The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1920-02-13
MINES AND MINING


sinking the shaft at the Pinion Queen
property, Tintic district.
Stindt & Dohohue, operating in the
eastern Yuba section of the Phoebe
mineralized area are shipping steady
tonnage of silver-lead ore to the Salt
Lake market.
Steady development of the property
upon which such promising gold show
ings were discovered on the surface
is being prosecuted by the Nevada
Birch Greek Mining company.
In order to guard against any in
terruption of electric power service. the
Knight people are installing a steam
plant at the new shaft which they
are sinking on ground on the Tintic
drain tunnel.
A total of fifteen mines participated
In the shipments from the Tintic dis
trict for the past week, during which
total of 149 carloads was shipped
as compared with 161 cars for the
week previous.
A productive future for the new
Lincoln district seventy miles west
+ of Tonopah, just over the California
line, is predicted by pioneer pros
pector, who has just returned from the
, new silver fields.
1t is thought that within the next
ten days the new machinery will be In
| running order out at the property of
the Independence Mining company in
Tintic district and that sinking opera
| tons can be resumed.
| Metal mining companies are already
| filing with the Utah state board Of
| equalization their statements of min
| ing machinery. improvements and net
| proceeds of last year, in accordance
with the states taxation laws.
Based on federal reserve board fig
ures, outward shipments of gold in
1919 exceed imports by 1921 $40, 400.
This is SOL 1924 larger than the ag-
gregate net gain by this country on
world gold movement since December
81, 1916.
| The Dry Piney oil field. in Lincoln
county, Wyoming, is probably one Of
| Tie IlSIleSt vi ItIuS III Tic NOliu ~
lies east of the Wyoming range, on
what is known as La Barge ridge. at
an elevation of about 5000 feet above
sea level.
Engineers for the Utah Copper COM
pany, both in Salt Lake and in New
York. have been estimating the cost
of construction Of new steam plant
to supply that company with the power
required to operate its mills at Magma
and Arthur.
Ore reserves at the Spruce Monarch
mine. already large enough SO that
the company ten days ago completed
arrangements to ship carload of sill
ver-lead ore from the loading station
at Tobar, New, have been immeasur-
bly, increased recently.
Ore shipments from the mines OF
the Park City district for the week
just closed total 1924 tons, as com
pared with 2344 tons for the week
previous. Eight shippers, the largest
number for many weeks, participated
in shipments during the week.
| h6uiN' o. hthh
1t is estimated total sales of copper
since the inception of the buying move
ment early in November amount to
700000,000 pounds. This is the big
gest business for three-m snth period
in the history of the industry.
Production Of anthracite coal in
Pennsylvania in 1919 was the lowest
in seven years. There were mined
Sc 300, 900 tons, compared with 9S,S26
600 tons in 1918. Bitmuinous coal pro
duction reached the lowest level since
1915, with 45S063.O00 tons, nearly 2l,
100000 tons less than last year.
Gas masks. such rs were used by the
American army in France. are To be
supplied men of the United Verde
Mining company at Jerome, Ariz., tc
overcome sulphur fumes while they
make the last dash To put out the fire
which has been raging in the mine, faT
underground. for twenty years.
\ process of mining coal without
power has been perfected. according
TO the Rocky Mountain News, by 4
Denver man. ID. Vance Sickman. who
has spent fourteen years of research
and painstaking labor 10 perfect the
appliances used in the process ant
their method of application, TO the Goa
mining industry.
Announcement is made of the pat
enting by Frank Navin of Salt Lake
"A new flotation process of extrac
ing oil from oil sands. Mr.. NaviI
claims for the process that ii vii
open up new field for oil production
that will assure the production of oi
sufficient To meet the demands of the
country for hundreds of years 10 come
Fairy tales abound in stories oi
houses built of marble, with gold col
umns studded with gems. but Butte
is probably the only city In the worlt
that can boast of homes really bull
of silver and manganese. Thousands