The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-09-18
AROUND THE HINES

/ The loWa-Copper-Apex people at
Park City have decided to install an
electric blower to help the air shaft
In 4-foot vein iron pyrites is show.
ing.
Production of the mines of Park
City. Utah. the past week totaled l..
425 tons valued at $4,000. This is
compared with 1869 tons the previous
week.
Shipments of ore from the mines OF
Tintic last week totaled 123 carloads.
This is estimated at $3.50 tons valued
at $4,000 1t is compared with 1S1
cars the week before.
The first ore from the new strike in
the Miller mine, which is being OPP
Grated by the Williams Leasing COM
pany Of Park City, was brought down
from the mine September IL.
Three new faces of ore, one of mill
grade and two of first-class shipping
ore have recently been opened up in
the old Gemini mine, is the good word
that came from Tintic last week.
Provision having been made for
handling the increased flow OF water,
exploratory work is again in full
swing at the property of the Silver
Pick Consolidated Mines company at
Goldfeld
According to report from Colora-
do, Montezuma, in Summit county,
one of the older mining districts of
the state, Is about to be rejuvenated
and made one of our larger producers
of valuable ores.
From Goldstrike, in southern Utah,
comes word that during the past week
another shoot of ore has been opened
in the upper workings of the Hamburg
claim. Samples of the ore carried $50
in gold to the ton.
During the past two weeks the
Prince Consolidated company has
shipped from the Phoebe mine a total
of ninety-seven carloads of ore. This
is estimated at 1850 tons, valued at
close to $4,000.
Number of shares of the Utah Cop
per company held at present by
French investors is 100,754, which
compares with 1889 in the early part
of July, and the high point of 209,23Q
in the middle of December, 1913.
The Dry Canyon district continues
t to send out heavy tonnage OF ore.
r Numerous lessees are operating on
S the various properties and prepare
: tions are being made to mine on
0 more extensive scale than heretofore.
: The Alta Consolidated is rapidly
;, developing its great bedded lode,
: which has been proved to be from
! twenty to thirty feet wide, and this
!. immense ore deposit will undoubted-
d ly become one of the company's most
! valuable assets.
e The output of recoverable gold
from Nevada mines in 1914 was $685.
402.47 ounces, valued at $11,4S1, 1888,
. . and of this amount 1923 per cent was
! derived from dry or siliceous ore.
e Since the first of June, when the
y roads from the mine to the sampler
|, became hard enough to permit regu
), lar ore shipments, the Silver King
y Consolidated mine of Park City has
: marketed 1890 tons of ore, having
: net value of 100000 or about SAL a
! ton.
e 1t is stated that the new caterpil-
j. lar traction engine and the four steel
wagons to be used in hauling the
l Scotia ore to the railroad, will be de-
livered in Eureka within the next two
\ weeks and that Immediately thereaf-
:. ter this mine will be in shape to start
shipping
J. The new plant Of the Utah Minerals
# Concentrating company seems to
d have passed through the experiment
L tai stage and the officers of the mill
are getting things in readiness for
an extensive campaign Of work on ore
= which will be purchased from the
= mines of the district.
The shipping Of phosphate out of
r, Montpelier has been indefinitely sus-
pended, and j. j. Taylor, manager of
the San Francisco Chemical COM
y pany's mines here for the past eleven
years, has been removed to Pomona.
Cal, to take charge of the compan-
les business at that point.
r The new mill, under construction
Il at Silver City, will no doubt be an
s. important factor in Tintic's prosperi-
h ty and reports indicate that other
y mills are to be erected here. The
Knight-Dern mill will be ready for
operation about the first of the year
- and it's initial capacity will be 300
tons day, with prospects of it being
enlarged until it will take care OF
fully 1000 tons of ore every twenty
four hours.
Figures compiled by G.. 8. Sieben
thai of the United States geological
survey, from reports by all zinc smelt
ers operating during the first ST.
months of 1915 show that the produc
ton of spelter from domestic ore IL
that period was 207,634 short tons, ant
from foreign ore S,S9S short tons,
I total production of 216,532 tons, com
pared with 1891 tons for the las
4 half of 1914 and 175,05S tons for thu
first half.
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