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Show n j EVENING NEWS DESERET A number of leases was tana mines, operated at the Red Bird -- j successfully mine and 20 car loads of high grade New Ore Disclosures Have: Been Made in Idaho Mining Fields Promising High Value , ora was shipped to market carrying values ranging from 20 to 50 per cent lead with an ounce of silver to each unit of lead. Old Mines Medved, At Bay Horse the advanced price of silver Induced a revival of operation at the old Ramshorn mine. A large sorting plant was built and areserve portloiL of L0 tons storage of ore shipped to market, containing about 50 per corit and 160 ounces stiver, This property is extensively developed and if silier stays at a decent figure, should become a, good producer as It proven resource aggregate more than 20,000 tons of betore. ter than The Wilbert mine, on Little Lost river, was successfully In operated October throughout the year and exhibited an ore shoot at Its level 8 feet thick nearly half of which was clean 60 per cent lead ora and the balance high grad milling or. A new electric hoist and compressor plant was installed at this mine A straightening of the shaft on a uniform incline from the level was well surface to the underway. , A small compressor plant was In- . stalled on the adjoining Wilbert Ex-tensloh min for the purpoee of longA cross cut tunnel development. number of other small prospect north.and south of the Wilbert were operated In a email way and aome very in-- , tereating lead Ore result exposed. In the Gilmore district 50 miles north of Wilbert the two principalo .Latest Out and Pittaburg-Idahmin", were producers and a dozen other properties made shipment from In amount varying from district this ! on to ten car loads of lead eilver mln- -, t era! carrying about 20 per and 15 ounces silver per ton and usuoxide. ally with a high excess of iron Install Sew Equipment. The Important equipment feature of this district was at the 'Pittsburg mine, whoee splendid or700development feet below in its deepest level at the surface has warranted the Instalsubstantial plant a mining lation of and the construction by raising and incline sinking, of a new 50 degree shaft 700 feet deep which ha been Deequipped with a sist engine power plant electric hoist ore bottom The and station pumps resources of this mine welt warrants which this extensive new improvement about has been put In at a cost of 100-oun- 200-to- 800-fo- ot I h 4 'l I 4' Xr -- . ROBERT N. BELL Suite Mine Inspector of Idaho IHE progress of the Idaho min ping ore resource of the mine and to a 1,000 ton daily capacity mill mg 111 supply industry during that is contemplated for next years throughout the year up to No- equipment plan, to utilize a vast re-- 1 vember, when a evere ehejjt source of steam shovel capacity of N experienced, due" to" the serious lower grade ore Thar hfiV hSeirleft qjurop in the metal values of our in the extensive development apd opprinciple product In lead, eilver and eration of the property for it crude apie, hit been decidedly marked and shipping value. Adjoining the Empire Copper comlywperoua and ha resulted in the of new enterprise and the pany's ground to the west a eerie of the , jistallatlon of more new machinery new discoveries were made duringbearfor mining development and or re- - year of very desirable liktetion than at any annual period in ing iron oxide fluxing ore that found a ready market at the Halt Lake smelttie history of the 1 1 f .The final figure of the metal otrt-- i ers. These deposit are of the Utah ara not available at this date, but type In limestone and porphyry forII I and occur as immense lense will approximate 350,000,00 i pounds mation shoot (S up to 20 feet thick. The shaped lead, 1 1,000,000 ounce of j irt.MO.O0O propounds of sine; 14,000,000 Keenan properly, of this group, and , Miunda cop shipped 10,000 tons of pet and 40,000 ounce gold duced I with a total arose shipping value of crude ore carry ing high iron oxide and f between 140,000.000 and 30,000,000. fair silver-lea- d values, between March I The relapse of metal values lae in and October. The adjoining Horsethe fall, together with the uncertain shoe group, on the Fitzgerald lease, tons " application of the excess profit tax on shipped between 2,000 12andto 2,000 15 ounces I! mines, also the excessive and appar- - of crude or carrying cent to 25 per cent duly rather fixed increase In operat-ifi- g sliver and II periron excess. A dozen costa ha cast a shadow on the fu-- lead with high In the and other thro of the Industry, Labor has been prospect ' a scarce and hard to get, especially same vicinity marketed ore in car ! i underground operatives, that very load quantities. Halt ' little new development work has been finance Mine. t done in the large properties in the At Copper Basin, 2 3 mile west of ,r fv.eur dAlenes, whose extensively