The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1921-01-07
MINES AND MINING

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Ketchum district in Idaho.
Good reports are coming In IRON
The Sunshine district, located about
sixteen miles south of Ninnemucca,
Nev., in the Dun Glen range.
II il announced that English, French
and Belgian capital has become IN
rerested in oil shale lands i'll the
Uintah basin-40,OO0 acres Of such
lands
Current dividend Of 81 quarterly OF
the Anaconda Copper Mining company
viii either be reduced or passed at the
coming meeting Of the directors, says
the Boston News Bureau.
Such steady progress Is being made
at the new Tintlc Standard mill that
| officials OF the company believe that
the first operations can be begun at
the plant early In January.
Ore production Of Tintic mines for
the week ended December "a cOntin-
ued normal. A totnl Of 172 carloads
was shipped as compared with 1SO
| carloads for the previous week.
1t Is runored on good authority that
syndicate recently formed in Helena
will take over large acreage in the
Devils Basin In Montana and give that
structure thorough test for Oil.
The passage OF the bill by the house
extending the time of doing assess
ment work Is good news to the small
claim owners OF Nevada and through
out the mining regions of the west.
Hundreds Of diamonds, large pro-
portion of them of good size and the
first water, are being recovered from
the blue clay deposits which were dis
covered In Pike county, Ark, only u
few years ago.
Silver and lead mine operators Of
Utah have announced a reduction of
70 cents day in the miners wages.
The reduction affects men employed in
the three big camps--Park City, Bing-
ham and Eureka.
The well which was drilled in the
Woman's Pocket by the Tri-City and a
California syndicate Jointly, made the
fastest time in drilling of any well in
this field, says a Roundup, Mont, dis
patch, having drilled 1425 feet in IA
days.
A million dollar electrOlytic zinc re-
finery is to be built at Kellogg, Idaho,
by the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Min
ing and Contracting company, accord
ing to an announcement by Frank NJ.
Smith. director of the cOmpany's
smelter at Kellogg.
Development work has been sus-
pended at the property of the Tintic
Paymaster Mining company in the
North Tintic district. Officers of the
company say that the shutdown is but
temporary and that they will be going
again early In the new year.
Wesley Everett of the Amazon
Dixie company. Is authority for the
statement that the tunnel into the
Leslie property Is now more than 1000
feet long and is rapidly approaching
comes from Pocatello, Idaho.
The so-called "crater" of Canyon Di-
ablo in Arizona Is still as much mys-
terry AS 1t ever was. The supposition
is that it was formed by the impact of
giant meteor. Perhaps the projec-
tile was II comet. The crater is circu-
lar, three-quarters of mile in Diane
ter and 200 feet deep.
The borax or tincal deposits occur
ring in Tibet were probably the first
borates ever utilized. About 30 tons
were exported annually from India,
and this, which is practically all OBJ
tanned from Tibet and Ladakh, Is i'm
ported across the frontier In the Pun
jab and United provinces.
naturalization of a most promising
character has been opened up in the
Ubehebc mine, situated on the north
neck of Death Valley, in California.
-Four cars of ore averaging So per cent
lead and twenty-five ounces of silver
have already been shipped from this
mine from surface operations
Report of the status of the Tintic
.'tthdaiu hiiilS tollluHy ISSUED 10
stockholders recently shows that dur
ing the second and third quarters of
1920 the average gross assay content
of the ore was S43.53 per ton, and
freight and Smelter charges S2l.O7,
which leaves au average of So 46 per
ton.
The war minerals claims commits
sion. composed OF former Senator
John +. Shafroth of Denver. Horace
III. fomeroy and Philip NJ. Moore of
81. Louis, appointed as wartime body
TO expedite settlement of claims of
mining operators against the govern
men:. will finish its work and disbaud
shortly.
Officers Of the Lehi-Tintic COMPANY
are entirely pleased with the progress
that Is being made In the main work
ing shaft. which last week passed the
Sn Level. 1t is n matter of satisfaction
that the company has been able to con-
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