The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-11-20
MINES AND MINING

Ore carrying up to $262.50 ton has
been struck in the south DRIFT on the !
Go,dstrike-V Virginia.
Production of ere from Tonopah
mines the past week totaled 10,243
tons, valued at S212,134.
Heavy naturalization is showing in
the main breast CT the drift off the
1000 foot level on the Emerald prop
erty, located in the Tin;ic district.
/. Fifty tons daily is the present ca
racity of the Utah Iron & Steel CON-
pany plant, located at Midvale, Utah,
where work was recently started up.
Shipments of ore from the mines
Of Tintic the past week tota,ed 1o6
carloads. This is estimated at $500
tons and valued at $lS5,000, compared
with lie cars last week
Mining activity is being renewed
around Green River, Utah, manganese
and zinc providing the excitement.
About all the territory is already To-
lated and now actual development
work has started.
American manufacturers engaged in
the produc lion of war munitions have
lately entered into contracts for high
| grade spelter for delivery through the
| entire year 1916 at 40 cents pound,
says the Boston News Bureau.
Advices have been received in Bos.
ten by the Butte & Superior people
| hat in the opinion of counsel there is
| more than an even chance that they
will win out in the legal controversy
with Senator William A. Clark, says
the Boston News Bureau.
In connection with the retirement,
On December 81, of $2,3S0,o0 ten year
per cent convertible bonds, 1t is be-
lieved that the Ray Consolidated COM
pany will increase its dividend from
| $3.50 per share annually to $3.50 per
share, according to a report from
Boston.
Export demand for ordinary grades
of spelter has been the mainstay OF
very active market which has pre-
vailed for the greater part of the past
fortnight Transactions have totaied
it is estimated, well up to 50,G00,00G
|
| abroad.
The vast deposits of alunite. which
will furnish Americas potash supp J
fer generations to come, is attracting
capitalists to the Marysvale, Utah
district, from all quarters of the
globe-and this in spite of the fac
that nearly al the known deposit!
are already tied up by investors.
Twentycent copper is again pre-
dicted Producers are asking ant
receiving 1872 cents for electrolytl'
on domestic business, and somewha
higher figures on export material
During the past week an enormou
tonnage of copper has been booke
l for shipment to plants in this couf
try.
General Manage. o. A. Turner, wit
a force of about twenty miners,
: pushing operations with all possibl
dispatch at the property OF the Go
!. conda Extension Mining company, al
n joining the famous Golconda mine
g the Cerbat range of mountains abol
Z twenty miles north OF Kingman, Ar
e iona.
r No winze work from the 1,200 levt
Of the Halifax has taken place in IN
past several days, because OF cuttin
a of station and the placing of timber
" above 1t is of great interest, hoy
y ever, to learn that the crosscut
: now through the vein, says the Ton
nah Daily Bonanza 1t shows the G
. tire dimensions of the working fac
'. With the geological conditions be
IT ter for ore deposition than any tn
4 have been encountered during Il
RS time since the company resume
b operations tn local officials of the
oil lumbus Extension property are takil
g an optimistic view of the present
In velopment work now in progress al
the management is pushing 1t abe
vi with all possible speed.
=, Mining activity continues to
Nd crease throughout the Oatman d
,is trict, in Arizona. The Hidden Tre'
se ure Mines company is one OF the i
re est to enter the field and has tax
ny over the Treasure Key group. as W
as the La Vita, Colorado and Mig
Owl claims The new company "
begin sinking the main incline sh
on the vein from the 800 to the
ch foot point.
ru With unusually high prices prev;
.el ing for copper. zinc, lead and oti
70 metals as a result Of the Europe