Show in nearby states ARIZONA the boulder tungsten mining company T E kelso dragoon TW has sold s1 sa a halfton half ton lot of tungsten ten concentrates to B S wilson of tucson this is the initial production for the coy company therill the mm of the katherine gold mining company R L dimmick kinsman kingman has made a new high tonnage record recently tons of ore were sent through the mill in one day he arizona commercial mining company has withdrawn its suit against the international smelting smelling Sm elting company for conversion of ore mined by the iron cap copper company this suit arose out of the old apex mine case under lease and bond the yellow pine mine owned by walter meyers and W E frost has been taken over by J C mccabe men have been put to work on the property and as soon as openings can be made the force will be added to the mines are in the northerly end of the walapai mountains near the head of grant mcgeary wash in which v aich locality there are many veins carrying values in gold silver lead and zinc kingman miner 14 J Y a well known colorado mining man has taken over for himself and associates the walkover group of mines mines in the cottonwood district and is expected to have operations under way early next week says the kingman miner mr is in los ankeles Ans reles getting matters shaped up for the starting of operations while men are at work re grading the road from hackberry to the camp p putting ut tin camp buildings in shape for occupancy and pre preparing oaring fa for r a large crew to be co comfortably accommodated the sale ns as arranged through the davis engineering co company mcany of kin kinman kingman man the owners being john risum and L W johnson with a blast that jarred the country for miles around a hu hundred adred thousand pounds of powder were exploded at the shaft of the united verde C Compi ompa nys mine near terome on the ad but the blast did not dam damage a the town of jerome located abed less than a mile from froin the w workings or kings it was carefully of enabling steam shovels to planned for the purpose remo remove ve the entire top of the th mine down to a depth i of that started many years ago feet in order to eliminate a fire fire presumably caused by a other efforts to quench the aresu have hav e been in sulphide ores alonga fracture zone slippage stored in two tunnels so close unavailing the powder was to the fire s that in the fahrenheit firing chambers it is is e estimated sti the mated thermometer that the decrees stood at charge loosened cubic yards of rock and ores COLORADO purchased the holcombe ambe building 0 B willmarth has which sto store re georgetown kneisel Ander andersons ot opposite Dosite for the kelso national mining he is remodeling for a an n office company gold belt mine above at the steadily work is progressing progress il ig taken out most of the silver plume and some ore is being is in the form of this property work at the present tim time e in prospecting a and nd development hudson bay can canada ada has from of ore another shipment company a carload ore Sarn bamping ping boulder the been received by having reached boulder a iron s sulphide ore of heavy oconnor manager of the timothy few days ago says in canoes the ore miles sampler after being sh shipped dipped E i was packed by animals to the railroad the ore will go to the complex metals extraction company denver after sampling is completed according to the boulder miner the east butte mill at silver plume is pounding away steadily turning out a heavy tonnage of lead and zinc concentrates cen the ore now going to the millis considerably richer than ordinary carrying fine values in silver as well as big percentages in lead and zinc at a recent meeting of the peerless consolidated copper company denver james H oliver was reelected re elected president of the board and E W spencer was elected secretary this company owns property near hillside custer county and expects to erect a mill and concentrator there this spring tantalum has been found in large quantities on the peerless property the iowa tiger group of mines in the southeastern part of the silver lake basin has been leased to denver parties who will start development work in the spring As soon as sufficient ore is blocked out the mill will be remodeled to make a good saving of values in years gone by the iowa tiger group was one of the foremost shippers and yielded excellent profits to the owners silverton standard C J brinkmeier of marble recently while prospecting on sheep mountain discovered mineral bearing rock beneath the roots of a spruce stump on further investigation a vein of gold bearing ore was exposed a sample of which was sent to denver for test and returns show 47 oz gold and 30 oz silver approximately to the ton in value the discovery is causing a lot of excitement in the northern part of the county and prospectors from the vicinity of the crystal river valley are flocking to the vicinity of sheep mountain to locate claims the thirty second annual report of the portland gold mining company of cripple creek has recently been issued the company has paid over eleven and one half million dollars in