| Show AROUND THE TH MINES I Mine o n owners rs In the Goodsprings Nevada Ne Ne- Nevada 0 vada district are ure said to 10 be he storing their zinc ore In anticipation of or u a rise In prices the During quarter the Um Alaska Gold Gol 1 Mines company produced about 5 0 tons per working day this being a decrease decrease decrease de de- de- de crease of ot tons per day as compared with the fourth quarter o of 1917 I The decision of the court of appeals In San Francisco In the case of Minerals Minerals Minerals Min Min- Separation SeparationS vs S Butte Superior reversing reversing- Judge Bourquin's decision at Butte nutte Is a serious blow to the pretensions pretensions preten preten- of the plaintiff What appears to be extensive deposits depos depos- its of graphite have been discovered a u short distance bc beyond ond the hot gt springs north of Carson City Nevada Ne and steps have been taken to develop the eleven claims already located The Anaconda Copper Mining 1 company company company com com- pany has surrendered Its lease on the Douglas property at Wallace Ida and amI the mine Is being operated under dl- dl of the Douglas company which is working a n small force of men Smelter settlement of if the last car car- oad of ore shipped from the Nixon- Nixon mine shows that it averaged per cent copper 1080 gold and 1393 silver per ton The net return rom roam the copper alone was per ton Surpassing the expectations of oC tho the Mexican management the first shot n n the time from the 2300 level where the vein Is over oyer nine feet wide in nn Sunday yielded 13 cars cars' averaging says the Virginia Nevada Chronicle During the first sixteen of M 1 iy the Rico Argentine at Rico JUco Colo Coln shipped twenty eight carloads of ore with average values of 5 per cent copper and six ounces silver slIver per ton At that time work at the property was suspended on account of labor troubles Local Interest In the development of the oil possibilities of this section received received re an Impetus again this this week when an oil drilling outfit under contract contract contract con con- tract with the Ule Nevada Salt Basin Dome Oil all company was unloaded at nt the depot depot de lIe- de- de pot says the Fallon Fallen Nevada Ne Stand Stand- ard The output of all potash materials produced and marketed in the United States In 1 1917 1017 as reported by the time manufacturers to the United States geological survey department of the I Interior was short tons or an nn average of per cent of pure pot pot- ash Report of the Nevada Consolidated Copper company for the year ending December 31 l 1917 1017 17 shows net profits before deducting for lor depreciation tion and ore depletion of equivalent to per share against per share earned In 1910 1916 and and 29 the the- year ear previous pre The administration ore control bill bm the senate mines committee was told by Ravenel Macbeth of ot Mackay Idaho representing western producers Is a subterfuge for bureaucratic control of the mining industry The petroleum and chemical industries also would be bo subject to control he lie said The Como Consolidated Mining company company com com- pany operating ten miles mlles south of Dayton Dayton Day Day- ton Nevada In the Como mountains has hns just completed a twenty-day twenty run of ot their mill mm The vice presIdent president president dent of the company estimates that there Is about left in the tailings from this run of about 1400 tons of ore A maximum base price of 33 cents a pound for aluminum In lots of fifty tons or more of the Ingot 98 to 99 00 per cent grade was fixed ed by President Wilson under an agreement between producers and the war industries board The new price Is effective June 1 and will continue until September 1 Five Fl north-end north Comstock mines are arenow arenow now producing ore an unusual occur occur- rence These are the Union Con from the 2300 2400 2500 and 2000 foot toot levels Sierra Nevada from foot 2500 Mexican 1 from foot 2300 level near the tile Union south line and Ophir and Cons Consolidated Consolidated Con Con- s Virginia from the 2000 and 2100 foot levels Lately several companies have been giving attention to the new Slate Creel Creek oil oll oilfield field pronounced to be a second Big Dig Muddy sa says s 's the Kemmerer Wyo Republican There has been beena a small stampede for ground in this district and all of it it has been taken talen The field lies Ues about twenty miles northeast northeast north north- east cast of Kem Kemmerer Splendid prospects for the time doubling of output by the Western Phosphate Mining Manufacturing company operating operating op op- a few miles out of Paris Idaho are reported The vein from which the product is now being mined Is six lx feet wide wille has a dip clip of 50 ro degrees to the west and extends for a distance of feet through the property It carries carries car car- ries an average of 74 per cent trl- trl calcium phosphate Like all other Industries that of or gold has been affected greatly b by the time rise in the cost of material such as ns cyanide etc and by the Increase In wages swages following the tho higher cost of living during the war The agent of the geological survey for California estimates that the cost of ot mining gold was 18 13 per cent higher In ill 1917 than In fa 1910 the cost of working ore rose G j per ler cent In the Transvaal Trans during the game ame period Within tho the next week or ten days teams will commence hauling the initial shipment of ore from flom the property property prop prop- ert erty of or the Zuma ZUlUa Mining Miming company In Inthe Inthe the time eastern end of the Tintic district Difficulty on the part of house and amI senate conferees to reconcile differences differences differ differ- growing out of changes mn made a aby by both hoth houses in the Walsh PiU llan coal oil and mineral mineraI leasing bill Mil owing to determined opposition In the tho senate to the time administration oil oll amend amendment men t was predicted Friday when the fhe house refused to recede from Its amendment and antI sent the measure to conference |
