The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-03-21
MINES AND MINING


for John w. Gates of New York, have
secured control of the Combination
Fraction Mining company of Goldheld,
securing SOL. 900 shares of the stock
at price Of s115 per share.
During 1907 the United States pur-
chased for coinage purposes a total
of 14.776.500 ounces of silver. OF APP
proximately one-fourth Of the metal
produced in the United States, says
the Engineering & Mining Journal
On March 80 the Utah court will
hear the petition of the United States
Smelling company for a modification
OF the famous Judge Marshall fume
decision. which has shut down every
copper smelter in Salt Lake valley.
The Washoe copper smelters at
Anaconda. Mont, have resumed the
smelling of copper The Washoe cop
per smelters are the. largest in the
world. their capacity being the reduc-
ton of about 10000 tons Of ore daily.
Forty miles north from Dragon, on
the Colorado side Of the line, Colo
RADIO people have eight oil wells al
ready. This Is high-grade oil and can
be utilized for illumination. The wells
are shallow as yet, but the oil PUSHES
out with water.
Detectives and officers of the State
police force, by a search warrant, last
week confiscated about two tons Of
high grade ore in the home and assay
shop of ]. c. Hames at Goldfield. The
ore is claimed by the Goldfeld Flor
ence Mining company.
Following the news of the unwater-
ing of the American Flag levels by
the splendid work in the Ontario drain
tunnel at Park City, comes the report
that the management has encountered
the rich gold and silver chute 100 feet
lower than that at which it created so
favorable a mention several weeks
ago.
A veteran miner, speaking of Raw
hide, Nevada district, says: The for
nation is pockety and the ground near
the surface is cut up with cash veins.
1t is possible that some few mines
will be made there, but the real source
of the ore, which is scattered over a
broad area, has not yet been located
or at least proved"
Tho report comes from the Seven
Troughs district of a rich strike in
the kindergarten. In five-foot vein
is two feet of white quartz, through
which is scattered stuff that runs
$4,000 to the ton and better, and
there is enough of this picture rock to
raise the value of the two feet to fig
ures that are staggering.
A rancher living about four miles
south of Juab station recently started
to sink a two-inch well in order to
get water for his stock At forty-three
feet the churn drill tapped flow of
water that was so heavily charged
with gas that the work had to be
abandoned. OIL water and gas are
still gushing from the bore.
The tonnage reduced from the gold
veins of Mercur during 1907 amounted
to about 1000 tons per day, the treat
ment being entirely by the cyanide
method About 500 men are employed
in the district, and the recent i'm
provements in ore treatment will do
much to make 1908 far more profit
able to the mine owners.
At special meeting of the Weimer
Copper company, held last week, a
new board of directors and officers
was chosen and statements made at
the meeting disclosed the fact that
the company is something like $4,000
or $4,000 in debt, with $4,000 of the
amount due to Frank G. Worthing,
son-in-law of John B. Weimer, pro.
moter Of the company.
Because of the arrest of H. H. Pain,
a member of the board of directors
Of the Transcontinental Mining, Tun-
mel and Transportation company, in
London thorough investigation Of
the affairs of the company will be
made. The company has been tinan-
cling the Wider tunnel in the noun
tains west of Georgetown, Colo, and
most OF the money invested was OBJ
tanned in England
With the formal closing of the lead
plant of the United States Smelling
company at Bingham Junction, on
March IL, the entire smelter in all it's
departments is at standstill for the
present at least. However, so conf
dent are the officials of the company
of Judge Marshall making a favorable
modification of the injunction, after
he has been shown what the company
can do in the matter of controlling
the gases, that they have retained
quite force of men to do repair and
construction work.
The presence of oil in paying guam
titles in San Juan quantity. Utah, has
been predicted for many years by
biologists and others who have stud.
led the character of the country near
Bluff For this reason the report of
the recent strikes comes as on great
surprise
The copper ores in the different
camps Of Utah carry an appreciate
percentage of both gold and silver,
notably at Park City, Cottonwood,
Alta, Frisco, Bingham, Deep Creek
and other mines that in copper mining
have carried their works down to
great depth
Lying on the western slope of the
divide between the Salmon and Snake
rivers at an elevation of 4500 feet
above sea level and $500 feet above
the Snake river the Blue Jacket mine
Is rapidly assuming proportions of a
big copper mine, says the Grangeville
Standard News.