de-- r, Mackey, the Copper Basin Mining or resources have been vbloped another enterprise financed , f heavily drawn upon aa a result to take company, ll Luke capital installed a I , 1 I r - vantage of the prevailing high mar-ii,- 5 by Halt compressor plant and sawmiH f kTt during the greater portion of the and pushed of a campaign vigorous yar. on its extensive la the other districts of the stater deep development of claims which embraces a especially in south central Idaho, group zone of copper mineralization in wide iipr tributary te Salt Lake City a number of important new or disclos- sedimentary rocks ures have been made that give decided with a big eruptive crest of monzan-It- e porphyry. Fifty car load of crude Promise, at this time, of expanding was shipped from this property tonnage capacity, especially in lead, ore that varied In copper contents from sever and copper mineral. 2 per cent to 15 per cent. The interCoeur dAlene District esting feature of this development The most notable center of Idaho during live year was a body of copper mining activity, outside of the Coeur sulphide mineral whose partial ded'Alene district, wae that of the Mac-- : velopment demonstrates a dimension kay district where the Empire Copper of 20x60x120 feet. It represents a company enjojeil a record year in replacement of a soft lime shale forproduction of crude shipping ore and mation. A series of flat dipping beds started a large plan of permit tie tit rle- - 20 feet thick that are connected with i. velopment ' and equipment Including two vertical fissures, one of which has aa acres tramway three miles long produced some handsome shipping with a capacity of 115 tons an hour values In high grade copper carbonil I n ie deliver the ore from the mine on ate and oxide Ore. The deposit very f , White Knob mountain te their mill much resembles the type of mineralI and smelter site on the railway tie.- ization for which the principal minea 4 Mackey. , A 1,500 cubic foot air com- - of Bark City are noted and gives defipressor was another Improvement re- - nite- promise of a big tonnage capaf cently completed and put in operation city of good concentrating copper ore , by this company. They have also con-- 1 when more fully developed. j traded for a three compartment raise Twenty miles further west the Phi - to connect their ( 000 foot tunnel at Kappa mine was equipped with a 1,000-folevel with the Alberta the J compressor plant and it 51 tunnel at the TOO level and to et was undergoing intelligent developthe latter tunnel with their big ment on a senes of thick bands of oxidized gone of surface ore, a ver- -j complex smelting ore cat . ing good j , tieal four compartment raise 600 feet silver vahiee. , high is well under In the Salmon River districts the way. These x tensive improvements are designed to Golden Sunbeam mill was built and facilitate the of the handling ship- put Jn operation an ores from Mon j lead-silv- er tte 1 fir ; jf sub-leas- es Utm five-dri- closely-associat- ed I 1 . - -- ot con-fcp- 2250,000. property, operThe ated through a Joint development and now ,00 feet transportation tunnel Pittsburg-Idabo long through the was also operated under an ingroup, telligent plan of development from its deepest horizon nearly 1.000 feet below the apez of the vein system with resulting ore disclosures of marked interest to the future of the property. At Lead ore, the old property formerly owned by the Junction Mines Incompany was transferred to UtahIntelterests and operated tinder an ligent plan of development which Included in its deepest level, a very interesting shoot of excellent concentrating galena ore of considerable size that gives promise of the warrant of a concentrating mill of considerable capacity. Further north in Lemhi countv. at Shoup, a gold mill of 60 ton daily capacity la under construction on Vine Creek and is connected with an aerial tramway for the treatment of Ot a from the Kentuck mine whose extensive development carries a large reserve of fair grade milling ore. In the Blackbird district, 20 miles the south n concencompany installed a cotrating mill fororethe treatment ofbeen which has balt sulphide shows and quite extensively developed a big tonnage resource of fair grade mineral of this class that will give the state a new variety of mineral product during the coming year. In Blaine county some handsome deposits of zinc carbonate and oxide ores were purchased and put under development near Kef chum by the Kuna Spelter company of Vancouver, Ailie-Gilmo- re Hayes-Htellt- to 100-to- . B. C, -- The Federal Mming and Smelting company continued ita development in this county of the North Star mine and Ita efforts to solve the complex metallurgical problems that the comore of this property plex involves. This work was carried on with a new 150 daily capacity conmill in which many centrating changes and adjustments were made of for the