The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1919-10-17
AROUND THE MINES

DMyhee county. Idaho. minin. A.
.rict Is experiencing "A RENAISSANCE .,.
many properties are pushing de,.,.-
ment work
The main adit, which is beivr dr4.,
To cut the Barussia assure ON the r.
ariy of the American Consollh,,.x
Mines company is American Fork e..
Won. Utah. recently cut fifteei-fs-s
assure in the quarizite.
Lack of space this year cut d.~x
the mining exhibit at the state f.,.
A; Salt Lake. but what il has los, I.
quantity an effort had been made :,
make it up in quality. In fact. SOM
If the specimens shown this wear A..
among the rarest found anywhere
Considerable progress has beo,
made in the unwatering OF the Finn.
silver mines in the Alta district Tn.
water level has been lowered to m.
200 level. The draining of an eighty.
fve-foot Wine must be accompIisbal
before access will be afforded to tha
| producing zone.
The Calumet & Hecla Mining com.
pany has employed Professor L.
Grafton, geolOgist, to make a comple,a
geological survey of the entire terri.
tory owned or controlled or managed
by its mining interests in northern
Michigan, $4,000 acres in all, saws ths
Boston News Bureau
|
With three lots of ore aggregatn,
about 32J tons on the market. the Sl.
yer King Consolidated has only jus.
received returns on the first lot from
the new bedding in the Electric Ligh,
claim. The control showed 37.9 ounces
silver, 31.6 per cent lead, 035 ounces
gold and q per cent copper.
Gold is about the only commoditv
left. the price of which to the consl
mer has not gone up. This fact has
given rise to good deal of agitation
by gold producers, but any steps to-
ward a subsidy or increasing the fixed
price of gold, which stands at So06i
an ounce. has failed, comments the
Toronto Globe.
Statistics of production for some
years past, published by the Financial
and Commercial Chronicle, New York
show that the production of gold in
, the world in 1918 was approximately
: 1S,603,929 ounces, valued ut Ssh I6-
. 100, or decline of 1887, 427 ounces,
or S39,012, 49,, from the previous year,
] and the lowest since 1908.
= Recent samples of the full face Of
: the Blacksmith tunnel, which is bein,
l. run on The property of the Utah ST.
ver-Lead Mines company to tap al
/, depth the silver zone ore deposit, in
= dictate that the objective is being rap
:. idly approached. The assay reports
on the aforementioned sample shows
. S.S ounces of silver and l7.7 per cent
= of lead.
ia Plans for future development AM
expansion by the Midwest Refinin
- company, as well as other oil compan
Ia les operating in the Wyoming fields
in assures growth Of the oil industry i
r. that state to large proportions, accort
n ing to the Boston News Bureau. POI
10 sibilities of Wyoming can be seen froI
tn the fact that it has larger area tina
I'd either Kansas or Oklahoma.
e. More mining activity never prevaile
he In the various states of Central Anne
Sc lea. it is said. The high rate of tax
al ton, which is burdenng capital in Il
he warstricken countries Of Europe, max
investment desirable in southern cou
We tries, and the vast deposits OF U
he mountains, which form Il connection
IN, tween the Andes and the Rockies,
raj fer a splendid field for the inyestme
ur- of large capital
OIL More than POO cities and towns
''n the United States are supplied VI
'le natural gas, which is furnished TO
~ nestle consumers at rates that sho'
70 arouse the envy Of those consun'
400 of artificial gas who have to pay ao'
a dollar Il thousand cubic feet
- average price per thousand cubic
~, charged to domestic consumers
-. natural gas in the United States Ia i
was about 80 cents.
f. Central American mines, once
M ductive, when worked in the dlm u
of the past by the crude, but ingeh'
:, methods of the native Indians
Ties steady stream of golden metal ",
became the cause of crime, bloodsl
tho rapine, oppression and treachery'
the now being prosaically worked
| ia American and European capital D!
,unt most modern methods of metaii'
call and mining engineering.
Is The metal output of the mihe'
this Washington In 1918 was Vaiueu
the 81 ,467, 421, a decrease from S-'-o'
It t in 1917. The present rate OF shiph'
indicates that there will be aee
the decreases in the output of goio'
onor and lead in 1919. The ore outp'
who 1913 was 1891 tons, part OF
the was milling ore.
,ne Tin is one of the few highly
this .,it nat