Show in nearby states ARIZONA workmen are now employed at the goodroad Gold road mill cleaning in up p the machinery and evidently preparing the plant for the early resumption of operation the transformers are being put in shape to take juice at any nib moment ment walter myers in doing the assessment work on the mines of the old enterprise com company is reported to have opened a nice body of exceedingly rich silver ore the ore found in the new strike runs from 1000 to 1500 ounces silver but the extent has not been ascertained kingman miner the phelps dodge corporation morenci branch have started shipping concentrates from the no 6 concentrator to douglas they contemplate working at about pounds monthly capacity and do not plan 0 on n starting their smelter at the present time no further announcements have been made relative to the remodeling of the mill A party of gentlemen were in kingman from white hills and reported that the strike on the garfield fraction recently made by A L parker and associates continues to show up wonderful ore A streak of ore 18 inches cliches wide shows a solid streak of silver running through it from two to three thre inches thick there are two of th thes eore streaks and the impression is that a great shoot of ore will be found when the vein is further explored BRITISH COLUMBIA the consolidated mi mining ning smelting smelling Sm elting company of canada will proceed with construction at kimberley of a 1500 ton mill to cost between and 1500 this will treat ores of sullivan zinc mine and will enable output of mine to be gr greatly atly increased it will also relieve plant at trail which at present handles sullivan ore and will permit increased output at fossland properties power will be supplied froni bonnington falls where power plant will be further extended all lease contracts were concluded on the florence silver mine at ainsworth june 1 the company taking on men and cleaning up in a few weeks the mill as well as the mine will be operated on company account and from that date expects to earn from to a month about twenty men have been working under several lease contracts and in the last eight months have shipped 1000 tons on which the company received 30 per cent royalty the mill has been operated arid made a product that h has as returned them about 38 per cent le lead a d and 20 ounces of silver ore has been shipped to midvale to the bunker hill to chilliwack and to trail COLORADO an electric compressor and power drills are to be installed on the old haggart property above the silver plume two cars of cement have been bought by the new operators of the centennial mine at georgetown which will be used in constructing the foundation for a mill asali astley y atkins treasurer of the palisade copper company arrived in georgetown recently with the object of resuming work on the property in east argentine manager leese says the last two rounds of shots before dis continuing work for the winter last year opened up a threefoot three foot vein of 40 ore durin during b the week a number of men were added to the payroll of the melville mining milling company and placed at work in the famous iowa tiger mines which are under control of the melville cord company pany A large amount of mining materials and commissary supplies were also sent to the property to care for the increase in wo working aking forces silverton standard during the past few weeks a repair crew has been busy at the iowa mill in gulch silverton under direction of louis superintendent and the mill will soon be ready to handle all ore that may be shipped from the mine the tramways tram ways have been overhauled and in a few more days the entire properties will be operated to usual capacity or organization animation has been effected under declaration of trust 0 of f the cykler fuel company to operate and develop coal producing properties located on the western border of the denver basin eighty eig acres of proven coal land has been secured under long time lease at reasonable royalty and options have been taken on approximately acres on ground the coal will be delivered in morrison and surrounding territory or in denver by auto trucks at nominal cost judge R H hoffman brought down some ore from the grand central mine in ali ane e ruby basin section a few days ago that indicates something worth while on the property as soon as the vein is opened for mining the ore occurs in a fine looking vein the streak being t about IS 18 inches in width about six inches of ore carrying sliver in the form of sulphur ets which will d doubtless run into high figures has been opened and the remainder of the streak carries both galena and lead in carbonate form work is going fine at the property according to mr hoffman and the force will be increased at an early date silverton stan standard dard IDAHO the silver cable mining company may ship some of its high grade ore this summer according b to reports at hand the property is on the montana ada idaho ho divide in the coeur calenes dA lenes the annual meeting will be beldin held in missoula mont july 1 A rich vein of gray copper is reported in the eleventh hour mine near in the coeur calenes dA lenes it is under lease to L D bowen richard langley and mrs laura hurtt the tunnel has been following a blind parallel vein which was opened by an accidental shot A klockmann president and general manager b of the idaho continental mining company operating near port hill recently announced that three shifts would be worked in the near future both in the concentrator and mine eighty men are now employed on two shifts and this number will be increased to ore on the no 2 tunnel in the independence lead mine at mullan is 90 feet wide according to reports at hand operations are being concentrated in the west drift of no 3 tunnel on the you like vein this drift is being extended in ore assaying 1390 to 1510 1516 a ton in lead silver to get under the in no 2 tunnel feet above no 3 when this point is reached the two tunnels willbe will be connected by a raise and a large tonnage of ore will have been blocked out I 1 ellis hoalst one of the owners and operators of the salmon river river gold dredge operating above the steel bridge near robinson bar arrived in mackay macka y early in the month for the purpose of putting the plant in readi readiness for operation again this summer he and his partner plan on a number of irn improvements prove ments to the plant which will