The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1919-11-07
AROUND THE MlNH

ably De IN shape To start shipping.
A dividend OF cents a shar. :,
looked for from Goldfield Consolid.,..
when the company's directors meer
Operations recently resumed ar n.
Cottonwood Metals mine in the p,-
Cottonwood canyon are Proceeds
smoothly and meeting with encour,.
ing conditions.
Kennecott Copper corporation. w,,.
a production of 9.92S.OOO pounds -
copper in September, registers reco,s
output for the present year, with m.
exception of January. when a liti;.
over 100000 pounds were turned
out.
The lubricating Oil output for thu
first six months of 1918 and for /.
similar period in 1919 is practicau,
the same, according to the bureau q,
mines minerals Investigation. amoun,.
ing 10 approximately 409,OOO.0O0 gal
Ions.
Jointly with Sinclair Consolidated
United States Smelling has ACQUIRED
80 per cent interest in the virgins.
man oil producing properties, known
as the Johnson, Hollingsworth and
Policy leases in the Bull Bayou oil fie,.
of Louisiana.
Lenses of ore, carrying chalcop~
rite chalcocite. bornite and native con.
per, are being encountered, in the cross.
cut drift to the Mogul No. 2 southweS
assure on the property OF the Western
Utah Extension Copper company n
Gold Hill, Utah
United Verde Extension Mining com.
pany produced 3.24I ,216 pounds Of
| copper in September, compared with
3,2I5,452 pounds i'm the preceding
month. Mining has been resumed and
| approximately normal conditions ORE.
vail at the property.
The average cost Of producing
pound of copper in the Utah, Nevada
and California fields during 1918
when the selling price was fixed by
| the government, was 16.S01 cents. Ne.
corling to figures made public by the
federal trade commission.
Reports Of an impending strike in
Tonopah of both miners and crafts.
men We're brought to an abrupt end
by a recent meeting Of the TonOpah.
Divide Miners and Millmen's union,
at which statement was issued declar.
ing there was no thought of strike.
American Smelting's earnings out.
look for the final six months of 1918
is largely dependent on developments
in the copper trade, according to the
Boston News Bureau. In the first
half year deficit of $1,195, 464 was
shown after the common dividend
The heavy SHOWS that have fallen
in the oil fields in Wyoming during
the past few days have acted as Sc
rious barrier to operations, according
to announcements. The chief delay il
caused by the condition of the roads,
which has virtually prevented moving
heavy supplies.
Work at the Temple Mountain
uranium mines still continues and on
larger scale. says Moab, Utah, cor.
respondent. More men are being put
to work each week and supplies are
veins of very rich ore have been
opened up recently.
Steady progress is being made In
driving the drain tunnel on the prop
erty of the Panama Mining and Mil
ing company, near Moab, Utah. This
tunnel, which when completed will b.
If the water which has heretofore hin
dered development.
Miners coming into the Occur d'Alen'
district from Republic, Wash, do no
approve of the actions of the miner
in that district, which caused the cam
to close, according to the Wallac
Press-Tmes. The ore is of a YER
Nv grade" said one Of them, "and tn
perators were paying all they could
+ Important ore discoveries in tn
a Eureka-Holly mine at Eureka, New
= are announced. In the winze be0'
the 4OO-foot level, in the west end
a the property, the company is prepare
to take out 100 tons of high grade
: month Of the total value of about STU
:. 900, and this merely by doing the mex
n .ssary development work.
c. BY an act of congress of June .
g mining upon Indian reservations OF tl
II states of Arizona, California, ldah
Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Or
l. gon, Washington and Wyoming WI
II authorized. BY this act the secretal
v of the interior was empowered to pr
# scrii e general regulations for the lea
e Ing of mineral lands upon Indian re
a lions to citizens of the unlt'
a States.
le Unwatering Of the Idaho Marylai
vertical shaft to depth of 40 re
he has been accomplished by compress
is air suction. says the San Francis
v. Chronicle. 1t is statep by local en-
~ neerS that thiS mn rES tho first lars