The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-09-09
AROUND THE LINE

ings covering their use of Minerals
Separations flotation process will not
exceed $1,500,000.
Nearly forty million dollars worth
of coal. petroleum and gas was pro-
duced in Wyoming last year, according
to the Wyoming State Tribune. This
year the figures should 20 above the
fifty-milliOn mark.
During the first half Of 1919 ,Iuin-
ing in Idaho, as in other western min
ing states, was less active, according
to C. N. Gerry of the United States
geological survey, department of the
interior.
Increased prices of silver have
meant much to mine operators of the
west. With the price of the white
metal increasing steadily, comes the
good news that lead, the most slug
gish of the baser metals in the mat
ter Of responding to improved condi-
tons, is now on the increase.
Conditions in the drift which is be-
ing driven from the Cardiff mine into
the Kennebec property are encourag-
ing, according to official information.
While no ore has. been encountered
in this drift, which is following a
lime-quartzite contact, copper stains
are coming into the fact and indica-
tions of naturalization increasing. :
Officials Of the Eureka roesus
Mining Company report that the big
strike over 900 feet deep is daily grow
ing in size and that the ore is in
creasing in value, says the Eureka
Sentinel. Heretofore the ore mass
has been soft, but now hard ribs of
extremely rich ore, several inches
wide, have appeared. Samples taken
at random show values of over 500
ounces of silver and 60 per cent lead.
American zinc industry has finally
gotten together, according to the Bos-
ton News Bureau. No longer does pro-
Queer fight smelter and smelter fight
producer. They are working to-
gether for the advancement of the in
dustry as whole. This means in fu-
ture the industry will direct it's ener-
gies toward extending uses of the
metal.
With the present showing of ore in
the Mayflower vein at the Montana
Bingham Consolidated Mining Com
pany property, from which several
cars a week of high grade ore could
be extracted, the company's financial
condition is improving. According to
the annual report of the company,
which has just been issued, the finan
cial condition has greatly improved
and with the shipments that can now
be made the company may soon be
in way to complete its own develop
ment work with but little financing.
More men will be put to work over
at the Judge Shelter next week, to
assist in getting the big plant in read
mess for the resumption of work about
the first of September, says the Park
City Record.
While profits of United States
Refining & Mining company
Of $3.50, 600, after all charges for sec
Ond quarter this year are considered
good, it is expected they will be sub.
increased during current
quarter, says the Boston News Bureau.
Expectation is based on higher prices
for metals the company produces.
Colonel Daniel c. Jackling has run
across another mining bonanza neal
Gulf, in the state of Texas. This lat |
est find of Mr.. Jackling is 4 sulphur
mine, which is located in the county
Of MalagOrda. He has thousand
acres of land, and at depth of 1000
feet there has been discovered a fab
llously rich and large dead bed Of
sulphur.
Copper production in the mines OF
northern, Michigan will not get back
o normal during the current year.
919, unless there is some radical
hange in the labor situation, says the
Boston, News Bureau. The explana.
ion is perfectly simple-there are moi
nOugh men to do it. While a reas-
nable percentage Of the Michigan
liners are coming back from the au-
Omobile industries, there will not be
nOugh in total to offset the number
Tho left in the spring.
Manager G. e. Allen was at the
centennial Eureka mine and gave or
ers for pulling the pumps and dis.
ontinuing the campaign of work
vhich has for several months been
nder way on the 1000 level, which is
under the water level. II
understood that the pumps have al.
eady been removed and that nearly
300 feet Of workings below the water
,vel are now filling with water, says
ne Eureka Reporter. II
D. H. Hillhouse, former chief of pc
&c of Reno, New, is one of the lat
st converts to the possibilities of oil
evelopment. He, together with H. A. II
whitaker, one Of the wealthy ranch.
rs of Nevada, and HID. Mcconnell, II
ne of the largest oil operators in Tex. /!