The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-04-25
MINES AND MINING

rintic last week totatled la3 carloads.
valued at S230,0o0.
Shipments of first class direct smelt-
ing ores and product from the mills
of Park City last wees totaled 1910
tons valued at $4,000.
Directors of the Grand Central Min
ing company at Provo last week de-
clared dividend of 4 cents n share.
This requires the payment of the sum
of $4,000 ON April n.
According TO the Elko Free Press. a
full force of men is now nj work on
the government shale plant just out of
Elko and the plant is expected TO be
in operation by the LIST of May
Europe will eventually take large
quantities of American copper but this
cannot take place for months, accord
ing TO the belief OF men who have
studied the foreign situation nj first
hand.
The camp of Willard. located about
two miles north of Lovelock. Nevada,
very good prospects are being opened
and several leases have been let In
the past week
There has been talk Of removing the
San Francisco stock exchange to Reno.
owing to the great prominence Nevada
issues have recently assumed; also of
starting new mining exchange at
the great silver camp of Tonopah.
The Interstate commerce commission
has decided existing rates on plaster
In carloads from Gypsum. Utah, 10
points in California on the Santa Fe
and Southern Pacific are unreasonable
and ordered a reduction to 29.5 cents
per hundred pounds.
Within the next few days an ener-
getic campaign of development will be
inaugurated upon the Gold Seam prop
erty, formerly classed as being locat-
ed in tlG kiondyke district, but now
properly entered in the Divide, says
the Tonopah (Nev) Times.
John Cleghorn, well-known mining
man of Utah and Nevada, has gone
down to the American Fork district
with small force of men TO resume
work on the Globe Consolidated He
will be the second operator tn start
the 1919 spring work in this old camp.
Reports from the Eureka Bullion in
East Tintic are that last week sec
ond shift was started, and these men
We're put on the main shaft. This
makes two shifts working. The shaft
is down To the S0O-foot level, and the
intention Is TO carry ii to the 1900
level
Bernard NJ. Baruch, former chair
man of the war industries board, who
is now in Paris as an adviser to the
American peace delegation, has writ
ten Senator Hitchcock Of Nebraska
that the American potash industry can
be protected from German potash i'm
ports only through legislation by con
gress.
The Anaconda Copper company has
had two notable ore disclosures during
the past week. the most important OF
which apparently Is that in the Orphan
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Butte district, known as the West
Side" or the Hibernia neighborhood
The second find was made in the En-
ma property of the Butte Copper &
Zine company.
Reports from the property OF Tho
Tonopah Divide Mining company IL
the Divide. Nevada district--thc min,
which has caused the greatest sensa
ton in almost Il score of years by
reason Of its richness-is to the cffec
that the showing is proving up to ex
pectations, with indications that ever
something bigger Is going 10 result In
the near future.
II Is reported from Toronto. Can
ada. that considerable excitement has
recently been created ut The Pas a,
the details of John Forbes discovery
at Mile 19i. Hudson Bay railroad be
came available. He says that tbs
eight claims recently sold TO Nortl
Canada Exploration company show Z
deposit - feet wide. traced for 700,
feet without break.
Utah stands rather loW In the list oi
production from oil refinery operations
in 1915 showing 500 barrels out of q
total in the United States Of i.295.
III. According TO figures complied Il,
the bureau of mines this total II
largely I'm excess of the production oi
oil in this country which. in 1918
amounted 10 34l.0o0,oo0 barrels. ol
about 10000 barrels day
The principal gold-producing coun
tries have now published the statistic
of last years production. so that {
comparison with 1917 is possible. say
the Mining and Scientific Press. Fo
1916 and 1917 We quote the statistic
published by the United States mint
After making allowance for errors, cs
pecially in the figures for Russia an,