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Show ! AROUND THE MINES i . j Low prices for lead and zinc have made operation of the Yellow I'ine mine, tioodsprings district in Nevada, unprofitable and the mine and mill was closed Pecember 1 until metal prices recover. Another rich shoot has been encountered encoun-tered in the Bristol mine, situated near I'ioche, Nov. This shoot has been encountered en-countered on the 5U0 level, near the intersection of the May Day fissure with a north-south vein. Officers of the Timic Standard announce an-nounce that the work of sinking another deep shaft, the third, for the Tiutic Standard Mining company, will he taken up during the coming month and that the big undertaking will be carried along as rapidly as possible, perhaps under contract. Utah mine operators at a conference held at Salt Lake, December 14, one of a series of meetings held to consider con-sider problems vital to the industry, approved a resolution which recommended recom-mended that the wages of operatives in silver-lead mines be cut January 1 75 cents, in copper mines, $1. Announcement was made, at the Mexican customs house in ' Agua I'rieta, Sonora. that instructions have been received from Mexico to lift export ex-port duties on all copper ore passing from Mexico into the United States until the price of copper on the New York market is above 15 cents. A party of seven husky Alaska mining men arrived at Lewiston, Mont., recently, prepared to go into the Mosby oil field and take a hand in the oil development. They say there are about a hundred other Alaskan?, at Seattle who are preparing to come in, the oil game appealing very strongly to them. Keports from the Leadville mine, about forty-five miles from Oerlach, Nov., say the mine has been on fin.1 for several days. A f if ty-g-illon drum of gasoline exploded and set fire to the station timbers. The men underground under-ground did not get out of the winze for several hours, but there was no loss of life. The Silver Frince Consolidated Mining & Smelting company, owners of the Mount Irish mines in the I'ahranagat lake mining district, near Hiko. Lincoln county, Nevada, are developing de-veloping a large tonnage of silver-lead copper ore on their property and expect ex-pect tn erect a mill at Hiko in the vnr future. The complete collapse in silver v-i,ues and in lead prices both have neon practically halved since the early months of the year make it extremely doubtful whether the United States Smelting will be able to show other than a deficit from operations the Second half year, says the Boston News Bureau. The annual prospectors' short course ofhTed by the University of Nevada will open January IT. Courses in prospecting metallurgy, mineralogy, geology, direct and alternating current nicchinery, chemistry, hygiene ami sanitation, mine lescu" and first aid mining laws, surveying and gas engines will be given. The Silver State Chemical com-p;..ny com-p;..ny has begun construction of its nroposed plant at Winnemucea. New It is planned to erect buildings for an ore leaching plant, and later to build lime kilns anil acid plants. The leach-ir-g plant is to have a capacity of thirty-five tons a day and is for the reduction of silver-lead and zinc ores. interest in the prospective oil area In (larfieid county. Mont., around Calf creek, is spreading, and leases are being eagerly sought. At Sand Springs the Carfield Development company has been formed and a deal has been closed up with the Sinclair company under which the latter will put down a test well ten miles south" of Jordan c.ii Sand creek. The well on the Alvy Dixon farm. . which has been yielding some oil, but which was sunk to a lower sand, is reported lo have come in strong, with a flow- of 1000 barrels daily, to be added to the supply from the Bock creek field in Wyoming. This section adjoines that on which the greater number of wells have been drilled, aud s well within the proved area. The mines of the Pahranagat lake district in Nevada were discovered In isii,") and for eight years were very active, being credited with production of about !? 100.000. Thb. production was principally ill silver. Since that early period of activity little or no mining has been done and a large indicated tonnage of milling ore remains id place on a number of the properties. Cars loaded with ore, the value of which range from ?500 to $1000 a car, are being steadily shinned from a forty-two-year-old mine that the tiiisgen-heiins tiiisgen-heiins can point to as to (lie source of the vast wealth that is behind the American Smelling & liefiiiing company. com-pany. The old A. Y. and Minnie properly prop-erly in lower California gulch at Lead-villi1, Lead-villi1, Colo.. Is the exception that proves the rule that the average life of a mine is twenty years. The Con. Virginia Mining Co. reports re-ports a largely increased ore production produc-tion for the past week, the mill shipments ship-ments Including T1J tons averaging ?21.:!1 per ton. and having a gross value in excess of Slo.OOO, says the Virginia (Nov.) Chronicle. The most valuable of the Industrial metals in (lie world today are those comprising what Is known as ihe platinum plati-num group. These metals, all of which in" allied with platinum in their chemical chemi-cal ami physical properties, nre assool- Hied principally in Kussia and In th I republic of ( 'olomhia. j |
