Show in nearby states ARIZONA the horsepower diesel engine has been received by the central copper company john aar W prout general manager DOS cabezas the foundations and buildings are ready for the installation and the new equipment will be in running order very shortly the american smelting smelling Sm elting refining company has asked the U S supreme court to review a decision of the ninth circuit court of appeals in a case against george campbell carson involving patents on oil side feeding of copper furnaces the smelting smelling sm elting company lost in the lower court the case was virtually a test and the decision will affect all smelters shelters sm elters it is said the gold slope mining company W A Run bundurant durant president willcox is starting operations the man who is to be in charge of the mill is already at the camp A carload of lumber lur riber and miscellaneous supplies have been purchased and are being trucked to the camp 15 miles from A wilcox alcox the mine is equipped with a 50 ton gravity flota tion concentrator for the recovery of the gold values the banner group of claims near kingman have been sub optioned by F M manson to oscar F greeley and williams henry jr of california who are to start extensive work vork at once the new operators intend to clean out the old tunnel and put the mine in shape for immediate production A jigging Z ID plant will be put in at or near the portal and the ores divested of the gangue and the zinc lead ore shipped direct to tle the sampler william J loring former president of the american mining congress and one of the leading za mining authorities in this country has become a director in the big jim mines inc it has just been announced by A G keating president of the company loring and his associates have bave purchased a substantial interest in the company and will take an active part in the management it is stated the big jim mine is located in the harshaw district sixty miles below tucson E broadway new york has returned to his home following several weeks spent at the regal asbestos mine near globe operations were resumed at this property on march 1 and several carloads of crude have already been shipped to the east during the several years of idleness development work has been done in such a that the mine is now ready to produce large quantities of high za grade asbestos if the crude market should warrant big production BRITISH COLUMBIA two new mining concerns in british columbia are dalhousie mining company ltd and salmon river high grades company ltd both of victoria establishment of a smelter on the coast near vancouver by the consolidated mining smelting smelling Sm elting company to compete with the invading army of ore purchasers from european smelters shelters sm elters is being discussed as a probability among mining men operations at the providence mine it at gree greenwood wood will soon be resumed and a new mill will be built to handle the low grade silver ore that is blocked out in the mine according to J W williamson William spokane who with associates recently took over the providence on a lease and bond it was a stiff blow to us to have the mill destroyed by fire so soon after we had taken over the property said mr williams the fire resulted from the mill being struck by lightning on oil may 28 the mill and machinery are a complete loss partially covered by insurance the premier gold mining company will distribute among its stockholders on july 8 in the form of a dividend at the rate of 8 cents per share this will bring the total dividends vaid paid by the company up to the mine is situated near stewart in the portland canal district control of the company is held by the american smelting smelling Sm elting refining company and H A guess is managing director british columbian Colum bias production of plat platinum inurn in 1924 to but 5 gozs having a value of according to information ilia tion issued by the dominion bureau of statistics this report is surprising in view of the fact that the province is i reported by geologists to have a number of river beds which bear placer deposits of platinum along with gold and silver and a number of companies have been organized to exploit possible sources of supply in the province the report states that canadas total platinum output in 1924 was ounces derived largely from the copper nickel ores produced in the sudbury district the value of Ea canadas nadas platinum output in 1924 was work already completed on the property of the planet mines and reduction company near nicola has proved the presence ot of a large reserve of ore that will average 30 to the ton in gold silver and lead according to peter L bancroft an official of the company mr bancroft who resides at vancouver recently returned from a trip to the mine with the companas comp anys engineer and announced that the company was planning on oil doing extensive development work this yearn year the property of the company has also been examined by dr G M dawson of the dominion geological 6 survey and by redman and douthett Out hett mining and metallurgical engineers of kamloops Kam loops the reports of both parties agreed b on the presence of a large 6 body of ore in the planet companas comp anys property COLORADO the J W lewis mining company of gateway has lias