The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-07-25
AROUND THE MINES

depletion and taxes Of $139O,OOO fol
the second quarter Of the United States
Smelling company were considerably
more than double the $3.50, 1000 shown
for the first three months. .
Another company has been formed
to develop the Fossil oil fields, &C.
cOrding to George J. Constantine local
attorney. This company, which is the
Hersman Oil company, has been fin
anced by oil men from the Lusk field
and by Seattle people.
A, G. Mattson, secretary of the Inde-
pendence Mining company, whose prop
erty lies in the East Tintic district
adjoining the Tintic Standard, arrived
in Salt Lake recently. The new elec-
trically driven compressor, hoist and
other machinery will arrive this month
and be installed.
Officials of the ellison Asphalt COM
pany went to Salt Lake from New York
to determine why the assessment of
the company, operating in Uintah
county, as been to heavy, and, as they
regarded it, so precipitately increased.
They interviewed the state board of
equalization, but were unable to get
any decision to change the assessment
figures on their property, says the Ny
ton Free Press.
Believing that there. are large de-
posits Of gold in the Missouri river on
the sand bars, DR.. L. s. Boahne, of
Great Falls, Montana, lecturer and
student, has invented a machine which
he believes will separate flake gold
from the silt. The machine has been
given practical tests in various other
places, including California, and has
proved successful, especially on con-
centrator tailings, he asserts.
Operations on the property Of the
Alta Tunnel and Transportation COM
pany are proceeding in satisfactory
manner, according to information re-
ceived at the company's office in Salt
Lake. The face of the drift to the
southwest, which has been following
for some time a rich stringer of ore, is
a distance of 200 feet from the main
tunnel. This drift is being driven to
get under the shale and into the lower
lime beds.
Through a deal that has been closed
upsin the past few days, Mrs. Ella B.
Newton, business woman of Seattle,
has taken over 1900 acres of ground,
in the Fossil oil field in Lincoln county
Wyoming, from Mr. and Mrs. J. j..
Hersman, together with all the leases
that are now held by various people
on parts of the property. The prop
erty is taken over subject to the agree
ments. On this ground are several
producing wells.
Henry G. Catlin, veteran mining en-
gineer, who has been actively inter-
ested with the mining industry for
over half century and who is prom
inently identified with interests which
are planning to rejuvenate the famous
old camp of Eureka and to swing the
tide of prosperity and activity toward
mines which have already produced
over sos 100000, arrived in Salt Lake
from New York this week. Mr.. Catlin
stopped in the city at the Hotel Utah
for day before resuming his trip to
Eureka, New.
Operations are to begin on the prop
erty of the Reeds Peak Mining COM
pany, in the South fork of Big Cotton
wood canyon, says w. ]. Bassley, Sec
rotary of the company. The claims
of the company are joined on the south
by Big Cottonwood Consolidated, on
the east by the Branberg group, and
on the west by the Alta Cottonwoods.
Since September, 1917, no development
work has been done on the Reed Peak
claims, but. an assessment has been
levied and work will commence about
the first of August, according to Mr..
Bassley.
The coaling tanks at the Quicksilver
Mines company plant in Jersey Valley
Nevada, have been completed, and the
furnaces are again discharging the
quick. The plant, which was installed
as test plant, has proved to be
success, the result of which was a
shipment Of twenty TASKS of quick
silver last week with other shipments
to follow.
The entire copper industry faces a
crisis. For the first time in many
years, If not in history, both producers
and consumers of the metal have come
face to face with a tie-up. In fact,
leading brass mills in Connecticut, and
q few in New York have been closed
down through strikes which have sus-
pended shipments Of copper to prin-
Opal consuming points.
The recent bonanza ore discoveries
u the Divide district, about five miles
from Tonopah, New, must give the Of
dcers Of the Tonopah Mining company
much food for thought. Engineers of
this big Nevada company have been
sent to all parts Of the world to inves-