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Show OGDEN IN MINING IN IDAHO CMP That It sometimes pays to leave the beaten paths of raining, blazing your own trail, Is Illustrated bv a number num-ber of well known Ogden 'and Salt Lake mining men who are operating and producing from a tungsten property prop-erty of Idaho. The Importance of tungsten ores is beginning to he roallzd more and moro In this state, and these local operators have brought their leaso Into the ranks of paying propositions early In the game. Tho company Is called the Idaho Tungsten, and a seven-year loase Is held on the old Ima Consolidated territory ter-ritory of twenty-ono patented claims at Patterson Creek, Idaho, about flfty-flvo flfty-flvo miles north of Mackay. The Tungsten company was formed about two monthB ago, and C. H. Hussey of Ogden Is president, Edward Nolan Is vice president, M. E. Callahan is secretary and treasurer. These, with M. S. Poulter, of Ogden, Joremlan Nolan and M. S. Duffleld, complete tho board of directors. During the summer tho company erected a 30-ton mill, which ha8 been operating for three weeks. Owing to the extenslvo amount of development develop-ment work done ten years or moro ago, the leasers have found a plentiful plenti-ful supply of ore available at a minimum mini-mum of development expense. The product of the Jigs and tables averages aver-ages about 65 per cent tungstlc trlox-Ide, trlox-Ide, which Is worth about $400 per ton f o. b. New York. The company Is a profitable producer from the start. The Ima claims and district surrounding sur-rounding them promise to surpass Boulder, Colo., as a producer of tungsten tung-sten concentrates. |