Show NEW ORE RATE FOR PIOCHE E L godbe has conference with officials of the salt lake route A dispatch from pioche nevada says the salt lake route has made the important announcement that on may 28 it will put into effect a rate of a ton on ore from pioche to tintic gintic and salt lake valley points on iron ore and fluxes containing precious metal values of not to exceed 5 a ton the inauguration of this rate means a great deal for this district for the prince nce consolidated day mendha mandha and oth ermines other mines which contain large deposits of low grade emde ores can go to market with a product that the owners of those mines have heretofore preferred to let remain unbroken until a more opportune time but which seems to have arrived the big smelting smelling sm elting companies of utah at last realize that they must come to td pioche for their supply of fluxes and these concerns have been very energetic in making negotiations offering rates which they would not consider at all until very recently hence with the railroad falling into line with the new rate on this grade of ores there appears to be nothing standing in the way of movement of large tonnage from this district soon after it goes into effect it is understood that surveyors in the employ of the salt lake route are due here within the next fortnight for the purpose of locating the proposed extension around the mountain to the prince consolidated pioche king pioche metals golden prince and other mines in that ahat locality it is also understood that the prince consolidated I 1 Is preparing pria parIng to inaugurate regular shipments of mangan manganese apse ores to the sm el I 1 ter pending the building of the railroad to its property while admitting that there is something thin doing on this score superintendent william lloyd when questioned about the matter declared that he was not quite ready to 0 all aal bounce the companas comp anys plans for the future nevertheless it is reasonably certain that the prince is all ready for an active campaign of production this is also the case with the nevada utah company relative to to its day alie mine at jack rabbit and it was business in this connection which called super superintendent inte n dent james P gaskill to salt lake city a 4 few ew days ago where he expects to have a talk with carl ellers eilers one of the members of the executive committee of the american smelting smelling Sm elting and refining company before leaving for the utah capital mr gaskill stated that the negotiations would probably result in increasing the output of he day mine to anywhere from to tons a d day ay the reduction on the tariff on ores tp utah smelting smelling sm elting points is based on the following ore assaying 10 a ton and under a ton former rate ore assaying 15 a ton and over 10 3 a ton former rate 4 ore assaying 20 a ton and over 15 I 1 a ton old rate 4 ore assaying above 20 a ton no change in the schedule in effect prior to april 17 it it is understood that the new rate effective this month is the result of a conference in los angeles within the past week between officials of the general traffic department of the salt lake route and ernest L godbe the latter representing the pe prince consolidated |