The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-01-14
AROUND THE MINES

tiOa for the week ending DecehlDer =.
according TO the estimates of the
American Petroleum institute.
Gold production in Sonth Dakota
in 1870 was 4.3s9.0O0 compared with
"A. So. $50 the previous year ana sill
yer production there amounted 20 IS
IS5 ounces against lI5.522 ounces in
1919.
The production OF gold from mines
IN South Dakota in 1920 was S4s9.-
600. compared with 81, S62. $50 IN 1919
and with S6,565,33 in 1H1S; that of sill
yer was 6S.035 ounces, compared with
ll5.522 ounces in 1919.
Stopping of ore was started last
week by lessees ON the $40 level az
the Eureka Mines property, Tintic
district The ore is said to be con
tinuation of rich body mined in the
Gemini. an adjoining property.
Consolidated Coppermines company
at Kimberly suspended further oPer-
ations and the force was cut to care
taking basis, says an Ely. New, dis
patch. This will affect approximately
sixty men who have been recently em-
ployed at Pilot Knob.
Another evidence of the expanding
activities of the Anaconda Copper
Mining company is the beginning OF
experiments at its Great Falls. Mont.
works for the manufacture - brass, a
twenty-five-ton furnace having been
installed for this purpose.
The Black Panther Oil company Of
| Philadelphia has secured q lease ON
some 1000 acres of land on the Forest
Grove structure and is completing ar
engagements for Immediately building
| a substantial camp there and starting
to drill, says Lewiston, Mont, CORE
spondent.
The payroll of the Nevada Csusoli-
dated Copper company for the last
month of the year 1920 reached to-
tai of approximately $265,000. OF this
sum 500, 900 was paid out at the mines
and $4,000 at the smelter This is
about 20 per cent below the average
tpayroll of six months ago.
The Invincible Oil company is pre-
pairing to enter the Fergus county
field, in Montana, and has just closed
| up a deal with the Boston 4 Montana
company and the Montana Holding
company under which it secures over
1000 acres in the Black Butte struct-
IRE, northwest OF the Cat Greek field
| no of ,ol f.,,.
1920 and the comparison with 1919
follow: Gold, $13,933,600. a decrease
IT &,762355; silver. 1,57S,66D fine
ounces, an increase of 49, All copper,
l2,934,9 800 pounds Il decrease of 1891,
O7; lead 5,071 600 pounds, an increase
Of 1,s03,330, and zinc, l,572, 500 pounds.
an increase Of 1,o99,029.
Foster Balm of California was nomi-
mated January 4 IS President Wilson
, to succeed DR. f. J. Cottreli, director
, If the United STATES bureau of mines.
who recently resigned. DIR. Cottrell
5 leaves the bureau to take up his duties
as chairman of the division of chem
5 lstry and chemical technology of the
|
committee representing the lead
producers of the state met at the of
: Ace In Salt Lake of the secretary of
= the Utah chapter Of the American
: Mining congress, and formulated a
plan for presenting their case to the
, house ways and means committee on
= January II, when the hearing on "A
protective tariff for lead is begun.
. New Mexico mines produced last
year $4I8OO0 in gold. 762, 600 ounces
q Of silver, 2,60O,00O pounds OF lead
94,UO,OOO pounds Of copper, and II :.
. $4,000 pounds of zinc. These figures
represent as compared with 1919 a de.
v crease of $4,000 for gold. eOOW
2 ounces Of silver and $4,000 pounds OF
8 lead, but an increase of three million
pounds of copper and $780, 900 pound,
IF zinc
a. Necessity for conservation of Goa
n resources and development of substi
If tute fuels makes the Increasing use o
he pulverized coal one of much economi,
he Importance 1t is pointed out by the Ma
.. donal Bank Of Commerce Of New Yor,
1, IN the January number of its ma cazine
Dt Commerce Monthly. Experimentation
IL the bank says, shows that by the MS
is or pulverized coal saving of 20 me-
& cent in heating efficiency and from p
to 80 per cent in consumption is nos
sible,
" implicit faith in an instrument, tina
TO saved the lives of thousands Of Amer
ne can soldiers in France Is daily o.
10 uangering the lives OF scores of me
u IN Industrial life in the United State
w Or. f. g. Cottrell, director OF the b,
reau OF mines, said In another war,
ing against the use of army gas mash
IN nine explosions and mine fires ID
10 spite repeated warning from the a
M partment, miners and persons q
81 saged In mine-rescuc work persist
iisihI army gas masks, DR. Cottre
"o said, although the devices nre az nra