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Show Nevada Makes Large Gam in Metal Output or 1915 Production of Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead and Zmc, Valued at $34,566,000, an Increase of Nearly 18 Per Cent Compared to 1914. THE Lnlted States geological sur vey reports the value of the 1915 output of gold s er copper lead and zinc from Ne ada m nes as approx mately $ 4 066 000 This represents an Increase of near ly IS per cent over the output of 191 when me als valued at S'9 300 842 were produced. These estima es bj C Heikes of the Sa t Lake Cltj office of he survey ndlcate a ma ked ncrease in z nc outpu and increase in lead and copper 3 led as con pared ulth 914 The copper product on howe e was be ow that of 913 when e ada had a re o d ou put of o er 9 000 000 1 ounds There was a h nc ease the feo d p oduct on b a decrease n s er arge v n he Tonopah d trict where the o tput was affected by the dec eased p ce of silver The product on of sod as va ued at about $11 968 00U an ncrease of 4 per cent o e the production of 1914 The greater part of he go d came from s ltceous ores milled and about 0 per cent of he tota carne from Tonopah The Go dfle d Conso dated ea ed over 3S6 000 ons of ore but produced omewhat le s go d than n 1914 Other n lnes n the d s rlct howe er went to n ake up this defi enc for mportant tonnages came from the Jumbo Ex ension which was shipping about 1500 o s per month the ear part of the jear and s bsequently nearl doub ed this o tput The Atlanta and Florence Go dfle d a so sh pped con s derab e go d ore Go d e d d strict pro duced app o imate 40 pe cent of the otal god of he sta e The Nevada Won der and Nevada H Us propert es In Churchill county contributed though less than In 1914 The output from Round Mounta n n iye county was a so some what less due to the nstallat on of a pipe line for placer operations Large Gold Output There was a great nc ease however In the Seven T oughs dlstr ct where the Seven Troughs Coal tlon has added con s derably to the go d production The National mine n Hu bo dt county m c eased its ou p t but noth ng was pub I shed concerning the property Though the plant of the A rora m ne was clo ed part of the jear for altera ions to tne m U the b on shipments were far in advance of those n 1114 The Pittsburg Silver Peak company at B air jNev was treating nearly 4000 tons of ore per month, and the mines at Rochester produced shipping ore and bul ion which contained some gold though pr nc pally s ver The output of go d from e Tonopah d str ct decreased from 1 8 13 o ounces in 1914 to about 113 000 ounces n 191o giving a production of over $2 33o 000 In gold though the d strict is primarily as er camp In Clark county at the Quartette p operty ore was reated at the Cyrus Nob e mill as former y and a new cyanide plant was reported operat ng at the Colo rado jNevada mine In E ko county the Bluster mill at Jarbldge and the Pex m 11 at Gold Circle were active There was much activity at the new camp of Wll lard, nine miles northeast of Lovelocks. "Various le sees, were shipping- gold ore In the Manhattan district of Nye county the B g Pine mine was the principal pro ducer the mm of which was treating 150 tons per day by amalgamation the latter part of the year Four other mills were operated to smaller extent In the dls trict, the Whitman & Kane, Manhattan Milling &- Ore eompany the Associated rnfil and the War Eagle mill uCopper Output Heavj The silver production from jNevada mines decreased from IS 4a5 491 ounces in 1914 to about 14 4 8 000 ounces In 1915 .The- decrease was at Tonopah, where the mines were affected dje the low price of silver At the Comstock district or Storey county the production was also decreased and the idleness of the Mason Valley copper cop-per smelter to a small extent lessened the silver output. The greatest silver pro ducers in the state were the Tonopah Belmont Tonopah Mining company 'I'd nopah Extension, Jim Butler and West End, at Tonopah, Nevada Wonder and Nevada Hills in Churchill county and tie Rochester district in Humboldt county The mines in the last named district were active but particularly so after the ad vent of the Nevada short Line railroad The 100 ton cyanide custom mln was op erated producing gold and silver bullion and a small mill was active on the Lin coin Hill property There was consldera We activity in the Pand district of Mln eral county where unusually rich ore was shipped from the Last Hope Gold Pen Queen Regent and Eagle properties In the camp of Belmont. In Nye county a 200 ton mill using flotation was being constructed to treat dump ore containing silver Increase in Zinc The mine production of copper'increased from 60 986 4o0 pounds In 1914 to about 67 480,000 pounds in 1915 an Increase of 10 6 per cent The total value of the out put, on account of the high average price in 191s Increased from $8 111198 to ap proximately $11 708 000 As the Mason Valley smelter was Id e during the year the greater part of the output came from White Pine county where the Nevada Consolidated was particularly active toward to-ward the end of the year on account of the price of copper which increased to nearly 20 cents a pound During the first three quarters of the year 2,251 367 tonB of ore were milled from this prop ertv and over 44 000 000 pounds of copper produced The rate for the last quarter was greatly Increased Ore from the C roux was also ml led and smelted at the Nevada Consolidated plant Copper ore was also shipped from the Go dfleld district Ore was shipped from the Ne ada Douglas the a ter pa t of the year and a 'o0 ton leach ng p an completed for he reatment of ov, ade ore The ead product on of e ada m nes ncreased from S09 boo pou ds n 1914 ' to about 14 782 000 po nds n lHo an nc ease of o er 1 per en Th s out put howe e is not as g eat as ha. of 1913 hen over 16 OOn 000 pounds we e produced There was great ac ty n the Tel ow P e d h r ct of Clark county w he e ead z nc o o s separa ed nto lead and z nc products be e al dry concen ra ng m s we e added during the year A a ge po -t on of he outp came f om L n o n county he e he Prince Con no da ed as eported sh pp ng at t e rate of 12 000 ons pe mon h n O to er 4 g eat ncrease nea y b2 per cent was made n t e n ne ou pu of z n n Ne ada f on 1 I81 32 po nds of recov erable s.pe er n 1014 o over 1 000 00 pounds of the me a n 1915 As the price of the metal was abnorma h gh In 1915 he value of the ou put Increased from I $661 992 to about ?2 993 000 in 1915 T e Tel ow P ne d strict of C ark county was I by far he arges producer b t the Amalgamated Pioche property in Linco n coun j made mpor ant sh pments and e Po a Star property ana Arthur z nc m ne bot n E ko county contributed Sma 1 h ments of z nc ore were a so made f om 1 3 In W hi e Pine county and f om M ne a in E reka count3 The atter pa t of t e sear the Te ow Pine m ne had nc eased ts sh pn ents to the rate of loOO t ns per mon h he PotosI P opertv o abou 800 tons per month and there was g ea at! Itj n the other z nc propert es ntedsrit. The Green Monste was an mpor an sh pper at the close of the vea The m n d v dend pa er of he state were Ne ada Conso dated Go dfle d Con solldatei' Tonopah Mining Tonopah Be mont Tonopah Extens o J mbo E en s on J m But er Nevada Wonder Se en T oughs Coal t on and West Fnd To De cen ber 1 1915 the total in di idends was o er S6 000 000 |