Show NEVADA ben D luce well known silver farmer of tonopah To has s taken the C 0 D lease alease a upon a block of ground on clain c aim ot 01 the hudson mining Coni company pany at royston and has already instituted development C C burger prominent new york mining engineer ae e of the original promoters of the copper canyon mm mill ng company near battle mountain and for many years Ilter terestea interested te rested ested in nevada mining affairs died on the morning of if march hospital in new york at the postgraduate post graduate as a result of influenza W J tobin president of the pioneer mines company at pioneer states that the ore in the bottom of the foot shaft enatt is is showing values from a few dollars to over 52 a ton this is is regarded as of great importance to the district as a barren barren zone ot ol over feet was passed through before any showing of ore at depth james F obrien mining b writer of nevada died on ahe he lath in in oatman arizona from pneumonia following in an illness ot of but a few days mr obrien was a native of springfield mass where he was born on february 3 1866 e is is survived by his wife and two children davoren C C obrien anen of denver and katherine M obrien of reno tho bamily home was in reno the board of directors of the broken hills silver corporation po ration has sent out notices to stockholders calling a meeting for april ad it is for the purpose of reorganizing the company on an assessable basis many of the large stockholders have already consented to the plan on the ousting of george graham rice last summer from any connection with the company he left it without funds or credit that the ton cyanide mill of the candelaria mines co at candelaria will be completed in july in spite of stormy weather that has delayed work is the statement of C D kaeding consulting engineer Z 11 for the company who recently passed through reno en route from his san francisco office to the mine while some time was lost because of stormy weather better progress is is now being made and lost time will be made up harry P layng passed away march 4 at berkeley california alifornia 7 from pneumonia a after a brief illness just one week from the day his father died from the same complaint harry layng was a well known metallurgist and tor the past two years had worked on a chloride volatilization process for the treatment of lead carbonate ores containing silver and gold much of his experimentation work was performed at the aie eureka holly mine in eureka william ferris who has been associated with the mine workers mercantile company in tonopah for a ion long period and vivian E hughes well known in mining circles are in the money these two residents have concluded a deal whereby they turn over eight placer locations containing great deposits of diatomaceous earth near basalt in ill esmeralda E s b meralda county for a consideration of the purchasers were posey and pollard of los angeles and two payments have already been made permit for construction of in an electric power conver line from great shoshone falls to contact has been issued by the idaho power company to a corporation composed of san francisco and oklahoma capitalists a as s a result of agreements 6 drafted in salt lake city and payment to the company of the initial sum required on completion of the deal a line will be constructed at a cost of from which it is expected to furnish power and light to contact for a period of ten years twin falls times we have purchased a lot of machinery for our mines said AT T mcardle of the riverside mining 6 company of contact who ret returned recently from salt lake city and the shipment A wil vil be in made ade from t that hat point to rogerson we elwe expect to haul the machinery out at once and begin installation without delay we will haul from rogerson because the road from wells will not be open opell for some months there is not the slightest doubt about the cons it ruction truc tion of the idaho central railroad from rogerson to wells meri mere who are on the inside have positive assurance on that point and I 1 am c convinced ft vinced that they are correct elko free press |