Show in nearby states ARIZONA J B johnson chief engineer for the united verde copper company clarkdale Clark dale has resigned his position and will leave shortly for the coast where he will enter in consulting practice the dean mine S S jones manager kingman is running its mill steadily and shipments of concentrates are to be made weekly in carload lots the shortage of water has been partially relieved by recent rains and it is hoped to soon add another shift to the mill A C belcher of globe has announced the starting of his mill on the claims known as gold dust mining and milling claims near the pinal final mountain ranger station he expects to turn out one ton of concentrate each day to be shipped to the international smelter the ore is composed of gold copper and silver the belmont copper mining company chester hoatson superior has opened a led ledge lede e of high grade copper ore in its tunnel workings at a vertical depth of about feet the shaft is now down about 1100 feet and good progress is being made the drift on the 1000 level is in 20 feet and stringers of peacock ore have been encountered encouraged by the recent advances in the price of copper and the better outlook for the industry the old dominion company W G mcbride general manager globe is entering upon a pro program grani of enlargement and improvements which will provide for greater capacity in production the number of men now on the companas comp anys payroll is close to 1000 which is more than were employed before the smelter was shut down the most important feature of the program is the enlargement of the concentrator by the addition of aijo ther unit which will increase the milling capacity from 1300 to 1500 tons daily the new unit will consist of rod mill with classifier and the necessary notation flotation equipment which has been designed by D L forrester mill superintendent for the company the cost of the new unit will be about this including an additional unit to the crushing plant COLORADO james clamp of ouray recently received a telegram authorizing him to start work on the atlas at once clearing it up and placing it in shape for examination by national lead company representatives he left with a force of men for the mine immediately the sunnyside Sunny side mine at ouray has been producing some good ore of late at the present time they ar are e mining and milling tons of lead and zinc ore a day and shipping four cars of their concentrates to the A S R co at durango and the same amount of zinc concentrates at amarillo texas hyder and myers who are operating a mine in the mineral point district have just increased their force after opening another silver and lead vein at the present time they lare are shipping their entire production via ouray to salt lake city alfred harrison of silverton has been surveying their group of claims preparatory to patent work is progressing nicely at the specie payment the juice being turned in and the exhaust fans started afew days ago according to idaho idabo springs advices advises ad vices the tunnel wa was s not found in such abad a bad condition as they have been back in the tunnel 2300 feet the lights and pipe lines are being bein repaired and replaced and in about another week they will have the famous old producer shaped up and start active development work the vertex mining company organized to take over the assets and property of the continental mining company the buffalo boy mine and also a large number of surrounding mining claims in the animas mining district is getting under way to prosecute further development work on the consolidated properties it is understood that the vertex mining company is closely allied to the tonopah mining company of nevada which assures it of strong financial support according to a report of the state bureau of mines in hinsdale and gunnison counties alone prospectors prospector s have been combing the country for promising surface droppings crop pings during the past summer statistics are not available as to the exact number of prospectors operating An in other parts of the state but there is undoubtedly a gre great hl increase over the number for many years pas past i t the revival of old fashioned burro packed and grubstaked grub staked prospecting is one of the most hopeful signs pointing to general mining revival which has been apparent for some time silverton standard e the operation of the dives pelican mines mines at silver plume is an impressive f pres gire example of what can be done in the reopening opening le of old mines under proper mining methods and capable management the dives pelican seven thirty mine which belongs to the same company and which chic i is being operated operate dby by the east butte copper company has produced over and prior to the opening reopening re by late jake robeson and ben lawrence was co considered by many mining people as a worked out mine the group produced approximately a year for fifteen years reports from the bachelor consolidated mine mille are increasing the optimistic outlook for this pro property 1 p ert the fhe 1 principal feature is the confidence that the men at anvor work lin in the mine have in the showings encountered and the bright prospects for the future in the drift run since the vein was ivas encountered william foreman