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Show AdTVITY IH PiOGHE DISTRICT lESi i Camp Taking on New Life Due to Recent Advance in Price of Silver. Plans Being Made to Work Over Dumps on Many of Properties. Activity in the Pioche district of Nevada is pronounced foiluwiiig tho in-crfase in-crfase in the price of silver. The old camp, which ninny thought had seen its .best days, has taken oil n'-w life recently, re-cently, say local mining men. Plans are being made to work over many of tl old (uinp3. Interesting developments are expected expect-ed this summer on the properties of the Prince Consolidated Mining and Smelting Smelt-ing company. The main workings in tho Davidson section of the properties, state officials of tho company, seem to indicate that the one channel follows to the southeast the Prince system of fissures, which were undoubtedly the source of the mmoralization of tho ore bcift. The channel varies in width. The 20-foot bed has been found iri places 600 feet wide, but an averago of 200 feet is considered, conservative. Formation Described. The bed of ore developed in the Davidson section is in this channel, but is separate and distinct from those found in the Prince section. It overlies over-lies the Prince beds but is eroded from the surface on the Prince section. This is accounted for by a system of north-south north-south and east-west faults, which have thrown the Davidson claim and the southern portion of the California claim lower geographically than the balance bal-ance of the group, which has preserved the Davidson bed from erosion. The ore in the Davidson bod was proved so extensive and of such uniformly uni-formly high grade that development has been confined to it. Larger tonnages are already developed for futuro extraction ex-traction and development is .being carried car-ried on so future operations can be conducted for a long period of time. May Build Mil. Combined Metal, under the management manage-ment of E. II. Snyder, with the high price of silver, is beginning to look upward. up-ward. Estimates made by Mr. Snyder put the proven tonnage of bedded ore at 150,000 tons. This ore is of a refractory re-fractory character, and to be worked profitably would need to be milled on the property. A recommendation has been made by Mr. Snyder to the directors direc-tors that the company, build a plant for treating this ore. Calculations based on costs and extraction show a recoverable recov-erable value on present low metal prices (silver figured at the price set by the government) of $23 per ton. The total cost of milling and mining the ore is estimated to be $14.50, which would leave, states Mr. Snyder, a profit of $8.50. The increase in the value of silver means much to producers in this part of Nevada, Every cent in the increase in-crease of the price of silver, above a dollar an ounce, says Mr. Snyder, adds $12,000 to the value of the ore blocked out on the Combined Metals. Othej producers pro-ducers in this part of the country estimate esti-mate that their gain will be as much or greater. Resumption Expected. The Pioche-Eri6tol is planning to begin be-gin operations again, say officials of the company. A shaft is being sunk to tap ore, bodies of considerable value that are believed to exist on this property. prop-erty. Black Metals is shipping ore regularly regular-ly at the rate of 200 tons every two or three days. Considerable interest is being taken in the Stindt-Donohue lease on the Volcano Vol-cano claim. This lease was recently sold to Seetson and Gillette, for $75,-000. $75,-000. From workings that have not gone more than forty feet below the surface, the leasers state, ore valued at $40,000 has been taken out. Pitts & Christian, who are working a lease adjoining ad-joining tho above lease, are said to have encountered encouraging conditions. condi-tions. 1 |