The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1920-04-30
MINES AND MINING.

obc VI hut huSt eaE TafpANa l
from the Tintic mill last week. This
product. containing fairly high grade
values, is collected from the fiues of
the several roasters.
During the week the Tintic milling
plant will resume the treatment of
nit the installation of siuicing sys-
tenn for the tailings.
a large deposit Of kaolin M Sho-
shone. north of Tecopa. Nevada. on
the Tonopah & Tidewater railroad. is
being investigated by the Standard oil
company and the Armours.
The Olympic Mines company. operat-
ing at Once, Mineral county. Nevada.
has started construction of a 45-ton
cyanide mill 10 replace the 1OO-ton
plant which was destroyed on the |
night of November u.
During the past week the Tintie |
mines have suffered to some extent on |
account Of the strike OF railway em- |
ployees. being unable to get ears need |
| ed to take care of the regular tonnage
of ore from this district.
Much activity is reported in connec
ton with the treatment of the deposits
Of oil-saturated sands In Routt county,
| Colorado. and ii is not unlikely that
they will be developed in large COM
mercial way at an early date.
| Nevada Consolidateds annual report
for the year ending December 81,
L - - = b.p vi
sum is equivalent to CD cents per share
as against Sl70 per share earned in
the previous year. and S497 per share
in 1917.
Within the next few days the cross
cut on the SOO-foOt level Of the White
Caps, now nearly 400 feet long, is ex-
pected to cut the vein, an event that
is probably looked forward TO more
anxiously than anything else in south
ern Nevada at the present time. says
the Garfield Tribune.
Notwithstanding revolutionary con-
ditions in Mexico, the property of the
Alvarado Mining and Milling company
during 1919 milled 116,O95 metric
tons of ore. yielding 2.03S, 1856 ounces
of silver and 1901 ounces of gold. The
net earnings of the company last year
We're approximately $1,15O,OOO.
Dundee-AriZona has been doing no
sinking for several months, suspension
being due to an thrush of surface wa
ter from a shattered vein, added TO
water already troublesome. The wafer
level now stands at 600 feet. The
rainy season now being considered at
an end, pumping is TO be resumed.
, An oil discovery that is believed
by practical operators in the industry
] to be of far-reaching importance has
r been made by the Transcontinental Oil
a company in the Jimenez district, about
y IT'S miles southwest of Matamoras
n northwest of the Tampico oil fields.
e The Tintic Drain tunnel is being
driven forward at the rate of 300 feet
per month, with the machine drills
l. cutting through solid formation which
requires no timbering The tunnel Is
. now in Il distance of over Il mile, and
: while timbers were necessary for the
! first 300 feet, the formation after
wards changed and better headway
was possible.
D AT the Seattle mining convention las
week. approximately 1000 delegate:
. were present, with between 200 and 30t
from British Columbia points. Thu
, most important action was the unani
g nous Endorsement Of the McFadder
bill providing for an excise tax of Sl'
an ounce upon all gold used for othe
than monetary purposes and premium
of the same amount upon newly mine,
:. gold.
= News of one of the most importan
r mining discoveries that has been mad
II in months In the Divide district ha
I been given official sanction by Man
h ager A. /. Darcy of the Victory prop
" erty, says the Tonopah Times. At +;
n depth of eleven feet in the Wine SUM
IF from the 200-foot level of II body o
r. solid ore having a width of four fee
20 was penetrated that gives assay value
lie of from SS1 g. 10 S:}30.95 ton in COL
d. and silver.
tory than the Methusaleh of all mines
the Rio Tinto. situated fifty-one mile
from the seaport Of Huelya, in the prs
=. vince of that name, which lies IN III
" extreme southwestern border Of SPAN
% near the Portuguese boundary. Thi
to vast copper deposit. which, ii Is EST
tn mated has produced millions of ton
tn of ore and which still has reserves {
130.0o0000 tons of ore, has bee
worked for more than 1900 years.
Pumps are now being installed 10 III
water the main working Shaft. sun
on ledge approximately coo fee
north of the Simon Silyer-Lead Mine
company's main working shaft. nes
Nina. Nevada by former owners. The'
operators. after striking the ore an