The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-04-08
AROUND THE Mines

Wy hchrg n ScnWeikhdrt OF salt
Lake Is preparing TO drill on the
ground for which permit was granted
recently on the San Rafael swell.
Copper production in the Phelps
Dodge mines az Bisbee, Arizona. will be
suspended, indefinitely on April - and
the corporations smelter at Douglas.
Ariz.. will close at the same time
Closing the mines of the Anaconda
Copper Mining company. as ordered in
New York. win throw out of employ
ment 300 20 600 miners. ii was stated |
al the Butte offices Of the company.
Sinking in the main working shaft |
of the Prince Consolidated Mining and |
smelling company began the first of |
The week, according to information re- |
received from the property at Phoebe. |
Nevada
Eight inches of highgr grade silver
lead ore. aSsaying cents in gold, 1853
ounces in silver and 400 per cent lead.
have been opened up in a winze sunk
from the 200 level Of the New Quincy
at Park City. Utah.
The Tacoma smelter of the Ameri-
can Refining and Smelling company
announced n reduction of 30 cents
day in wages beginning April 1. The
new minimum will be $3.50 day.
Seven hundred and fifty men are at
fected
Governor Mabey has appointed a
committee of Utah men TO consider the
question of the states sending min
eral exhibit to the twenty-fourth an.
nuai convention of the American Min.
ing congress at the Coliseum, Chicago,
October 17-22.
settlement has been reached be-
tween the March Mines Consolidated
company and the Hecla Mining COM
pany, relative to the dispute as to the
apex of the Russell lode near Burke,
Idaho, according to reports coming
from Spokane.
Approximately 700 employees of the
Great Falls smelter of the Anaconda
Copper Mining company will be af-
fected by closing of the company s
mines in Montana. The smelter has
been working at about one-third ca.
pacity since last summer.
Francis Marion Smith, picturesque
western financial leader, one time
known as the "Borax King" is back on
his throne, his San Francisco friends
say, having recently purchased a new
ly discovered Nevada mountain of cole
mantle, which is the base for borax.
News comes from HALEY of the pur
chase of the Golden Glow mine, TO,
S2OO,OO0. AT the stockholders meeting
the president. j. Pope, presented an
agreement, which was accepted by the
stockholders whereby the entire hold
ngs of the company win be taken over
by w. d. Hanson.
With the exception of seventeen days
lost during the general strike of miners
ut Bingham in 1912, this is the frs
complete cessation of activities of thu
Utah Copper since operations We're frs
begun, April l, 1904, at the old Copper
town plant. About 1900 men will b,
affected by the suspension of activities
ordered.
Mining properties of the Utah Cop
and Nevada Copper companies hav
completely suspended operations, ow
ing to conditions in the copper mar
ket, it was announced at New York
March 20, by Charles Hayden of Hay
den, Stone Il Co, who is financially in
terested in all four concerns.
The annual report of the Highland
Surprise Consolidated Milling CON
pany will be submitted at the annua
meeting of the directors at Wallace
Idaho, on April 4. One of the chic
items discussed in the report is tn
possibility now of a home market TO
their products in the new zinc smete
being erected by the Bunker Hill com
pany at Kellogg.
First sale of oil leases in the Sal
Greek field. in Wyoming, under tn
terms of the federal leasing Law
originally scheduled for early thi
month and later deferred to April q
has been postponed by Land Commh
soner Spry through the suspension @
action in the publication of advertise
mentS of the sale, which would affeC
$500 acres. No reason was given.
Ore bodies of unusual size and ricl
ness have been opened recently on tn
property of the Boston and Ely Coz
solidated Mining company, located jus
above what is commonly known as tn
= old limekin, west of Ely, New. On
hundred and twenty-five tons of OF
running per cent copper are now o
the dump, while picked samples frol
large body developed by Wine wi
run as high as SO per cent.
Under the terms Of a co-operatiy
agreement effected between the n,
tlona safety council and the Unite
States bureau of mines. c. l.. Colbur
who has served as assistant chief mil
ing engineer of the bureau of mines fl
the last two years, has been given II
duty of visiting the various coal an