The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-04-04
Mines AND MlEI,,j

The chief metals produced from III,
ores Of the Occur dAlene region o
Idaho are lead and zinc, with minol
amounts Of copper, silver and anti
ImOny.
Mines of the Tintic district increas
led production during the past week tt
a total Of TIA carloads of ore, as com
pared with an output Of 155 cars fol
the previous week.
| Forty-eight per cent of companies
engaged in mining and quarrying re
ported last year no taxable net income
Instead they reported deficits which
tOtaled ST. ,473, 129.
! After nearly three weeks and hall
spent in repairing the timberjng Of
the Eureka Bullion shaft, drifting
operations have been resumed on the
925 level and the 1150-foOt.
Manufacturers of metal and metal
products paid larger amount in fed
eral taxes in 1918 than any class OF
corporations, and agriculture and re
lated industries paid the least.
The production Of magnesite in the
United States in 1920 increased 81
per cent in quantity over that of 1919
The entire output was made by two
states, California and Washington.
Production of ore by the mines OF
the Park City, Utah, district for the
week ending March 70, total of 1888
tons, shows a decrease as compared
WITH the previous weeks output of
1864 tons.
| With large tonnage Of high-grade
lore exposed on the 3OO-fOOt level of
the Standard Metals mine, arrange
ments have been made to put the mill
in commission at once, says a special
from Reno, New.
Nine feet of ore which samples
across its whole width forty ounces of
silver and q per cent lead has been
opened up on the 4OO-foot level of the
Spruce Monarch mine, situated about
twenty-four miles from Tobar, New.
Calumet & Heca has just filled or
ders for 125,OO0 pounds of metal for
domestic consumers. 1t has no orders
for foreign account. Some small sales
have been booked for delivery the lat
ter part of March, all for domestic use.
Suit to recover taxes amounting to
$69O7 alleged to have been collected
unlawfully by. the treasurer of Beaver
county, Utah, has been filed in the
United States district court by the
South Utah Mines and Shelter COM
.pany.
Several new companies which pro-
pose to develop coal or oil lands in
Idaho are being successfully financed,
Notwithstanding the scarcity of money
and the difficulty of arOusing interest,
at this time, in new promotion
schemes 's.
III. X. Thurber, superintendent of the
Tungsten Products company, was in
Moab, Utah, last week en- route to the
mines in Dry Valley. He stated that
the company is making efforts to
double the production of carnotite ore
from its claims.
Although the outlook for foreign
silver is not at present of the best.
with foreign silver mines shutting
down and all of the production of the
United Statets being brought under the
of the Pittman act by the
treasury department at 81 per ounce,
domestic white metal producers are
facing better future than other
metal miners.
As soon as the snow goes there will
be "a great revival of the silver mining
industry in the Chihuahua and Monte
yuma mining districts in Colorado. The
Did camp of Chihuahua at one time
was about the busiest spot in Summit |
county; when silver was sold for SIPS !
per ounce, the miners and prospectors
ore that carried frOm>1OOO to |
,ver 10000 ounces of silver per ton.
Canada's metal and mineral produc-
ion during 1920 has been valued, ac-
,Ording to preliminary report, at /
SIT ,775OSO, which is greater than the
otal reached during any preceding |
'ear. Compared with the production
ii 1919, valued at $176,6S6. 800, an in
'rease of $41,O8S,6 800, or 23.3 per cent,
$ shown, and compared with 1918 the
previous maximum year, the increase
$ $6,473,1S3, or 3 per cent.
If there was ever mine in which an
IRE body was discovered under the
most discOuraging conditions, 1t is in
ioldfield Great Bend. The manage
nent has had to contend with heavy
water and swelling ground that bulged
he timbers to the extent of closing
rift or crosscut if left to itself if but
or Il short time. All these difficulties
ave been overcome and the reward
S an ore body of considerable Inn
'Ortance.
The spectacular advance made by
he stock of Eureka Croesus, at Eure-
a, New, which carried the price from
0 cents to $3.50, is ascribed to rumOr
hat Henry Ford, Of automobile fame,
as become a heavy stakeholder in the