The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1916-08-18

TIC Otduudfu' III iiullC ulStIlCt.
Copper exports from atlantic ports
for. the week ended July 20 were S.34s
tons; since July /, 23,O7S versus 6.2Ss
a year ago.
There are about LIS men at work at
Jarbidge. New, and more are wanted.
Wages are $3.50 day for miners and |
81 for muckers.
1t is understood that one of the |
largest copper selling agencies in the |
country has dropped its electrolytie |
price to Is cents a pound on late |
year deliveries.
Greene Cananea's production Is on
the basis of 5000. 900 pounds month
and extra efforts are being made to
bring the property up to capacity out.
put before August.
| Utah-Apex Mining company reports
for quarter ended May 81. 1916, net
earnings Of $4l7.94S. compared with
$202,71s in preceding quarter, says
the Boston News bureau.
Shipments of ore from the Prince
Consolidated at Phoebe. New, the past
week to Utah smelters amounted to
So carloads. This is estimated at g.
$50 tons. 1t is mainly the low grade
iron fuxing ores.
The more carefully is examined the
proposed tax ~ copper the more un-
fair does it appear to be and the more
bungling in it's operation if it be en-
4 acted in its present form, says the
Engineering & Mining Journal.
1t is reported that the Utah Metals
Mining & Milling company, owning
property in the Santaquin district,
has been adequately financed and will
soon inugurate operations on larger
scale. TAe main adit is in 125 feet.
. Shipments from the mines of Tintic
last week totaled 1875 carloads This
is estimated at 5000 tons valued al
, $230,000. 1t is compared with 191 cars
the previous week. There were TWEEN
. ty-six producers in the list last week
. Shipments last week from the mines
! OF Park City amounted to 1857 tons
: estimated at $4,000 This includes
: first-class crude ores and the produc
I from several of the mills This |!
compared with 1859 tons the previous
: week.
, The bottom Of the Bird winze in thu
9 Seven Troughs Coalition which ha
o reached the 1,740-foot point has JUS
y cut q 6-inch stringer of ore running
- nearly $500 ton. A larger streak G
almost the same richness has bee
70 passed through, and no hanging wa
% yet in sight.
C Idaho and Salt Lake people are d.
D. veloping the Silver Consolidated prof.
% erty, located about ten miles soutl
D west from the Gilmore district, Idaht
The property is equipped with TIVE
X drill compressor and tramway. o
IS the dumps twenty-five tons of ore ar
e estimated at $S7 to the ton.
" Bingham Mines earned for tn
p months Of April. May and June
% trife over $4,000, May being hig
month with $15,426. For the san
IN quarter Eagle & Blue Bell earne
m about $4,000, May also being the hie
X. month at $27.957, according to info
lis nation released by Boston officials.
in Designed and constructed to hand
IN 800 tons of ore daily, each of Il
L. eighteen sections Of the Inspiratit
Consolidated Copper company m
he has been putting through 900 tons p
Dr. day This has had the effect Of ra
ale ing the total tonnage treated fro
On, $4,000 to $1,000 tons daily, says Ari,
as ma advfces.
da. According to the announcement
he Bart l.. Thane, manager OF the All
ka Gastineau company alaska Col
ity the run at the big mill at Thane M,
rst- day, June rs, broke the milling recC
the Of that company, says the Bost
put News Bureau. Eightyseven hundl
Co., tolA of ore were treated within
ons twenty-four hours.
at Production of crude platinum in {
in ifornia and Oregon in 1915, accord
to the United States geological s
ials vey was 741.9l troy ounces, havin
my, value of about $23,53S, an increase
de- 1871 ounces over the production
ear 1914. CALIFORNIA; mines produced m
ow- of this quantity; only one mine
mill Oregon reported production in 1911
or Native silver discovered in
99.5 bottom of the Codd winze below
800-foot point on the dip of the {
Jcrd vein, together with the shipment
len SIG, 700 in gold and silver bullion
rey- resenting the first half Of the mon
half mill run, are the two most import
ton happenings in connection with
Ield. Rochester Mines Company during
cred past week.
lany Values of the mineral production
de- the United States ii 1915, accort
to preliminary figures compiled by
Con- United States geological survey,
,per. approximately $2,373,0O0, 900, a gal
riot. $25S ,OOO, 900, or more than II per
erly over 1914. The value for 1915
, a been exceeded but Once-in ~
the when a total of $2,439O0O,0 900 was
were corded.
hall George Triplett arrived from I
DO and the Grey Eagle mining
reole tricts last Thursday and reports
,ated siderable mining activity at