The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-03-28
MINES AND NIE|N; NORTHWEST NOTtSI

American Smelling & Refining com.
pany's 1920 report will show 81 com
mon dividend earned, according to an
official
The United States geological survey,
department of 1.-THE interior, has just
published map of the oil and gas
fields Of Kansas.
The past few days the force at the
property of the Eureka Bullion, Tin
tic district, has been busy retimbering
section of the shaft which Is near
the 200 level.
Ore shipments by the mines of the
Park City district, total of 1854
tons of ore, for the past week made
a slight increase as compared with
the previous weeks total Of 1885 tons.
The copper mines of the Chitina
valley are the largest and richest thus
far developed in Alaska. Their sue
cessful development has been made
possible by the completion of the Cop
per River & Northwestern railroad,
which affords transportation to, tide
water.
The famous Nome placer gold
fields discovered in 1898 have now
produced gold worth nearly $SO,OO0,-
600. Much of the gold mined in that
region is won by the use of dredges.
Twenty-Five of these machines were in
operation in 1919 and made total
gold output of $45O,0O0.
The Simon-S ilyer-lead Mines com
pany has prepared prints of the flow
sheet of the mill now being construct
ed, and announces that construction is
60 per cent completed and that 80 per
cent of the machinery and materials
are on the ground, is the news that
comes from Nina, Nevada.
Returns thus far received by the
United States geological survey, de-
partment of the interior, from the
producers of potash in the United
States during 1920 indicate that the
output amounted to 167,346 short tons
Of crude potash salts containing 49,
625 short tons Of actual potash.
Some of the mining towns of the
Sierra Nevadas of California are iso-
lated by impossible barriers during
the winter time. Naturally the miners
are DESTROYS of keeping in touch with
the rest of the world, so 1t has been.
suggested that an all-year-rOund air.
plane line service be established.
Plans for the bringing together Of
the thousands Of miners train ed In
first-aid and mine rescue work by the
bureau of mines into local safety chap
tiers which would form component
units of national parent organiza-
ton, were developed at a meeting Of
the association just held in Washing
ton.
'"The twenty-fourth annual cOnven-
ton of the American Mining congress,
to be held in Chicago from October
II to p, promises to be the greatest
ever held in the history Of the or
ganization," declared John T. Burns.
assistant secretary of the American
Mining congress, in Salt Lake City en-
route to the coast.
One Of the largest and most import
ant transactions in mineral property
In the history of the Pacific coast has
been contaminated at San Francisco.
BY its terms, all rights and title to
newly discovered immense deposit of
borax in Clark county, New. goes to
F. M. (Borax) Smith, and incidentally
puts the former "borax king" back on
the throne again.
Directors of the Tintic Standard |
Mining company have declared q
dividend of s cents per share for the
first quarter of 1921. Reason for the
cutting Of the regular dividend rate
from 10 cents per share to cents is
believed to be the precariOus cOndl.
ton of the metal market, which makes
1t imperative for mining companies to
keep on hand large reserve to meet
emergencies.
Officials Of the Tintic STANDARD
Mining company are exceptionally
well pleased with the manner in which
the new milling plant has been oper.
ating. For the past month the Tintic
Standard mill has been treating an
average of nearly 100 tons of ore daily
and for the last ten days the average
has been quite close to $50 tons daily,
this last figure being the full capacity
of the plant.
From Montrose comes report, &C..
c0rding to the Rocky Mountain News
that the largest radium ore deal ever
made In Montrose was completed when
Andrew Nylund of the Gateway sec.
ton sold carload of carnotite ore to
G. Barlow Wilmarth of the MontrOse
radum sampler which will run con.
siderably in excess of $4,000. This ,
is the richest ore that has ever passed {
through the Montrose sampler. ,
The only diamond mine thus far dis. l
covered on the western hemisphere Is {
located in Pike county, Arkansas The 6