The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-12-11
MINES AND MINING

ouipmentS OF ore from Park CITY
mines the past week totaled 1872 tons
valued at $4,000 compared with 1865
the previous week.
The Seven Troughs Coalition last
week mailed checks for 2A cent divi-
dend. the fourth sent out this year.
This is on 100000 shares issued.
Business on the Salt Lake mining
exchange during the past week showed
an increase Of $4,000. and compared
with the week before that, s56, 900.
Already the Boston Development
company has shipped lao tons OF frs
high-grade galena ore down from the
old Maxfield mine in big Cottonwood
Vienna is going to be as big camp
as there is in the country. 1t is going
to have two or three. maybe five
Minnie Moores," said Larry Bannon to
the Wood River Times.
1t was announced by the proprietors
that force of Ave men is now work
ing at the Fortuna Independence in
Beaver county Utah. They are driv-
ing tunnel in one place and sinking
In another.
The Utah chapter Of the American
Mining congress has named eighteen
delegates to represent the chapter at
the convention on revision Of mining
laws, which meets at Washington, d.
c., December IT,
That silver Is destined to reach
much higher Levels within the next
| two years and that it Is destined to
| remain at those levels are opinions be-
| ing expressed by students of the var
| led uses to which the white metal Is
being put.
What will be the best kind of news
for Park City in a mining sense Is the
fact that the Silver King Cc1solidat-
ed has closed a deal for the site for9
their proposed tunnel, and that work
will commence in the very near future,
says the Park Record
The Anaconda Copper Mining COM
pany has opened one of the finest bod
les Of copper glance ore in the district
on the 2,200-foot level of the Badger
State mine, where shoot in the State
vein about four feet wide has been
cut, says the Butte Miner.
Only few miles out from the Utah
state line is the rather live camp of
BOneta, eight miles west OF Garrison,
Utah, but within the confines Of White
Pine county, now in the limelight as
a producer of cheelite ores and con-
centrates. says the Ely Record.
That the prospects of getting ore in
paying quantities are growing brighter
each day is indicated by the increased
naturalization in the tunnel being
driven on the Baker Mining company's
property, located in the Big Cotton
wood district, near Salt Lake.
During the last fifteen years the
: Prince William Sound region, Alaska,
has become an important coppsrpr
ducing district, and the number Of
productive mines there is constantly
increasing. The El,amar district, a
part of this region, has been the scene
Of active mining since 1900.
Production of ore by the mines OF
, Tintic in the month of November to-
tailed 482 carloads This Is estimated
T at 24,1O0 tons valued at 100000. l
compares with Octobers 64S carload.
which, however, embraced five shiI
ping weeks against Novembers foul
and sos cars in September.
Bingham, 1.-The old reliable" camI
situated only twenty-five miles south
west from the center OF Salt Lake
City, has a total dividend record OF
SS,470,000, a production record OF
SAP, $50 900, and still has more than
500 100000 tons of ore untouched IN
just one OF the properties.
AS evidence of the strong position
Of the copper market number OF pro
ducers report they have sold their
production for the next four months
A great deal Of copper has been sold
|. for April delivery. Spot copper Is
scarce and most companies will enter
the new year with little, If any, sur
plus.
One of the biggest traders in silver
in New York says: We are very bu.
lish on silver after the close OF tbs
;. war. We expect moderate advance
at present, inasmuch as India this sea
son has bought no silver and as the
requirements of England and France
and other countries for coinage pur.
poses Is great.
The new main vertical three com
partment shaft on the United Eastern
at Kingman, Arizona, through which
will be largely handled the enormou;
tonnage of ore already blocked out t
a depth of 585 feet by workings from
the old shaft, has nearly reached thu
thirty-foot point. At the collar 200
ton gravity feed bin is being erected.
There is a portion Of the Unite'
Verde mine at Jerome. Ariz., that ha
: been on fire for the past thirteen1W ear
! and has defied all efforts to put 1t ou
says the Arizona state bureau Q
mines. That portion OF the mine
d bulkheaded off, and the rest Of tn
le property Is working along as thong
: no fire existed. The fire Is visibl
from the surface by the smoke escal
ing through the seams and openings.
Shipments of ore from the mines {
Tintic last week tOtaled 1876 carload