The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1917-01-04
RICH RECORD OF NEVADA
MINES FOR YEAR OF 1916

In the north end of the territory, wa
ter is being lowered from the 270C
to the 2900-foot level, which will open
up considerable new ground. In
Churchill county, the mills of the
Nevada Hills and Nevada Wonder
were both operated throughout the
year and no great change was made
in production of gold or silver. Some
silver was contributed by the Monitor
Belmont lotation plant at Belmont
in Nye county.
The mine production of copper in
creased from 6S, S,636,370 pounds in 1915
to over 103,000,000 pounds in 1916, an
increase of nearly 35,000,000 pounds
The value of the copper increased
from $12,011,365 to about S28, 8,120.000
or 134 per cent. The greatest increase
was due to the operations of the Ne
vada Consolidated Copper Company
at McGill, in White Pine county. Dur
ing the first three-quarters of the
year the plant treated nearly 100000
tons of low-grade copper ore and pro
duced 67S36,6S8 pounds of copper.
Ore was also treated from the Giroux
property. In Lyon county, near Yer
ington, there was great increase in
the shipment of copper ore, especially
from the Nevada Douglas property.
The latter half of the year the 250-ton
teaching plant was operated. AL
though the Mason Valley smelter was
idle, a ten-ton teaching plant was
operated, treating ore from the Mon
tana-Nevada mine. At the end of the
year it was planned to operate again
the Mason Valley smelter. A large
increase in copper ore shipments
came from the Santa Fe and Silver
Star districts, in Mineral county, from
mines in the vicinity of Luning and
Nina, which were shipping at the rate
of 1,600 tons per month. Shipments
were also made from Battle Mountain
district, in Lander county.
The mine production of lead in
creased from 16,637,277 pounds in
1915 to 23,466.000 pounds in 1916. The
value of the output increased more
than 100000, or 104 per cent, over
that of 1915, which was $781,952. A
considerable part of this production
came, as in former years, from the
mines of the Yellow Pine district, in
Clark county. The Prince Consoli-
dated, at Phoebe. greatly increased
ore shipments, and a considerable out
put came from the Uvada property.
Other important lead shipments were
made from the Groom mine, in Lin
coin county; Nevada Bunker Hill
property, in Elko county, and the
Union mines, in Eureka county. At
Eureka considerable ore was shipped
from the Richmond Eureka and Cali
fornia Mining Company's property.
The mine production of zinc was
approximately 34,739,000 pounds, an
increase of over 100000 pounds
from that of 1915. There was a
greater increase in the value, from
$3,022, $50 to s4.s59,0O0, or 81 per cent.
over 80 per cent of the output came
from the Yellow Pine district. in
Clark county, very largely from the
Yellowpine and Potosi mines. Other
important shipments of zinc ore or
concentrates came from the Amalga-
mated Phoebe property, in Lincoln
county, and the Polar Star property.
operated by the Nevada Zinc Mining
Company, in Spruce Mountain dis
trict, Elko county.
Incomnlete records of dividends
paid by Nevada mining companies
during the year amounted to $11, 1,S4S,-
900. The greater part of this was
paid by the Nevada Consolidated.
Other contributors were the Tonopah
Belmont, Tonopah Extension, Tono-
pah Mining Company, Yellowpine,
Prince Consolidated, Jumbo Exten-
sion, Nevada Wonder. Jim Butler,
West End, Seven Troughs Coalition
and Goodsprings Anchor.