The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-05-28
AROUND THE MINES

Three Kings mine, situated in the
Park City district.
Development work which has been
recently resumed at the Louise mine
in the Alta district has met with very
encouraging conditions.
Sinking of the Prince Consolidated
three-compartment shaft Is being ac-
complished at the rate Of from two
and a half to three feet day.
A report from Park City that ore
had been encountered in the Spiro
tunnel of the Silver King Consolidated
Mining company, has been confirmed.
Work of removing the snow from
Transportation cOmpany's railroad
has been completed 10 the Sells mine
ora E:n and shipping has begun.
Samples of ore showing in the diff
ferent faces of headings in the Rye
patch mine, situated four miles from
Ryepatch station. Nevada, show that
the silver contents are very high.
Great excitement prevails at Win
nett, Mont, because of the striking OF
big deposit Of oil in the Frantz well
across the Musselshell river from its
discovery well, in Garfield county.
American producers shipping copper
abroad through the Copper Export as
ISOLATION under the new credit system
of payment will be guaranteed by
strong French banks, according to the
Boston News bureau.
A map of Montana ana northern
Wyoming oil fields and projects has
been issued by the Billings CONNER
cial club. The map is the work OF
experts and includes all fields dis
covered up to the time of publication.
A large party of eastern capitalists,
headed by Joseph Flynney and Albert
H. Cutter of Boston, are in Nevada
ON Il tour of inspection OF Nevada min
ing interests, and especially the Cac-
tus Springs district, thirty miles east
Of Goldfield.
Driving of the Tacoma Consolidated
mine adit has been resumed. This
work was temporarily suspended
while ventilator was installed at the
portal in order to overcome the bad
air which virtually made work at the
face impossible.
Ninety-one coal miners lost their
lives in Colorado during the year 1919,
according to the annual report Of
James Dalrymple, state coal mine in
spector, just made public. OF this
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derground and two dn the surface.
Due to uncompleted extensions, the
Braden Copper company's mines in
south Chile are operating under ca
pacity, according to f. Dewitt Bur-
lingame of the mines welfare depart
ment, who arrived in Salt Lake last
week for a several months vacation.
Shipments of bonanza ore from the
Black Metal mine are arriving at the
Murray smelter according to infor-
nation received from officials of the
company. The first car of three
carload lot was sampled and the re-
port showed 2S5 ounces of silver, q
per cent lead and some copper and
gold.
A rush Of prospectors to new,
unnamed mining district, on the south.
ern borderline of Churchill county,
Nevada, 60 miles southeast of Fallon
and As miles northeast of Luning, is in
progress. The center of the excite
ment is the Broken Hills silver mine,
located by Stratford and Arthur, two
prospectors.
Outstanding features Of the forty
eighth quarterly report for the first
quarter of 1920 of activities of the
Utah Copper company by President c.
NJ. MacNeill and Managing Director
d. c. lacking are the decreased cost
of production, the doubling of net
profit from the production Of copper
only and the large increase made in
the net surplus as compared with the
K last quarter Of 1919.
|. The Alps mine, located about one
r mile east of Phoebe, is to be reopened
l. at once by the Alps Mining company.
The Alps mine has an enviable pro.
I duction record. From the records of
thC oiu SVlipuAS, WHICH, nave Deeu
. :, preserved, the gross yield Of the mine
= has been figured by engineers to be in
> the neighborhood Of $1,O0OOOO. The
ore produced in the early history Of
: the mine was rich.
In report issued by the Tonopah
Mining company, covering the period
OF six months ending March 1, an
operating loss of $39,7OO is shown by
the Nevada property, which was more
than offset by profits of $62,O92 from
other sources.
The Butte mining companies have
: not begun to take on men since the
arrangements recently announced that
they would no longer employ members
of the |. w. w. The members of that
organization are holding daily meet.
ings, but they have not been well at
tended since action was taken declar.
| ing the strike off.