the year purpose during overcoming the rather serions milling involved by this or. problem This same company recently purchased the Independence mine and are now operating and successfully shipping it rich, clean high grade ore. Produce Gobi Ore. In Idaho county a season of marked activity is new prospecting development work warn experience at the Marshall Lake district where the Holt n mine was equipped with a and is said,to have daily capacity mill values goldaggregating produced 2 200,000. The success of this enterprise ha Induced quite a boom in this district and a number of other handsome specimen ore disclosures have been made there. The veins are small but apparently persistent and in the Holt mine, have carried their values down so far, 400 feet below the croppings of a vertical vein. This district is noted for some of the richest native gold specimen ore that has ever been found in the west and Is likely to reveal deposits of bonanza Importance with further work. In the same county at Oro Grande near Ely city, the Oro Grande Gold Mining company completed and put In operation, late in the tall, an all slime cyanide plant of 200 tons daily capacity for the treatment of an immense son of low grade gold bearing ore that is Said to average 22 per ton. This installation is in the nature of a pilot mill, and Its successful sampling and demonstration of a margin ot profit on them value win likely result in the erection of a plant of 2,000 tons daily capacity. The ore deposit to a wide zone of sheared granetic ganglia from 100 to 200 feet wide that to opened by a big surface qnarry and glory hole connected with a drift from the back of the mill. It presents steam shovel possibilities in capacity and tbe success of tbe present plant will result In the large Installation mentioned and further extensive development along similar lines. This district carries other big zones of low grade gold ore that are believed to contain sufficient average values to warrant operation lead-silv- er lead-silv- er - 25-to- It ;REXBURG ff The Heart of the Snake River Valley 4 , 1 iltn tr t WHERE THE FARMER REXES SUPREME. t The GRAIN BIN of the Rockies fr' - ' We have the land by the thousands of ACRES, ranging in price from $10 to $200 per acre. You can raise anything planted. WRITE OR CALL ON DS FOR INFORMATION Thatcher Realty Co. R- - H. SMITH, President. R. D.THATCHER,Secy.-Mgr- . Phone 90. REXBURG, IDAHO 'vi i on a large-scal- e. New Tcet MilL test mill of 25 tens daitv capacity was built and put In operation during the year on the Dewey mine on the south fork of tbe Clearwater near Orangeville with which tests were made on the copper-gol- d valves available with the result that plana are now being formulated for financing a much larger plant in the near future. This deposit embraces a wide zone of sheared green stone carrying A new Millions Paid Twenty-Nin- e lead-silv- 22; 1917 SATURDAY DECEMBER In Dividends During the Year from the character of the or mined, to by no means overstating Ita actual As the district may safetf bo regarded as being yet in its infancy the outlook for increased production is exceedingly bright. Already many large a year properties, practically unknown go, are being opened up and as time advances others will claim attention and come under an extensive process of development. Tbe principal shipper at the preeent time are the Western Utah Copper, Foie Star, Woodman, Western Utah Extension ChristMine inas, Garrison Monster. Western Development, and Ferber . Copper. These are all promising properties and Juet now producing a grad f ore vhtrh makes mining In that see The ectern Hon. Utah to by far the heaviest shipper as the present time, but some of tha others have been opened up in such a way as to warrant the belief that l fore long their retold of production A numbed will be greatly increased of ether mines are also making small them the Kimba among shipments, entered th property which recently lists a a producer of a good grade eg Creek ord shipping ore-- Tbe Dbep varies In value from 125 to lies , a ton, the content being prtnemapje copper although some of it carries a good percentage of sliver and leas are highly-profita- V ble slime are produced, and many of (lie ) (Continued from page tanks required forth eetUing of these I of the lead from the mixed sulghides slimes cover a Urge amount of floor lead and zinc. paoe. Consequently any method by which these elimes could be quick!) " Treatment or Ore Slimes. settled, so that the number of tanks In the concentration of ores by or- or vats required would be decreased, would result in the saving of considdinary gravity processes, heavy loss of tbe content of the erable floor space, and cost of tanks or often occur, because the neces- and. hence permit treating the ore at sary crushing and grinding convert lees cost. A study was undertaken some of the minerals into fine aiuoes