recently completed one of the largest shipments of ore of the year the ore was shipped from montrose to new jersey and this is the beginning of several large shipments ments which the company will be able to make since opening up some new property A few days ago rich ore running t 2000 ounces silver was opened up tip in the property of the republican mines company on republican mountain says the georgetown courier and in sinking a five feet on this ore below the drift where it was found the value increased to ounces silver to the ton this is the best and most promising strike made in clear creek county recently IDAHO the quality of ore passing through the mill of t the he constitution ution mining and milling company on pine creek cor coeur dalene region ihas bas been increased seventy tons to ninety two tons a day says a statement obtained in the spokane office recently work on the highland surprise mill on pine creek in the coeur calenes dA lenes is nearly completed and steady twining operations will start in the near future according to rep reports orts fron from kellogg near where the mine is situated development work is 6 going i 6 ahead steadily and ore reserves are being in b put in m readiness for the mill six of the famous taylor ore cars manufactured by the coeur dalene hardware az foundry company of this city were shipped this week to the ford motor company at clayton custer county idaho these cars are for use at the red bird mine near clayton a lead silver property that is being extensively developed by henry ford wallace miner eastern capitalists have been in salmon city to in inspect the harmony mine where work of driving a 1600 foot tunnel on oil the level is to commence soon AV P mccune of morgantown Morgan b town W va one of the directors came out in advance of the party and went over the workings working thoroughly b with supt bupt earl F nieman A test run of the millway mill was made for the visitors andrew J johnson came in from the idaho democrat this week bubbling over with enthusiasm says the hailey news miner he had with him some unusually fine specimens of lead silver ore found near the grass roots of the republican vein aein feet above no 3 tun tunnel riel he has sent samples to be assayed and awaits the result with keen interest he proposes to run a crosscut cross cut from the point where the ore was was found jo fo the main vein county records at wallace show that the stratton mines company has completed a deal by which it acquired the panhandle contact idaho mountain chief ninety nine hornet and johnny lode claims and johnny placer claim adjoining its other holdin holdings s for a reported consideration of about this will increase its group to 35 claims situated on nine mile three miles north of wallace on the tracks of the northern pacific railroad twenty five feet of high class ore has been opened on the new low level in the M orning morning mine at Mul mullan laii idaho and of this 15 feet will average 10 per cent lead and 12 per cent zinc with the usual content of the morning in silver the rest of the ore averages 34 per cent lead and 26 per cent zinc all ti making laking z a n good mill feed the opening 1 of this ore body and the fi figures g ure s 6 given given are confirmed by bv frederick ur bidge b general manager r of the company at wallace the concentrating mill of the lucky jim lead and zinc anc company with property in the coeur dalene district hasteen as been placed in commission according 6 to an official noce tic to stockholders issued recently fro from m the spokane kane of o f fice ce operations are proceeding on oil a basis of one shift a day and i will be increased to two shifts in the near future it is expected the quantity of ore delivered to the plant will be w 60 to 80 tons daily J V pohlman of spokane is secretary of 01 the company A good showing 9 of ore in what is believed to bean beail en t tely irely new ore body on the 1600 foot level of the success I 1 anine in ln thia the coeur calenes dA lenes has been opened and proves to 0 be 20 feet is grade and in width of which five feet high all au of OI 01 it good pay milling ore the ore content is lead a and nd zinc 1 c with more lead than is usually found in the success I he ne company ipaty is shipping twenty carloads a month of zinc concentrates to the smelter in belgium under its new con tract act and sending three to four carloads of lead concen les a month to the east helena smelter p at the annual meeting of stockholders of the bunker nt chance mining minin company at wardner directors were barned arit and plans for future development were outlined the drift on the vein has proceeded feet and will reach its objective under the upper workings in about feet at a depth of more than feet ore showing in the face of the drift assays essays giving returns of 18 to 35 a ton in gold lead and silver directors named are N president frank bath vice president R L brainard secretary treasurer john and R E at the galena mine of the callahan lead zinc company situated two miles west of wallace a strike has been made which appears to ibe be the greatest that has been made for some time in the coeur dalene district the strike was made on the foot level of the mine the ore is a veil was removed by a series of shots several days ago this body twenty