The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-02-18
AROUND THE MINES

last week 10 men were laid off at
AeGlll. New. but IL Is thought st the
present time that there will be no
further curtaiimsnt OF labor /. In The
smelling plant
Existing prices and wage scales Of
the United States Steel corporation are
TO continue. declared Ebert H. Gary,
chairman of the board. To newspaper
men on February o.
The Sunset Mining company. which
owns a silver-lead property near Lead
ore. Ida, has applied for a drilling
permit ON 2560 acres on favorable
structure In the San Juan field of
Utah.
Rapid progress is being made in the
sinking Of the North Standard shaft
on its property in the East Tintie dis
trict. Reports from the mine regard
ing the formations encountered in the
last GOO feet are said to be most en-
couraging
james III. and Jack Marriott. old
time residents of the Osceola district,
have been busy for some time past in
ties. which is now said to be making a
remarkably good showing, says the Ely
(Nev) Record.
! Directors of the Silver King Coali-
ton Mines company have instructed Of
ficials of the company to begin the
! drawing up of plans and specifica-
tons for new structure to replace
the one destroyed by a fire January
%, at Park City, Utah.
Possibilities for oil at shallow depths
in Sanpete county are being explored
by the Utah Central Oil company,
which is now putting down its initial
well about one mile east of Ephraim,
Utah. A light rig is being used and
II Is intended that the test well shall
not be put down more than about 600
| feet.
The Industrial Potash corporation IL
flied it's articles of incorporation ut
Salt Lake last week with the secretary
OF state. The capitalization of the
company, which has it's principal place
Of business in Salt Lake, is $50, 900 900.
1t Is proposed to work claims In Piute
county.
Plans for financing the sale for ex-
port purpose of 4OO.0OO,O 900 of the co.,
100000 pounds of surplus copper In
the American market were made pub
lie at New York, February 8, with the
announcement that the product was
| laI a. nv fCp
pei cent notes Of the Copper Export
association.
Work Is being pushed on an ever
increasing scale on the big tunnel and
milling project Of the United Com
stock Mines company, at Virginia City,
New. Excellent fooyage Is being made
at the haulage tunnel on American
Flat, and this will soon be increased
with the arrival Of the five-tOn cars and
electric locomotive.
The news comes from Provo, Utah,
that Frank Ramsey of the Utah Coun-
ty Coal company has just returned
! from the company's property in Span
, ish Fork canyon and brought with
HIM some very fine samples Of coal
, which were taken from the bottom Of
the shaft. He states that they are
now in about 265 feet
! Plans have been made to run tun-
! mel 1900 feet long at the Betty O'Neal
/ mine near Austin. New. The old prop
erty has been unwatered and ore
bodies Of sufficient extent have been
uncovered which warrant the expendi-
! ture for the long tunnel 1t will un-
, water the entire district where the
! property Is situated.
Applicants for Oil prospecting per-
mits who are urging hasty action on
their petitions, so that they may be
] protected in case of the discovery of
oil affecting the structure in which
: they are interested, will be relieved OF
: considerable worry if congress acts
: favorably upon the bill introduced by
Senator Reed Smoot January q.
Some of the richest and most extern
: sive naturalization ever developed in
the Tintic Standard mine has been ex
posed in driving drift in general
north-south direction from the No.
\ the old incline shaft. For distance
Of over 500 feet along the strike o.
the main mineralized zone the drift
has been all in shipping ore, top, bot
tom and sides.
Although fully 20 per cent greater
in value than 1919, the total value O
| the mineral output of Idaho for the
year 1920 ranged fifth in the pas
twenty-five years, according to the an
nual report Of State Mine Inspector
Bell. being approximately $4,0OOOO'
less than in 1918, and $12,671, sol 81
1 less than in 1917, which saw the larges
| production ever recorded in the TWEEN
| ty-two-year period.
Production OF gold in Idaho, accord
I ing to report Of the state mine in
| spector, reached it's high water mark il
| 1902, when miners of Idaho produced
| 119,363 fine ounces of the yellow meta
! | of n total value of So 567 233 81 an,