The Garland City globe. (Garland, Utah) 191?-1925, 1919-08-30
MINES AND MINING

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great quantities Is reported by WaltT
NJ. Brodle In the Engineering and Min
Ing. Journal.
Active work on the Javan copper
mines, Contact, New, Is to be started
at once and continued throughout the
fall and winter.
The Austin, New, district has been
stirred by the discovery of large
ledge Of hgh-grade ore in the main
working tunnel Of the Austin Nevada
Consolidated.
The Hybia Mining company of Ne
vadn has been organized by Arthur
Renl of Phoebe for the purpose OF de-
veloping thirteen mining claims In the
Comet district. "a b.
Development work Is being done at
the Syndicate mine In the Santaquin
mining district In Utah, which Is prom
Using t. open one of the big mining
fields of the west.
Preparations have been practically
completed by the Goldfield Develop
ment company for mining the l,5OO,OVO
tons OF commercial ore blocked out on
and above the 3S0-foot level OF the
Combination mine.
Development work on the Pinenut
mine In the Cherry Creek Valley. New,
Is being speeded. even though the
strike on the Nevada Northern rail-
road has handicapped operations to
considerable extent.
Unless a change occurs during tho
next week August will present n weak
comparison with the months immedi-
ately preceding when sales averaged
over 2OO.OOO,OOO pounds, according to
the Boston News Bureau.
The Tonopah Belmont Development
company reports the earnings at the
local property for the month OF July
as S36,554.32, those profits having
been made from the reduction and
treatment of 1880 tons of ore.
The advance of recent months In the
price OF silver, which IL quoted about
Sl12 an ounce, Is bringing about a
rapid revival In the silver districts or
the SLOGAN and other British Columbia
divisions, says Nelson, u. q. report.
During the current calendar year
the stock OF copper held in this coun-
try for the allies and belonging Ia them
has been reduced by shipments abroad
from approximately 90,OOO,OO0 pounds.
January ], to 30,O0O,0O0 pounds, Au-
gust /.
Renewed activity In the mining In
dustry Is reported from Jungo, New.
which Is becoming very busy outfit
ting point for this section OF the coun-
try. situated us IL Is. about forty miles
west OF winnemucca, Nev., on the
Western Pacific railway.
! The outlook for the tungsten indus
try. which Ii Of considerable impor.
,ance TO mining men OF the west, has
frightened with the favorable report
made recently by the house ways and
means committee on the tariff blu
providing adequate protection.
Labor conditions In Nevada appnr.
emily have affected the mining activi.
ties OF the most important camps In
the state. A deadlock still exists In
the Ely and Tonopah districts. At
ronopah recently 300 miners voted
solidly at mass meeting for con-
tlnuance OF the strike.
A Salt Lake mining man who re-
turned recently from u trip In which
he visited number OF mining prop
critics near Marysvale was very fnv-
ornbly impressed with the Deertrnil
mine, which Is six miles from the fore
going town. On this property there Is
n 1O0-ton cyanide mill.
To obvlate possible retaliation by
foreign governments should oil land
leasing legislation discriminating
against aliens be enacted. the senate
has adopted the Smoot amendment
modifying the leasing bill to permit
aliens to obtain leases to government
lands under restrictions.
Reports sent by operators of man
ganese mines to the United States geo.
logical survey, department of the In
terror. covering the first three months
OF 1919. show that the shipments OF
manganese ore during that quarter
were much smaller than during any
other quarter since 1917.
United States imports OF lead ore
In June totaled i.6S6,453 pounds, val
ued at S74.7S7, department of com.
merce states. Mexico supplied SS653S
pounds. worth $43.l43, and Canada
799,SO5, worth $31,63s. Mexico sent
US 1866, 4SS pounds OF lead bullion, and
base bullion, valued at $i49,755,
A promising mineral find is reported
from the Arrowhead property In the
Reveille district, according to the Ton
opah Daily Times. At depth of 1850
feet In the shaft workings n body of
ore four feet wide has been exposed
In the cross-cut, and assays average
values of S25S ton, principally In
silver.
Miners of Virginia City by a vote of
100 to 80, decided to go on strike II
their demand for an increase of 81
day Is not granted by the operators of
the ComstOck mines. The strike, how
ever, will not be called until official
permission is granted by the lnterna-
tIonal Union of Mine and Smelter
Workers.