihs week, drop of 81 per cent.
According to word received from rho |
Lost Greek field, Wyoming. the Lost |
creek Consolidated Oil company /, in |
staillhs It's machinery preparing to |
drilling.
May production of refined conner |
including electrolytic, Lake and cast.
ing, Is estimated at 10000 600 pounds
as against 2l5,o00.ooo in April, says
the Boston News Bureau.
The Clark Fork Oil company is pre |
pairing To drill in the Warm Springs
| comes, wyoming. Two rigs are already
contracted for, and three others will
probably be set up within the next few
weeks.
Production from Tintic mines last
week amounted to about 5000 tons, es-
| timated value being S27O.0OO Yuma
sent its first carload to market and
| Utah Zinc of West Tintic Is also a
new shipper.
Good progress is reported being
made on the well of the Kansas-Colo-
RADIO Oil and Refining company on the
Red Rose dome, northwest of Their
mopolis WyO. The wen is now down
about 500 feet.
New development is to be started on
leased ground in the Boulder Colo,
field, according to dispatches. G. f.
Stubs of Billings Mont. Is the man
behind the project says the Daily Oil
Bulletin. Chicago.
The huge pile o. ore which has been
accommodating for several months at the
Columbus-Rexall, Cottonwoods district,
| Utah, has begun to move to the smell
ter and its value should soon go to
swell the treasury of the Rexall.
Ohio Copper Mining company now
has three units of its mill in operation
and by the end of August should have
completed and placed in commission
two more sections, says the Boston
News Bureau. With its full equip
ment of five units in operation, the
Ohio company will be in position to
treat 1000 tons of ore daily.
The big well of the Union Oil & Gas
company, the derrick of which is so
plainly visible from the Ogden road at
Pennington. Utah, was spudded last
week. The rig is a standard one and
capable of going to depth of 5000
feet or more. The drilling of this we'll
will be watched with the greatest in
terest.
John C1eghorn. one of the directors
of the EurekaLilly Mining company,
reports satisfactory progress cut on
the 140O-foot level, with the Lilly ore
zone the objective. Mr.. Cleghorn said
that the crosscut had now been sent
forward a distance of 425 feet and that
he conServatively estimated that from
100 to $50 feet would bring the miners
to the objective.
Lewis A. Jeffs, Salt Lake mining
man, has just perfected the plans and
received letters of patent for an en-
tirely new type of electric furnace, de-
signed for making alloys of phosphorus
with other metals, especially of copper
and phosphorus, or cupro-phos, provid-
ing method more expeditions and
less expensive than any of those here
tofore employed.
Advices from Park City, Utah, are
TO the effect that the Naildriver mine
has cut on the 1O0-foot level the same
vein that was worked with consider
able profit on the 950-foot level. Assay
returns have not been received, nor l.
, the dimension of the ore body deter
! mined, but mine officials are conf
dent that further developments will
prove satisfactory.
, The further development work al
, the Tonopah Extension Mining com
pany is extended. the greater becomes
IFS possibilities of future Leadership
{ among the Tonopah mines, according
t to- the information received from th'
e management of the company. The DIS
veins on the 16S0-foot level are devel
: oping splendid proportions, and I'M
;, values are better than on any leve
g nreyiously explored and developed.
| Ontario Silver Mining Sec.pany o
e Park City, Utah. enjoys the enyiabl'
e record of having disburSed in divl
e dends to shareholders S14,932,5 300 vi
0 TO December, 1902. Since that time
while the property has been WORKED
q l. Internationally with more or less sue
cess. the end of the year usually foun'
. n deficit on the balance sheet IL l.
therefore. very gratifying to repor
q that the company is again pa!lh
n dividends.
= After numerous days of careful con
a sideration of the announcement Oh III
creased smelter charges to b. imposes
by the Salt Lake valley smeiters o.