The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-10-25
MINES AND MINING

than $4,000. Nioie
ooihpareu with year ago the divi.
bends paid out in September nv -.
lcan mines show decided 5a,no.-.,.
Inc general rise in the costs of min.
ing and smelling is given as tbe nrin
cipal cause. - III
Inc ola Newhouse or South r+oh
mine In western Beaver comfy NJ.
Is said to have 100000 cash fn,,,.
hand now and anticipates eleartng -
ABOUT S1oo,o00 out of the present ,oos
ing operations. -e'S
Assessments on local popuIac ,,f.
ing stocks have been moro r,,,,,o,''..
this year than in possibly any prnyions
year III the history of Utah mimi,
Already on such stocks the asa,
ments have numbered Jog
With total production of moro ia.
sllooo'oO and dividends of mor4
than S3l,OO0W0, Tonopall mines cop.
tlnue producing today AT the zero rs
about $6OO,OO0 every thirty DAYS. or
more than $7,OOO,OOO wear.
1
Shipments of ore from tho MINI.
T1ntic last week totaled l64 carloads
These are estimated at 5000 tons and
valued at $4,000. This i, comnaraa
WIN l4o cars the previous week ana
LOO cars the week before that
According to the Goldfeid Tribune
the new electrically-drven surface
equipment OF the Tonopah Divide
mine should be in operation within less
than a week and with this in place
additional air drills will be instollad
and the great ore body will be devel.
Oped on all three levels.
1t has been reported from American
Fork canyon that the American Fork
Fissures company has ordered the clos.
ing down of the mill, owing to ore
running short. The mill has been
steadily producing high-grade concen
trates for nearly year milling crude
ore at the rate of $50 tons per day.
DR.. Adolph knopf of the United
States geological survey spent severa
days in camp this week. DR.. Knopt
is the man who made the origina
write-up on the Boss mine, saws tn,
Goodsprings Gazette. His mission wa,
in the interest of the government t,
size up the possible production of plat
mum.
Under the head publicity a Safe
guard" the Denver Mining & Finan
cial Record says that it does not pa,
to buy pig in poke. 1t does no
pay to buy shares in a mining or OF
company without first making a thol
Ough investigation and securing ful
details upon which to base your iudg
ment.
Throughout the American oil field
in September there were GIG new RIG
and drilling wells, with an aggregat
of 1885 barrels of forty-two gallon
each. Wyoming reports an increase G
thirty over August. That state con
, pleted sixty wells in September, n
cording eighteen dry holes and fiv
gas wells.
Several Dugway properties are
the active list this fall and the mil
+ ing operators of that camp are so o.
timistic of the future that they hay
practically completed their plans fl
the erection of a mill to treat a pc
ton of the large tonnages of secon
class ore said to be found in a numb,
;. of the old mines.
| 20 70 Of n
are known in Wyoming. A deposit
, the northern part of Albany coun
, was examined by E. L. Jones, Jr.,
!, the United States geological surve
, department of the interior, on Octob
p 5, 1917. The deposit is being explo
9 ed by the Wyoming Manganese col
q pany of Laramie.
1t is reported from the old Coe
< d'Alene district in northern Idaho tn
I the recovery of the mineral valu
: from old tailings dumps and from t
n accumulation of tailings along the ri
n err and in dams built TO protect t
4 river channel has grown to be
f branch of the mining industry OF &C
siderable Importance ana lhcreasi
O profit.
S There are fair prospects that t
t fight on between the minority a
: majority stockholders of the Old EmI
e Mining company may be settled Q
# of court. 1t is understood that a ratf
!, definite proposition has been receiv
by wire from George Graham Rlce
d New York, in which he agrees to lq
# date all outstanding debts, probai
q call off the Scent assessment ana
!. other essential things in con>lderatl
V of the suit being dropped.
l. From Washington comes word Il
e Secretary of the Interior Lane
l. nounced last week that the I'M
States is becoming independent OF ."
g. many for potash. Germany !
q thought and still thinks, no douht' {!