Show hi nearby states ARIZONA F L ransome of the geology geological ical survey has issued a report on the papago and pima mining districts near tucson in several arizona towns notably in miami new school buildings are to be roofed with copper this in pursuance persua nce of i L campaign t for the larger b use of the red metal the L A garford quartz mill at wickenburg has been dismantled and shipped to randsburg brandsburg Rands burg cal where the owner has leased property adjoin adjoining ng b the kell kelly y silver mine three units of the big inspiration mill have been closed down due to a bulge b of the concrete shaft lining on the level for some time the mill has been operating fourteen units it is reported that an extensive body of commercial ore was recently uncovered in the verde central property in the jerome district an extension of the drift from the level will be run to cut the exposed ores at depth lead silver ore avera averaging 6 oring t 57 per ton has been encountered in the new no 3 shaft of the el capitan mines inc of miami at a depth of but 15 feet five thousand feet of excellent road have just been completed by the company which is being financed in the east for more extensive development work monthly production of copper by the iron cap copper company at copper hill now averages about pounds all the ore is now being shipped chipped to the international smelter at miami and in addition to the copper is returning between and monthly in silver about men are being employed at the mine and mill of the company close to sixty tons of dust that averages b five per cent copper and carries important values in gold silver and ot other her metals is being recovered daily by the new cottrell plant from the new united verde smelter at clarkdale Clark dale this means that the plant is daily saving three tons of copper that forin formerly efly was dissipated in the atmosphere and irretrievably lost five cars of ore averaging 50 tons each willbe will be e made today from the ely northern property of the boston ely consolidated soli dated mining company the ore will go directly to the smelters shelters sm elters and is expected to average from 8 to 10 per cent in in cop copper p er other shipments will follow as the days and weeks go 93 by the boston ely company has arrived and can now nov be reckoned as a steady shipper ely record ira B joralemon assistant general manager of the calumet arizona mining company and one of the most widely known mining men in the country left the warren district about september 15 to open consulting offices in san francisco he will resign as assistant ass stant manager of the C A the te w cornelia copper company at ajo and the 85 mine near ne lordsburg Lords burg N M in order to give his entire time to consulting in i practice and the examination of properties with a view to 10 later entering mining for himself BRITISH COLUMBIA improvements to cost by estimates are to b be e made ma e by the silversmith mines according to reports at hand sonic bon of the improvements are being made and all will be com comple plated before the winter sets in it is believed ore has been encountered by the deep tunnel on the boy onne mine at salmon and has been followed by dr drift tf for fifty feet according to B N sharp manager who was in spokane recently the body was 21 feet wide at the face and contained 1280 in gold to the ton when struck the depth attained is feet in the dip A large quantity of zinc is being smelted smelter by the consolidated mining 11 1 1 and smelting smelling Sm elting 6 company according to reports from trail the quantity for the last ten days of august was tons of which tons came from mines of the consolidated company and a greater part of it from the sullivan mine at kimberly the standard silver lead mining company had a surplus of on june 30 last according to the report for the second quarter isred by the spokane office recently this is comparable with march 31 and shows a net loss of for the second quarter the receipts on operating account were 2124 of which 2095 were from the sale of zinc and 29 from thestle the sale of lead the cranby consolidated mining smelting smelling Sm elting and power company produced at the annual rat rate e of pounds of copper in the first half of the year on the basis of the current monthly output of pounds the last half of the year should show a production of at least pounds or a total of for the year this is combar ve with in 1921 and in 1920 the eastern british columba columb region is is recovering recovering rapidly from the inaction that followed the war period according to fred A starkey secretary of the consolidated boards of trades of that region operations have been resumed on many mining properties and production is increasing mi mr r starkey reports much new weal wealth th is being circulated as a result we expect the output of ore to become the largest in history the consolidated mining and smelting smelling Sm elting company which has a large smelter and refinery at trail many mines in british columbia columbi and some in washington is operating to almost capacity except at the rossland mines for which a concentrator is being completed i COLORADO edwin gaylord general manager of the forest queen mines company cripple creek is shipping b a good g b grade of ore from thedron the ironclad clad hill property A carload of better than average grade was sent down to the golden cycle mill the first of the week the jerry johnson mine also on ironclad hill operated by lesses is also making a fair production preparations are being made at the no 2 shaft of the portland artland gold mining company for sinking of another lift of feet to a total depth of 2775 feet another shift will be added to the force october 1 and sunday work will then be discontinued according to an official I 1 statement drifting has progressed on the vein at the 2600 foot level for feet with value lue holding preparatory to sloping it is proposed to tap the water in the north drift and the electric pumps are expected to handle the flow without difficulty IDAHO ore has been followed by drift for feet in the 1004 foot level vel of the success mine in the coeur dalene dA lenes s according to laie we reports the hig h grade lead silver values continue A raise ise has been started from this level four feet of new ore has been opened at a depth of feet t in the property of the nabob consolidated mining compy company near kellogg A foot of the shoot is of a hight bight grade shipping quality containing lead silver in the main and only a f s trace of zinc the reina remainder inder is of a milling grade the disclosure was made in cutt ng a station at a p point 01 nt feet below the sidney tunnel level the success mining company has opened a shoot of ore for feet in new territory says wilbur D greenough after an inspection of the property situated