The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-01-23
AROUND THE MINES

% full OF cheering Signiucance 10 ~
operators Of Utah. Nevada Ind .IdahA
where silver-lead deposits predouAna1a
Coal production totaled 544.6180O
tons In the United States in 1919 CO..
pared with 672.2l2UO tons In 1914
rs shown by preliminary estimates ~
the geological survey.
Moa tana last year again ranked m
ahead Of any other state In the Pc
duction Of silver. The Treasure state
ourpur was 14.94O.527 ounces Of ~
yer, valued at $l6.746.O0O.
Montana in 1919 produced 1l9.O6s
fine ounces of gold. valued at $2,461~
700 dollars. being outranked by Cali
fornIa. Colorado. Alaska. South Da-
kota. Nevada aud Arizona.
one Of the richest shipments that
has gone out of the Ontario mine In
yesrs has just been sent to market In
100 sacks of. ore that will average
SOC ounces In silver and ~ per cent
Iead
Preliminary operations have proceed
ed = satisfactorily At the Keystone
niue in the Park City district thaf
breaking of ore In the three Of fouR
known faces should be begun within
two weeks.
The -oadbed OF the railway to To
Tintic Standard mine shaft was con-
pie ia last week. 1t is expected BY
loffcials Of the company that the steel
will be laid and the road fully com
pleted by the end Of the week.
the register Of state lands ut Helena.
Mont, has done u heavy leasing bust-
ness In the last two months in oil
ami gas lands. The large number Of
leases recorded Is due to the oil boom
mi the central part Of the state.
The drift from the 35O-f0ot level oe
the Tintic Paymaster shaft recently
enc0untered the contact between tho
llne and porphyry. For distance a
anproximately 900 feet the drift has
traversed a porphyry formation.
Out Of mass Of exciting oil rum0rs
ennmlng from Winnett. Mont. as to Oh
hing struck In the Frantz well q
Nasty, 1t Is ascertained that oil sanA
wits encountered Mt arcand 800 feet
sld that considerable battling was done.
The discovery Of gold-bearing led
I a porphyry dyke near Winnett
! Mont. by Peter Dalmon on his raneA
I pguperty IL causing some interest. TAo
!, vein on the surface Is 80 feet wide
: ana 1t Is traced for three quarters q
. . mile.
d Shipments from the Naildriver mlns
In the Park City district will BE- +
q creased shortly from fifteen CONS pel
10 day to fifty tons. What ore has beea
y sAipped from this property for sona
- time past has been produced by .deysa
y opment work.
C. The Golden Glow Mining and nm
- ING company, operating near RaileJ
r Idaho. shipped two more cars Of -
T. last week. II the company can keel
I'd the roads open for hauling ore 3
r. Ketchum they will be able to Operat
no 1t full capacity all winter.
;" High prices for silver and slow a
cline Of the gold industry In the Blac
=, Hills has caused some mining men {
- begin more extensive exploitation 4
- - silver properties. Mining Of the whit
metal has not been conducted ON !
Important scale In these parts for
nMnber Of years.
The driving Of the Prospect Moun
ire tim tunnel at Eureka, Nevada, is III
d DER way and it is hoped that with
nd the next two months the lime belt o
.er the east side OF the mountain will B
al. Tapes. There are two shifts drivin
IT. here now and they will make abou
ten Neet per day.
'0,- Considerable development work q
for Ne extensive mineral deposits on II
fat Navajo and other Indian reseryatiOu
In N being done now that mining upo
. n servations in the states Of ABizOns
eer California, Idaho, Montana, Nevadl
fal Oregon. New Mexico. Washington n
ere Wyoming has been authorized by Z
les at of congress on June 80.
= Valuable gold deposits near Hyde
!, south Of Ktchikan. which are reports
NC to be miles in extent, have been lcl
~ ID, the United States BY the decisio
!. OF American surveyors defining II
boundary line between Alaska N
~ lines Of Canadian surveys rather thu
the monuments of early Russian line
rth The Liberty Potash company, while
ont was recently forced into the hands q
receiver. has been granted pemh
sion by the court to borrow $15O,OOl
The petition set out that the con
INV pany's plant at Green River, Wye
Ind would represent an investment OF 81
IAN 100000 on completion and with $50
In coo to operate on the company coul
ind continue business.
md The Simon SilveriLead company Z
nd Nina, Nevada, has purchased a nun
At Der of houses at nearby camps an
,st- IL moving them in and refitting thea
ov- In order to provide accommodates
md for re rapidly increasing force Of e