The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-09-12
AKUuND me MINE,

walls In the Ellsworth mining d.stric
in Nye County. Nevada.
The Cardiff mine is again nearin.
normal production. following a partia
shutdown as the result of labor trou
bles.
] The Utah Coal & Coke company has
opened up six veins of coal In Water
canyon, five miles south of Sunnyside
Utah.
Last weeks ore shipments from
Park City amounted to 3,3S0,770 lbs.
or 1890 TONS compared with 1414 thu
week previous.
The Salmon river section of Custer
county, Idaho, is opening up on an era
of prosperity which has not been
known there for many years, in fact
not since the old producers there ceas
ed work.
The Bingham Mines company will
pay dividend of 25 cents share on
September 30, and the Eagle x Blue
Bell Mining company will pay divi.
dend of 5 cents a share, payable Sep,
| tember 20.
In the near future a mill will be
erected and the Amador mine will be
classed as one of the leading silver
producers in the state of Nevada, says
the Reese River Reveille
During August the Montana Bing-
ham Consolidated Mining company
sent sixteen cars of high grade copper
ore to market. The settlement on khir-
teen cars shipped brought $19,,36S.2T
or an average of $500 a car.
Physical conditions, which indicate
that the objective of the Blacksmith
tunnel of the Utah Silver-Lead mine,
| is being rapidly approached, are re-
ported by J. H. Garrett, president Of
the company. About a week ago the
| tunnel broke from the lime formation
into the quartzite.
Among the old producers in the Sal
mon river section of Custer county,
Idaho, which is one of the greatest
mining districts in Idaho, the Rams
horn. the Montana. the Silver King,
the Buckskin and the Stanley Dredge,
and the Vishnu group of claims are
once again numbered among the big
producers for central Idaho.
Settlement by compromise of the
suit brought against Butte & Superior
by the Clark-Montana Realty company,
through the latter's Elm Orlu mine,
brings to close legal battle that
for the past two or three years threat
ened to cost Butte & Superior much
of it's valuable mining lands, to say
nothing of a big cash indemnity.
Next in Importance to the big strike
made in the Eureka Croesus mine re-
Gently is the news given out by the Of
ficials of the company this week, says
the Eureka (Nev.) Sentinel. In the
Wine below the 400-foot level where
the big bonanza strike was made. ribs
of hard ore have appeared which as
say % per cent copper, 6S ounces sill
veE 151a per cent lead and 0.3 ounces
gold.
Because of unsettled labor conditions
in southern Nevada, the result of the
strike at TOnopah and Divide, the
GOldfield Development company has
curtailed operations and reduced it's
working force. This action will delay
the placing of mill in commission, but
this will be offset by increasing the
capacity of the plant from 1900 to 1000
tons per day at an earlier date than
first contemplated.
Robert Wachman, Chicago sales
man, returned to Winnipeg from a
trip in the Contact Bay
region with news that will divert a
large section of the rush of gold seek
ers headed for Copper Lake, north of
the Pass, where sensational gold
strike was reported few days ago.
news is the discovery of |
a pay streak containing from 100000
to 100000 worth of gold to- the ton.
Probably the most important indie
pendent oil which win be affected by |
the oil land leasing bill is Salt Greek |
Producers association, which has i'm
mense holdings in Wyoming which can
not be worked on account of govern
ment restrictions in that territory.
It has been notable since the oil land
easing bill has been favorably COM
nented upon, that there has been a
Wild scramble to acquire territory, in
he Wyoming fields.
Oil to the amount of two gallons
Der minute is being pumped from we'll
No. on the property of the Arizona
Wyoming Oil company, in the Fossil
ield, near Kemmerer, Wyo.
International miners strikes have
hut down the silver mines of Cobalt,
)nt., the Tonopah and Divide districts,
Nev., and the lead-silver mines of the
occur d'Alene district, Ida. All the
important producers in these import
mt districts are closed.
Diamond drilling has never played
very important part in the develop
nent Of the ore bodies Of the Tintic