with a view to developing such a which are not recovered in the pro- method. Encouraging result wore cess ot concentration. For this rea- obtained. For instance, it was found son an investigation was undertaken that if certain mills should adopt the i that had for its object the recovery methods developed at the Balt Lake Location pf mines Uinta mining district. Summit county. Park g of them slimes by the City station i he cost of the OfCity, Utah. Capitalization, 1,256,000 shares, par value, IS' each. process. nwchitury could be reduced by f. The investigation has shown that it about and ficials; - David Keith, president, Thomas Kearns, 1s possible to apply the flotation proDeep Creek Distrirt. generalmanager; W, Moot Ferry, second vice president; W, S. ems fo the treatment of some of tbe , McComiek, treasurer: F. J. Westcott, netFetary; James Humes, superlead carbonate ores not amenable to Jf for the first time In Its history the Deep Creek ha been able. In the processes previous- a measure atdistrict intendent; Charles P. Brooks, engineer at mine. The directors are. least, to cope with its If silver Insoluble in more ly described. David Keith, W. & McCprntck, HMUT Newell, W Mont Ferry. Thomas neighbor In the probrine to present in noteworthy ductionpretentious of ore. Kearns, James I vers, Ezra Thompson, J. Frank Judge, Mojlan C. lex Wnne district the recovamount, the flotation process has attracted the attention of mining er both the lead and the silver In a men for many years. It was not until high-graconcentrate, which can be March, 1017, that modern transportaold to the smelters. Furthermore, tion were rendered available facilities ores of leed carbonate that contain and then with only bnilding of the too many acid consuming mineral to Deep Creek Railroadthefrom brine leaching are amenable, on the Western Pacific to theWendover permit ton twite to the flotation process. of Goodwin, a distance of 42 miles. SWEETLAND TYLERS OF PRESSURE FILTER AXD KELLY Thu it will be noted that a a result Shipments over the road began In PRESSES AND THE AMERICAN CONTINUOUS VACUUM FMTRli. ot the investigation carried on at the March, but the new line was not for' Balt Lake City station during the past mally opened for business , Corporation. until May yea- processes have been devuted that 1, when traffic began in real earnest. J Main Office- - Felt Building Salt Lake CKf, Utah. carvarious the A of treatment road Into the Deep Creek country permit N. Y. bonate ores of lead- - Their Importance had been the dream Eastern Office. 26 Flatbush Avenue Extension. Brooklyn, of as regards tbs treatment of Office: Peoples Gas, Building, Chicago, 111 and mining men for yearn. prospectors Chicago tt Indeed, lead carbonate orea can not be over- had been built on paper many times Export Trade Agents: Allied Sugar Machinery Corporation. r bat not until October, 1812, was there estimated. ) HO Broadway, New York City. - substantial evidence interof genuine v Recovery of Zinc. est hi the scheme. Then a company During the past two year many was organized with a capital of 2450. proposed processes for the treatment 000 toand a contract was immediately the Utah Construction company, of the oxidized ores of zinc have been let Investigated at the Salt Lake City sta- the work to be completed in 7 0 days tion. In the treatment of most ore However, unforeseen difficulties arose the proposed hydrometallurgtcal pro- and while the work was pushed with cesses have been foand to present all possible speed It was not finished the other until the time Indicated. Since then On serious difficulties. mines have been pouring out in hand, zinc sulphide ore are at pres- the their hidden treasure unent being very successfully treated by abundance til the production is such that today diffisuch process.. Owing to the districts of the state may well culties encountered in attempting te other look. their laurels in a mining way. apply For the six months the road has to oxidized ores of zinc, an ingeous been in operation it has handled from concentration process was tested, the mines . i secof that ; in 3L60 tens with encouraging results. The pro- Of this amount St 0 tons was cess consists in blowing a blast of air from Gold Hill, while the balzinc shipped through a mixture of oxidized ance of 350 cams from Ferber. ore, coke and limestone. As a result At this rate tons the output of the camp as was a off drawn the zinc oxide for to the be close to 50,000 ought, fume, which could have been collected tons, a year which gives splendid in a bag house, or by electrostatic evidence record of the ability of the district precipitation. Tbe ore from which the to add substantially to the mineral been volatilized forms a output of the stgto, and zinc h conRoom 331 D. F Walker Bldg. slag In the furnace and to tapped out servatively estimated, oughtwhich, Telephone in tbe usual manner. The commer- itself