The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1916-03-16
TUNGSTEN OUTPUT
GREATLY INCREASED

With the unprecedented demand that
has been created for metal of the tung-
stem class since the beginning of the
European war, the production of that
metal has become n great industry in
Nevada, especially in Elko, Humboldt,
Mineral, Nye and Clark counties, and
it is not without the range of possi-
bilities that in value the present year
it will exceed a million dollars, says
the Carson Appeal.
John II. Dunn, one of the travelling
auditors of the Industrial Insurance
commission, was in Carson few days
ago, and stated to the Appeal that his
duties the past few weeks have taken
him through the three last named
counties and everywhere tungsten or
its correlated ores are being sought or
produced At Spanish Springs, in Nye
county, just a few miles from Manhat-
tan, a company is developing eight
claims, the lodges of which carry hub
nerite, species of tungsten. The ore
runs per cent mineral, and to ship
it in concentrated form plans are ma
turing to put in a plant and it will
soon be in operation. The company is
employing quite number of men.
Nine miles southwest of Sodaville
the Atkins Kroll company is working
oe of the biggest tungsten properties
in the state and it is yielding hand
some profits. Here the metal is known
as seheelite, or tungstate of lime, and
it is found in large quantities in the
ledge matter. The company has re
Gently erected a plant and is shipping
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Fifteen men are employed at the mill
and seventy in the mines.
Tn several other places which Mr..
Dunn visited lodges containing tung-
stem in some form or other are being
opened up and nearly all give promise
of becoming producers. Prospectors
are out in all three of the counties
mentioned and the reports they are
sending in are all encouraging.
Mining for other metals, Mr.. Dunn
saws, is increasing everywhere he Wis
tied and some wonderfully good re-
suits are being obtained Particularly
so does this apply to Mineral county,
which this wear is going to make a ban
ner production. Tn and about Luning,
where operations ceased because of
untoward conditions something over a
wear ago, great activity is becoming
manifest and in three months the red
metal will be just rolling out. Recent
" the county commissioners and n
number of the mine owners got to-
gether and agreed to spend $4,000 or
$4,000 in opening the roads to points
near the mines so that the miners
could get their ores to the railroad
and this work has already started. Mr..
Dunn predicts that 400 men viii be
working in the district within the next
ninety davs.
Ten miles from Luning the Nevada
Ore company is building mill and ex-
oects to begin turning out bullion in
a couple of months The company s
property is not large one, but the ore
runs high in gold
On the Lucky Boy property near
Hawthorne leasers are working and all
doing we'll
Former Governor Oddie is working
a copper property in this section and
II is showing some great possibilities.
Recently he made a shipment of ore
that brought good returns. The gov
ernor is also interested in a property
near Nina, which his brother-in-law
Fred Siebert, is handling, and it is
showing up in splendid shape.