Show YELLOW PINE OF GOOD SPRINGS SHIPPING MIXED ORE TO KANSAS the yellow pine mining company largest producer of lead and zinc in nevada is working a force of 45 men and shipping 40 tons of mixed lead and zinc ore daily to a smelter in kansas according to latest report the com pany has a well appointed mill but with present high metal prices has found it more profitable to ship crude ore to smelters shelters sm elters than to treat its product at the mine the company also owns the 13 mile narrow gauge railroad connecting the mine and mill with the salt lake line of the union pacific at jean beginning operations in 1912 the yellow pine company has produced between and and lias has paid dividends aggregating more than it is is still paying profits to its stockholders at the rate of quarterly the mine is opened by inclines to a depth of 1100 feet on the rather flat dip of the veins or to a vertical depth of something over feet at the camp of bullion six miles south of goldspring goodsprings Good springs spring s a small concentrating lead mill is being operated by jack and phil smith brothers and old timers in the goodsprings Good springs district they are shipping lead concentrates to a utah smelter their mill feed consisting partly of ore that they are cru crusa silling aing and partly of tailings from an all old dry concentrator cen one mile from goodsprings Good springs harvey hardy is operating a concentrator on tailings from the anchor lead mine and is making regular shipments of lead concentrates to a salt lake smelter A demand for zinc sulphide ore has resulted in the reopening of the old potosi mine 12 miles northwest of goodsprings Good springs and reputed to be the oldest mine in nevada da having been located in 1853 and recorded among the earliest patents in the state in early th times nes the mine was worked by mormons cormons Mor mons who produced much lead and some oxidized zinc ore the mine is said to have produced over robbins and shelby who are working the mine under lease from the owners the empire zinc company are shipping zinc sulphide ore of goo good d grade with occa dional carloads of lead ore because of the absence of a ii market larket for ore of this character in earlier years ot of operation little of this ore was extracted and the mine is reported to contain a large tonnage which if the market continues as at present will yield a substantial profit the goodsprings Good springs district is likely to become an important producer of vanadium which is present at many points and in large deposits in the form of lead in the ewing mine eight miles west of goodsprings Good springs and operated by the master alloy mining company a large tonnage of this ore has been blocked and other large deposits are found on adjoining claims as well as at other points in the district by a simple process of water concentration similar to that used in concentrating lead ores a lead van adius concentrate worth per ton or more on the cars at jean is obtained A mill on the ewing property is partly completed consisting of rolls and a wilfley table A large engine and second wilfley table are to be added in order to secure finer grinding and a higher metal recovery together with larger tonnage capacity concentrates made here contain 11 per cent oxide and 40 per cent lead it is considered probable that two more mills will be built in the district to treat vanadium lead ore and that goodsprings Good springs will become one of the most important vanadium producing centers of the country at nevada produces no vanadium in any form the market for vanadium is in pittsburgh the consuming companies paying for the concentrates on cars at points on trunk lines nearest the producing points |