The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-03-11
AROUND THE MINES

llu-foot level OF the North Standard
mine in the Easr Tintic district.
Crosscuts from the main drift OF
the Eureka Holly mine. at Eureka.
Nevada. on the GOo-foot level have been
started TO tap the ore bodies. ore is
being blocked out on the 400 and 800
levels.
Ray Consolidated earned IL cents
per share ON its 1877 900 shares dur
ing 1920. and paid dividends of 81 per
share, showing deficit of $685.. SOB.
The company produced 4S.l53,36l
pounds of copper at cost of 15Ja
cents per pound.
Reports from the Con. Virginia for
the past week show Il large tonnage
of ore extracted from the various
levels, mill shipments tOtaling SO
tons. averaging Sl6.75 per ton. The
heaviest tonnage was produced from
the 225O-foot level.
Through its wire MILL the Anaconda
company has an outlet for practically
all its current production of copper
N-'''t sNaAl TINS AltlIdl Aliltul tollNuilltAl
close 10 1000o0,0OO pounds of red
metal and found Il good market for it's
manufactured product.
Steady development work carried on
for the past several months in the
Capitol Hill mine. situated in the Star
district. about four miles from Mil
ford, Utah, is being rewarded by the
opening up Of some very good ore und
generally promising conditions
That great bodies of gold and silver
ore lie in the mountainous regions OF
south central Idaho awaiting only ade-
quate transportation facilities to make
the mining of them possible and profit
able is the esserlce OF bulletin just
issued by the state bureau of mines
and geology.
The main shaft of the Broken Hills
Silver corporation, which is being sunk
on the massive Broken Hills vein, has
reached Il depth of 300 feet and is
still all in excellent grade ore, with
fine ore besides penetrating the hang
ing wall side of the shaft to further
and undetermined width.
A gas mask that will protect its
wearer against practically any gas,
smoke or fumes is being developed by
the bureau OF mines. Several deaths
have been reported to the bureau re-
Gently as n result of using war gas
masks to fight fires in smoke-filled
rooms, hclds of ships and cellars.
The COmstock mines are again at
tracing attention not only in the stock
markets, but throughout the country
The new projects being launched there
anG the new system of operations in
augurated, with important develop.
ments being made at the Ophir and
Con. Virginia foretell lively days ahead
along the old lode.
Winding back and forth in an iron
network concealed beneath the oil
fields of the United States, gigantic
labyrinth of pipe lines, 10000 miles
long, daily is doing work that would
require 100000 oil tank cars and 5000
locomotives fully one month to handle,
according to estimates of pipe line
transportation experts.
Prospects for the discovery of petro-
leum in large quantities in southern
Utah are equally as good as they were
In Oklahoma, Texas, California and
wyoming prior to the oil booms in
those states, according to Colonel w.
NnWnII N Of Ttttc
who addressed the Salt Lake Com
mercial club at a noon luncheon on
March ..
One of the most important strikes
ever recorded at Rochester. Nevada,
has been made on Mcnamara lease on
the Argentor- Rochester Mines COM
pany property. The discovery was
made III crosscut from the main tun-
mel and at a point about 800 feet from
the mouth of the tunnel. The ore is
o. quartz, heavily impregnated with
cHrruste and limonite.
The Kelly mine at Digger, Ind, is
one of the few mines that is being
operated successfully on cooperative
paolS. Inc SMUT is developing l3O
acres of coal in the Indiana No. 6 bed.
which here averages 51s feet thick and
lies about ITO feet below the surface.
Thirty-seven miners and 20 company
men or day men are employed, and
the daily output is around 300 tons.
The Rockford Mining company, op-
Grating numerous properties in the
Gem district, in Idaho, anticipates
very extensive operations during the
coming season. The drift, which has
already passed the 1O00-fOot mark, for
TIE past 300 feet has been following n
well-defined ledge. This ledge "a
strongly mineralized and shows prom.
ise of developing into vein of good
galena.
New coins have been authorized nm
der provision of the Pittman act. an
proved April %, 1918, which permitted
the secretary of the treasury to break
up and sell not to exceed 100000, 900
silver dollars. In all, from 2OS, OOO, 900
to 2O9,OOO,O00 ounces of silver. repre-
Senting about 270,0O0,OOO silver dol
lnrs was nhtoipnJ h,