The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1919-11-14
AROUND The MINES

erected, according TO late reports.
According to the president OF the |
Eureka Standard Mining company. a
campaign OF development is TO he |
started shortly on this property. which |
adjoins the Tintic Standard ON tho
south.
The Goshen Valley railroad, a spur
line from the Denver 4 Rio Grande az
Pearl. Titan, TO the Tintic Standard
mine and the Iron King mine has been
completed as far as Flora and will
commence operating at once.
A discovery Of pitchblende has been
reported in Butte township in the Nip
issing district. 1t was found by VIII
liam Elliott, a prospector who had
taken up claim for mica, according
to the Mining and Scientific Press.
Iwenty-eight gold dredges were op-
Grated ia Alaska in 1918, producing
$l.425,OOO worth Of gold, according to
q report on the Alaska mining indus
try just issued by the United States
geological survey, department Of the
interior.
Application was fled last week with
the public utilities commission by the
South Hecla Mining company, asking
that operation Of the Little Cottonwood
Transportation companys railroad be
maintained as long as weather condi-
tons permit.
The number Of mines in which oper-
atoms are proceeding in British Col
umbia, is the largest in two years, says
a Nelson, British Columbia, report. The
volume of ore produced would be the
largest in that period but for q labor
strike at Kimberley.
AS depth is secured in the winze
being sunk in crosscut run from the
Red Eagle or main tunnel level at the
Boston Acme Macs corporation prop
erty, near Morgan, Utah, which is the
old Morgan Crescent ground, the min
eralization is increasing.
Davis-Daly finished the nine months
Of this year with about 100000 in
cash, securities and Liberty bonds and
owed no money. 1t should show final
profits for the September 80 quarter
of at least $250000, and this after all
charges and costs of new equipment.
A London cable to the New York Sun
tells Of a giant mining combination
in process of formation there. 1t Is in
, tended to have control of practically
every basic metal mine of Russia and
of producing mines in Mexico, India
and Africa, according to it's sponsors
Arrangements were made recently
, whereby the Tecoma Consolidated Min.
} ing company can inaugurate cam
, paign of development upon it's prop
erty situated in the Lucin mining dis
: trict, 100 miles west of Ogden ant
|, about five miles from the main lin,
railroads.
II The vaule of the placer gold pro
L duced in Alaska in 1918 was abou
$5,90O,00O. The production in 1917 wa
| $9,S10,00O. The decrease in 1918 wa
| general throughout the territory, ex
} cept in the Copper River and Yentn'
| districts and some Of the smaller Yu
kOn districts.
| The prospects Of finding oil in CON
| mercial quantity in Washington cour
| ty, Utah, are being investigated b
biologists of the United States geolog
cal survey, department of the interior
A study has already been made of tn
small Oil field at Virgin City, the onl
place in that part Of Utah where pr,
Al ducing wells have been drilled.
n Articles of incorporation of tn
II Ophir Silver Mines company were file
x at Salt Lake last week with the Sc
= rotary of state. This company we
recently organized by Guy r. La Cos
to develop group Of fifteen claim
s adjoining the famous Ophir Hill min
be owned by Senator Clark of Montan
which has produced, it is estimate
ut more than $40,OO0,0OO.
III In addition to the imposing array
legal and technical experts gather'
~ from all parts Of the United Stat
Is. and retained by the Utah Consolidate
u" and the Utah Apex Mining companit
-, nv scores of local mine operators and mi
ing lawyers are in attendance in t
United States district court at 81
M Lake, where the hearing for ap
~. rights between the two cOrporatio
is being heard.
rev The Salt Lake Potash compar
lev whose large plant is located at kosr
of on the northern edge of Great 81
ret lake. Is building track mile
90 length to connect with the old line
the Southern Pacific, and will ma
rite first shipments of the crude prodl
to to the east and south about Move
be Der 10.
Ahu In the Oquirrh range, fifty mi
ana southwest of Salt Lake City, thu
VIII Is a deposit of phosphate rock Il
ues carries sixty-seven to seventy-five
" cent of tricalcium phosphate. l
II quantity available in these distrl
has not been determined.
,ao.l now silver coinage for Mexico