Show NEVADA the ton flotation mill of the simon silver lead mines co is expected to begin operating about october 15 when the power transmission line that is being bu built ailt by mineral county under the direction of engineer joe beane will be completed to the district the spruce monarch which tapered off its production products i on after shipping heavily all of last year is sending about four 50 ton cars a month to salt lake smelters shelters sm elters and is steadily increasing the operating force and adding to ore reserves shipments are confined to the ore extracted in development work the company is controlled by badt brothers of wells nev and salt lake men operations at the hamburg mine at pioche now under lease to campbell and lamb is proceeding most satisfactorily and steady production is in prospect the ore recently struck is adjacent to the raise which was put up by the hamburg company and the deposit has now widened and gives every indication of developing into a permanent ore body the sweeps mill of the tonopah belmont development company with a capacity of about 30 tons daily was brought into commission during the month and will be operated ion tailings from the slime ponds ben D luce the silver farmer has in the neighborhood of 1500 tons of material awaiting treatment and is now at work in preparing his second crop which will be harvested before the extremely cold weather arrives that a cyanide mill will be built to treat the ores of the big chief consolidated mines in gold circle is now considered certain following a visit and thorough inspection by clarence J berry california oil operator and principal owner of stock in the company berry was accompanied by george mckenzie san francisco mining engineer and david ewing of fresno who is associated with him in all his business ventures they spent several days at the mine most of the time underground dr walter harvey weed who recently examined the virginia louise mine at pioche for eastern stockholders reports tons of possible ore this estimate does not take into account the possible amount or value of the ore beds recently opened up on the foot level of the prince mine nor of the rich zinc ores shown by diamond drilling to exist on top of the quartzite series the speculative value of these beds is is quite large and may easily double the value of the Vir virginia kinia louise mine pioche record with a final investment of 50 peter oslund who made the halifax famous cleaned up in the last six weeks of his lease approximately and now is arranging I 1 to take his wife and child with him to sweden for the winter before returning to tonopah next spring oslund who leased with in the halifax which is down almost 1800 feet put 50 into a last blast after his partner had given it UP pas hopeless and uncovered an ore body which proved to be one of the richest in the district under the terms of the lease he had but six weeks left but during this time he took out ore said to be worth and netted in this short time about before he relinquished the mine |