The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1920-07-30
MINES AND MINING

The tonnage of ore produced by the
mines of the Park City district during
The past week shows considerable
Increase.
Considerable interest Is centering in
weli-drilling activity which will begin
in the next few days at Escalante.
Garfield county. Utah.
Practically all the leading selling
agencies report sales of copper 10 regu-
lar consumers ut 10 cents, covering
deliveries over the current quarter.
Shipments Of approximately fifty
tons Of ore 10 the Utah smelters are
being made daily from the Ward mine,
about twelve mites south of Ely.
Nevada,
Metal prices as quoted for the last
week by the Engineering and Mining
Journal show considerable Improve.
ment when compared with the week
preceding,
Ore production Of the mines of the
rintic district made large Increase
from total OF eighty-one carloads
for the previous week To "A total of l3a
carloads for last week
Silver values In the ore shipped from
the Emma mine In the Alta district
continue To hold up well. according 10
smeiter reports received nj the com.
pany's offices for the last lots shipped.
The Anakle sapphire fields In
Queensland had profitable year dur.
Ing 1919. Never before has the price
of gem stones risen SO high. and never
have so many buyers been doing busi.
ness ON the fields.
Stabalixing the prices of silver at 81
an ounce. together with the belief that
II Is sure of advancing 10 higher
levels, have brought about conditions
lending 10 the belief that bimetnllism
| may come within the next few years
| Jungo In attracting the attention Of
mining men at present and promises 10
become one of the important new ills.
| trlcts of the state OF Nevada In the
near future, a number of discoveries
In new ground having been made there
recently.
| Arrangements hnve been made
| whereby the old Jukes mine. situated
In Willard county. twenty miles from
Goss, The nearest railroad point on the
Salt Lake and san Pedro railroad and
ten miles south OF Kanosh. will DO
| worked.
The Bering River and Matanuska
coal fields IN Alaska, according 10
report OF representatives from various
government departments. contain high.
grade bitumlnous coal much better
than that on the Pacific seaboard. as
we'll as some anthracite.
Hearings of the federal trade COM
mission inquiry OF charges OF oppres-
sion OF competition preferred against
the Minerals Separation North Amer
! lean corporation and respondents, were
adjourned al Salt Lake last week to
be reopened In Denver
, Work at the big Juaiin mine, near
, Juneau, Alaska. has been stopped aud
VIII not be resumed until Belgian
francs get back 10 reasonable" ex,
change basis, Jean Nonophem, prcsi.
dent of the Belgian company which
owns the mine. announced recently.
/ That the Silver King Consolidated
, Mining company was acting within Its
powers when IL sold 290S9 shares of
it's capital stock at Sl.00 share In
. June, 1914, though the note for which
the stock was security was not due
until the following September, was the
decision reached by the supreme court.
According 10 a report coming from
the Sunshine Mining company, n Big
|. creek, Idaho, properly. very good prog
ress IL being mnde Ia cleaning the old
! tunnel. Only small force In being
employed on the repair work. and
since starting operations two months
ago the tunnel has been reilmbered for
distance of almost 800 feet
. The IendvlIie Mines company. oper.
, ating the IIarnan siycr-lead mine,
D forty mites north Of Gerlach. In north
, ern washoe county, Nevada, has pur.
elnsed FROM the Newpnss Mining COM
pany one 100 horsepower and one 10.
. horsepower scml.Diescl engines. which
e are now being dislnnntled at the New.
:. pass mine. In western Lander county.
e for transportation 10 the Leadviile
9 mine.
Mineral county, Nevada. officials
: are instruciing property owners ana
y residents generally OF the Broken iIills
district 10 pay no attention To tax as
sesancnt notices being sent 10 them
: by Nye county, as result OF recent
: action 81 Sye county commissioners
, In establishing ii voting precinct en-
> brneing NeA ada's new rich silver camp
: aud thereby cluiming IL as part OF that
|. | county.
!. Joseph Harris ard Vernon Dalton
4, were In Moab. Utah, last week on
a business connected with the discovery
e made 10y them recently Of large num-
= bcf Of earnotite claims In the carisso
O mountains. The claims. numbering