dividends on december 31 1925 it had in its treasury irving howbert president of the company says that is gratifying considering the unusual amount of expensive development work done during the year the financial statement places total production at plant operation making the gross profits general expense band and inventory adjustments leaving the net profits for the year one of the greatest lead silver ore discoveries in the history of hinsdale county has just been made in the property of the empire chief mining company according to news from lake city fred H nye superintend et in charge 01 of operations is authority for the statement that this new strike was made in the no 4 tunnel where development work is now being pushed superintendent nye has been familiar with mining development in the lake city section for many years past and his statement that this new discovery is is one of the best in the history of the county is important por tant the new ore discovery is estimated to extend from feet to feet in length and so far as opened shows a width of about 3 feet the J G dark clark several tungsten interests recently consolidated soli dated as the tungsten production company inc is assuming proportions of first magnitude entering the market for the first time since the revival of mining last may tile the properties are now shipping about per month at fi first all output came from one in which a large body of ore was found this condition has rapidly changed and there are now three well developed ore bodies producing and three others which are yielding considerable ore the man a gement anticipates that all ail these sources of orewell ore will be pro heavily bythe by the middle of april which will assuredly double the present tonnage of finished tungsten concentrate boulder miner A huge improvement and development program which will entail the expenditure of at least has been started at the local plant of the american smelting smelling Sm elting refining company at durango the work of clearing ground and tearing down of buildings in order to make room for the installation of new machinery is already under way on the heels of the announcement of the smelter improvement comes the report considered authentic that a large mining syndicate backed by capitalists capitalist of pennsylvania and massachusetts chu is making ready to take over the properties in the may day section it is understood that negotiations for the transfer of the may day idaho jumbo neglected incas and several other properties together with their holdings have practically been completed IDAHO stringers of high grade silver lead ore are reported in t the he face of the american lead property on the west fork of big creek where development work has progressed steadily during the last year 0 E kirkpatrick of the gold dust mines at leesburg displayed a chunk of ore in salmon city recently which showed both native gold and native silver but that character of ore is said to be limited to a small body of the big ledge reports from the eldorado mine east of kellogg are to the effect that commercial ore has been encountered in a drift on the vein showing a width of 14 feet with a lime formation along the hanging wall side of the ledge assays essays from the vein are said to show values of 2 per cent lead 10 ounces of silver and 5 in gold zinc bearing ore ina in a body 16 feet wide has been developed at a depth of feet below the upper tunnel and feet from the surface in the liberal king property of pine creek according to reports from wallace it has been followed by drift for 65 feet and a shipment will be made on the completion of a wagon road to beeler a mile prospectors and claim holders in all parts of the coeur dalene district are preparing to get into the hills the mild winter and light snow fall making it if easy to get an early start on operations the season promises to be the best in twenty years in the coeur calenes dA lenes for prospecting and prospect development according to reports received from that section ben thomas an experienced man of the coeur calenes dA lenes has been appointed superintendent of the lincoln mining company and has taken charge of the property west of wallace fifteen men are at work the company has improved its mill and added notation flotation cells giving the plant a capacity of 60 tons a day mr thomas expects soon to add a second shift to the mill and reports that there is ample ore to keep two shifts employed I 1 permission to sell sel I 1 in utah shares of stock at 50 cents a share shares at 75 cents a share and shares at 1 a share was granted the idaho porphyry copper mining company of lemhi leahi county idaho by the utah state securities commission the company asked to sell shares at 1 each par value of the stock is 25 cents per share and permission was granted to pay a commission of not to exceed 20 per cent development operations in the north bunker hill property in wardner are reported going ahead with encourage ing results the crosscut from the drumm tunnel level to cut the vein exposed on the shuck tunnel level whre a good showing of chloride ore was made is about to reach its objective at an