Show NEVADA debris from the fire at the eureka holly shaft has b been e en cleared away and preparations are being made to erect the new hoist house and adjacent buildings the dahl placer property in copper canyon has been attached under an action brought by the first national bank of winnemucca to foreclose a mortgage for 2556 the annual financial statement of the goldfield consolidated soli dated mines company for 1923 shows total receipts of and disbursements of W E is secretary of the company several shipments of arsenical ore from the macuba district have been sent out from jungo station on the western pacific recently including four carloads carlo ads from the ed chafey property worked by lessees lessels les sees A new use for the oil produced at the catlin shale plant is being tested out at the mackay school of mines at the state university experimental use of this oil in a flotation process for treating the copper ore from the big pit at ruth 1 is being tried out by walter S palmer acting director of the school of mines J H buehler new superintendent of the bristol silver mines is busily engaged in getting things in shape at the mine and upon the arrival of the material for the reconstruction st of the tram terminal at jack rabbit work will be rushed as fast as possible so that shipping may be resumed at an early date pioche record i reports have reached mina of the discovery of rich streaks of gold in sandstone somewhere in the marietta district south of mina A G bachlund who was mine superintendent at candelaria while the mines were operating is said to be interested in the discovery bachlund has been developing a kold gold property at the old camp of douglas both districts are in the excelsior range southern mineral county at a stockholders meeting of the virginia louise min ing company held recently in pioche a modification and 4 extension of the bond and lease held by the virginia louise f development company was agreed upon the following officers were elected J D thompson of los angeles president N W S berray of los angeles vice president chas A thompson of pioche treasurer and secretary I 1 mabbett sutton of los angeles director and A A carman of pioche director distribution of part of the large surplus carried by the tonopah mining company of nevada is to be sought by a group of stockholders residing in the east according to a circular letter sent out from philadelphia the surplus the circular states exceeds or more than 2 per share comprised mostly of gilt edge bonds the stockholders contend that a surplus of is sufficient and I 1 that or per share should be distributed the circular asserts that prospecting for new properties has resulted in a loss and should be discontinued john G kirchen general manager of the Tono tonopah palt extension mining company returned from pittsburgh with bio big 6 news for tonopah To the tono tonopah p ah extension will at once start work establishing its own power plant to obviate any future necessity of closing down mine or mill through any shortage of power after conferring with charles M schwab the pittsburgh steel magnate and one of the heavy stockholders in the extension a 2000 horse power deisel i engine was ordered shipped to tonopah To this monster er engine weighs pounds and the generator pounds the cost of the plant will be around the requirements of the extension for its pumps mine and mill are kilowatts a month |