The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-03-14
MINES AND MINING

and chrome. The measure passed both
houses of congress.
While excavatlng for compressor
house, some ore carrying $50 ton
| was struck in the Hasbrouck in the
| new Divide district ia Nevada, ac-
cordlng To the Goldfield News
With literally billions Of tons 90 coal
within less than a hundred miles. the
coal dealers of the town of Holbrook,
Arizona. We're for many of the coolest
| days this winter entirely out of that
| commodity
| Some of the richest lead-silver ore
| that has ever been taken from the
Eagle 4 Blue Bell at Tintic Is now
! coming from the deepest point AT which
work Is being carried on-lS75 feet
below the surface
| Ii is almost certainty that some
new strikes are going to be recorded
this year in the eastern end of the
Tintic district, and there is good
chance of new mine being opened in
the north of Eureka.
| Full relief to the gold mining indus
try of the nation during the period OF
reconstruction Is sought In resolu-
ton adopted by the Black Hills Mining
Mems association In its annual con-
vention at Deadwood, =. ID.
Announcement is made through the
Texas Oil Ledger. Fort Worth. Texas,
of the organization of Sl0.O00,OoO
corporation. known as the Utah-Colo-
RADIO Oil company. headed by John +.
Cowan of Salt Lake as president.
| Advices from Wallace. in the Occur
d'Alene district of Idaho, are that ne
cortiing to the report of the manager
of the Richmond Mining, Milling 4 Re
duction company, eight carloads of 10
per cent copper ore We're shipped dur
ing February.
| Value of the primary aluminium pro
duced in the United States In 1918. as
reported by the United States geolog
ical survey. department Of the inter
$4.722.775, or 10 per cent from the
value in 1917.
Secretary John DOrius of the North
Standard said recently that everything
is In readiness to shift from hand Il
power work I'm the new double-com
partment shaft which has been started
i'm the property to the northeast from
the Tintic Standard, Tintic distria.
From Boston come advices that the
method of disposing of government
owned copper, estimated mt about 100,
100000 pounds, has not been finally
determined. although the metal vii
be marketed in such fashion that tht
general situation will not be disturbed
George w. Snyder, manager of The
Black Metals Mines company. Inc.
operating the Day group of properties
In the Jack Rabbit district. out o
Phoebe. New. received word last weel
that the new equipment had arrivet
and was being installed as rapidly "A
possible.
Moved by the recent favorable devel
opments In several of the oil fields o
southern Utah, ST. George. Cedar Cit.
and California capitalists have pur
chased 400 acres of patented ground oi
| the Washington dome. Washington
county, and are preparing TO begiI
active operations.
Marked Improvement in the condi
tons mt the Silver King Coalition min'
of Park City is noted by Lafayette
Hanchett, eminent mining engineer
| who was recently engaged by the ex
ecutive committee of the Silver Kin;
Coalition Mines company To take direc
and full charge of operations.
| Peter Ryan and John Ernst, wh'
hold n lease ON the old Saturday prop
ertN on Squaw creek. IA tributary o
| the Salmon river. and about sever
miles out of Clayton, Custer county
Idaho, report having struck from foni
to six feet of solid galena and n largs
body of carbonate ore after sinking
| eighty feet.
Statistics Of the production of pot
ash in the United States In 1913, which
are complete except for reports from
some of the smaller producers, show
| large increase of output. The returns
now ut hand Indicate total produc
ton of 192. 5S1 short tons of potasi
materials. containing a2,135 short ton
of actual potash.
/ Sales of domestic graphite In 1913
were the largest yet recorded. Tn.
crystalline graphite sold. according Il
a preliminary estimate made by Ill. g
! Ferguson of the United States geo
logical survey, department of the In
terror, amounted 10 nearly 600 shor
tons. valued at about sl,.Dp,Vn. "a
compared with 52o2 tons. valued al
Sl.UDi. :s.is, In 1917.
1t does not require much at an isoas
| nation 10 look forward 10 importan
| ore developments which will make
| Tinfie one of the greatest mining dis
/ triets In the west. The old district hai
1 been plugging right along for half 8
/ century with very little 10 break tbs
monotony of is heavy production ane
| IL now appears thar much of the min
| ing of the past has been right en TOT
al