The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-08-08
MINES AND MINING

camp near Phoebe in Lincoln count
New, in which IA number of Salt Lals
people were at one time interested i
to be revived and placed in operation
again.
Some galena ore Is spattered throp,h
the seams and fractures in the face
of the American Consolidated Mina.
company tunnel in American Fork can
yon. according to General Manage,
George K. Hemphill. who has lust "a
turned from the property.
The old Ashdown mine, located !,
the northwestern part of the corntv
near the Nevada Oregon boundary. has
been taken over by strong aggrega.
ton of San Francisco people. known
as the AshdOwn Gold Mining companv
and extensive operating plans have
been formulated, says the Humbold,
Star.
The Tintic Standard Mining com.
pany, is reported on good authorize
| says the Eureka Reporter to be now
the owner of better than so per cen,
of the issued stock of the Provo Min.
ing company, owning adjoining ground
J The Provo stock was picked up on he.
half of the Tintic Standard companv
| by Joseph Berry, well known Prove
man.
| At stockholders meeting of the
Tintic Delaware Mining company at
Provo, the following We're elected.
Joseph A. Hatch, Heber, president.
DR.. W. II. Wherrett. Heber, vice pres
ident; directors, A. ID. Clark, Provo.
Samuel Neff, Mill Greek j. H. Ekkers
and A. H. Ekkers of Eureka; j. A
Holloway, secretary-treasurer and
general manager.
| Development work has been begun
on the property of the Iron Springs
company, which is located in Iron
county about two miles north of the
proposed railroad between Lund and
Cedar City. A force of men has been
put to work sinking a shaft on the
footwall of an extensive iron vein
which outcrops on the surface, accord.
ing to information from officers Of
the company.
Report of the strike of some good
ore in the COlumbus-ReXall property
at Alta, has sent the stock up on the
market. According to President H.
Evans the ore is similar to that taken
from the 500 level and is being en-.
countered in the tunnel. The ore is
| tn, h, ic tha
intention to continue the driving Of
the drift some distance before making
plans for the taking out of the ore
The encountering of Oil in sand
that is believed to be about six inches
thick on the Gustaveson Oil cOmpanys
property two miles up Diamond Fork
canyon from the Rio Cyanide railroad,
has caused considerable excitement as
it is declared to be the first good oil
showing near Salt Lake, and also car
ried out the theory of number Of
biologists and Oilmen that petroleum
would be encountered in this ground
Mining operations at Divide have
been featured during the last few days
by number of valuable ore discoS-
cries, and taken by and large the per-
iOd was probably the most evehliu'
recorded in the district since pay ore
was first struck in the TOnopah p-
vide mine The strikes We're made IL
widely divergent points and delhon'
strate that the cross fissuring Of the
camp is in general well enriched wiz
ore dispositions.
Manager George Nichols OF the lenr
Tintic property stated recently lha'
development work is progressing III
most satisfactory manner, accordhs
the Eureka Reporter. Some mort y.
has been located in the WorAms
reached from the new tunnel anu y
company is fast getting things III i''s
mess for sinking the new doupe w.
partment shaft. Grading for tils s''
was finished early in the WeeA
actual sinking should be under v I
within a few days.
The Divide district. near lohoi I
New. has suddenly sprung INTO r.
hence owing to the fact that WIN.
few months one large mine has "
developed from prospect, anu :" "
vesting public is being told .D'' VI
Their development will brihs s
many more productive propel'' =
district is advantageously sliua'
is reached by the main hishN" .s
Meeting Tonopah and Goldfie'u -.
only six miles south of Ionopap n.
Prospects for the asphai' kss
try, which in the near futuie d.,
be a source of considerapt t,,
for Utah and other wessleh y, mi
are excellent. Despite the 9" ard
of the imports of native asp 1 tene,
of road and building constia To
the United States caused W Or h
, the year 1918 was one Oh ose
for the domestic asphalt ihu'sr ~ BIZ a
cording to c. c. Osbon. OF y" Palk
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