The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-12-09
THE klINEs


the winter at the Cottonwood Grand
Central mine, near Salt Lake.
Sales of copper for domestic and
foreign account we're probably under
rather than over 1O0,OO0,OO0 pounds
during October, according to the. Amer
lean Metal Market.
It is estimated that the output of
crude copper in the United States last
month appropriated 95,OO0,O00 pounds,
some of the mines having transferred
men from producing to development
work.
American mining methods are need
ed in Norway to make mining and the
smelling of minerals successful there,
says F. P. Egeberg, a mining engineer
Of Christiana, Norway, who is visiting
Salt Lake.
Work on the Emma mines, which
was started recently, following the I'M
watering Of the main shafts has reveal
cd streak of high-grade ore which
assays 1872 ounces of silver and 1913
per cent lead.
The vein recently struck on the 700
foot level of the Western Utah Cop
per mine at Gold Hill, Utah, has been
drifted upon for a distance of 100 feet
and proved by a crosscut to be fifty
feet from hanging wall to footwall.
A company to be known as the Silver
Triumph Mining company is being or.
ganized to work the Triumph mine and
the Imperial group. adjoining both the
Triumph and North Star property, is
the news that comes from HALEY, Ida.
The incorporation of the Lone Noun
tain Silver Mines company, owning
eight claims near Tyrone, N. NJ, marks
an important step in an attempt to re-
vive this once rich silver mining dis
trict, where mining has been done in
termittently since 1860. ;
Owners of valid claims" either to
coal, oil, phosphate, gas or sodium
lands, in the west will be permitted to
perfect their claims under existing
laws as provided by section 81 of the
coal-leasing bill which has been passed
by both houses of congress.
There has been considerable activity
in The Pas district in Manitoba Of
late, due to the new finds on Copper
lake and the probability of the Film
Flon sulphide mine starting operations
this coming winter, according to the
Mining and Scientific Press.
j. Benjamin Parker, chemist and
metallurgist of Salt Lake City, has ac-
cepted position as flotation engineer
with the Consolidated Interstate Gala
han Mining company of Wallace, Ida
no, where he is working on the selec.
tive flotation of lead and zinc sulphide
ore.
The high-grade values of the ores
mined on the property of the Chief
Consolidated Mining company in the
Tintic district make possible the ex-
tensive development campaign prose-
cuted by the company in searching for
new ore bodies according to the man.
agement.
Work on the Consolidated West Ex-
tension Simon Mines company at Nina,
Nevada, is being pushed vigorously, the
crosscut from the 11O-foot level being
in 1852 feet from the shaft. In pros
pecting on the surface the other day
a ledge was uncovered at a point
about 200 feet in westerly direction
from the shaft.
There is an unprecedented demand
for gold for domestic, commercial and
manufacturing purposes, according to
the Boston News Bureau. Sales of
the metal to- the trade in October
broke all records. The New York as
say office sold approximately $6,5OO,-
600 of the yellow metal in October.
The disastrous fire reported to be
raging on the sixth level Of the old
Homestead gold mine at Lead, s. D.,
the foremost gold mine of America,
brings to mind the record of this prop
erty, which up to January 1, 1917, had
produced a total of $147, 141,3S5. Only
very meager details of the recent fire
have been published
An important step in the attempt to
solve the labor shortage problem in
the POrcupine camp is the installation
of mechanical muckers, which will
shortly be done at the Hollinger and
Mcintyre mines, says dispatch from
Cobalt, Ont. The muckers resemble
small steam shovels, which will lift
the rock into tram cars after blast.
The petroleum produced in Alaska
is derived wholly from single pat
ented claim in the Katalla oil field,
according to the United States geo.
logical survey, department of the in
terror. The old wells on this claim
and the refinery were operated as
usual in 1918. Two new productive
wells were also drilled in the Katalla
field.
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