The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1920-03-05
MINES AND MINING

die week preceding.
An oil rig IL being hoiste'i on the
site % The original Uncle Toms cabin,
according TO word reaching Mobile
from Natchitoches. La.
Tintic people are watching operations
out ut the Big Hill with considerable
| interest. and expecting some important
developments at depth of 600 feet.
The new Tintic Drain Tunnel shaft
now has depth Of 333 feet and the
water. which slowed up the sinking to
some extent, now appears to be de-
creasing.
! A total of seventeen Tintic mines
participated in the shipments OF ore,
which aggregated 15S carloads, last
week as compared with IL total Of TO
ears for the week previous.
| 4 gold strike made in the cedars
near Eureka has started Il new mining
excitement What is called the Ce'lars
| X n wide. fan-shaped anticiine near the
end of Prospect mountain.
Conditions are said 10 be exception
ally favorable ut the property OF the
Lehi-Tintic company In North Tintic,
where one of the first important breaks
has just been cut by the new tunnel.
Officers Of the Independence Mining
company Of East 'rintic state that now
that the power machinery has been
made and the new machinery placed in
operation they will award IL contract
for sinking the main working shaft.
| The Iron Kings branch of the new
| East Tintic railroad on that section
of the line which cuts through the
dump at the mouth of the Iron King
tunnel is completed and 1t will be but
ment will be taken away.
The Monticello Coal company which
was organized some time ago and which
for several weeks has had men ut
skirts of Monticello, Utah. is fully con
| fident of striking il large vein Of coal
within the next few days.
Arrangements for the erection of a
mill upon the Jib Mining company's
property at Basin. Mont, have been
complete. Machinery for the equip
inent of the plant. which will have IL
capacity of from 500 to 6OO tons, will
be ordered and shipped to Basin us
soon rs possible.
Stockholders of the HALEY Qdaho)
bonanza mine are happy over the pros
poets of good season and have al-
ready made arrangements for running
II long tunnel as soon as the snow gets
off the hills. The main ledge of the
mine l. galena, carrying silver and
gold IN paying quantities.
The famous old district of Hamilton.
situated fifty miles west of Ely. which
| in the early days OF silver mining in
Nevada ranked third IN output among
the districts of the state. with rec
ord production of something like forty
million dollars. is again rapidly coming
To the front as Il producer.
Utah Copper company's plant ut
Magma and Arthur, including the real
estate. is valued al SSG,1. I73. accord
ing To schedule filed with the Utah
state board of equalization and assess
ment. The Magma plant is valued ut
8.toI.o56 and the Arthur plant mt ST.
3t1,G6. Real estate is scheduled M
SIe,. 73..
"A. II. Witcher, president of the Ely
National Gank. Joseph V. Murphy and
others of Ely have organized the Cor
nell Mining company for the purpose
of taking over and developing the old
Cornell mines of Hamilton. Neyado
which during recent years produced
something more than S1O0ow from
surface workings.
The Piermont Mining comnany.
which recently took over the old Pier.
pont mines situated In the Shell creek
range about thrty-five miles e,st of
Ely, \eNa,h,. has Installed its compress
sor plant and now has three shifts
"t men employed in driving n la0o, foot
tunnel ~ connect the lower with Tho
upper workings of the property. which
viii give 500 feet of hacks for sto,i,g
\ '''N WI TIT reconstruction tf TIM
building housing the supplies and
quarters far The employees of the
Logger mine in big Cottonwood cam.
N"n which WAS entirely tcstroyed NV
tlre recently, has been commenced
copper Imports into The ,nitsI
states IN 1910 fell off 10y more Than
thirty million pounds compared with
lalS, according Ia reports m The d.-
l@rtm"nt of commerce During tha
past YEAR l2tt1a.or pounds of eo,,-
per, Naued ~ >235li.u.u. we're Inn.
ported, against lG.2l64Sl bounds
Valued n %'ii1A S64 in IotS
The cn'lmlt,ce appointed Mt ,h.
l"ni meeting of The boards If Nv.
anu t>meraitia counties in Tonanab
a'rerd ns ." the Gohlfjeld rribon,.
ha> formulated a plan under which il
i helSH Z" secure the necessary SIM.
p"rI for the continued operation of The
Builfros Il Goldfield railroad This
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