Show PIOCHE MINING NOTES the black metals mining company one of the low grade flux ore producers of this district is mining a reduced tonnage at the present time however considerable development work is being done in anticipation and belief in the granting of an adjustment in the recent freight increase the burke lease is responding nicely to increased work and the developed ore shoot looks better with every round of shots the initial car produced by the present leasers leaders is now in the surface bins awaiting ship ment to the smelter and a ton of ore is being mined daily assays essays from the working faces as mined show gold silver ounces and lead per cent M L lee and dan W franks have purchased an interest in the hames currency lease of the amalgamated pioche mines smelters shelters Sm elters corporation which has produced a substantial tonnage in the past recently a high grade ve vein in of silver ore was discovered by hames haines in the no 2 this will be timbered and the discovery thoroughly proven up hand samples from the strike assayed over ounces in silver to the ton al emerick and carl sampson are shipping a fifty ton car of iron manganese silver ore to the salt lake smelters shelters sm elters this week dave mathews has the hauling contract these leasers leaders do not expect to take out another shipment on account of the increased freight charges on this class of ore this lease has produced about tons of ore during the past six months the ore being mined in the territory adjacent to the summit shaft which was sunk on the zero ore bodies S T campbell leasing in the may day sector of the property of the bristol silver mines company has a carload of ore ready for shipment in the bins at the pioche depot this ore carries satisfactory vales in silver lead and copper A large tonnage of ore is available but profits are greatly reduced by the high transportation charges levied on bristol ore at the present time all bristol ores carry over 10 per cent moisture and the effect of the ever increasing freight rates can readily be understood the ida may mine situated about two miles from jackrabbit Jack rabbit which is under lease and bond to arthur murphy of pioche is being developed with encouraging results extension of the main incline shaft has resulted in the opening up of additional ground the last ca car shipped from the property returns for which were received a few days ago proved satisfactory to the management several rich pockets of ore have also been encountered in the main body in which values in lead predominate over the coper values |