The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-11-06
MINES AND MINING

III an SuuedVoT 10 dNOiu tHe Ddu ar
now prevalent in the mine.
Shipments of ore from the mines OF
Finite last week totaied 1872 ar.oSds
IS simated at $500 tons valued at $780,
100, compared with 121 carloads the
previous week.
At a meeting of the stockholders Of
The Lakevie'w Mining company last
week it was voted to sell to the Amer.
can Smelling company on the option
price of $625,O00
A more cheerful atmosphere per-
vades the Hawthorne mining district
with the increasing mining activity
md the bright outlook for the future,
says the Western Nevada Miner.
Litigation involving 100000 over
copper mines near Tucson. Ariz., be-
.ween Albert Steinfeld of Tucson and
Louis Zeckendorf of New York, was
iecided by the supreme court in favor
If Zeckendorf
About fifteen inches of high grade
ead-silver ore that carries some gold
7alues las been encountered in the
lucky Boy shaft of the Croft proper
", located in the Lincoln mining dis
rict of Beaver county, Utah.
The Albion company last week en-
tered the lists of regular shippers
rom the Little Cottonwood district.
With three carloads of ore in transit
rom the workings being operated By
essees on the old Wellington grcuad.
Twenty-Five hund. ed tons daily OF
copper tailings are being put through
the teaching plant at the washes
works at Anaconda, Mont. This pant
vas completed about six mon,hs,. ago
and its operation is proving very sue
cessful
SO successful have the opera lens a.
the wet process zinc pant of the Ana
3onda thus far pTeyed that the engi
aeers Of the company are planning the
construction next year at the B1stoI
& Montana works at Great Fails OF {
5,000-ton plant.
Costly smelling of zinc, as conduct
ed at the present time by furnaces
s doomed, according to metallurgica
experts who have been studying the
method now being employed by the
Anaconda company.
Relative to the Inspiration Consoli
| lated, the Boston News Eureau says
We figure that since the stcc.
crossed $25, over 144,OO0 shares have
oeen taken the place OF $3,6oO,Oo'
| bonds-the bonds being convertible
into stock at $25 per share.
Excellent progress is being made
| On the Emma copper property in tn
| Little Cottonwood district, near Sd
| Lake, and the developments for th'
! last week are CT such nature a
| to lead the management to believe tha
an orebody of commercial importGn3
may be opened with any round o
| shots.
Advices received at the main offic
in Goldield upon the recently inaugl
rated hydraulic placer operations @
the Round Mountain Mining compan
at its properly az Round Mountain. i
Nye county, Nevada, make it evider
that the results being obtained e!
ceed by so per cent the original ca
oulations.
From a desolate tract, with thre
men employed in prospect work o
March $ OF this year, Promontor
Point, thirty miles west OF Ogden G
the main line of the Southern Pacifi
has developed into a thriving minin
district, with two boarding house
zoo miners at work, pay roll OF S2l
600 per month and eighteen separa
camps.
, Eight months have brought abe,
many changes on Promontory poin
in Utah, where numerous lead-zir
mining claims have been staked o.
and are being worked. With abo
200 men at work in place whe
formerly there were not half doze
there are indications that the fam
, lar mining camp town will soon be
? evidence.
IL When directors of the May d
Mining company hold their meeting
Salt Lake during the early part OF Il
: month, they will order the payne
!, of the regular quarterly dividend
3 cents per share, aggregating 81
i 900, and there is also a possibility
{ special dividend being declared
l Christmas.
t The Anaconda 100-ton plant at t
!. Washoe works is producing daily
tween $4,000 and 10000 pounds
brass special zinc. and with the p.a
now in the process of formulation
Anaconda has in mind the building
plant with a projected capacity
n around 45.000,000 pounds of ri
9 monthly, approximately twice t
i: company's copper production.