| Show I I AROUND THE MINES I Ida Ida-I Well-founded Well reports in Bu Burke ke Idaho Idaho Ida Ida- ho exist to the thc effect that the famous I Marsh Federal dispute over th the I Mussel Hussel claim leased by the Marsh Marshand Marshand and owned by the Federal had been settled After several days of vexatious deIn delay delay de de- In lay at the Pa Paymaster master property of North Tintic all the connections have lulYe been made and the recently Installed installed In In- stalled hoisting engine Is ready for op op- op- op The mill of the Wyoming Mining and Milling Billing company compan which is operating operatIng operating ing at Camp Taylor Talor Is accomplishing excellent re results according to a report rep re- re port p rt from m Ely Nev No Dump ore Is being be be- ing lug treated The labor situation at Butte Is la somewhat at better Nevertheless production production pro pro- Is heln being curtailed with regard to the condition of the metal market Copp Copper r output has been cut down to 10 40 per cent The north drift from the CO GO feet below the 2 foot 2150 foot 0 level of the Ule Con Virginia Is making good progress In ore that averages better than per ton and considerable of or It being much richer Secret extraction of ore estimated at tons of a value of ot is charged against the Alta Consolidated Mining company in a suit to recover I Instituted at Salt Lake Lale b by the Alta Prince Mining company The Tile first claim located In the Ophir district In Utah was the SIl In 1870 From 1870 to the present Ophir has been a steady producer The district district district dis dis- is credited with a gross production production production tion of from to With a monthly output of ot electrolytic tic zinc Increasing to about pounds the Anaconda Copper Mining company has expanded this tills department department depart depart- ment went of Its business to where it compares compares compares com com- pares favorably with the present rate of copper production From April to June 30 1920 Inclusive Inclusive inclusive sive flasks of quicksilver of sev sev- ent five enty-five five pounds net was produced Inthe in inthe inthe the United States Only thirteen minds were reported as productive productive eight eight in California one In Nevada one in Oregon Oregon Oregon Ore Ore- gon and three In Texas Development work at the Big Dig Cottonwood Cottonwood Cottonwood Cot- Cot Coalition Mines company is approaching a most Important and interesting interesting in in- stage according to the The rhe main working audit now In the formation over feet is rapidly nearing its objective The that was recently started near the face tace of the foot level of the Eureka Croesus on a n fissure below below below be be- low the old 1 found ore at a depth of two twenty-two feet and the entire bottom of the was Inore in inore inore ore of high grade at last reports Stocks of copper on January 1 1920 1020 were pounds On September Septem Septem- ber 1 total stocks in this country were pounds or pounds reduction in stocks from January January January Jan Jan- uary 1 fl figures ures Total sales In September September September Sep Sep- were about pounds The action of the Reno Chamber of ot Commerce In establishing a Mining tUning Information Information In In- formation bureau working on a statewIde statewide statewide state state- wide basis meets a demand of long longstanding longstanding longstanding standing and should prove a most Important Important important Im Im- im- im factor In developing many of f the latent mineral resources of Ne Ne- vada Operations of interest are being carried on by the Comstock Develop Development ment Co on its claims located west of Virginia City Nev on Mt Davidson David David- son cleaning out the lower tunnel now being under way preparatory to connecting connecting connecting con con- with the Kennedy tu tunnel nel to the west It is said that American mining companies companies companies com com- with an aggregate production of approximately tons of ore per annum will be affected by the outcome of the prosecution by the federal federal fed fed- eral oral trade commission of Minerals l Separation Ltd and Its subsidiaries and agents Development of ot the little-known little minerals and metals of Nevada is contemplated contemplated contemplated con con- by the Reno C Chamber of ot Commerce through a recently established bureau of mining information The bureau purposes to bring together buyers of these minerals and owners of ot deposits Fifty tons of at sorted ore was sent to Utah during the past week from the Eureka Prince mine at nt Eureka New Nev and the daily dally production of this class Is as usual Conditions in the mine are similar to those of the past months mouths with a 0 gradual addition to the large reserves of ore for tor mill treat treat- ment mente An important step In metallurgy has been accomplished by the Trail Consolidated Consolidated Con Con- company at Trail British l Columbia An extremely complex leau- leau zInc Iron ore is being successfully treated by a n combined oil all flotation and a table concentration process A lead concentrate an iron product used in the smelting of ot the lead and anda a zinc concentrate which Is refined by bythe bythe bythe the electrolytic process Purchase of ot the Gold Hill nIll group of ot often often otten ten claims located twenty five miles southeast of ot Goldfield by the Goldfield Goldfield Gold Gold- field Development company has been officially announced The Gold Hill Hillis is traversed by a huge gold bearing vein seventeen to forty feet wide nde de The Thc decline in the tho price of silver from an average of an ounce for forthe forthe forthe the first five months of ot the year to between 93 ro and 94 01 cents for the succeeding succeeding suc sue deeding three months month put a decided J crimp in earnings of ot United States Smelting for the period from June to I August Inclusive |
