The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-04-30
THE MINES


until from twenty-five to thirty men
are employed steadily.
The new smelter of the Louisiana
Consolidated Mining company. operat-
ing at Typo. Nevada. is completed and
viii be ready TO blow in within a few
days.
Conditions ~reyailing IN The Com
stock District near Virginia City. New,
Indicate that there may be in the near
future a rather important revival OF
mining.
The cutoff road from Warm Springs
TO SilyertOn, the new mining camp in
Nevada, saving Il distance OF l9.S miles
between Tonopah and that district, may
be constructed by the state.
Recent developments in the Yellow
Pine mine, in the G0OdspFings dis
trict, Nevada, are reported TO be d..
ly favorable, with new orebOdies now
opened en- the 90O-foot level and some
ore found on the 100.
Another well is to be started at
Moab, Utah. a contract has been let
to sink well in the mouth of Moab
canyon just wesl of Grand river. A
rig is now being brought from Thomp-
son, according to the report.
Notice of a dividend of three cents
per share amounting to S2S.57i.13 has
been sent to stockholders of the Fair
view Round Mountain Mining COM
pany. The company operates its own
mill Mt Round Mountain, Nevada.
The Hybla Mining company of Ne
vada has now taken over, under favor
able long time lease, the entire Rom
now claim of the Stella Mines COM
pany from which much high grade ore,
has been mined during the past year.
Construction of the Pope-Shenon's
volatilization plant upon the company's
property near Salmon, Idaho, has been
steady during the past week. So nearly
is the mill completed that officials OF
the company will be disappointed If
warming up" is not started in two.
weeks.
The report made by the Eureka Hill
Railway company to the public utili-
ties commission of Utah on its opera
lions in 1919 shows that the operating
revenues of the road fell short of the
operating expenses in 1919 by $6514.95.
The revenues from operations totaled
500, 4399S.
The Fallon, Nevada, Eagle states.
that the coming week will see work
Cto taI hn oh v,to RI
be erected on the Dixie valley potash
deposits by the Humboldt Potash COR
poration, million dollar New York
company, whose holdings comprise
$4,000 acres.
The announcement comes from Mont
pelier, Idaho, that the Anaconda Cop
per Mining company has become inter-
ested in phosphate mines in Caribou
and Bear Lake counties and that I'M
limited capital is back OF this COM
pany which will be used for developing
the Phosphate industry ON large
scal,.
Every westk und train out of Fort
Worth is jamN.ed with people attract
ed from all PARTS of the United States
to the new field opened up at Toyah
by the Bell discovery well. Pecos and
Toyah are reported to be taking on
the appearance of tent cities to ac-
commodate the thousands who are
swarming to the new Eldorado.
Considerable progress has been
made at the Harmony mines, few
miles east a. the POpe-ShenOn prop
erty, in similar formation, says a
Salmon, Idaho, dispatch. For the past
year or more the Harmony Mining
company has been carrying on an ex-
tensive program of development work.
During this time considerable equip
ment has been installed.
The Ophlr Hill Consolidated Mining
company and the Clark Electric Power
company Of Tooele have applied to the
public utilities commission for an order
to compel the Utah Power & Light
company to extend for another ten
years present contracts held by the two
companies. They also enter protests
against the proposed increases in rates
now before the utilities commission.
The German potash board, with the
assent of the minister of economics.
has announced further increase in
the schedule Of prices of potash for
domestic consumption. This Is the
fourth time that the prices have been
raised within year. The new increase
amounts to about As per cent. The
new prices are about six times as high
as the prices In force at the time the
war began.
After many years of successful OPP
Grafton, the Rockland mine, located u
miles south of Yerington, Nevada. has
been closed and its affairs are now In
the hands of the bankrupt court. Re-
fusal of eastern stockholders to accept
a voluntary assessment to pay for new
surface equipment amounting to APP
proximately $125,OOO is given as a rea-
son for throwing the company Into
bankruptcy