The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-09-19
MINES AND M|NINCl

BRICK Metals mine near pio.ha n
IL IS understood thar anotha. go.
work will be REQUIRED to Ct.
eiec'ricai connection To the site of tho
Iintc Drain Tunnel colnpany,s no..
| shaft. A0"
| Copper ore that is running IN NO,
cent has been taken our ~ IN,
Lake Copper company's mine near
Cheweiah, according to w. l.. Ziep,.r
superintendent, says the Spokes,nan'
Review.
A report from Nevada saws m I'M
por.al' soid discovery has been made
by james Williams and George Stakal
well-knOwn prOspectors. in tho NM
Glen district about twenty miles sor,,,
of Winnemucca
| VISITORS to the underground work
ihgs OF the Tintic Standard declare
tnat the mine never looked better and
that at no time in its history Was
there sucn large amount of high
grade ore exposed.
Governor Sparks old silver mine
the Weekend, located about three
miles from Reno, is now being restored
10 producing stage by syndicate of
Nevada and eastern mining and busi-
ness men, after an ideness of about
IA years.
Reports of rich ore disclosures nj
the camp of Sunshine, located about
sixteen miles south of Winnemucca an
the east side of the Dun Glen r.pra
are confirmed by mining men who have
visited the district during the past
week.
According to "a report from Montana
j. Asher Cowan Of Salt Lake and w
5. Larsen have taken an option on
four claims in the Sheep Rock mining
district, three miles south of Basin,
Mont. A contract has already been
, let for $50 feet of tunnel work.
. Power to operate the mines and
mills at Rochester has been nearly all
shut off and the supply of electrical
energy to all points supplied by the
Nevada Valleys Power company has
been greatly curtailed because of lack
of water at the company'S generating
plant at Lahontan
The Washington Gold Quartz Mining
) company, owning the noted Randolph
I group, consisting of 151 acres situated
B in the Gold Mountain district, forty
miles southwest of Goldtield and nine
: miles from Bonnie Clare. the nearest
, railroad point, is planning to star
). work on large scale.
9 With the authorization by the boart
. of directors of the Prince Consolidated
Mining company of the sinking of TIT
cOmpany's new shaft an additional 3O
feet, to the silver-gOld bedding tina
' has been demonstrated by diamond
silver camp of Phoebe has been started
When the miners have settled thei
wage scale controversy with the oper
l. ators, return to the shafts, crosscut
} and drifts in the mines at Divide, th
: camp will quickly add a number o
q shippers to the list headed by tn
l. Tonopah Divide, Divide Extension ant
4 Hasbrouck properties, it is predicted
T. The total value of the minerals pre-
duced in the United States durin
1918 was about S5,526,000,000, mor
:, than half billion dollars in excess o
the value recorded for 1917. but tn
total quantity produced was less. Tn
, output of fuels was greater thah II
| 1917, though somewhat less anthr;i
cite coal was marketed.
Compilation of the final returns iron
! the mineral producers OF Call1ofiiia 10
1918 has now been completed by III
! statistical division of the state mtnln
/ bureau under the direction OF fletcie
| Hamilton, state mineraloSist, Inc I.
tai yaIue amounted to the record sun
| of S199. 753,S37 being net increase
/ S3S. 55O.S75 over the 1917 hsufes.
An important change has peeh III
countered i'm the formation III the In
tic paymaster shaft. At present IN
shaft is down over 300 feet. IL Is SAN
Six feet per day are being maze Il
two shifts. One of the main opJe'
tjyes. the intersection of the eaSt-"ts
crossbreak with IA north south flsSuft
should be attained AT the ado-fooi i'Nel
III Elaboration of the Workings pei'N
the 4OO-foot level of the tureN"
Croesus mine continues to eAPoSe '''-
grade silver ore in large Puaii''''''
The installation of new h"is' an
skin makes il now poSsipie -
from 1000 to 1900 pounds per tfiP' u
| suring a large and continuous ou'pu
! from this large body of high grade VI
recently opened up.
/ California yields commercials
/ greater number and variety OF miner ,
products than any other state ~ :"
United States, and probably more '''a
any other equal area elsewhere =, -
Garth Previous to 1916. the lo'"' .
mail value of her output was SUI l''''.
nv but four other states, the!