enable them to handle a larger yardage more speedily it is their intention to install a h hydraulic y electrical p plant lant above the dredge of sufficient capacity to operate and light tile the plant A dividend of or 1 cent a share was declared payable july 1 by the silversmith mining Coni company pany limited at a meeting of the directors recently held this is the second dividend divide nd to be declared by this company the first being paid january 5 1921 hereafter they will be paid quarterly and in such amount I 1 as the directors may determine from time to time the T he present company started the operation of the property in june 1918 with an indebtedness debt edness of this has been retired and put into a mill and other equipment and improvements besides pushing the development of the mine and blackin blocking bloc kin out ore one hundred men are employed with monthly shipments of tons of silver i lead concentin concentrates ates and crude ore and tons of zinc concentrates ore similar to that which yielded gross to the caledonia mining company at wardner will be sought by the I 1 iron ron blossom mining milling and milling company in the same part of the coeur daleness dA lenes lepes according to dr D E keys of mullan secretary we are going to sink our shaft to a depth of feet said tr dr keys in a report issued recently our vein is well defined and at a depth of ninety feet where we ran a crosscut it is 25 feet wide at this depth a was sunk 60 feet disclosing encouraging cou raging values we expect good values at feet the same depth a as that at which good values were found in the caledonia and at a depth of feet we consider the chance good of finding commercial ore galena was cut at a depth of feet in the caledonia A compressor motor and hoist have been purchased and will be installed at once thomas blee who with milt russel and william richards operate a lease on the horseshoe copper company group of claims near white knob was recently in mackay and stated that one of the most important strikes ever made on th the horseshoe property had been made when a twelve foot ledge of high grade ore was encountered in the bottom of the archbold shaft the lowest workings on oil the prope property arty the horseshoe copper company group of clain claims 1 is was incorporated sonie fifteen years ago when the surface fa e showings indicated large copper deposits considerable r work has been done upon the ground since that time which has resulted in opening up some very fine deposit of carbonate lead silver ores a large quantity of which have since been shipped at good profits during the past several months the present lease operators have been steady shippers of good pay ore NEVADA T the lie announcement has been made that the yellowpine Yellow pine company will resume operating on a full scale july 1 when tests will be made in treating the ore with the volatilization process developed last year the property has been an important producer of lead and zinc E C strickland was an ail arrival from salt lake city by wednesdays train and has since been engaged in making an examination of the mines of the diamond and excelsior company on prospect mountain eureka sentinel mill construction is progressing 6 rapidly at the candelaria mines and the ton plant will lye be completed on schedule in july according to present progress A force of seventy five men is employed and material and equipment are being received daily all the machinery for the coarse crushing plant has arrived except the motors and the cyanide tanks in the bi big building are being erected things are looking 6 up tip in the old camp of hamilton ed wilson and his partner par aner ole johnson have considerable ore ready to ship adir and beck who own the nevada lead mine will commence shipping in tile the near future frank marks who has a lease on oil the rocco homestake Home stake has been taking out ore all winter and has quite a tonnage ready fo for r shipping mcdonald and harwood who have a hond bond and lease on the jennie A mine will also be shippers during the summer considerable activity is promised at the johnnie mine in the extreme southern end of nye county development work by the use of diamond drill is is uner way and several men are at work on oil placers between the old town of johnnie and th the new mill representative arenz has succeeded in inducing 6 the postoffice Post office department to advertise for bids for a contract mail route between pahrump ail aal johnnie a distance of twenty miles for once a week service it is expected this service can be established july 15 operations of the property of the midas gold mines company located ait cottonwood creek in walker lake mining district of mineral county has been resumed with A peterson as superintendent in charge for some time past work on the property has been suspended suspended through litigation in the courts but this has now been cleared up and president ludwig russi of the company who was in mina from his home in san francisco ran cisco informed western nevada miner that a campaign of extensive development of the holdings was being inaugurated binau 6 tir superintendent D states of the eureka uncle sam this week showed a sentinel representative samples of ore t taken iken from the east side of the main tunnel near the shale feet in and about feet from the hamburg end line one foot of the vein assayed 9 12 1 2 ounces in gold ana ounces in silver another sample from the hanging banging wall side assayed ounces silver and no gold neither of these samples carried adv lead the development of this shoot shows the ore south 20 70 decrees east toward the hamburg and the ore is similar to that taken out of the friday shaft where smelter shipments in former years averaged 15 ounces in gold washington valuable ore was struck recently at the daisy mine near daisy stevens county according to marta manager ger AV E seelye wet wei struck 18 to 20 inches of ore in the old terry tunnel that will run at least to the ton in silver 10 to 15 per cent lead and 4 in gold said mr seelye at the office of seelye brothers in the paulsen building spokane we hit it in the floor in the south drift of the old terry tunnel at a depth of about feet from the surface the daisy is now owned by the consolidated silver mountain mining company most of tile the stock being owned in spokane the property is 18 miles southwest of colville av overlooking er looking the columbia riv river er |