during the year 1812. to double cial application of such a process to ing the ore at the nominal ComputSalt Lake City, Utah. 6263. Wasatch sum of also important, aa at present there to ISO per ton, its value to 12,500,600. no process being used that permits an amount hich It to safe to say the successful concentration of oxidized orea of zinc. Such ores have been accumulating in all of the important mining districts ot the United States, especially in Utah, where there are large deposits of such ores. Bolpharon Acid Process. During the past fiscal year an Investigation has been made to develop a method of utilizing the sulphur , gases of the smelters, which are now not only wasted but at many smelters do damage to adjacent vegetation. The sulphur dioxioe. which to the most Important constituent ot these gases, is an excellent solvent for the ostdes-- et mine and copper.- - However. In connection with the use of the gas aa a leaching agent there ara still problems to be solved, among which may be mentioned tbe obtaining of gas from ordinary smelter gases in a form and sufficiently concentrated the rubsequent precipitation of the metal from the sulphurous acid solution. Both ot these problem have already occupied the attention of many investigators, and the former was studied at the Panama-Pacifi- c exposition laboratories of the bnreeu. A commercial method baa been worked out tor obtaining --copper from oxidized ores of copper by burning elemental eulphur for the production of sulphur gases. The investigation outlined will be continued. Production of Zinc Dost. . Since the advent of the European war zinc dust, which to used in connection with the cyanide process for Shipments should be consigned to United States Smelting the precipitation of gold and silver from cyanide solution, has been hard to obtain. For this reason an invesUtah, and Bills of Lading forwarded Company, Midvale, f tigation ms undertaken which had a tor its object the preparation of sine to the United States Smelting Company, Salt Lake City. duM from solution of zinc by aa elec-tr- o lytic method. Promising result were obtained. Moreover, the zinc dm obtained was of higher than tbe ordinary sine dustefficiency e. of fifty-'six- metal-beari- ng Silver King Coalation Mines Co - slime-settlin- nt one-hal- brine-leachi- de UNITED FILTERS -- - low-gra- L 4 t John F. Cowan Mining Engineer and Operator low-gra- United States Smelting Co. Buyers of Ores and Concentrates low-gra- Matte and" Furnace Products cwm-mero- of Ore stfnzesj crushing and flu grinding Jttjthe hi concentration process several &oilara per ton in gold with considerable secondary copper ore and a handsome body of and bomite mineral with ebalcopyrite S per cent per cent copper values 10 feet to,M wide at the lowest point of development where permanent ground water is In evidence. , Optm Many Prospects. - . Several other handsome prospects with comdderaJble development and rf a. similar nature of big mining In thla vicinity that have attracted the attention ot big mining capital who are considering making the' district available with an extension of 16 miles of railway construction to connect with the Clearwater brand) of the Northern Pacific railroad. ' ..Near Silver city in Owyhee county, the Demming Mines company's properties put in a busy season in the construction of a n concentrating mill for the treatment of a large fissure vein in granite fire to ten feet wide and carrying average values of 225 per ton In gold and silver which has been under course of development for the past and discloses a handsome shoot year of ore more than 200 feet in length of the above grade. The old Trade Dollar Consolidated bonanza mining company, after an idleness of several years, were transferred during the summer to a Beat-ti- e company and ara developed at depth. Also severalbeing leasing operations in the upper levels have been inaugurated. The scarcity of mine labor to the Coeur dAlene district and Its urgent demand for production, together with excessive high operating costs, worked against the progreaa of new development. during iheyear. important event of the Industry in that famous field was th completion in July and the successful operation since, of the 11,000,000 lead smelter plant and eilver refinery of the Bunker Hill A Sullivan Mining and Concentrating company at Kellogg. This affords a local market for ore shipments that should greatly stimulate new ore development enterprises when operating conditions resume a more favorable aspect. 100-to- The-moe- Ter m2 Quoted On Application To the United States Smelting Co., Newhonse Bldg., Salt Lake City. The United States Smelting Company is a Sobs idiary of the j United States Smelting, Refining & Mining Co. PLANTS AT- Midvale, Gold Road, Ariz. Pachuca, Mexico Needles, Grafselli, Ind. La Harpe, Kansas Che&otah, Okla. Cat-Chrom- N. J. lola, Kansas Altonna, Kansas e, |