states there is a veritable ven tible face of copper the metal glistening from all parts of the threefoot three foot vein in the last few feet another vein running parallel to the dyke has been opened and in mr For foreman emills i opinion there is extreme likelihood of a large ore body being opened on the level with the tunnel cripple crek colorados gold producer swings into line with the general trend of colorado mining activity with the resumption of old workings and the production of gold ore running per ton from the fani emow portland mine according to reports given out by the state sta bureau of mines the portland which is one of the mos celebrated mines in this far famed gold bearing zone ot of the centennial state is now being worked on the twenty ninth run level where miners are drifting through a rich body ya of ore 0 1 some of which will run better than 30 a pound conditions condition according to john T joyce state commissioner of OI 01 anies aln fo ih e look better today for the portland than they have lor r last ten years IDAHO back I 1 it t looks now as if the old vienna mine is c into the steady producing class A F petry peary of harbidge jarbidge jar bidge 0 nevada took charge of this famous old pr property abol aou and weeks ago he has had four i nen men borki working ng with nim they are already making a substantial shipment of good ore hauling it to ketchum as the nearest railroad shipping point mr peary expresses himself well pleased with the outlook at the vienna hailey news miner ore delivered to the constitution mining and milling companas Comp anys concentrating mill on pine creek in the coeur dalene district has been stepped up to tons a day and will soon be increased to tons the capacity of the plant patrick brady has taken a bond for a controlling interest in the stock of the lead crystal mining company on a basis of for the entire holdings and will immediately diatel y begin b further development of the companas comp anys property on west eagle creek in the coeur calenes dA lenes shipments are proceeding from three mines of the pine creek district of the coeur dalene district these are the nabob silver lead the constitution and the highland surprise surp rise it is reported that the sidney will resume shipments and the marmion side of the douglas is being prepared for shipments according to a report from the district speaking at the luncheon meeting of the mining bureau of the spokane chamber of commerce august 24 frederick NT bradley of san francisco president of the bunker hill and sullivan mining company said people who question the future of mining as a continuing A great industry are too pessimistic many possibilities remain in districts which have been worked over and no doubt there will be new ore bodies discovered in the coeur daleness dA lenes fenes as well as elsewhere hecla mining company reports net profits of in the second quarter of 1925 the gross income was operating expense taxes accrued depreciation estimated during this period the company mined tons of ore from which it produced pounds of lead and ounces of sit silver ver the average price price of lead in that quarter which ended on june 30 was to the pounds and the average price of silver was 69 cents an ounce gold hunter mines company of the coeur calenes dA lenes has obtained control of the atlas mining companas Comp anys properties at a reported consideration of earl greenough mining engineer of wallace and spokane reports that the properties will be developed work is in progress the gold hunter is one of the successful mines of the coeur d abenes with a heavy dividend record the atlas has recently included in its holdings the properties of the carbonate hill idaho giant boulder creek and horseshoe groups A recent dispatch from idaho falls to the idaho state journal 0 at pocatello says the wood river mining company has opened up a vein of milling ore 23 feet wide for a distance of 60 feet in their ketchum properties according to H H scarborough president of the company the strike was made on the foot level of no 3 tunnel the ore has a 12 per cent lead content and tests 8 ounces of silver to the ton this new discovery with the ore already in sight in in no 2 tunnel will warrant the erection of a concentration plant according to officials of the company at present eight men are working on the properties and the directors announce inn ounce that steps have been taken to erect a mill and put the mines mined in the steady producing and shipping class the work is being carried on under the supervision of joseth joseph montgomery former superintendent of the 66 parser and independence f w mines NEVADA prospectors are reported ho have found rich placer ground in in northern elko county about 15 miles south of jarbidge harbidge Jar bidge and near the scene of a placer boom many years ago when the boom having collapsed chinese miners worked some of the gulches with varying success the mines development elopement elop ment company of nevada of which john T T T 1 reid of lovelock is manager has completed installation of a 10 ton cyanide mill at the buffalo valley mine 18 miles south of valmy a station on the southern pacific 15 miles northwest of battle mountain the old quartette mine at searchlight dark clark county is to be reopened by a group