The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1920-02-27
MINES AND MINING

cent copper at its Bertha claim.
Indications of INTERPRETATION mt the |
Logger mine. situated in the Big Cot
progress.
Davis-Daly Copper company pro-
duced 1,l92. 900 pounds of copper last |
month. 1OO,O0O-poupd increase over
December.
South America and the far east alb
sorked the bulk of the exports OF gold
and silver from the United States dur
ing the year 1919.
An electrically driven hoisting en-
CINE has been just Installed In an
English coal mine that can lift $50
tons an hour from vertical depth Of
800 feet.
Three feet of rich ore. with gray
copper and chalcopyrite predominant
| ing. is showing in the face of the
| south drift Of the Eureka Lilly mine
on the 1850 foot level.
! East Butte paid dividend of 80
cents per share on December 81. 1919,
and it is thought probable that pay
ment of perhaps 81 per share will DO
declared for current quarter.
A total of nineteen mines partici-
pated in the shipment of ore from the
Tintic district during the past week.
Shipments of ore from the mines of
the district aggregated 14l carloads.
The new strike made few days ago
in the Bell-Prout lease at the north
end of the Buckskin National Gold
Mining company's property, in the Ma
tional district, in Nevada, Is proving
to be a bonanza.
Shipment Of couple of carloads OF
high-grade hematite iron ore will be
made from the Bessemer Consolidated
Mining company's property, four miles
I'D the Brunswick canyon, near Car
son City. Nevada.
Twenty-six bars of gold and silver
constituted the latest results of the
mill run Of the West End Consoii-
dated Mining company during the
final period in January, according 10
the Tonopah Miner.
Shipments of ore from the Park City
mines continued normal during the
past week, with Ontario leading, Sill
J yer King Coalition, second. and Judge
; | Mining and Smelling third. A total
. of 1859 tons was shipped from the
, district.
full face of frst-class ore was
struck on the 1450 level of the Tintit
Standard mine shaft No. last week
The 145O level is the lowest lever o.
the mine. Recently IL station was GU
. on this level and an east drift startet
from the shaft.
The expectations of the manage
. ment of the Eureka Croesus compah!
! when ii formulated extensive develop
/ ment plans inaugurated some TIM
ago, are proving well founded. Ever.
weeks work is improving the forine
showings of ore.
+ Mexico's supply of petroleum. 4
worked thoroughly" would be create
than the entire production If the UNI
ed States. according to the Mexican
department of industry and commerce
as quoted by the Mexico CITY news
paper Excelsior.
PROSECUTORS arriving at Nome, aia'
ka. recently told of great Naiies
nlacer gold ore believed buried b'
meath huge age-old blanket OF ias
which stretches for miles along u
right shore of the lnmachuk river ]
tho Kotzebue country north of Non
Net proceeds of the Utah Cope
company for 1919. according to r.
mort made to the state board OF equa
iyation were 5000, O33.36. The con
many will pay taxes on an assesse
] valuation of three times that amour
- for 1920. as the value OF the mn
proper.
As a consequence of withdrawn
the bonus of 20 cents per day I'M
has been paid To mine employees
Tonopah and Divide since settiemel
~ the strike was made. November
practically all the men employeo
I the four big mines of Tonopah qu
, work last week.
) A development of far-reaching II
portance to the mining Industry
clark county, Nevada, has been set
I motion through the contamination
4 the deal whereby the Duncan mn
/ Nelson TOWNSHIP. and water rights III
| other valuable mining property I'D
i dorado canyon were taken over by
new corporation.
= Laws modifying taxes imposed
the chihuahua state authorities we
y passed recently. One mobiles
70 state tax ON mining. placing ie
u of > per cent upon the value OF !
= metals. but establishing scale
metals of lower value, requiring tn
9 one fourth of l per cent to IA ]
cent. according To their grade.
Twenty-Five feet of sixteen doll
ore and seven feet of 500 ore
been opened up in the crosscut
fourth level of the Goldfieid Coist