The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1902-08-19
MINES AND MINING.

A rich strike was made in the Hutch
inson mine, Olnghouse district last
week The Wadsworth Dispatch reports
the ore as being one-quarter gold
Charles Buffers is expected to return
to Virginia City from Europe before the
end of the present month, when il is ex-
pected that the reduction plant bearing
his name in Six-mie canyon will have
been completed.
John Stanton, the copper statistician of
Boston, says the consumption of the red
metal since January LIST has increased
more than % per cent while the produc-
ton has increased only per cent. Had
ii not been for the strike of the coal min
ers, Mr.. Stanton believes the price of
copper would now be as high as 10 cents.
w. H. II. Rhodes, one of the owners
of the recently discovered deposit of MI
trate of potash and soda, near Duck
water. Nye county, has returned to his
home In Stockton from a visit to the
property and states that work has been
discontinued until further Investigations
have proved that the deposit can be
made to pay.
The surveyors have completed the work
of surveying the pipe line from Cotton
wood canyon to the Pamlico mine. They
have also made surveys for a mill site
near the Pamlico and a tramway from
the Lapanta mine to the millsite Tun-
neling for an increased water supply is
now in progress in Cottonwood.-Haw
thorne Bulletin.
A lot of ore from Cherry Creek, Me-
vada, will be on the market today that
carries us ounces gold, rs ounces silver,
) per cent lead and an iron excess of 80
per cent. The shipment was made in
the name OF Charles Wah and is the
richest lot of gold rock from the Sage
brush State that has hit the market in
long time-Salt Lake Herald.
The Califoria & Nevada Mining Com
caIy of Los Angeles is pushing work
on its properties in Arabia district. J.
a. Keeler, superintendent and general
manager of the company has eight men
at work. They are now engaged in de-
veloping and opening up the company's
properties. the Victor and Hoodlum
mines. Ore is being selected for ship
ment for the purpose of a test to deter
mine the proper method of working the
product c. T. McKelvey. president of
,the company, is expected to arrive here
September 1st. when surveys will be
made and a drift tunnel begun to cross
cut the ledge of the Victor. at depth
OF about 400 feet. Should the property de-
velop as favoraby as all signs indicate,
Mr.. Keller's company will install the
proper machinery and plant to work the
ore on the ground.-Lovelock Argus.
We are informed from a very reliable
source that development work on quite
an extensive scale Will be commenced
on the Bluestone mine on or about the
first of next month. Probably thirty or
forty miners will find employment. The
smelter is not to be started up at pres
ent the object of the company being to
fret open up the ore bodies by sinking
and cross-cutting. As we have before
stated, there is, on the 20O-fot level OF
this mine. forty-foot ledge of copper
ore nich will average from to 10 per
cent. This Is certainly a good enough
prospect to follow down, and this is
what Is going to be done We are In
formed that If the mine shows up as
well at a depth of two or three hundred
feet more as 1T now does that the
smelter will be moved down to the river,
"A concentrating plant added, tramway
built to carry ore from the mine to the
reduction plant and some kind of
RAILROAD built to connect with the c. & c.
at or near Wabuska.-Lyon County
/, Times.