The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-10-28

made to the Hercules crew, and the
same at the Hecla.
The Ohio OIL company is erecting an
absorption plant In the Lance Creek
field to reduce the tremendous flow of
gas from three wells to proflt-making
gasoline and expects to have 1t in op-
Grafton by the first of the year.
| According to report from Yering-
ton, the Mason Valley Mines & Smell
ter company has appealed to the Ne
vada railroad compassion for cO-Opera-
ton in securing better rates for the
transportation of ore to the slnelter.
Instead Of shutting down in the fall.
as was usual in the past In the
Helena, Mont, district, mining opera
tors are now making every effort to
get their plants under cover before
the snow flies and continue the work
all winter.
Carson Hill Gold Mining company,
operating on the Calaveras county.
CAL, mother lode gold belt, and con-
trolled by the Hayden-Stone and Amer
lean zine interests of Boston, reports
$500 tons of SIT ore milled in the
first ten days of the month.
Since the Silver King Consolidated
opened up the new ore body in the
beddings in the Electric Light claim in
it's property at Park City, something
like $4,000 has been taken out. The
bedding has been opened for 40 feet
along both sides Of the drift and in
places has thickness Of four feet.
In its fiscal year ended August 81
last the Ray Hercules Copper company
produced 4,994, 1856 pounds Of, copper.
While the company's plant was pro-
nounced complete in August, 1918, in
Vulnerable delays occurred and 1t was
some months after that date that cop.
per Onsa commercial scale came forth.
AS one Of the largest silver produc-
ers of the world, Anaconda Copper,
with the price of silver approximate
" $1.15 per ounce and production run
lining close to 100000 ounces, If the
same rate as 1918 is maintained, Ana
conda's profit from this metal should
help materially to offset the loss from
its copper. Ia
Considerable activity prevails in the
Ophir district, in Utah. Diamond drill
ing to prove the geology Of the dis
trict is being done. Several holes are
being put down on the south side of
the Ophir Hill canyon fault with
view of encountering the Ohpir Hill
ore zone, from which millions have
been taken.
Rochester Mines and Mills at Roch-
ester, New, have been at full capacity
since September %. The shutdown
lasted only few days. As previously
explained, the shutdown at Rochester
was due to water shortage at the La
hontan DAM the agricultural interests
taking first call on available water
for irrigation purposes.
During the last twelve years min
eral oil exports from this country have
increased 1873 per cent, using 1t COM
parison of August shipments this year
with those of 1907. In August
this year the value of oil shipments
amounted to $26,594,s9S, against &c.
373,07O In August, 1907, according to
the Boston News Bureau.
Captain Herman Davis of the Bulls
head mine, on the east slope of Spruce
mountain, ElkO county, reported, ac-
cording to the Nevada Mining Press,
that the smelter which he Is construct
ing for the mine is nearly completed
and will be ready in few days to
blow in. 1t consists of blast furnace
with a capacity of thirty to fifty tons
per day.
The governors of all states where
mining Is an industry have received
urgent invitations from Governor
Frederick d. Gardner of Missouri to
authorize state exhibits of mine pro-
ducts to be sent to the national expo
sition of mines and mining to be held
in st. Louis in connection with the an
nual convention of the American Min
ig congress, November 1922, inclusive.
It is. not improbable that the recent |
purchase of the Eureka-P Palisades mar
row-gauge railroad may have some
thing to do with the development Of |
the Consolidated Coppermines COM
pany and may in the near future bear
the same relation to the Coppermines
company as the Nevada Northern COM
pany does to the Nevada Consolidated
Copper company says the White Pine
News.
The manager of the North Standard
in East Tintic says that the
shaft has now reached the 500-foot
level and drift is being sent out at
this point to intersect mineralized
assure. 1t is the intention to go deeper
as soon as this work is accomplished.
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