added depth of over feet when this vein is cut a drift will carry the work to a point beneath the upper level workings where a body of commercial ore is expected all officers and directors of the tamarack and custer consolidated mining company were reelected elected re at the annual meeting held at wallace recently A surplus of lor for the year was reported after deductions for exploration and development work officers are jerome J day president treasurer and general manager A P ramstedt vice president harry L day secretary and P J maggy assistant secretary frank M rothrock edward boyd E H knight and R M walker complete the board no announcement was made as to net profits or dividends an addition of feet will be made to the shaft of the sunshine mining company operating on big creek near kellogg according to word received from john saw bidge managing director the shaft has a depth of feet from the price tunnel which attains a depth of several hundred feet the company has been encouraged to proceed by a steady improvement in its two veins as depth was attained on them and by indications that they join at the foot depth sinking is to be started after the installation afan of an electric hoist which has bas been ordered C C samuels formerly of the success mining company and recently of los angeles has been appointed manager NEVADA fourteen placer claims on new york creek a small tributary of leonard creek in northwestern humboldt county north of the black rock desert have been sold by Le leemurry lee curry eCurry and arthur alley to jesse matheson of san francisco it is reported that dredges will be used in working the placer deposits which are said to be rich in gold james G maltman was in carson from silver city a few days ago with his usual quota of bullion from the spearhead gold old mining company reorganized of which he is the superintendent perin several changes have been made in the personnel of the company which leaves it mainly in the hands of western people and much is expected from the property it is reported that work has been suspended in the long crosscut which the belmont sent out from the 1500 level for prospecting purposes and that the pumps on that level of its have been pulled the company is expending most efforts at present on its new arizona mine mine and the property under development at hamilton amilton PI tonopah mining reporter of 50 horse power electric hoist with the installation a in anthe the jan lan hoisting plant which supersedes the old gasoline levels is to be resumed and the me uary mine work on the lower fro from 25 to about 40 tons per increased m of ore is to be of ot of f car daily an average 0 one day since early in january the ore high grade rock has been sent out from the prope property arty gold according to th the e boia running about per ton in gold field tribune will start within the next three weeks drilling for coal company the darms coal mining company on the ground owned by three miles from and the western coal mines corporation this has been times coaldale coraldale Coal dale announces the tonopah the u several months but e a mooted proposition for mr darms bou b ait two ing was assured yesterday outfits when from the tonopah mining large diamond drilling general i lanager nager na H A johnson company represented by included 2500 W teer feet the sale was for cash and the equipment of casing and drill rods and 53 carats barats of black diamonds that are quoted in in san francisco at 60 to per carrat the investment represents an outlay of 2800 mr H A darms barms expects to arrive with a truck in the course of two weeks to make delivery and remove the equipment to the mine at coaldale coraldale Coal dale according to reports the tonopah belmont development company will build a pilot mill at hamilton west of ely to conduct tests on the ore that the company is developing in the lead belt west of treasure hill reports of superintendent charles mayotte show that the property is opening ening up in a gratifying manner and that there is already developed sufficient ore to justify the construction of a small mill construction is to begin just as soon as the condition of the roads will permit trucking operations of the nevada consolidated copper company at ely are detailed as follows by general manager C B lakenan in his recent report nevada consolidated has been stripping heavy yardage for the past few years and has several years of ore stripped at the present time operations will of course continue as usual except the removal of capping which will be somewhat reduced from this time on the five compartment wedge shaft is being sunk five feet per day and this work will in the course of three or four months call for substantially increased underground der ground crews at the present time thirty five men are employed underground and at the surface the shaft of the wedge will be sunk to the foot point where a station will be cut and drifts run out into deep level ore the present hoist installation is capable of handling tons of ore per day and as soon as this tonnage is is reached a large hoist of tons per day capacity with heavy steel head frame will be installed |