The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-02-06
AROUND THE MINES

The showing of ore which has been
followed for some time by the south
drift ON the lG4OfoOt level Of the
Eureka Lilly i showing improvement.
Reserves OF ore sufficient TO run n
mill OF 2sO-ion capacity for period
Of two years have been blocked out
al the Glen-Allen property in the Park
City district.
Recent advices from the Bullion
mine, Good Springs. New, declare that
The assays show values Of 70.T per
cent lead. 22.j ounces silver and a
trace Of gold.
The Emma Silver. AT Alta, near Salt
Lake, is now among The regular and
steady producers of the district. the
office records showing 1913 ears or ore
hoisted for the week ending January
IL.
The new machinery for the Jarbidge-
Bull mines has arrived at Bull, Idaho,
were ii will remain till early spring,
when it will be transported TO the
mines of the company near Jarbldge,
New.
The copper mines Of the United
States produce between 40 and 60 per
cent of all the silver mined in the
country. At present they are working
at less than 80 per cent of their nor
NAL output.
The treasury department has direct
ed the director of minis to issue to
the federal reserve banks the silver
dollars remaining of the 350,000,000
that the Pittman act authorized the
treasury TO melt.
The United States has produced
more than 81 per cent of the worlds
crude petroleum since the discovery Of
| that product, and ut latest reports was
producing more than 90 per cent Of
the worlds annual supply.
The mining situation in Lander
| county, Nevada, holds forth some very
| promising prospects, according to the
| Battle Mountain Scout and develop
ment continues throughout the entire
district with good results.
Passage of the Smoot-Sinnott oil
and coal land leasing bill, which auto
matically will divert 100000 into the
state treasury of Utah and be a source
Of additional state revenue, may be
| expected within the next ten days.
The world is short of metallic money,
particularly of silver. The trade bal
ance since the war is largely in favor
of silver-using countries. Instead Of
endeavoring to break the price Of the
metal by artificial means. it would be
| good craftsmanship to encourage the
production.
In driving a crosscut to connect the
lJ0-foot level with the ION Moore
| tunnel, the miners in the Emma Silver
Mines Alta, Utah, have run into three
| feet of ore that gave average assays
of from $40 to 500 per ton slver-lead
the two metals being about equally
divided in proportionate value.
Miners employed at the Mary Ann
mine, Cherry Creek, Nevada, announce
that while driving crosscut full
| face of highgrade silver-lead ore
! twelve feet in width had been exposed,
and the hanging-wall not yet reached.
| This strike was unexpected, as this
vein does not appear on the surface.
While but one shift is employed at
| present in the Payson Eldora Mining
company's property in the Eldorado
district in Utah, it is the intention Of
| the company to put on a second shift
in the near future and crowd the work
of driving the lower tunnel until the
first objective. Is reached, probably
$50 feet distant.
The Consolidated Coppermines COM
pany for some time past has been sink
ing it's big GirouX shaft in record
breaking time, according to the Ely
Record The shaft is 13x19 feet in the
clear between timbers and carries five
compartments, and is averaging one
set of timbers per day, or just about
five feet, which is no doubt the best
record ever made in the state for a
shaft of that size.
Statistics showing the present scale
of wages OF the miners and the costs
of living in the mining towns and vii
lagos, upon which the bituminous coal
miners will seek to vindicate theil
demands for sixty per cent increase
in pay, with siX-hour working day
and a five-day week, were presented
to the coal commission when it re
sumed It's session at Washington or
the 9th
Valuations of coal in place in Utah
mines has been fixed by the state board
of equalization at rates varying from
cents ton TO three-seyent of q
cent per ton. The high rates will bt
the assessed valuation of coal in place
on any particular forty-acre tract Of
land on which there is an operating
entry through which the coal may b.
taken to the mine mouth, which Is or
. a railroad The lower assessed value
will be given to coal In propert!
which will require more than twent!
miles of railroad construction before
the mine may be opened up.