The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1920-03-12
MINES AND MINING

| Grating Wltllln tnlfIy DAYS.
Within thirty days dye plant will
be in operation at Silver Peak, New,
according to the Tonopah Daily Times.
This plant is being erected by the Sill
yer Peak Chemical company.
Shares in four companies organized
to develop mining properties which
have not shipped ore were listed and
called for the first time on the Salt
Lake stock and mining exchange last
week
The alchemists' dream of producing
| gold from base metals is not extrava-
CANT, asserted Professor Frederick
Soddy, head of the physical chemistry
department at Oxford, in a recent pub
LEGATION.
| Net proceeds of the Judge Mining
and Smelling company, of Park City,
| for the year 1919 totaled SAB, 455. 26,
according TO ii report from that com
pany filed with the state board of
| equalization.
Ore shipments from the mines of the
| Park City district totaled 400 tons
| last week as compared with total of
2264 tons the previous week. Ontario,
Judge and Silver King Coalition lead
the shippers.
Shipments from the Tintic district
for the past week totaled 149 carloads
of ore, as compared with 1873 ears for
last week. Chief Consolidated Tin
tic Standard, Iron Blossom and Dra-
gon were the heaviest shippers.
The Ruby Hill mine. situated at Eu-
reka, New, is one of the best equipped
mines in the state, according to the
Eureka Sentinel Not only is the equip
ment, adequate for all needs, but all
Of the machinery is in excellent condi-
ton.
At the property of the Eureka Bull
lion company a station for an air re-
ceiver has been cut at Il depth of $50
feet in the winZe sunk from the 800
level, and as soon as the air receiver
can be installed sinking will be re-
sumed
1t is believed that the phosphate in
dustry in Bear Lake county, Idaho. will
be the biggest in the United States
when the American Phosphate company
gets into full operation. There will be
four producing companies in the
county.
More than $50 applications for pros
pectOrS' permits under the mineral
lands leasing bill were filed last week
with the county recorder of Gar
field county at Panguitch. Utah. The
filings were all for oil lands in the
Escalante desert.
Oil men from various sections of the
west are now filing applications for
prospectOrS' permits under the prov-
slons OF the minerals land leasing bill
with the register of the Salt Lake land
office, more than sixty applications
being filed in one day.
At no time in many years has zinc
been in such demand especially from
abroad and it is now selling several
cents pound higher than last year.
with orders booked sufficient to keep
all the mines busy for months to come.
condition reflected in dividend re-
SYMPTOMS
Further development of the coal re-
sources of the Kemmerer. WyO.. sec
ton will be undertaken by a Utah cor
poratiOn which has articles of incOrpO-
ration ready for filing with the secre-
tary of state This company will take |
over the Star coal mine. located about |
eight miles from kemmerer, near Glen |
coe.
otah Apex issues its annual report |
Tor the fiscal year ending August 81, |
1919, showing loss after a reserve of |
slio,o49 for depreciation. depletion and |
taxes of S133,647. After deducing this
loss from the balance to credit on pre- |
vious years profit and loss account. |
there Is still Il profit and loss balance |
of S694,S43.
veterans of the mining industry.
who through the years following rbe
RECOMMENDATION of silver have predict
eel mat the mines of the Hamilton dis.
trict, about fifty miles west of Ely.
New, would some day regain their for
mer high rank as producers of the
whlte metal should soon see their pro-
phecy come true.
Mike kenney, while strollinr over
MS home property near Browns Flat
says dispatch from Standard. Cal
picked UP piece of rock and found
good sized color This aroused his
INTEREST ana he At once started
uiggihg. He sank a hole To the depth
VI SIN Feet and struck Il pocket of
s"ld. SO far he has mined $500.
'old ore, rivaling in value the fabu-
leus riches taken from the famous
"oiueh stairs of Leadville's Little
johnny is now being taken. according
10 me Denver Record. from the prop
cry OF the HEX Mining company. The
strike is said to be the richest ever
n'aoe on the hex mining property,
nor even excluding the fabulous wealth.
which "a tli - 1