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Show MINING MISCELLANY eriP, Nuggets of News from County Camps & JPiV Weekly Summary of Mineral Development s & t It is the desire or the NEWS to afford its readers the latest and most f A reliable information as to mining operationsin BeaverCounty. To this jR B end, mininfr men are invited and urped to communicate any information along thia line that may. from time to time, come to their notice. On Vacation Superintendent MeMullen of the Beaver Copper, is taking a needed rest. A Mr. Christiansen of Eureka is in temporary charge of the mine operations. oper-ations. Laid Off by Illness Superintendent Smith of the Beaver Lake Metals, is compelled by serious illness, to lay off for a time. Mr. Smith, who is suffering from severe stomach trouble, was brought in from the mins last Sunday, for treatment at bis home. . Empire Shipping The Empire, located next to the Cedar-Talieman, has already shipped several cars of ore from the recent strike. The ore carries 10?o copper, 409b lead and five or six ounces of silver. J. C. and J. F. Champion, A. L. Dotson and Horace Carter, all of MinerBVille, are the lessees. Beaver County Metals According to a report just issued by the U.S Geological Survey, Beaver County, in 1915, stood sixth in the producing counties, in point of total valuation of production, $1, 004, 333; third in zinc production, 2,989,811 pounds ; sixth in lead, 8,689,415 pounds, sixth in copper, 428,916 pounds; seventh in silver, 279,694 ounces; eighth in gold, 630.23 ounces: sixth in quantity ore treated, 63,814 short, tons; fourth in number of producing mines, 23. Valuable Hap Superintendent Bachtell of the Nevada Nev-ada Ready Pay Mining Company, has presented the NEWS with a colored map of the San' Francisco Mining District, Dis-trict, in which the Ready Pay iB located. The map will be framed and, together with similar maps of other districts, will be hung in the "Miners Corner" of the NEWS building, now almost completed. TheNEWSdesiieB maps of all the various mining districts for the same purpose, also samples of ores from the various mines. Crosscutting at Crater Foreman Clyde of the Old Crater mine, was in town Wednesday, having the final dressing of his hand attended to by a local physician. It will be remembered by NEWS readers that on July 28th, Mr. Clyde had the misfortune mis-fortune to have the small finger of his right hand mashed in the compressor, making amputation necessary. Mr. Clyde states that things are going on swimmingly at the Old Crater. The shaft is now down one hundred feet and they are about to crosscut to the west. They are getting some good ore and expect to make a shipment soon. Managing director Merriman camo down from Salt Lake yesterday and is expected to visit the Crater today. Testing Talisman Ores Good average combination lead-zinc ores from the Cedar-Talisman of Beaver County are now being given a thorough thor-ough testing at the metallurgical de partment of the University of Utah, where the federal government is working work-ing in connection with state officials, says the Herald-Republican. Id is an easy matter to make high recoveries of the lead values in the ores, said H. S. Joseph managing director, but what he is now after is saving as much as possible of the valuable zinc content tif the ore. This he expects to accomplish accom-plish in a short time. This week the Talisman mine shipped another carload of its lead ore. This grade brings about $6t)0 to $900 a car, and is coming mostly from the 800 and 900 foot levels. Another caris about ready for shipment. Mr. Joseph says the reports from the mine are that it is in excellent shape. Beaver Copper Gets Ore General Manager Louis Merriman of the Beaver Copper mine, spent Sunday at the mines, inspecting this and other properties of which he is Managing Director. While at the Beaver Copper, an important strike of copper ore was made and samples have already been sent in for assay. It is estimated that the body is about two feet in width and the ore, at the outset, 3eems to show from 6h to 10 copper. The main shaft was sunk on the fissure to a depth of 140 feet, considerable ore being tapped. From this main shaft, at the 100 foot level, a drift was made to the north to intersect the main ore-bearing ore-bearing fls&ure, which was encountered encoun-tered in less than fifteen feetof crosscutting, cross-cutting, but the drift was continued northward for about seventy-five feet, when a two-foot vein of ore was struck. It is believed to be a continuation of the same ore body encounterd in the higher workings and officials sxpectto continue driving in this direction for at least forty feet. The force of men has been increased by three and work will be ruBhed. Mr. Merriman returned to Rait Lake Monday morning. 1 UAf. I, cinua Luim The Flag and the Mini THE OLD FLAG WILL BE SAFE IN HIS HANDS |