The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-03-07
MINES AND MINING

ing mine to Bullfrog's list-the Gold b
Bar.
1t is announced from Boston that
the annual meeting OF the Utah Con
solidated company will be held on
April 81.
The treasury department last week
purchased 113,30O ounces OF silver for
delivery at Denver and San Francisco
at 55.666 cents per fine ounce.
There are persistent rumors Of a
possible resumption of mining opera
tons at the Anaconda mine, and prob
ably at the North Butte and Butte
Coalition mines at Butte.
Perhaps no district has been born
in Nevada during the resurrection
period of mining that has had such
hard fight to fame as Rawhide. The
camp is over a year old, and the boom
has just started.
The sixty-two-mile transmission line
that is to carry electric power from
the Beaver County Power company's
plant to the Cactus mines and mills
of the Newhouse company, is now
nearing completion.
The mines of the Boundary district |
of British Columbia during the year
1907 produced S5,50O,OOO pounds g
copper at cost ranging from 10 IA
cents at the CRANKY to IA cents at
the Dominion mines.
About the only argument one hears
| AGAINST the use of silver nowadays,
SAYS Mining Science, is that 1T IS
too heavy and clumsy for common
use: that a pocketfull of silver pulls
the clothes out of place.
Today silver is selling at about IL
cents per ounce less than it did year
ago, when trade expansion required
larger supply of small coin and when
the more important buyers who ship
to the far east were in need OF the
metal
Advicss from Iron county are to the
effect that a remarkably heavy fall OF
snow has occurred there and the re-
suit will be that freighting from
Lund into the Virgin River oil coun-
try will be retarded for perhaps TWEEN
ty days.
The Graehl Mining and Milling
, company of Brigham City has nled a
certified copy of its articles of incor-
> poration in the office of the secretary
. Of state. The company is capitalized
for 500 900. and owns nine claims
Q near Brigham City.
!, ON account of the labor troubles at
y Goldfeld, the production OF It's mines
continues to be nominal. The Com
a bination mill reduced during the last
e week in February 600 tons and the
1 Kinkead mill It's tons of an aggre
L gate value of about $4,000.
At the Yampa smelter, Bingham, al
average of about 600 tons OF ore
cay is now being reduced to base pul
lion. and this is being shipped to the
refneries at Crome, N. j., for refining
Gradually the smelling works arr
being brought up to their hlghes
point of efficiency.
New rollers and screens are pelh
installed in the Shoshone MIL say
! the Beatty Miner. Work in the min
has not abated. The fact that the or
chute has been entered Gu the gu
foot level of the mine, and the or
found to be richer than in the Level
above, places the Shoshone on pa
with the best mines in the state
Daniel Guggenheim, president
the American Smelling & Refnin
company, says: Copper, in my judi
4 ment has taken the place formerl
4 held bv steel and iron as the index
u business conditions. The metal he
Il the reaction last year months IN a
Il vance of steel and general merca
tile enterprises. Indications point
a turn upward in the tide
Sarah E. Karrick has filed an actle
againt w. B. MacSherry, in the Tai
District court, to recover $2,OOO al
interest from January %, lSC
amounting in all to $2,493,93, whi'
she paid to the defendant for Az
shares of stock in the Sierra Neva
Exploration company.
Ore buyers in the Salt Lake vail
are now prepared to take all the Q
they can get, it is said, but operate
are apparently il 70 hurry to resuT
production so long as the metal mi
ket remains at its present stage. A
vet metals are not SO low as tn
were four years ago.
A mining corporation capitalized
n $4,000, with shares at one cent ca
has been organized in Ogden, unt
the name of the Rare Metals Mini
Nj company. 1t is the purpose OF
~ company to develop its property
. the Weber mining district In WEI
IM county at an early date.
U The enormous sales of copper
export, amounting in February
considerably over 100,000,0OO poun
NJ has called forth statements to the
feet that the American consumer
much to learn from his foreign CO
netitors in the matter OF secur
~ low cost copper supplies.
Thus far in February the Uni
ID States Metals Selling company
SU sold $4,000, 900 pounds of copper
mi bulk Of it to England and Germf
~ These sales have cleaned up the
. plus Supplies of copper held by
. concerns which sell through the
. ed Metals Selling company.
A prominent and reliable mil
q man, after visit to Rawhide, New
- saws: Never in my mining ext
ence have | seen as much free
- and gold that is gold as the cam