The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1902-01-28
MINES AND MINING.

closed down the first of last week and
will probably not resume operations
until the price of copper advances, as
the company cannot produce copper at
A profit at the present prices.
4 small force of miners is at work
in the Pamlico mir.e, in Hawthorne
u district, cleaning out drifts AMI w'nzcs,
II preparatcry to the resumption Of work
n in that property, which has been ta-
81 ken over by the Conso,iiaI-G Eslncr
IA aida mines Company an Eastern cor
poration.
The directors of the Con. Cal .& Va.
Mining Company have authorized the
sale of the accumulation of its ore tall
ings, amounting. it is estimated, to
about 1000 tons, at the Kinkead mill,
to J. p. Woodburv, on satisfactory
terms. Woodbury. intends to erect
plant on the spot for working the tail
ings.-Virginia Chronicle.
The Lizard mine, near Sutro, is rap
idly assuming the appearance of
good producer, says the Mining and
ngineering Review. They are now
drifting north on the 1OO-foot leve',
being in 195 feet, and the rock looks
we'll in free gold. Captain p. Hansen
of San Francisco, who is interested in
the company, says that within thirty
days they can put on the dump rock
worth 100000.
The reduction works at Dayton are
said to be returning the owners of The
Tonopah ore treated there 92 per cent
of its assay value. From two to five
! carloads of the ore are being received
and thirty-six tons are treated each
twenty-four hours. The ores are
worked by the old pan-a nal3amation
process, by which an extraction of 30
The chloro-cyanide pr, ass is then
used to extract the value from the to,,-
ings as the straigh cyanide process
will not 40 the work
The Davis drill is sinking at the rate
of about one foot an hour, and at 6
O'clock this morning the borings ha
attained a depth of seventy-one feet
kubelow the surface. This average IN
Stludes stoppages for Withdrawing the
A drill when a six-foot section of core is
bored out for the purpose of removing
1t from the tube. The material now
{ being drilled is bird d's-eye porphyry.
AT an average of twenty feet day
4 OF twenty hours the borings will reach
q the 600 level in about thirty days, when
the drill will penetrate the broad belt
n of quartz found on that level IN work.
ing through shaft No. Virginia Re
port.
The present management of the To-
nopah Mining Company is starting to
work in scientific manner, but it will
u Engineering Review. They are now
q an appreciable showing, as it has to
take up the work where the leasers
B left off and sink a number of shafts,
Il run levels, build hoists, etc A new
81 working shaft, which is about 200 feet
n north OF the Mizpah ledge in the hang
Il ing wall. This is far enough from the
Il ledge to make Ii a practicable working
y shaft. 1t is the plan to erect over this
main shaft a new steel steel hoist with
50-horse power double reel cross
compound Corliss hoisting engine and
4 large compressor of sufficient capac-
ity for all purposes
Referring to the recent discovery Of
kgcld- bearing rock near Floriston, the
Truckee Republican says: There We're
mining excitements in this vicinity
years and years ago, but the people
We're drawn away by fabulous wealth
Of the Comstock. which was discovered
about that time. There is a belt D.
mineral bearing formation extending
nom the head water of Squaw creek
easterly across the Truckee river along
SIDE of Martis valley to the Washoe
ange. 1t was on this lode that Eliza
@thtown and Knoxville, both towns Of
several hundred inhabitants, were
started years ago, but they We're de-
serted for the Comstock. Specimens of
rock rich in gold have oeen liured up
at different times, but it has never
oeeh sufficiently prospsoted to demon
slfate Just what che rock Is.
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