The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-01-07
AROUND THE MINES

Reports that have reached Carson.
New. are TO the effect that reEair
Gork is being done ON the Thompson
shelter. which. 1t is claimed. viii re-
SHINE operations within a couple of
months.
Indications are that the mammoth
kaolin clay deposits, known as the
Kendall clay beds, located in Cedar
valley, seven miles east OF Fairfield.
Utah, will soon change hands and be
placed ON productive basis.
Utah's coal supply. estimated at
200, 0O0. 0O0,O00 tons, constitutes one
tenth of the total of the United States,
according TO u statement made by III.
A. Strauss. consulting engineer, white
delivering u lecture at Salt Lake.
Suspension from December 30 until
April - of schedules providing re-
duced rates for smelter products, in
carload lots, shipped from Nevada and
Utah to points in California, has been
ordered by the interstate commerce
commission.
The export of oil from Mexico in
| the first six months of the calendar
year 1920 reached nearly 60O00,OOO
barrels, an increase of ~ per cent over
| 1919. In 1913 Mexico furnished one
fifteenth of the worlds oil. while now
II furnishes more than one-eighth.
Metal mining engineers are wanted
to fill vacancies in the bureau OF
mines, department of the interior, and
| II. mi ci has n
nounced examinations. All applica-
tons must be received by the COM
mission not later than January IL,
1921.
Development work at the Uncle Sam
mine is being done in most favor
able formation. Two drifts are being
run above the Beck tunnel level. One
of them, being driven upon strong
fissure has opened up body of quartz
which carries from Z to 10 ounces OF
silver.
The United States Smelling, Refin-
ing & Mining company has declared a
quarterly dividend of SOC a share on
the common stock, reduction from
S1.5O, the amount paid in recent divi-
dends. A dividend Of STU cents q
share on the preferred stock also was
announced.
Because it has been found on re-
vision that the estimated receipts from
oil lease royalties will probably not be
as great as they at first were fig
ured, the house committee on appro.
priations has cut the total appropri
atoms for government reclamation
work from $24,OOO,0O0 to $19,0OO,OOO.
Development work is being prosecut
ed steadily at the North Standard, in
the Tintic district. The main working
shaft, which has reached the 965-foo
! level, is in very favorable solubl
:, lime formation, said to be similar t
q, that in which the large ore bodies |
% the Tintic Standard have been deve
=. oped.
r The Anaconda Copper Mining con
pany has passed the dollar quarterl
dividend it has been paying since Ma
26. 1919. Directors of the compan,
after their meeting, issued statemen
in which they said that ION accoun
- of prevailing conditions in the meta
u market, no action will be taken o
"a dividends"
u The superintendent of the Silve
"a Bar mine, in the Nina, New, distric
I'd says: ''In Il shaft about sixty fee
III deep there are eight inches of Chord
III and bromide ore which will averag
n across its width 1000 ounces of silve
&j At present am running an adit
$J cut this shoot at vertical depth
8J about 300 feet"
hi The work In the lower tunnel
&l the Old Veteran mine is making
II gratifying showing, according to n'
III who have been working on the pro
@ erty, says a Pocatello dispatch. III
M face of the tunnel is showing tv
$] stringers of Gre about eighteen inch
~ apart near the roof of the tunn
which have practically united near t
hi bottom Of the tunnel.
ga Information of considerable intere
~ relative to the status of the Utah Ap
- mine is contained in the annual
port of the company to its stockho
| eTS. OEOSS IcCclplo Iol TIC SSe'A "
ing August 81, 1920, were $1,279,5t
expenses, including cost of litigat
i and charge of nearly 100000 for
probation and depletion, amounted
S1,224,277, leaving net gain
, be $55,2S5.
tied Metal mine production in the Rot
Used mountain states has declined IN
than 80 per cent in the past tn
years. In 1917 the gold, silver, copI
lead and zinc mined in Utah, Monta
Idaho, Colorado, Nevada, New MeS
and Arizona, was valued at $6O5,1
676. In 1919 the total value Of tn
metals in the seven intermount
states had fallen to 1854 ,403, 45O. III
dropped materially more than %
,> cent.
The so-called "crater" of Canyon
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