The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-02-09
STATE HAPPENINGS
BRIEFLY REVIEWED

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Tybo-Louisiana Mining Company
has produced $5,OO0,0O0 and reports
big discoveries.
Carson City.-Eighteen thousand
| acres of land to be opened to entry
February IS.
Goodsprings. - Twenty per cent
manganese discovery reported near
Erie.
Caliente.-Coal chutes and trestle
costing $4,000 being built here.
Tonopah.-Twelve feet of $50 ore
reported from Cash Boy mine.
Western Pacific trains reaching
Reno over the new tracks.
Announcement is made by the Mem
eel Crown Point Mining Company, the
property of which is located in the
Rochester district of Nevada, that
there has been perfected a working
agreement by which the United States
Smelling and Refining Company will
further develop the mine, build n
suitable milling plant for the silver
ore and generally undertake financing
of the company.
Reno city improvements for 1918
to cost $122,175.
Value of the gold, silver, copper.
lead and zinc mined in Nevada in
1917 was over $53,000.000. This total
represents an increase of over 49,
900, 900.
Western Pacific plans to build from
Reno 300 miles north into Oregon.
Antimony, one of the necessary war
minerals, is to be developed on a
large scale in Humboldt county. The
Arabia mining district long idle after
it's first period of activity in the late
sixties. has become active again under
the stimulus of the present high prices
of lead, antimony and silver. The
pioneer smelter in Nevada. at Oreana.
on the Central Pacific railroad. was
built in 1865 to reduce the orc of the
Montezuma mine, in the Arabia dis
trict.
Reno.-Premier Film Corporation
will erect brick administration build
ing. Establishing film studios will
undoubtedly prove a big drawing card
for Reno and the entire state. Addi-
tional payrolls are what we want,
combined with the tremendous adyer-
tising that motion pictures. Made IN
Nevada" " would give us.
Salt Lake telegram says Standard
OH Shale Company will erect a
cracking plant" at Elko.
Westwood.-Press reports vary as
to number of men on strike at the
lumber company from l30 to 1900
Lovelock reports a $4,000 per ton
strike in the Humboldt range. This
is in the neighborhood where a piece
of float was picked up a few years ago
that was worth 5000. The country is
already staked for two miles on each
side of the strike.
TOnopah.-Gold Mountain property
sold to representative of Westinghouse
Company.
Elko county has remitted half its
state tax for 1917, $136.64S.75.
Discovery of oil shales has made a
boom town of Eastgate. Churchill
county.
Goodsprings.-Cable has arrived for
the new tram at the Milford No. IL.
which will be installed at once. This
will materially increase the shipments
from this mine.
Gold Top Mining Company property,
nine miles from Battle Mountain, has
become an important producer of the
Copper Basin district by the recent
discovery of a strong vein of copper
discovered at depth, says the Scout.
Tonopah mine for last week IN
January sent out 1870 tons of ore,
worth $193.290.
State highway board has ordered
Improvement of a road from Elko to
Vivian siding, on the Elko-Carlin road.
distance of 20 miles. at a cost Of
S97.S12. Half of this money, $4S. 900.
is to come from federal funds and the
other half is TO be divided equally
between the state and Elko county.