The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-12-03
AROUND The MINES

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JAMES Of FLORIDA. thsrs vim have bssD
sold to Hurope this year. Il y estimas-
ed. fully 100000 tons ct phosphate
rock.
The Eureka Croesus company hno
resumed ore shipments and last week
completed q six-car consignment to The
Utah smeltsrs. The teams are sttll
hauling ON a second shipment Of the
same amount.
Everywhere In the west where gold
Is being or has been produced. the de-
termination to have congress do some
thing thAs will aid the gcso mining
cause 10 daily becoming moe apparent.
says the Salt Lake Mining Review.
Development work winch ID being
carried on steadily at the property Of
the Southern Pacific Gold Z Copper
Mining & Milling company. situated In
the Sierra Madre district. about ten
miles north Of Ogden, Utah. u meeting
with encouraging conditions.
Nevada Consolidated Copper COM
pany for the quarter endei September
ID. 1920. reports an operating loss Of
$434.043. This compares with profits
Of 1884 600 or 10 cents share. in the
preceding quarter. and &464. 40. or q
cents q share. In the same quarter Of
1919.
The Tonopah Bonanza. In describ-
ing the new ore strike In Rescue-Eula,
says: "The new discovery ON the 100
east drift of the Rescue-Eula on the
Eula claim now shows six fest Of so
ore. There are punches on the hang,
ing wall that viii run a. high as
$1,000" - 81
High grade phosphate rock has for
several weeks been selling At $14 =,
ton, q record level. says the Boston
News Bureau. Domestic demand for
phosphate rock has slackened. vesalt-v
ing in a disappearance Of premiums
which were at one time obtainable on
spot shipments.
Another large shipment Of bullion
was made from the Mexican mill at
Virginia City. Nevada. during the past
week, six bars going forward by ex-
press to San Francisco, the estimated
value of which was about $4,000. The
bullion was from ore runs ON Con-
solidated Virginia and other ship
4 | ments. /,
A consignment Of $1,000 900 In gold
bars sent from Sweden to pay for
/ American goods was rejected BY the
government assay office in New York
last week fer the reason that the gold
bars were earmarked by the old Rus
sian government In the late cars
time, which has been seized by the boil
sheviki.
Opening up Of ore on the 450foot
and 5OO-foot levels Of the inclined shaft
being sunk at the Spruce Monarch
/ mine near Tobar, Nevada. IL generally
conceded by mining men familiar with
conditions in the district to be the
most important development in re-
cent months at this property or at any
in the vicinity. # .
An estimate for an appropriation for
the bureau Of mines about 1856 per cent
greater than that Of the current year
will be presented to congress by the
interior department The appropria'
ton for the current fiscal year end.
ing in June, 1921, totals 81. 3O2, 842, and
the estimate for the fiscal year 1922
will exceed this figure by more than
$2,OOO,OOO.
= Operating at about one-hah normal
/. capacity during the quarter total Of
- oI1,O63 dry tons Of Nevada Consoli
r. dated ore was milled, as against SOL.
COS dry tons concentrated during the
preceding quarter. The average cop
- per assay Of the ore milled during thu
- current quarter was $50 per cent, a,
compared with an average grade o
LAT per cent copper for tho preceding
quarter.
Gold miners fare engaged In
hand-to-mouth existence, and the out
9 put Of gold has decreased tw0-third
! in five years." George e. Collins, gov
4 ernor of the Colorado chapter, told tn
4 American Mining congress at the ses
Il sion Of the Twenty-third annual cor
vention at Denver.
After being idle for the past fou
~ years, work has been resumed on tn
M property Of the Jumbo Mining con
~ pany in the Murray section. Charlie
~ johnson, one Of the old-timers Of the
ssM section, is one Of tho principal owl
N8 ers, and the work is being done undo
#A his supervision.
III Returning from Denver, where b
M attended the sessions Of the America
## Mining congress, George II. Dern, Sa
Lake mining man, said that he we
particularly pleased with the spirit {
sincerity, earnestness and fairne'
with which the big problems that al
confronting the mining industry wei
ain approached.
zen Fifty-two per cent Of all carlos
en-. freight shipped during January, Fe
at ruary and March of this year CO
ted sisted of the raw products Of Amer
ON C0n mines This ia a short nara gran