The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-10-30
MINES AND MINING


The Buster, at Jarbidge, New, is
now employing thirty-five men and
Is taking out from $4,000 to SIS, 900
worth Of ore per month.
1t is the expectation of the direc.
tors of the Home Run that the prop.
erty in the Day-Bristol district. near
Phoebe. New, will resume actual min.
ing operations this coming week.
1t is reported from Promontory that
the alleged 100000 option on the
property of the Lakeview Mining com.
panys ground has expired and the
camp has its normal breath once
more.
After many weeks of delay, OWNS
to the faulty construction of the aeria
tram, the Mineral Products corpora.
TONS potash plant at Marysvale
Utah, is working smoothly and sue.
cessfully.
According to the Boston News Blu.
retu, production OF commercial potash
in the United States after months O..
backing and filling, and after publ.
cation of weary columns of newspaper
Alslnformation, is at last a reality.
The Yankee Consolidated manage
ment is going after the Beck Tunnei
ore bodies which are known to exist in
that part OF the territory owned BY
the Yankee, in Tintic. Prospecting
is now under way on the east side OF
the Yankee claims.
Planning to try out a new inven
tion in the gathering of flour gold"
from the rivers and streams of the
west, A. H. Moore, mining eng neel
or San Francisco, has gone to Idaho
where he will conduct tests in the
Snake and the Boise rivers.
Despite a delay of several shifts
during the first Of the month it is
probable that the bullion production
or the mill of the Rochester Mines
company at Rochester, New, viii
reach $4,000 for October and tha
next month will surpass this reco d.
Sixty cents a pound has been paiC
tor aluminium on top Of the most sen
sational rise the metal ever had says
a Boston authority. Two mon his ag
aluminium was quoted nominally al
around 30 cents pound, but sudden
demand has since carried the metal tl
a new high level.
What promises to develop into one
OF the best strikes made recently il
the Little Cottonwood district, nea
Salt Lake, is the one made last wet b
by the lessees operating on the A
bion property. 1t was made in virgin
territory at depth Of nearly 500
feet from the surface.
Ore discovered on the surface OF
the Silver Fortuna group Of the Mas
Cott Mining company about a month
ago bears all the earmarks of bon
anza. 1t is fully IA feet in wild h, aver
ages 700 Fer ton in silver and lead
and is mostly metal, there being little
waste, says the Haily (Idaho) Times.
At the Tintic Milling company, at
Silver City, Utah, The officers are u.s.
ing every means to. hurry the con-
struction work to completion. The
rolls and crushers were put into posi-
tion some time ago and the huge dry.
er, which weighs in the neighborhood
OF twenty tons, is now on the ground
With the opening of a fine orebody
on the 1,400-foot level of the Seven
Treughs Coalition nine, where they
are mining a three-foot vein, running
800 ton, there is every possibility
that bullion production for this month
will yet reach $4,000, in spite of the
delay of several days caused by mill
repairs.
With the main breast of the tunnel
that is in more than 700 feet showing
heavy naturalization, the manage.
ment OF the Reed Peak Mining com.
pany, the property Of which is locat
cd in the Big Cottonwood district. near
Salt Lake, is looking forward to cut
ting the Birthday assure with any
round of shots.
On the east fork Of the Sewer river
down in Piuse county, Utah, j. B.,
Baker and G. V. Morehouse claim to
have made valuable discovery OF
magnes.a chlorine and borax as well
as large deposit of copper sulphides.
The rarer metals are found in streaks
and sometimes in pockets two or
three feet In length.
BY end OF the current year Chic
Copper company will be producing
100000 pounds OF copper monthly,
and by spring of next year production
Will be at rate Of 100000 pounds
per month. at cost OF cents or un.
der per pound On the basis OF pres
ent copper prices Chile Copper would
earn $l,2SO,000 per month on an out
put Of 100000 pounds.
Copper, as the great utility metal
ol modern co9merce. i fast displac-