The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-12-05
MINES AND MINING

Inc quartz vein matter apon,n.
IN the south drift on the 1900 49,,
OF the Eureka Lilly mine has nsrsista,, |
Tor distance of twenty feet accn,.I
ing TO iafest reports, and the end Is
not yet.
oihclai announcement that no Ian.
nary. 1920, divided will be voted h.,
Ionopah Extension Mining eomnan.
owing to the strike Mt Toponah In A.
gust-september. has been mailed by
the company.
reports state that bonanza ore RIM.
ming into many hundreds of dollars In
vaiue has been struck at Gold Cr..a,,
Nevada, on the Missing Link claim =
part of the Big Chief estate of The
Berry brothers.
ore shipments last week from tho
Ilntic district made an increase nj
twenty cars over the previous weal,s
shipment; 100 carloads were sh,nned
during the week, as compared with 40
carloads for the preceding week.
Uncle Jesse Knight Of Provo Is re.
ported to have become interested in
the development of several rroups Of
mining claims located In Middle and
settlement canyons, in the Tintic dis
trict, and that active operations are
now Progressing
Interest developments are exnected
Of the Silver Trail mining property
consisting Of the five claims situated
three and half miles from Basin,
Montana. Last summer ore was found
In promising quantities at the grass
roots on these claims.
The Wolverine mine, near Calumet
Tor many years recognized as the
richest little copper mine" in the
| world, Is now getting to point in its
| career when plans for removing the
| pillars are being made, according to
the Mining and Scientific Press.
| Diverting the entire stream of a gla-
| cer by means of tunnel and locating
the glacier as a gold placer claim Is
the latest word in Alaska gold min
| ing. Mendenhall glacier thus has
sprdng into fame. The locator is C.
II. Boyles, according to a report from
Juneau, Alaska.
Eight hundred acres of placer
ground near Sheep Ranch, in the Red
ding, CAL, district, have been acquired
by the Baldwin syndicate, Senator
/ Gates and other wealthy New Workers,
| according to the San Francisco Chron-
icle, and preparations. are being made
for erection of monster restraining
dam.
Encouraging developments continue
to be the result of the operations a,
the Jib mine, situated at Basin, Mont
Drifting on the 200 and the 300-fool
levels have been begun, stope has
been opened up on the 300 and the
l5O-fOOt levels, and shipments of 10(
tons of ore per day are going forth
steadily.
Despite the decreases in the produc
tlon and the increase Of the cost, ow
Ing to the fact that earnings were
computed on the basis of 22.225 cents
cents for the previous quarter, the
earning composed for Utah Copper
company for the last quarter show q
handsome increase.
In the thirty-second quarterly report
which is for the last quarter ending
September 30, just issued over the sig
nature of C. NJ. MacNelll, president
and D. C. Jackling, managing direc
tor, the Chino Copper company shows
a deficit due to the increase in wages
lower grade ore treated and con
sequent lower recovery.
| Activity in the district and city In
crease steadily. is the word that comes
from Eureka, New. Every day brings
strangers from the outside, and living
quarters are now at premium. The
building and improvements on prop
critics throughout the town are rapid!
changing the appearance of the camp
the town is now becoming quite citi
fed.
Silver is rapidly approaching TIL
point of value predicted for the meta
by its most optimistic well-wishers
AS no silver dollars have been coined
| for fifteen years, since 1908, and as TIN
bullion cost the government then les
| than one dollars an ounce, there Is
present In well-preserved dolia
coin more than one dollars worth O.
bullion.
Preparations have been made fo
an extensive campaign of development
work on the property of the Dagmar
Northwest company. This ground is 10
| Gated short distance to the nortl
| of the Centennial Eureka holdings
The company. which is one of the old
est in Tintic. but which has been IN
active for several years, has been ade
quately financed.
A vein of rich silver ore eighteef
inches thick has been struck in th'
lowest level of the Zulu mine ut Pearl
Idaho. The ore carries silver sulphides
| ruby silver and as high ms A per cen
lead, and has n value of S443 per ton
Leasers In the oxide zone of this prop
erty are about II ship a car OF hish