near wallace at the time of my last visit both faces bottoms and backs were in exceptionally good mill feed and in places there was five feet of solid lead silver ore he said the retiring board of the idaho gold and ruby mining company was reelected at the anual meeting held in spokane recently the board consists of J M M L mccormick and C J the bylaws by laws were aman amaded eded ed to permit the election by the board of a secretary who was not a director the attendance was copper bearing ore has been followed by drift for about feet at the 1800 doot depth in the property of the montana idaho copper company the values are of a milling grade according to samples received at the spokane off ce the ore broken in the course of development is being stored alongside the dump at adair M J kirby of spokane is secre tary treasurer I 1 at a meeting of the carbonate hill mining company held at its spokane offices recently a resolution was adopted that authorizes the dissolution of the corporation and the division of its assets among the stockholders these these assets consist of shares of stock in the ida idaho ho carbonate hill consolidated mining company and a small sum of money of the shares of the carbonate hill issued were represented at the meeting according to john F hoppe secretary treasurer the hope mining and milling company has just completed its reorganization as the morning star mines inc old stock is to be exchanged for the new at the ratio of three for one the new stock is assessable and the directors plan regular levies to keep work going and speed development the property rop contains twelve claims feet from the northern pacific railway at hope and is rich in copper ore J B gardner is president of the reorganized company and G H martin secretary the mine a recent discovery adjoining t the lawrence mine has been bought by john bohanan hugh gibson and roy vose mining men of burke the new owners will ship at once as eighteen inches of clean galena has been uncovered for sixty feet on the outcrop says the report twenty tons of high grade ore is sacked and on the dump the mimi tite is one of the first properties of the district to yield shipping ore at grass roots the mine is less than a mile and a half from clarks fork the shipping point wage increases of 50 to 75 cents per day for mine workers in all mines of the coeur calenes dA lenes will be effective on october 1 according to announcement recently made miners will be given an increase of 75 cents per day raising their wages to 5 muckers duckers will be increased 50 cents making their daily wages and tim bermen will be increased 75 cents making daily wages agreement for the salary increase has been reached by the bunker hill and sullivan hecla hercules tamarack custer federal mining and smelting smelling Sm elting company and the gold hunter at mullan and all smaller mines of the region it is said will meet the increase by putting their own men on the same wage basis ore of a shipping 6 grade has been followed west for 65 feet at the bottom of an beigh eighty ty five foot shaft in the lookout mo mountain nta ain mine kellogg according to late reports the was k started at a depth of feet fee in the main tunnel level the ore includes galena and carbonate stewart campbell state mining inspector has returned to his home in hailey after some weeks spent in north idaho mining district much of his time was spent in the coeur calenes dA lenes the boondry county mines were also visited the inspector is now planning 3 to inspect the owyhee owahee county mines before the close of the season six feet of ore containing 22 in gold to the ton is undergoing development in the war tar eagle mine of the buffalo hump region b of idaho accord ng n 6 to E W V griffith of grangeville Grange ville while in spokane recently two feet of it averages b he said and I 1 saw an assay certificate that showed a content geor george 9 e bancroft a bunin mining engineer of denver col is the owner competition in the purchase of claims is in progress in the marshall lake region twenty miles south of buffalo hump some of the largest mining and si sm elting companies are among the negotiators and they are acquiring some of the best properties per ties the district covers five or six six square miles and is the holt mine in this region region according to ito estimates ti mates has produced in the last last five years NEVADA 0 A jacobson has bonded the may kirby mine near goodsprings Good springs and has a force of men at work preparatory to taking out shipping ore the may kirby is one of the principal properties of the allen alien G campbell estate and has a fine record as a producer five men are now working at 3 last saturday afternoon exactly 68 days and 21 hours from the time the nevada con concentrator at mcgill took fire operations were resumed at the plant with two ball mills working on ore says the ely record of the ore is now being handled by the mill at the rate of about tons a day and it is hoped hopeb to increase this soon to 1600 tons a day lessees lessels on the comstock phoenix mine east of this city which has been a very heavy producer in the past have just made a shipment of high grade ore to the selby smelter the ore hav having ng an average value of over 80 per ton this was taken from the west end of the property and the lesses leases are now carrying on further development work in that section virginia chronicle i washington shipments of crude and concentrated lead silver ore are being made at the rate of four to five carloads a month from the santa rita mine 18 miles west of Sp ringdale stevens county the net smelter returns are said to yield to the ton on the knob hill a is being sunk from the foot level of the shaft workings the new owners of this property are said to be connected with the balaklava mines of california the property has yielded upwards of out of which dividends have been paid mining is increasing in the republic district according to reports from the field production is being made from several properties and exploration is spreading the last chance mine owned by the lone pine surprise consolidated soli dated mining company is being preparatory to a resumption of shipments the un watering was started some time ago and will be concluded in a month it is believed the W water ater level was twenty feet above the besides workings its the company will be compelled to un water part of the workings of the lone pine mine adjoining as the properties are connected the gladstone mountain mining company loaded a car of high grade lead ore at leadpoint leafpoint Lead point stevens county according to daniel D dodd superintendent this is the seventh car I 1 loaded this year and is consigned to the bunker hill smelter at bradley idaho an addition to the net receipts will be made by the recent advance of 10 cents a pound in the price of lead |