The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1919-10-31
AROUND THE MINES

| een miles south OF Nina. Nevada
where six-foot ledge has been uncoy-
cred which assays about $50 Der ton
Renewed hope that mining claim.
might be exempted from all assess.
ment work for the year 1919 was
gwen In the receipt of favorable news
from Washington last week.
Operations which were interrupted
oy the war, we're resumed last week on
me property of the Cottonwood Metals
aiming company, in Big Cottonwood
canyon district, near Salt Lake.
Ihe Arrowhead district in Nye coun-
" Twelve miles from Twin Springs.
tiie nearest watering place, and to the
east of Tonopah, appears to be the
latest place of mining excitement in
Nevada.
The striking Of q small flow of oil.
estimated at about fifty gallons a day
ut depth of 400 feet on the George
Williams ranch, five miles from Fal.
Ion, New, has caused quite an oil ex.
element at Fallon.
Development work at the Monitor
Mines, situated twelve miles southwest
OF Milford, Beaver county, Utah, in
the Star mining district, is approach
ing very important stage, according
to officials Of the company.
A wire from Reno says that four
feet of high grade shipping ore has
been encountered by the Carrie Sill.
yer Mines corporation operating in the
Silver Fields district, ten miles north.
west of Miller's Station, New.
| a. Z. Wiley, an oil geologist, recent
ly made an examination of the pros
pective oil fields near Fallon, New. in
Churchill county. He is reported to
have declared that there were good
possibilities for oil in that section.
Two more mills at Tonopah have
resumed operation, leaving the Tono-
pah Extension plant as the sole one
remaining idle. These were the Bel
mont and West End, which are crush
ing ore in the same routine as before
the strike.
According to reports from the Mon
itor Mines in Beaver county, the new
tunnel which will give a depth of $50
feet below the deepest Of the old
workings and from which 1000
worth of ore was shipped, is now
within 10 feet of cutting the vein.
A dispatch from The Pas, Manitoba,
says the reported sale of the Film Flon
mine to Hayden, Stone & Co. of Bos-
ton involve sum of $10,00O,OOO for
the construction of a railway, water
powers and smelter, which is, exclu-
sive of the purchase price, estimated
to be $2,5OO,OOO.
Veritable mountains of copper exist
upon the concession of the Union
Miniere du Haut Katanga in the Bel
gian Congo, Africa, according to H.
Barzin, superintendent of mines for
the company, who is visiting the great
copper properties Of America in order
to study methods Of mining.
Mine operators and owners of the
Silverton district according to a re-
port from Colorado, are greatly in
terested in the rapid progress made in
the erection of buildings at the Sunny
side mine, as their completion means
the operation Of the big 500-ton mill
at Eureka at its full capacity.
Application for the patenting of 1913
placer claims covering 30,6579S acres
has been filed with the registrar and
receiver of the United States land of.
flee at Salt Lake by the Utah-Saldurc
company, the largest producer of pot
ash in Utah. The application is fol
the largest area ever applied for in
the state.
Recent developments at the Cole
Hill mine Of the Western Utah Cop
per company have justified the value
of the prospecting work which has
been pushed upon the 700 level ant
have proved that the theories of tn,
management in regard to the geolOg!
of the formation and the permanent!
of the ore deposits have been correct
New developments in the Dividend
Hasbrouck, Revert and Rosetta prop
critics in the Divide district in Nevad'
are said to have caused quite sti
in the camp and also at TonOpah. Th
most recent strike II said to have beel
nude at "a feet In the new Divid
shaft situated on the White Caps claim
within a few feet of the end line o
the Divide Extension property.
The recent upward squirt of the Con
solidated Virginia stock was featur
last week of the San Francisco stool
exchange, according to reports iron
San Francisco. This advance of tn
: old mine of the famous past to pc
sition of honor is one of the man
. examples of the power of many o
the old mines, with silver breaking a
records, to stage an effective "comt
back"
News of an important strike of ric
gold-bearing ore in the Starlight clair
of the group owned by the Gugger
: helm interests at Jarbidge, New. ha
hoon recejved A vein twenty feet wild