The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-02-20
THE MINES

The Eiko Prince mine ana mtu "
Gold Circle were shut Down saturday
Of last week. owing to . strike OF tho
miners and miilpen.
Operations are to be resumed at tho
property Of the Hamburg Mines COM
pany near the old Mendah property In
the Highland district. near Phoebe.
Satisfactory progress Is being made
in the driving of the Cottonwood Metal
Mining company drift upon Its prop
erty in Big Cottonwood canyon. near
| Salt Lake.
Twenty-Five feet of sixteen dollar
ore and seven feet of $500 ore has
been opened up in the crosscut ON
| fourth level of the Goldfield CONSOLE
dated property.
Net proceeds of the Chief Console
dated Mining company from its opera
tons In 1919 were reported to the
Utah state board Of equalization last
week at S730.3s2.2l.
The fight waged In congress since
1902 to establish federal control of pub
lie land policies has been ended by the
passage of the oil and gas leasing bill.
which has gone through both houses
The Arizona Wyoming Oil company.
composed mostly of Salt Lake people.
has arranged to install a "topping"
plant to treat the product Of the COM
pany's six shallow wells In the Fossil
} fields.
} For consideration Of $4,000 the
Saxon property lying thirty-five miles
northwest of Yuma. Ariz., In the Cho-
colate mountains In the famous Silver
! district has been sold to Salt Lake in
> vestors.
Anaconda Copper company is plan
i ming the production of tri-oxide of ar
senic on an extensive scale and its out
: put will dominate the market for this
article mounting into the thousands
= Of tons annually.
!. The last shipment Of ore from the
Naildriver mine at Park City. aver
aged 81 ounces Of silver and IL per
= cent lead. according to information
= released last week. An average Of
- twenty tons per day Ii being shipped
!. from the mine.
" A contract for driving the West
Toledo mine upraise an additional 100
feet has been let. This upraise which
mp is now up distance of 200 feet above
the mine tunnel level has for its OBJ
: jective the Cardiff limestone underly-
!. ing the quartzite.
:. Oil field report for January as com
piled by the Oil City Derrick shows
rss u gain in drilling operations compared
with December. Completed wells to-
tailed 2114, a decrease of Is. from that
~, Of December. New production OBJ
-. tanned totalled 452, 1897 barrels, new
high mark.
- Machinery and supplies, with which
a to begin and continue operations a
the South Standard property, consist
. ing of 1900 acres, situated In the cas-
III Tintic district south Of the Eurek'
M Standard property which In turn I'D
q joins the Tintic Standard on the south
M are to be ordered at once.
~ Valuation reports on various Goa
sSM land holdings were filed with the Utal
II state board of equalization last weel
IA among them being one on prOpert
II held by Heber J. Grant as trustee /
/, trust for the L. d. s. church. Thi
is for land in Iron county on whic
an appraisal Of $22,SOO is placed.
The four big mines in the Binghal
district, the United States, the Uta
Metal and Tunnel company. the Uta
Consolidated and the Utah-Apex, hay
IN been closed as result of the strih
the Of miners which went into effet
at the call of the Mine and Mill Il
as dustrial Workers union, No. 800. TIL
med union is the mining branch of IL
link l. w. w.
The long development drift beir
ANY run on the fifth level Of the Virgin
at Louise mine at Phoebe, New. and Il
raise to the fourth level have BROKE
Lon into good grade shipping ore. this 0
and being continuation Of what Is know
and as the twenty-foot bed, from which.
and the area adjacent to the fourth lev
large tonnage of good grade fluxi
arty ore has been mined.
n at Continued demand for metals by fl
lome eign countries, the gradual advan
the that is taking place In the price
,tten metals, the manner in which the 3
3. properties Of the western states a
o 60 being opened up, the demand for stoc
song. in new producing properties. and
to OF unusual activity that is being shown
mining camps are good harbinger
what may be expected this year
the western country.
The Utah delegation in congress
been requested by the Salt Lake
tary club to give support to sen'
bill No. 2671, introduced by Sena
Charles b. henderson OF Nevada,
other proposed legislation Of the sa
or similar purpose" authorizing q
directing the secretary of the inter
to make experiments and investi