Show NEVADA the postoffice post office at broken mills hills was disco discontinued ntine ed on the the business of the office had fallen off to such an extent that the service was no longer justified twenty five men are employed in preparing for extensive placer operations at log springs 18 miles south of lida in esmeralda county and near the california boundary the expected building of the railroad into and through the contact mining 6 district in the northern part of elko county has aroused the liveliest sort of excitement among amon mining men and the recorders office at elko is kept busy recording 6 the many claims sent in from that district A general conference of all shippers arid and carriers of ore in the state has been called by the public service commission of nevada for november 4 1921 at the conference the establishment of just and reasonable rates to cover the movement of ores to nevada california and utah smelters shelters sm elters will be under consideration thomas major minin mining man of the gold run district out from golconda has been operating mining properties in in the gold run basin section of the camp for a great number of years and has made numerous shipments from different properties during the early part of this summer mr major and fred backus installed a gibson mill on the formers gold coin mine in adelaide gulch the liming consolidated silver mines company is now reported by superintendent A E lowe as in most excellent shape for continued shipments at present one car is bein being b mined for shipment to the plant at richmond while aile another is being an mined for the regular shipment to millers miller s the last car shipped to millers gave returns of a ton the luning consolidated now gives promise of developing ve loping into a good shipper and long lived A deal was closed in winnemucca on the whereby A R tobey and I 1 L mcgary purchased the one half w in terest of carl St in the reo no 1 claim at the camp of ten mile this is the property on oil which the strike was made in the camp and some wonderfully rich gold old ore ila has been taken from the lead so far only a limited limite d amount of work has been done but the prospects aregood are good for opening a valuable mine there according to report the newly constructed mill of the consolidated spanish belt silver mining co in the barcelona district is now running steadily on dump ore after a shutdown shut down dovirn of one week caused by a transformer burning out jules V barnd general manager who came out from the toledo ohio office of the company to be present when the mill started is still at the mine he states that LOW 1 tons of dump ore will be run through before ore from the mine is milled to assure smooth running of the plant the queen of the hills mine situated near hiko eikom it the irish mountain district has recently been leased by y james wheeler of Pio pioche clie operations have already been D commenced the mine which lies on the southerly slope of mount amount irish was a famous producer in the early days when hiko was the county seat of lincoln county after passing through h the hands of various owners the mine was later acquired and patented by mr greer of alamo interested with mr wheeler in the development of the queen of the hills are arc several other li mining lining men of pioche the eureka uncle sam mining company has closed a deal with san francisco capitalists to furnish funds to complete five thousand lineal feet of development which will thoroughly develop and block out ore up to the three hundred foot level several carloads of rail air pipe and blasting in za powder is now being shipped and modern machinery equipment will immediately be brought into operation to hasten development and to insure sufficient tonnage for continuous operation of the combination mill which will be ready by next spring development of the ely northern mine by the boston ely company is going on in a manner pleasing to S herbert williams manager of the company and W H boyle superintendent the ely northern group b is on the north side of the canyon about a mile and a half west of ely and the ore at present being taken out averages ave rages from 5 to 8 per cent copper content there are at present about 1600 tons of this grade 6 rade of ore on the dump and higher values are looked for as development progresses which w will ill be carried on in an extensive manner C K jarvis left reno several days ago for rebel creek humboldt county to take out a shipment of ore for the cottontail mining co in which he is interested therom the company is developing a b gold property which it holds under tinder a bond and lease on which the second pa payment ament has been made J J burk of reno is president of the company R M preston vice president and A hankammer secretary and treasurer jarvis secured the lease and option to purchase four months ago ore of shipping and 1 milling grade has been opened in two t tunnels feet apart on the same vein the shipping ore is sorted to per ton |