The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1920-01-23
MINES AND MINING

Ore from the Columbus Rexall mine |
in the Alta district Is being hauled by |
teams steadily TO the railroad at Wa
satch.
The management of the Iron King |
has decided 10 sink another shaft in
the southwest part of the company's
large mineral tract in Tintic district.
Mining operations, interrupted TEN.
porarily al the Stockton Standard
mine To retlmber the. main working
shaft sunk TO the 10 level. have been
resumed.
Within the next few days officials of
the Beaver Copper company confident
~ expect To cut al depth highly min
eralized fissure from which shipments
were made in the workings 100 feet
above.
New machinery is being taken ont
10 the property Of the Diamond Queen
Mining company, in the south end of
the Tintic district. and preparations
are being made for sinking the main
working shaft.
New machinery Is being taken out to
the property OF the Diamond Queen
Mining company. in the south end OF
the Tintic district. and preparations
are being made for the sinking of the
main working shaft.
BY driving diamond drill hole from
the bottom of the new shaft at the
Chief Consolidated mine IL has been
possible 10 drain the shaft of the flow
of water which has interfered TO some
extent with sinking operations.
With the present high price Of sill
Yer and the increasing valuation Of
both zine and lead the future of Park
City mines, which have been produc-
ing for half century, is brighter than
it has been for considerable time.
The roaster of the Judge Mining &
Smelling company mt Park City re-
sumed operations last week. The
| Judge plant is an electrolytic smell
| ter. with II daily capacity of from ten
| TO fifteen tons OF zine, 800 per cent
pure.
Recent developments at the Gold
Crown mine are tending To prove that
those who hold 10 the idea that the
ore deposition of Beaver county is
merely superficial may have TO revise
| their ideas as TO the mineralogy of the
| district.
The Simon Silver-Lead company al
Nina. Nevada. has purchased IA mum.
| ,nf at ~ md
is moving them in and refitting them
in order To provide accommodations
for the rapidly increasing force of EN-
ployees.
Ore shipments from the mines oil
| the Tintic district last week made III
| increase of nine carloads ms compared
| with the previous weeks total. \ 10
tai of lat carloads of ore were shippe,
by producers of the district durin,
the week.
With ferro-vanadium quoted M from
$3.50 TO 81 per pound and yanndlun
pentoXide AT Sc per pound. ii is rea
sonable To expect that the vanadiun
ores of the yellow Pine mining dis
trict Clark county, Nevada, Will re
ceive some attention.
The Arrowhead Consolidated min
shaft, i'm Arrowhead district. Nevada
which is down 100 feet, Is In the sui
phide zone. An encouraging amour
of good ore has been opened up re
is reported. The new hoist is com
pleted for operations.
Two dividends were declared at
meeting of the directors of the knigh
companies. A dividend of 2h cent
per share. totaling $4,000. will be pal,
to Iron Blossom shareholders, Will
dividend OF cent per share. total
ing S1s.IJ0, will be paid to Drago
Consolidated shareholders.
The oil land leasing bill Is held N
by a serious deadlock between the sen
ate and the house over section II
which provides n maximum 320Uacr
lease To claimants on lands covered b.
the Taft withdrawal, and provides fl
the disposition OF lands In excess q
that amount. claimed by prosperity
lessees.
With record OF forty-ihree shiT
ping mines and leases, the Tiniie mil
ing district in Utah rounded out ia
fiffieih year of It's discovery wit
more shipping mines than any othe
mining camp in the world and with th
first location In the camp. the sur
beam claim. still among the list 9
shippers.
Evidences of a great year for tn
mining industry are now cumulative
Eastern banking interests are begif
ming Ia see much better year for COZ
per, the lead aud zinc markets hay
been gradually Improving and the 81
yer market has again started To climl
At the same time reports from ever
camp I'm the state of Nevada, Uia
and Idaho announce the starting {
new work. the opening up of old pro-
critics. the beginning of a new er
for the mining industry.