The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-04-04

lease on the Combination at Goldfield
has caved, tipping over the gallows
frame of the vertical shaft and carry
ing down half an acre of the surface,
which is assured in dozen directions.
A company has been formed, to be
known as the Boston-Sunshine Gold
Mining company, which will take over
the noted old Sunshine property of
the Mercur district of Utah. The
property has been secured through a
receivers sale.
General Manager C. w. Clapp OF
the Commonwealth mines, situated a
few miles south of Reno, Nevada, is
making arrangements for a 100000
900 smelter proposition to be located
near Reno. 1t will be known as the
Western Smelter company
The Federal Ely stock is now as.
sessable, the stockholders having de-
cided on that at the annual meeting
held last week. Out of 10000 shares
issued, $4,000 were represented, and
the vote to make the stock assessable
was practically unanimous.
The naturalization of the Granite
district of Nevada is unique. Two
parallel veins, or surface groupings
one of gold quartz and the other Of
silver-lead, run for more than thirty
miles north and south between Cher
ry creek and Hercules gap.
Development work is being vigor-
ously prosecuted in the Wabash prop
erty at Park City. The vein is a
strong one and we'll defined. The
values all are rich, the ore running
from 100 to 400 ounces silver, - to
Is per cent lead and from to per
cent copper.
Practically all the machinery
which, when set in place, will com,
pose the new $4,000 converter plant
of the Yampa Smelling company at
Bingham, has been received at the
mine, and is now waiting for the build
ing to be completed so as to allow
installation.
A stampede is on to a new camp
near Austin, Nevada. There is much
excitement, especially among Tonopah
people, and the valuation of property
is soaring skyward The ore carries
bromides, chlorides and horn silver,
and is described as being both very
rich and strong.
Thirty-five thousand members of
the United Mine Workers of America,
employed in districts Nos. 4, 81 and
%, comprising Missouri, Kansas, Ar
kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, will GO
on strike on April l, following a de.
cision reached at a meeting of the di-
vision of vice presidents held last
week
Charles H. Meyer, president of the
Western Federation of Miners, in an
interview at San Diego, Cal, last
week, said: Every condition of the
mining industry in Colorado, Idaho,
Montana and other western states is
improving rapidly and l look to see
things on most prosperous basis by
the middle of August"
'The man who ships in ore carrying
so per cent lead, or 1000 pounds per
ton, which at "a lead is worth $40 per
ton, gets, under existing conditions,
$22.S0 per ton, while the smelling
company gets $1720. Yes, there is
trouble in Utah between the shipper
and the smelters," says Harry S. Jo-
seph, secretary of the Utah Mine Own
ers' association.
In the Salt Lake offices of the Ne
vada Hills property of Fairview, Ne
vada, may be seen samples of ore
that are a source Of joy to the average
mining man, The ore carries thou
sands of ounces silver per ton, the
native metal being plainly seen by
the naked eye. In addition to silver
the ore has as much as thirty ounces
Of gold, 21 per cent copper and some
lead values also.
The richest property in the new
camp of Bull Valley, in Utah, appears
to be that owned by John Pulsipher
and William Farnsworth, both of St.
George. They located the ground
about February and have we'll
defined ledge which carries high val
ues in gold A piece of gold was
taken out of this mine by the owners
which is a quarter of an inch thick
and two by three inches in size
A 10O-foot tunnel hole of giant pow
der in four drifts was set off at the
Utah Copper mine, at Bingham, one
day last week, virtually tearing down
a mountain, loosening over 100000
tons of dirt and ore. The blast was
lighted by electricity. Over a ton of
powder was used.
Much prospecting is being done up
Arsenic gulch and all around the new
find in Bull valley, Utah. Many peo-
pie are going in there, and arrange
there and extend the telephone line
to connect with the Utah and Eastern
Copper company's line.
Orders have been issued from
Pottsville, Pa, by the Philadelphia &
Reading Coal and Iron company for
the resumption of the tifty-fve col
lieries and washeries of the company
on April l, after having been closed
for the past two months. This will
affect about $4,000 men and boys
The Seven Troughs Hero Mining
company resumed work last week on
its famous Little Hero and Wildcat
claims near Farrell, at the north end
of the Seven Troughs mining district.
The resumption is considered import
ant, as these properties are classed
among the greatest in the district
The Nevada-Douglas Copper com
pany of Yerington will begin copper
ore shipments within a short time
now. the ore bins at the mine being