The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1919-09-26
AROUND THE MINES

e thc snoit On liie property
OF the Phoebe Bristol company near
Phoebe, New.
One Of the latest silver districts TO
arise and shake of her shroud is the
Black Mountain district in Mineral
county. ten miles south Of Nina. New.
Ore which is declared TO average SO
n ton has been followed for Is feet
IN the tunnel al the Bellorphan prop
erty In American Fork canyon. Utah.
Tonopah Belmont development divi- |
dend declared of ) per cent. payable
October l. is a reduction from 10 per
cent and was due To the strike of the
miners at Tonopah.
Capt. Owen f. Brinton. manager Of
the Western Utah Copper company in
the Deep Creek country, has assumed
the mine management of the Jib prop
erty at Basin, Montana.
Shipments from the Black Metals
mine near Phoebe. New, with the in
>iallation of the new equipment have
been increased, according to informa.
iioh received last week.
The average monthly prices of quick
silver in San Francisco during the sec
ond quarter of 1919. as quoted in the
Mining and Scientific Press, were:
April, S73.12 May, $3.50, and June,
| S94.40.
Owing to the attitude of the under
ground workers in refusing to return
to work at less than IA dollar advance,
the mines at Tonopah have not re-
sumed operations after being closed
for several days by strike conditions.
| The high-grade seam of ore running
800 ounces in gold, which was last
week an inch wide, has, In driving
eighteen feet on the Florence Divide
lease on the Goldfield Florence prop
erty, opened up to eighteen inches of
high-grade ore.
The output of the Davis-Daly Cop
per company last month, amounting to
100000 pounds of copper was nearly
doubled that of July and was by far
the largest monthly production in the
company's history, says the Boston
News Bureau.
Within the next 500 feet the Spiro
tunnel, being driven by the Silver King
Consolidated at Park City, Utah.
should open up the Disappointment fis-
sure, from which some rich shipments
were made that carried 81 per cent
lead, 35 ounces in silver and So in gold.
Much placer mining is being done in
and about Burlcy, Idaho, this fall. A
Salt Lake mining company has secured
Il lease on group of claims belong
ing to Louis Hill in the vicinity Of
Martaugh, and two carloads of mining
machinery are on the way to the prop.
erty. The machinery will be installed
ut once.
Upon it's own initiative the Yellow
Pine Mining company at Goodsprings
Nevada, put a new wage scale into eff
feet at the mill and mine September
l. The new scale makes 25-cen
raise for muckers, trammers and la
borers, or SAFE per day for this clas.
of work, and 5O-cent raise for othe1
employees.
The output of quicksilver in thu
United States from April to June 30
1919, was 1910 TASKS of 70 pounds net
ii decrease of 2O20 flasks, or of nearl.
+ "a per cent, as compared with thu
II output in the first quarter. Only six
/ teen mines were producing in the see
I ond quarter of the year as agains
twenty-three in the first quarter.
Development of South American OF
= production is being pushed actively b
both American and British interests
The latter are reported to have OF
I, tanned millions of acres of prosperity
!. lands in the various countries. A
:, though some production is now obtair
- ed, the main difficulty lies in tn
- present inaccessbility Of the fields
One of the few places where plar
has already been installed for III
E distillation of oil from shale is ne:
Dillon, Mont. The shale at the site s.
lected for the operations is part
" the Phosphoria formation, which col
tains the beds of rock phosphate th'
are mined at several places near Bei
N Lake, in southeastern Idaho, for II
n manufacture of fertilizer.
~ That Nevada will again take N
a. place as the greatest silver producer
state in the union is becoming mo
evident every day, not so much throus
the discovery of new districts as
the resurrection of old and Prov
districts which passed into the III
card and have practically been ft
gotten since the decentralization OF
YER says the Nevada Mining Press.
n France, which was the largest II
porter of American copper, dropped
l. third place during the past year. yie
ing first position to England, wh
81 Italy's requirements advanced tn
country from third TO second place
IN This respect.
W Scandinavian countries have enter
IS this market for copper in substant
W quantities. 1t is believed that some