The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1920-02-06
MINES AND MINING

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Work Is going ahead nicely and ore
8 being extracted from three shafts
4 the Jib Mining company's property |
At Basin, Mont.
A general advance of 81 per ton on |
ali grtdes' Of phosphate rock has been
nut into effect by the Phosphate Elk
port association.
Buikburnett field has a production
Of aisut 5000 barrels of oil daily,
Ind he Ranger field about 5000 bar
rvs. Both fields are in north Texas.
Tn, Montana Idaho Copper company
IN reforming great service to the.
mine operators in the East Occur
Meme region in its long and deep
AnVration near the MOntana-Idaho
/ a Adair, Idaho.
aphtion of the Goshen Valley
M cenpany's line to point di-
, to the ore bins Of the Tin
Z prodsl mine. among the heavi-
vas a''hounSof the Tintic district.
A well-mihenst week.
mas In the last twcA streak, which
"'aehed from one aiioet of progress
:" 'we've inches, is beinvaalf inches
"e main working adit ortfSpwed by
NINE IN Big Cottonwood canvoagger
Inc new units for the pumnIny MIA :
~ ne .hlef Consolidated Mining com
pans az Eureka have been deI;ra..,,
- 'ne mine and it is understood ~.
the installation of tho -----es--J ssiiort
Will be f..,-
The Davis-Daly Mining company of
Butte has shown an im4roved report
of the aliens in its employ over those
of the last quarter. The company has
los aliens In its employ Of whom So
have failed to take out naturalization
papers.
Canada will standhrdize its coal
mines. that the purchaser of coal NAV
be assured In advance of it's character
and quality according to official gov
ernmental standards. This work is
being undertaken by fuel research
board, recently appointed by. the privy
council.
The richest silver mine ever record
Ell in Canada has been located near
Stewart, forty miles south of the Pre-
mier mine and about forty miles from
the Alaskan border. Already more
than twenty tons valued at $4,000
nave been mined and await shipment.
1t is reported.
Coal which was obtained by the
Great Northern from the lake termi-
nal during the recent coal strike with
which to keep in operation trains on
the Montana lines, is to be replaced
at once with supplies from the Cascade
county mines, according to the officials
of that system.
A heavy demand for high grade
phosphate rock has developed from
abroad, which has given the relatively
few American producers a better out
look than ever before, according to
the Boston News Bureau. Prior TO
the war. about 1,OO0,OO0 tons were
shipped abroad annually.
The Walker brothers. who were long
prominent in oil operations in Alberta
and later in Wyoming; have decided.
after making an investigation of the
Musselshef field, in Montana, to put
down well there and will have a
rig on the ground as soon as the
weather conditions improve.
So encouraging have been the re-
suits OF the campaign of development
work prosecuted on the twenty-seyen
claims constituting the property of the
Lodato Mining and Milling company.
situated sixteen miles east of Wend.
over, that officials of the organization
plan TO begin work on an adit.
Copper sales are continuing the pace
set up when the metal began to move
In November of last year, according
to the Boston News Bureau. In the
first ten days of the current month
one of the largest New York selling
agencies sold 2S.OOO.OOO pounds of COP.
per for domestic delivery well into
Ii is understood that the Chief Con-
mine at Eureka. Utah. broke
all previous records in the production
of silver during the year 1919. The
mines output of silver for 1918
to a total of 2.354. 19S ounces
and for that year it ranked fifth among
the silver producing properties of the
United States and Canada.
During 1919 the value gain in the
output of Mountaineering ores in Colo
RADIO was S675.000. or % per cent in
,reasing the total number under this
head to S3.375,OO0. says the Rocky
Mountain News. What il will be nj
he end of the present year il is diff
lcuit TO guess, as new and strong fac
.ors have appeared In the field.
The latest report of the North Butte
Mining company ascribes n remarkable
'eduction in the cost of producing cop