The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-07-23
AROUND THE MINES

acres Of land in the lllipah district
were taken up as placer oil locations
within the last year.
A number Of Shoshone citizens have
become Interested In the Golden Glow
mine. % miles northeast Of Ketchum.
Idaho. In Boulder mountain.
Preparations for drilling for oil at
lllipah, Nevada. are being made by q
group OF nineteen locators of Ely and
McGIll, who have holdings of 1,l4O
acres in the field.
Shipments of ore from the Emma
Silver mine In the Alta district are
being made steadily at the rate OF
two carloads, or approximately ninety
tons a week.
Amount of money invested In the oil
supply business. estimated at less than
S15,OO0,00o. does not compare with that
of many of the prominent oil produc-
ing. refining and marketing companies.
The Tamarack Mining company Is
progressing nicely with the installation
of an electric power line from Sheri-
dan, Mont, to the mine. The line
will approximate four miles In length.
Ore shipments from the Phoebe dis
trict for the week ending July 8 totaled
2,O9O tons, as compared with $500 tons
the week preceding. The Fourth Of
July holidays were the cause of the
lower tonnage.
Leasers VINO are working upon the
Silver Trail property near Basin,
Mont, have mined almost ut the grass
roots five tons. of ore which assays
seventy-five ounces of silver and So In
gold to the ton.
Shipments from the Rico Yelling
ton mine, situated near Rico, Colo,
have been resumed. At present ship
ments are being made from the prop
erty Mt the rate Of two carloads of ore
every three days.
Eureka, Nevada, is forging ahead.
and to those In touch with the mining
operations Of the district, every month
shows a marked and permanent i'm
provement in conditions over those Of
the preceding one.
A mill and cyanide plant are to be
built at Meadow Lake, California, to
reduce gold-bearing quartz from the
Excelsior mine. Meadow Lake has
been famous spot since gold was
first discovered there in the early
sixties.
Broken Hills, the new mining dis
trict which has been heralded as be-
longing to Churchill county, really and
truly belongs to Nye county, and Nye
county will derive the taxes that must
be paid, both fiat and otherwise, says
the Tonopah Times.
Search for Oil is now more active
than ever and whether oil Is found
or not, equipment is consumed. De-
mand for oil well equipment abroad
is increasing, and as a result heavy
foreign requirements have to be met
by American manufacturers.
Establishment Of the only precious
metals experiment station in the
United States Mt the University OF
Nevada at Reno, Is now assured, ac-
cording to telegram received from
Secretary of the Interior Payne, who
has approved the location of the
station.
Less gold was produced throughout
the world last year than in 1918 an(
indications are that the 1920 outpu
also will show reduction, accordin.
to the geological survey, which, on in
complete returns, places the 1919 pro
duction at from $S45, 100000 to $3.50,
100000.
The production of gold in the Unite'
States during 1919 was $5S,25S, 1856
+ Canada is reported to have produce
s14,6S7, 900; India, $10,02S, 900; Aus
tralia (not including New Zealand Q
the islands), $29,26S,0OO; the Tran.
vaal, SIT, $40, 1913; Rhodesia and Yves
Africa, $1S,631,07O.
Chromite was discovered on Dee
creek, sixteen miles southwest Of Glel
rock, Wyo., about 1908, and sma
quantity Of the ore, possibly as muc
as 7OO long tons, has since been mine
and shipped. Operations ceased yea
ago until 1918, when the Ferro Allt
company Of Denver obtained contr
Of the property.
Inquiry of the federal trade col
mission into charges that the Minera
Separation corporation, Minerals Sep
ration North American corporate
Beer, Sondheimer 4 Co. and 9th
respondents, by an oppressive syste
of license agreements with mimi
companies for the use Of oll In fotati
processes, have suppressed compe
ton, opened ut Salt Lake. July Ii.
OIL well supply industry has I
been able to keep up the last Il
years with demands of petroleum
dustry for drilling equipment, says
Boston News Bureau. In June TIT
were more than 800 wells drilled e;
Of the Rockies. This Is at an ann,
rate of 1920 wells year. In ~
It is estimated there were appro
mately 10000 wells drilled in the COZ
try, and in 1918, 25.70O wells.
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