The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-04-01
AROUND THE Mines


egates 10 represent the state OF Ida
ho at the Third International Mining
convention. 10 be held at Portland
from April ) 10 o.
The United States bureau of mines
has issued the first approval for a
storage battery locomotive for use In
gaseous mines 10 the George II. Whit
comb company OF Rochelle. III.
The February output from the mines
of Cripple Creek totaled $4,000 tons
valued al SJ64.So0. Average values
per tor, $3.50. The smelters handl-
ed ZOO tons (elose 10 per cent?. the
Golden Cycle mill 2O,0O0 and the Port
land mill 1000 tons.
Drilling work is to begin on the
holdings of the Lincoln-Idaho OIL Com
pany as soon as possible. says the man
asement. Cold weather has prevented
operations. The holdings of the Lin
coln-idaho company are situated about
forty-five miles from kemmerer.
The village of Barneston. Neb.. ia
going to have paved streets and some
OF its citizens are to be Quilted with
new clothes as result OF promise
| by Anthony Melick that he would nav
| the bill II he struck gusher after in
veSting in some Oklahoma oil land.
Portland is to be the scene of the
third annual International Mining
congress from April to 0. Officials
| who are arranging for the convention
promise an excellent program and
representative attendance of mining
men from the northwestern states and
Canada.
| Assessment of a mine dump" from
which ores We're later recovered as
nine, at three times the net proceeds
Is to be contested in a suit in Beaver
county, Utah, of which the state board
OF equalization has received prellmi-
nary notice before the case was actu-
ally fled
The annual report of the Utah Cop
per company, filed with the state board
of equalization, showed net proceeds
Of the company for the year 1920
amounted to $3,06O5S02O This COM
pares with $G,oS3,256 for the year
1919, while few years ago the NET
proceeds of this one company were
more than $20,000000
Development work on the 1900 level
of the May Day mine in the Tintic dis
trict is being carried ON in the most
promising formation yet encountered.
For the past two months quartz
assure has been followed through a
notified limestone. This mottled lime
stone is considered the most favorable
Of the Chief Consolidated series.
Dividends paid for 1920 by the gold
mining companies operating on the
Rand aggregate fS,312, 467, which COM
pares with f6,4o1 ,992 on account Of
1919, and the record of fS,SS7, 1885 in
1910, says the Mining and Scientific
Press, Ten years ago the average So
called working cost mas lis Cd per
ton, as compared with 25s Cd in 1920.
Arkansas possesses what may prove
to be the largest platinum mine In the
world, according to the belief of some
investigators whose findings are
chronicled In the Commercial Appeal
(Memphis, Temp The article states
that an assay of the ore taken from
the field near Batesville lends strength
to the hope that the Arkansas mine
may be of great value.
The governing board of the engin-
eering council has arranged its plans
for joint dinner of all the engin-
eering societies of Utah, to be held in
mid-April, on a date yet to be deter
mined. At this dinner there will re
included not only all the members OF
the state and national bodies Of the
engineering societies, but also all in.
dependent and unattached engineers
of Utah are invited to attend.
The Simon-Silver-lead Mines COM
pany has prepared prints of the flow
sheet of the mill now being construct
ed, and announces that construction is
20 per cent completed and that 80 per
cent of the machinery and materials
are on the ground, is the news that
comes from Nina, Nevada
Returns thus far received by the
United States geological survey, de-
partment of the interior, from the
producers of potash in the United
States during 1920 indicate that the
output amounted to 167,346 short tons
Of crude potash salts containing 49,
625 short tons Of actual potash.
Some of the mining towns of the
Sierra Nevadas of California are iso-
lated by impossible barriers during
the winter time. Naturally the miners
are DESTROYS OF keeping in touch with
the rest of the world, so it has been
suggested that an all-year-round air
plane line service be established.
The only diamond mine thus far dis
covered on the western hemisphere is
located in Pike county, Arkansas The
diamonds are found in pipe" the
crater of an extinct volcano which ages
ago boiled up through the surface.
| had Its terrific heat chilled nv the