of vancouver B C and los angeles men who have secured a lease on the mine from the salt lake owners the mine opened to a depth of 1350 feet has produced approximately in gold copper ore S ford eaton who for some months has been in charge of the hassell monnette interests at gilbert has resigned to resume his old association with diatom products inc of new york and los angeles eaton quit the latter company when attracted by the apparent richness of the gilbert district but was unable to turn down a tempting off offer er at increased salary made by his former employers recently the 50 ton concentrator N which lias ilias been in course of construction at the delano mines in the northeastern part of elko count county y has been completed by the wes johnson company which owns the mines and regular reg yular shipments of concentrates are being made the property is a silver lead proposition pio position and gives promise of developing into a good producer now that the mill is in working order regular shipments of high grade silver and lead ore are now being b i nade made from the silver age mine at lane city three and a half miles west of ely the tunnel has been driven feet and the men are working in a rich vein and every days development brings out richer findings b the wagon road leading up to the mine has just been completed and put in fine shape which has speeded up tip shipments and everything is now cleared for greater production final arrangements for reopening the Bellen helen mill in the bellehelen Bell ehelen district 50 miles east of tonopah To are now being completed and wi F gray expects to receive instructions within a few days to begin active work of preparing the mill for operation it will w ill require a month orso or so to overhaul the machinery and make some necessary alterations and improvements but it is thought the mill willbe will be running on ore not later that than october 1 the bellehelen Bell ehelen merger company will draw on its own ore re serves reserves for part of the tonnage necessary to keep the plant running at capacity be additional ore to make up the complement will bow and other districts drawn from clifford reveille silver S A breckinridge who has a lease and option on eureka the rocco homestake property a at t hamilton came to and to report to receiver recently for some supplies of da dan I 1 i morrison in charge of the property for depositors strike the defunct eureka county bank that a new and rich been ma made de in a tunnel recently of silver and lead ore had just started from the surface in virgin ground breckinridge would at least 25 per cent estimated the new find go in lead the mine is optioned option ed for and if taken over this would net the depositors of the theli bank ank a dividend dividen since d its of failure about five cents ofie on e each ach dollar of their deposits in 1910 the bank has paid 55 cents on the dollar of its deposits in decisions rendered in two cases involving title to borax deposits in southern nevada judge E S farrington ot of the federal district court of nevada has upheld the validity of lode locations on these deposits in the case of frank W stivers against the west end chemical co it was shown that the deposits had been covered both by lode and placer locations and judge Farring tons decision in favor of the defendant and upholding the lode locations was based upon the fact that the borax in the form of occurs in lode form between well defined walls of sedimentary rocks and having a well established strike and dip this is the last one of the suits brought against the west end chemical company and the decision gives the company undisputed title washington claire bowman director of the state department of labor and industries reports that tons of coal was mined and tons of coke was burned in washington the first half of 1925 A total of firms are covered in in the reports these operated a total of days twelve fatalities were reported fifteen to twenty five thousand dollars says F W thorn thom president and general manager b will be e expended by the spokane ochre achre mining company 61 miles north of spokane on a plant to pulverize ochre achre raw materials will be shipped within 60 days mr thorn thom declared that the com banys claims contain the largest deposits of ochre achre in the united states the baker copper company has been incorporated by robert M betts of cornucopia and john C semple of spokane to work acres in the eastern oregon copper belt spokane men interested financially in the company include E F C Van Disel J P mcgoldrich charles hebberd robert insinger henri crommelin Crom mclin frank T post C B sa sanderson george gardner roy lammers and J M fitzpatrick machinery has been placed and the concentrating mill of the chloride queen mining company thirteen miles northeast of colville is in operation according to david E zent secretary treasurer the capacity is 50 tons daily on a 24 hour basis the ore to be dressed contains lead silver si ver and zinc it will be floated and the zinc will be separated from the lead and silver it is expected to feed ore having baving a metallic value of 20 a ton echo valley and big bear districts in stevens county north of spokane are declared by dr C parker herschel explorer geologist and inventor to form one of the |