The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-09-05
MINES AND MINING

The existence of oil in Ecuador /,
great quantities is. reported by Wai,a..
NJ. Brodie in the Engineering and Mi.'
ing Journal.
Active work on the Jayan Gonna.
mines, Contact, New. is to be sta,+.,,
at once and continued throughon; ~
fall and winter.
The Austin, Nc.., district has hoe,
stirred by the discovery of u laraa
ledge of hign-g grade ore In the mai,.
working tunnel of the Austin Nev,aa
Consolidated.
The Hybla Mining company Of "a.
vada has been organized by Arthur
Reall Of Phoebe for the purpose Of d..
veloping thirteen mining claims in ~.
Comet district
Development work Is being done A.
the Syndicate mine in the Santaou;n
mining district in Utah. which is prom.
Using to open one Of the big mining
fields of the west.
Preparations have been practcauv
completed by the Goldfield Deyeon.
ment company for mining the .:suuu
tons of commercial ore blocked out IN
and above the 3SOfoot level of the
| Combination mine.
Development work on the Pinenu,
mine in the Cherry Creek Valley. Ney
| is being speeded. even though The
strike on the Nevada Northern rail
road has handicapped operations to
considerable extent
| Unless Il change occurs during The
next week August will present a weak
comparison with the months immedi-
ately preceding when sales averaged
over 2OOOOO.OOO pounds, according To
the Boston News Bureau.
The Tonopah Belmont Development
company reports the earnings at the
local property for the month of July
as $3.50. 554.32. those profits having
been made from the reduction and
treatment of 1880 tons Of ore.
The advance of recent months in the
price of silver, which is quoted about
SLIP an ounce, is bringing about
rapid revival fl the silver districts Of
the SLOGAN and other British Columbia
divisions, says Nelson, b. &. report.
During the current calendar year
the stock of copper held in this coun-
try for the allies and belonging to them
has been reduced by shipments abroad
from approximately 90,OOOOO0 pounds.
January l, to 30,0OO,OOO pounds, Au-
gust l.
Renewed activity in the mining in
dustry is reported from Jungo, Nev,
which is becoming very busy outfit
ting point for this section of the coun-
try, situated as it is, about forty miles
west of Winnenucca, Nev, on the
Western Pacific railway.
The outlook for the tungsten indus
try, which is of considerable impor-
lance to mining men of the west, has
frightened with the favorable report
made recently by the house ways and
means committee on the tariff bill
providing adequate protection.
Labor conditions in Nevada appar-
emily have affected the mining activi-
ties of the most important camps in
the state. A deadlock still exists in
the Ely and Tonopah districts. At
Tonopah recently 1900 miners voted
solidly at a mass meeting for a con-
tinuance of the strike.
A Salt Lake mining man who re-
turned recently from Il trip in which
he visited number of mining prop
critics near Marysvale was very fay-
: Orably impressed with the Deertrail
mine, which is six miles from the fore
going town. On this property there IS
100-ton cyanide mill.
. To obviate possible retaliation by
/. foreign governments should oil land
: leasing legislation discriminating
4 against aliens be enacted, the senate
| has adopted the Smoot amendment
: modifying the leasing bill IL permit
aliens To obtain leases to government
lands under restrictions.
Reports sent by operators of man
ganese mines to the United States geo
! logical survey. department of the IN
terror. covering the first three months
of 1919. show that the shipments OIL
i manganese ore during that quarter
We're much smaller than during any
other quarter since 1917.
United States imports of lead orr
~ in June totaled 1886, 453 pounds, var
, ued ut S74.IS7, department OF CON,
l. merce states. Mexico supplied soo''s'
a pounds. worth $43.143, and Cahaoa
o 199,S0a, worth SLICES. Mexico STU,
us 4,664,4SS pounds of lead bulIieh' ar'
n base bullion. valued at Sl49,i'9
. \ promising mineral find Is reslo''''
1t from the Arrowhead property IL ~
y Reveille district. according 10 the ius ~.
n opah Daily Times. At depth ., -
10 feet in the shaft workings e"e :
/ ore four feet wide has been eAl"''
in the cross-cut, and assays afe'"-
I. values of S25S ton, princii'aH
n silver.
e. Miners of Virginia City, by N''' /.
sc 100 TO -, decided To 20 ON sim
their demand for an increase ~