one feet wide which stood revealed after the new shoot was first encountered a few days ago and at that time it appeared to be about six feet wide and what appeared to le be a wall at that time proved to be low grade ore it is beyond this wall that the tw enty yo one nef foot body of ore lies the last four and a half feet of the ore is of the same high grade milling ore as was the first six feet samples I 1 have have been taken from the first six feet which contained per cent lead and 96 ounces of silver to the ton while picked samples have run as high as per cent lead and ounces of silver to the ton MONTANA I 1 charles mcgreal senior at montana school of mines has been select selected edby by competition for salesmanship training by the chicago pneumatic tool company he is a butte boy and a world war veteran after intensive training I 1 at the companas comp anys detroit factory he will be assigned to a sales mans man s position in a branch office it is elpe expected acted action started early in june it is said will result in the resumption of mining at the old sylvanite galena property and the further develop development ment of what was at one time one ond of the largest mining camps in northwest montana J R S nichols and hugh truhart of chicago in libby bought boti lit at sheriffs sale certain claims that comprise the sylvanite metal holdings these gen are stockholders in the old company and were also representing other chicago stockholders by buying in the property they have placed it in a position where they say they are now ready to proceed with development recent indications carried by lauzier wolcott wires of a power merger in the northwest are borne out by articles appearing in the wall street journal according ta to mining el truth these indicate that the same interests which now control the anaconda copper mining M ining 1 company are behind the move the ryan group is theo the chief hief 0 owner of montana power company which was organized principally to serve the anacondas mines they ha have ve been buying heavily in smaller power concerns including washington water power company of spokane montana power companas Comp anys lines hook up with those of the W W P in the coeur calenes dA lenes and extend as asfar far east as billings other concerns in which the anaconda group is reported buying stock are utah power P ower light company and idaho power company the plant addition to the great falls zinc works constitutes utes the most extensive project of its kind undertaken by the anaconda company in montana in a number of years the new building will be of brick concrete steel and glass construction and has been designed by the company engineers gi the main addition to the present plant will be 90 at once with a construction work will start feet by large force of men when completed the plant addition wilt will 1 require r qu ire 15 additional additions addi tiona 1 horsepower of electrical energy which will be furnished from the great falls power houses of the montana power company between and additional men will be involved in operation of the enlargement of the refinery the giant tanks for the precipitation of the zinc solution in the electric and acid baths are under construction in great falls much of the other equipment for the new building 6 willbe will be constructed there the dynamos and other electrical equipment have been ordered from the east cast NEVADA last week the eureka holly mining company shipped eight cars of concentrates and two cars of bulk ore to the utah smelters shelters sm elters this week the company shipped six cars of concentrates eureka sentinel the tunnel bein being 9 driven by 3 the yellow tiger Z company at stonewall seventeen miles south of goldfield is feet long at feet crosscuts cross cuts will be driven to open and explore the vein as the face of the tunnel then will be under the shaft orders have been received at carson city to transform the old united states mint there into a federal prison in the meantime the dep department artmen t of justice designated that the carson penitentiary the ibe used as a place of confinement of federal prisoners from several western districts art E jeffers a contractor from contact says that the rails are laid on oil the new railroad to about twelve miles south of that town and that work on oil the new depot at contact has been started he reports considerable influx of new people and predicts the camp will be bc booming inside of a year two feet of snow at the elko ruby mine near lee is is hampering work there considerably ac accordia cordin according 0 t to 0 R A fraser superintendent of the property who was in elko recently this snow has been on the ground ever since the heavy storm of six weeks ago and has put a stop to considerable development work contemplated for the spring judge moran in the washoe county district court yesterday rendered judgment for in favor of A against the mineral mountain mines company the property is under attachment and wil be sold to satisfy the judgment the mine is in the pinegrove Pine grove district western mineral county 25 miles south of yerington and was operated until last year under tinder the management of E C klinker nevada mining Z press the rich strike recently reported in the lower levels of the betty oneal mine |