The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1916-03-18
MINES AND MINING

IL is pfactleally certain that the IN
dian Queen of Beaver county. Utah.
win resume work this spring, accord
ing to one of the directors of the COM
pany.
Refining capacity of the American
Smelling & Refining company con-
tinues fully occupied. the plants turn
ing out about 10000 tons of refined
copper month.
President Harker. of the Lynn Big
Six located in Eureka county, New,
says that he is in receipt of reports
that body of gold ore has been
opened in the west drift
Reports received the past week from
the PittsburgIdaho are that the gold
ore vein opened from the Silver Dol
lar level has been proven at points
| for 250 feet along the. assure.
Park City, Utah. will soon get zinc
smelter to cost 100000 to 100000.
The financing will be done by the
Daly-Judge Mining company through
the increase of it's capital stock.
Colorado's present cash treasury is
yariously estimated from $4,000 up
to $4,000. Colorado has paid out in
all $2,600,000, or $3.50 a share. The
last dividend was distributed March
10, 1913.
Last month Anaconda produced 23,-
100000 pounds copper against 23,200,-
600 in January, and % 100000 in De-
cember, the high mark in 1916. In
cbiuary last year the production was
l6 100000 pounds.
Dire tc 5 of.tAc Silver King Consol.
datea Mining company at Park City
Utah, last week, announced the regu.
ar quarterly dividend of 10 cents a
share. The previous total dividends
amounted to $S14,956.
Shipments of ore from the mines Of
Tintic the past week totaled 120 car.
loads estimated at 5000 tons, or val
ued at S150,000 This is compared
with lac cars the previous week,
which was the heaviest weekly pro-
duction in a long time.
The production for the month of
February from the mines of the Grip,
pie Creek, Colo, as reported out from
the several treatment plants has to-
tailed 1850 tons, with an average
value OF $l4.45 per ton and a gross
bullion value of $1,121 ,514.50.
There was exported from the Unit.
ed States during the year 1915 total
OF 6S2,000,000 pounds of copper, ac,
cording to government data just com.
pleted for the period, representing a
drop Of 160000,000 pounds from the
previous year, says a Boston news
paper.
After having secured an option on
100000 shares of tie Beaver Copper
Mining company's stock, Tintic people
appointed A. J. McMullen of Salt Lake
superintendent and Lewis Merriman
managing director "A shaft will be
sunk at once On the property in
Beaver Lake district.
Neither the Giroux company mol
the Consolidated Copper Mines com
pany, which controls it, have shown
any particular activity for the pasi
year or more, and yet the last quarter
y statement of the Giroux shows d
profit of nearly $4,000, which was re
ceived from ore taken from it's ground
by the Nevada Consolidated, and treat.
ed at McGill Nevada.
Superintendent Oden of the VIII
bert Mining company writes to the
salt lake headquarters that the mine
near Arco is in as good physical shape
rs at any time in its history He has
approximately $50 tons filing the ore
bins, which are somewhat congested
on account OF rather bad roads The
bins have capacity of 300 to $50
onS.
A sorry so old that it became a
legend has led to the rediscovery, af-
ter fifty years, of valuable deposit OF
mercury near Canyon City, Ore, once
the glory of the mining country. After
lalf century of idleness, mercury de.
oosits in Cinnabar mountain, thought
to have run out in the sixties, have
been rediscovered by Ralph NJ. Cur
Of Canyon City, because he believed
The legend.
There is a demand in the market
which in the aggregate would tota
fully 2O,000,0t0 pounds Of copper fol
shipment to Europe, according to cop
per producers in receipt of the in
1uiries. These demands have beer
coming in through unheard of ant
most unusual sources indicating tina
in their endeavors to get the meta
some of the foreign consumers have
been using all possible channel!
through which to place their orders
Revolutionizing the smelling O
zinc ores and zinc concentrates, thu
American Smelling & Refining com
pany intends to make the zine, smelt
ing industry a central industry of tn,
intermountain country instead OF ship
pig the concentrates to the gas field
of Pennsylvania, Kansas, Ohio ant
West Virginia. For months a serie
OF experiments have been conducte,
at the Murray and Anaconda shelter
to determine if electricity could b,
substituted for natural gas and tn,
company has decided that with prope
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