Show P COMBINED METALS PIOCHE PLANT RECENTLY BADLY DAMAGED BY FIRE over er one hundred dred men were thrown out of employment a the e combined nevada the alst 1st metals mine at pioche on by a fire which destroyed st royed all the buildings at the main shaft and no badly damaged the hoist air compressor and other ma chinery fire ery the rh mine uses a steam hoist with oil for fuel the the u bro droke ke out back of the boiler room and spread rapidly to A com plant machine shop and change room boorn the pl alga mated pioche mill just below the combined metals 4 is idle was slightly damaged the fire did not 1 get 1 into 1 0 the shaft but the head frame was badly charred company corn the combined bained metals company with the national lead stockton owns a selective flotation mill at bauer near akton utah and has been shipping tons per day of complex ore to that plant over the union pacific railroad the ore runs high in iron and contains values in gold silver lead and zinc the mill employs the christensen selective flotation process with success the plant is owned by the combined metals reduction company and treats some custom ore but relies principally u upon pon the product of tiie the combined metals mine damage by the fire is estimated at with some insurance the company will start at once to clear away the debris and will install a new and modern plant in the meantime it may be possible to get out a limited tonnage of ore through the old greenwood greenwoo d shaft combined metals purchased the panaca group of six claims from the amalgamated abated pioche mines ac smelter corporation in 1917 E H snyder of this city is president and manager |