The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-09-30
AROUND THE MINES

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Reasonable progress is being made
In sinking the shaft on the property
u tie Phoebe Bristol company near
Phoebe. New.
One of the latest silver districts to
arise and shake oft her shroud Is the
Hack Mountain district in Mineral,
county, ten miles south of Nina, Nev.
Ore which is declared to average $40
Il ton has been followed for Is feet
in the tunnel at the Bellorphan prop
Iert: in Amer can Fork canyon. Utah.
Tenopah Belmont development diyi-
dend declared of 5 per cent, payable
October l, is reduction from 10 per
cent and wasNdue to the strike of the
miners at TonOpah.
Capt. Owen Il. Brinton, manager of
the Western Utah Copper company in
the Deep Creek country, has assumed
the mine management of the Jib prop
erty at Basin, Montana.
Shipments from the Black Metals
mine near Phoebe, New, with the In
stallation of the new equipment have
been increased, according to informa.
ton received last week.
The average monthly prices of quick
silver in San Francisco during the Sec
ond quarter Of 1919, as quoted in the
Mining and Scientific Press, were:
April, $73.t2; May, $S4.SO, and June,
$94. 40.
Owing to the attitude of the under
ground workers in refusing to return
to work at less than dollar advance,
the mines at Tonopah have not re-
sumed operations after being closed
for several days by strike conditions.
The high-grade seam of ore, running
500 ounces in gold, which was last
week an inch wide, has, in driving
eighteen feet on the Florence Divide
lease on the Goldfield Florence prop
erty, opened up to eighteen inches Of
high-grade ore.
The output of the Davis-Daly Cop
per company last month, amounting to
1900, 900 pounds of copper, was nearly
doubled that of July and was by far
the largest monthly production in the
company's history, says the Boston
News Bureau.
Within the next 500 feet the Spiro
tunnel, being driven by the Silver King
Consolidated at Park City, Utah,
should open up the Disappointment fis-
sure from which some rich shipments
were made that carried 35 per cent
lead, IS ounces in silver and S. in gold.
Much placer mining is being done in
and about Burnley, Idaho, this fall. A
Salt Lake mining company has secured
a lease ON group Of claims belong
ing to Louis Hill in the vicinity Of
Martaugh, and two carloads of mining
machinery are on the way to the prop
erty. The machinery will be installed
at once.
Upon its own initiative the Yellow
Pine Mining company at Goodsprings.
Nevada, put new wage scale into eff
feet at the mill and mine September
1. The new scale makes 25-cent
raise for muckers, TRAINERS and la
borers, or $4.75 per day for this class
of work. and a 50-cent raise for other
employees.
The output of quicksilver In the
United States from April to June 80,
1919, was 1910 TASKS of Is pounds net,
ii decrease of 2O2O TASKS, or of nearly
"a per cent, as compared with the
output in the first quarter. Only six
teen mines were producing in the Sec
Ond quarter of the year as against
in the first quarter.
Development Of South American oil
production is being pushed actively by
both American and British interests
The latter are reported to have OBJ
tanned millions Of acres of prospective
lands in the various countries. AL
though some production is now obtain
ed, the main difficulty lies in the
present inaccessibility Of the fields.
One of the few places where a plant |
has already been installed for the
distillatiOn of oil from shale is near |
Dillon, Mont. The shale at the site Sc
Iected for the operations is part Of |
the Phosphoria formation, which con-
tains the beds of rock phosphate that
are mined at several places near Bear |
Lake, in southeastern Idaho, for the
of fertilizer.
That Nevada will again take her
place as the greatest silver producing
state in the union is becoming more
evident every day, not SO much through
he discovery of new districts as by
The resurrection Of old and proved
districts which passed into the dis
.ard and have practically been for
gotten since the demonstration of sill
yer, says the Nevada Mining Press.
France, which was the largest i'm
porter of American copper, dropped to
bird place during the past year, yield
ng first position to England, while
.taly's requirements advanced that
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