The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-03-07
MINES AND MINING

tating blue sky" sort of legislation. |
The Colorado soions are to debate such |
measure.
The Eikora mill nj Jarbidge, in Elko
county, Neyada. Is operating steadily.
night and day, reducing over 100 tons
of ore every twenty-four hours.
The matter Of putting the local
sinelters under the supervision of the
public utilities commission In Utah Ia
under consideration by the legislature.
About twenty tens OF good elaterite
Is being taken each month from the
Raven mine In Indian canyen. in Utah.
Ii Il proposed to soon Increase the out
put.
From FL raso, Tex. comes word
that the American mining operators In
the state of chihuahua. Mexico, VIII
shut down their mines rather than pay
tribute to Francisco Villa.
Shipments of first-class crude ore
and mill concentrates from the mines
OF Park City last week totaicd a321
tons. valued Mt $l35,o00. This is COM
pared with 2552 tons the previous
week.
Shipments Of ore from the mines of
Tintic last week totaled las carloads.
These are estimated nj TOO tons and
valued mt $225.0OO. This production 10
compared with l43 cars the previous
week and liS the week before.
According to the United States geo
logical survey estimate of iron ore pro-
duction In the country for 1918 is 90
7l2,000 gross tons. ms compared with
an actual output Of 752SS.S51 tons the
previous year. decrease Of IA per
cent.
From western Nevada comes re-
port that the Mason Valley Mines com
pany smelter at Thompson will close
down The reason lis the depressed
state of the copper market, the low
price Of metals. and the present high
cost of operation.
| During December the Virginia Louise
Mining company at Phoebe shipped 4
Utah shelters 1135 tons Of iron-man
ganese fluxing ore. upon which a sub
stantial profit was realized. Th'
greater part Of this tonnage came from
development work.
High-grade silver ore recently wni
exposed In the Mendhive mine. In thu
Elder Creek district In Humboldt
county, Nevada. Shipments are beinl
made from drift SO feet below tn
main tunnel. Some Of the ore assay
as high as IS ounces silver per ton.
Silver-gold ore assaying $25 per tol
Is being shipped from the old Mountain
King mine, near Hawthorne, Nevada
The Mountain King was ut one tim
an important producer OF silver. bu
had been neglected for many year
during which the price of silver wa
low.
Utah Copper's fourth quarterly n
port for 1918 has just been ISSUED
showing total production of 40, 23S. O7
pounds of copper and net profits O
$3.331.72S Counting disbursement
of $4O61 .225 to stockholders In div
dends, this left deficit for the quar-
ter OF $729, 496.
II Is stated that the Jerome distric
has been almost cut out from cope
production by the strike which I'm
tied up both the United Verde an
United Verde Extension propertie,
These two mines have combined ca
pacity OF about i2.00OOO0 pounds u
copper monthly.
Owing to the unsettled copper maj
ket. there is little activity In the Col
per Basin district. In Nevada. accordin
TO reports from there. and many of til
principal operators have closed thei
mines. Practically all lessees have dl'
: continued work, although some ore sti
Is being shipped.
Oh men of Texas must pay taxes o
their oil! leases, according to instru'
! tions sent out by H. II. Terrell. conn
troIler ordering all state and count
assessors to assess land covered b
leases and mark the assessment 10
| lease value only. These oil leases rel
resent millions Of dollars.
Adyices from Washington say thf
as reported out of conference the o
; leasing bill makes possible the leasing
In whole or in part, of approximate
: 100 100000 acres Of public land. Dl
I 10000 acres OF forest reserve. 3o5.Op
600 acres of coal land. 100000 acr.
: of oil land and 100000 acres of pho
plate land.
Utah. or the Einiah basin, may resi
: considerable profits from the prodn
D ton of copper from some new mines
> be developed near the Colorado Dts
line, unless the Colorado cornmissio
: ers set to and improve the roads lea
e ing to the east and make them prefe
able TO the highways leading into u
Z. Beehive state, IL the gis' Of % reIso
which comes from crais. Colo.
Western mining operators felt Z
encouraged the past week when 1t vi
g announced from New York that 4
! price of lead had been advanced "a :
o tie. This rise of 10 cents a hundr'
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