The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-06-04
AROUND THE MINES


Mont, men who have valuable acreage
In that section.
Gold ore assaying from <l4-SO to
S2T GO per ton. has been uncovered Ina
the Altitude and Windy claims at
Jarbridge, Nevada
Development work was continued At
the Plutus mine during the last quar-
ter with encouraging results. accord
ing TO the report made to the direc-
tors.
Modern mining equipment, including
a compressor. oil-burning engine. two
jack hammer drills, has been installed
ut the Humboldt mine, near Milford,
Utah.
Shipments of the Chief Consolidated
mine nj Eureka for the quarter end
ing March 81 totaled 22.996 tons. dry
weight. yielding after smelling. trans
portation and sampIing charges, $685.
071.S7.
A deposit of asbestos. situated in
the Laramie mountains on the North
Laramie riyer. eighteen miles from
Wheatland, Wyo., ON the Colorado
Southern ruilroad, is to be developed
by local men.
For the first time in several weeks
the New York stock market has mani
Tested disposition to shake off its
apathy and pessimism, many specula-
tive as well as standard shares scor-
ing substantial gains.
The ore encountered few days
ago by the Silver King Consolidated
In its Spiro tunnel at Park City is de-
scribed as occurring in series of
parallel stringers of galena crossing
the tunnel foot or two apart.
Fires which have been raging for
more than year in the levels Of the
Kennedy and ArgoHaut mines under
the town of Jackson, Cal, have been
extingushed. The mines were flooded
with water. This is now being pumped
out.
The Broken Hill Silver mine. on the
southern borderlne of Churchill cOun-
ty, sixty-five miles southeast of Fail
Ion and forty-five miles northeast OF
Luning, New, is attracting consider
able attention, according to report
from Reno.
President Victor c. Anderson of the
Colorado School of Mines, leaves this
week for England and Scotland to
visit the oil shale reduction plants at
Edinburgh and also to investigate the
newly discovered Oil shale deposits ut
Norfolk, England.
According to report received from
Gilmore, Ida, a lease has been Sc
cured on the Duncan ranch, near
, Leadore, and an eastern syndicate in
tends to start drilling for oil. Some
J geological work has been done in the
vicinity. and it is declared that work
will be started at once.
John d. Hoff, geologist, who has
: spent several weeks going over the
, several structures In the Roundup,
Mont, field in the interests of Cali
| fornia capitalists, has just returned
from an examination of the eastern
: slope of the oil structure, and has
u made most favorable report.
: Announcement was received last
= week by Carl A. Allen, district en-
e gineer of the United States bureau of
n mines, that the date for mine rescue
and first aid contests at Denver have
d been postponed from August 20 and
o u to September 9, 10 and IL. The
Al contest this year will be international
n in scope
II The decision giving the Fedora
u Mining and Smelling company of ths
Occur dAlene lead-silver district title
n to 100000 worth Of ore. alleged Il
re have been extracted beneath certain
N holdings of the Star Mining company
to was reversed last week by the Unitet
81 States circuit court Of appeals in Sal
Of Francisco, upsetting the ruling of thu
district court.
III Despite a very generally held opin
CT ion last year that it would not b.
% necessary to have assessment work Oh
II mining claims suspended for 1926
ns says the American Mining Congress
III Journal, the situation in regard I
N labor and supplies Is such as to lea
TO very insistent demand that tn
Ike suspension be made effective for 1872
RS, as WELL
CT One unique feature of the develop
al ment tunnel in the Altitude claim q
ne Jarbrdge, Nevada, Is that for a di.
~ lance of $50 feet the tunnel passe
III through solid ice. The walls. ceiliE
and floor of the cave glisten in ligf
Sc reflected and refracted by crystal
OF set in the hills ages ago by a giar
me glacier. The phenomenon has q
py tracted widespread interest among e.
est sursionists.
- Gold production In this country. a
ready greatly decreased. will pra
tically cease unless speedy financi
lsm relief is given the mining companie
WI H. w. Seaman Of Chicago, presidel
ss Of the Trojan Mining company. test
vs. fled before the house ways and meal
q $50