Show the rochester mines company contributed the rochester mines company producing ing gold and silver from its mine and mill located in rochester camp humboldt county nevada is incorporated for divided into shares of a par value of 1 each non assessable all except about shares are issued the balance remain in treasury the company has no debts it has a substantial cash in the treasury which is increasing monthly from bullion sales L A friedman of lovelock nevada the location of the companas comp anys principal office is president and general manager william adams a leading contractor of chicago illinois is vice president H J murrish rish of lovelock is secretary the additional directors are richard hartley of salt lake city samuel platt of reno nevada and judge J T obrien of san francisco the companas Comp anys property the companas comp anys property includes the original crown point no I 1 claim which made first history as pointing to the great wealth of the veins in rochester hill to this has been added other claims until the estate of the rochester mines company includes seven claims and a fraction within which are considered to be the richest ores in rochester district up to december 31 1915 tile the company had produced a total of gross tons of ore which yielded in gold and silver value or an average of 20 per dry ton this yield had been made subsequent to january 1 1913 the begin ng of the companas comp anys development operations mill started in 1915 during the year 1915 the companas comp anys mill was started producing bullion at the rate of 1500 to 2100 per day also in 1915 the friedman tunnel conceived to tap the veins of rochester hill at 1200 feet depth was aggressively driven A compressor and power drills were added to the mine equipment also in 1915 and much other equipment brought to the service of the management to increase efficiency of operations when the friedman tunnel had reached 1432 feet a great fissure was encountered showing mineralized material across a width of forty five feet this tunnel demonstrated the ore bodies to be deep seated in rochester hill also that they are massive big ore deposits during the year 1915 in the east vein in at a depth of feet there was broken from a width of twenty one feet much ore carrying 15 to 25 a ton on the same feet south at a depth of feet nine feet of ore yielded 15 to 40 a ton this vein has been opened to the surface actually proving the existence of more than tons in this one ore shoot alone in addition are the west and foreman veins opening up extensive ore bodies while the mineralized ore zone along the strike of these fissures is known over a distance of feet through the crown point no 1 claim and the weaver claims all belonging to the rochester mines company will prove value of vein A raise from the face of the friedman tunnel and rapid sinking of are expected to prove the immense value of the great vein which the tunnel cut at a depth of 1200 feet this work is in progress land and will result in affording also an outlet for all the ores from all the veins in the upper workings which will move from the to the mill by gravity and which are conservatively ively estimated at close to tons during the year 19 1916 16 development operations have brought into sight another large jarge ore body twenty two feet wide on the level carrying excellent high grade milling ore at another point on the same level yet another ore body has recently been opened and has established itself at five feet width assaying better than 20 a ton by january an aerial tramway from the mine to the mill will have been completed and this will reduce transportation costs 50 cents per ton and save a year for the company the company usually sends its mill output monthly to the selby smelter refinery at san francisco 0 RECORD OUTPUT OF LEAD the united states geological survey department part ment of the interior has just published the new year estimate of the production of lead in 1916 in the production of lead ore there was a gain of 10 per cent over the preceding year the lead content of ore mined in 1916 being estimated at 62 short tons missouri had the largest production and also made a gain of over tons good gains were made by california idaho nevada utah and new mexico the production of refined lead desilver iced and soft from domestic and foreign ores was approximately tons worth at the average new york price as against tons worth in 1915 the output of lead was about tons worth about the domestic production was made up of tons of lead and tons of soft lead worth in all about and the production from foreign ores is estimated at tons the imports of lead in all forms were about tons and the exports were about tons of which tons were derived from domestic ores the total exports ot of lead were valued at about the consumption of lead as near as it can be calculated disregarding stocks of domestic lead was tons as against tons in 1915 the price of lead was nearly 50 per cent higher in 1916 than during the preceding year the average of spot quotations at new york being 68 cents a pound as compared with 47 cents in 1915 |