OCR Text |
Show AROUND THE MINES Careful investigation lias led Japan to clnitn to be the rk-hesr country iu the world iu rudiuni bearing wafers. The L'niteil Slates Mining company is now the heaviest shipper of the underground mines in the Hiir-ihniu district, the daily output, being more than otKI Ions. Much development work is also being done. W illi the receipt of a new string of drilling tools by the management of i he I'.ig Six (HI company, which is drilling a test oil well on the north side of the Grand river, near Moab, Ctah, work has been resumed. Some of the machinery already placed in the new mill at the Eureka Holly, at Eureka, Nov., was tried out last week and found to work satisfactorily. satisfac-torily. The power for this machinery is furnished from the big air compressor compres-sor at the (mine plant. Xine men registered for the mining course on the opening day at the University Uni-versity of Nevada, at Keno, and it is expected that before the short course is many days old the number will be greatly increased. Practically all of those, registering are practical mining men. Among mining men there has been considerable interest in regard to the next congress's attitude toward the Pittnian act which has pegged tne price of domestic silver at $1 per ounce until the uncial sold to Great British during the war has been replaced re-placed in the treasury. The Anaconda Copper Mining com-j com-j liny expects to lie shipping fertilizer t-"om its Soda Springs, Idaho, holdings early in the spring, according to Information In-formation from that district. The crude phosphate rock will be shipped to several other refining plants besides be-sides their own at Anaconda, Mont. For the first time, so far as the nuniory of the oldest miner can recall, the mine of the Tonopah Belmont company com-pany remained closed over Sunday. This action was due to the lU'cumula-tion lU'cumula-tion of ore congesting the big mill which is unable to keep the bins clear wiih its cupacity flow of ofiO tons dally. I'ioche miners are optimistic. Despite the many handicaps placed upon the industry, mining men of the southern Nevada camp are confident that within the next ninety days properties- whose activity has been but little diminished in tlie past few months since the drop in the price of the metals will again be producing at capacity. In addition to boasting the leading silver mine in the Fnited States, the Chief Consolidated mine at Eureka, Ctah, has achieved the distinction of producing about 40 per cent of the stock of white metal bought by the mint department of the government to replace the bullion sold to England during the war under the Pittnian act. F. L. Abbott, a director of tile Arrowhead Ar-rowhead Kico Mining company, who j has come from the Cbehehe, states that good headway is being made iu running l lie tunnel to tap the main ore bodies at a .depth of 4U0 feet. Mr. Abbott was on the property seven days and says that in that time the miners had advanced the tunnel sixty-throe feet. The noted Clifford mine, forty miles northeast of Tonopah, has been bunded bund-ed by the Clifford estate to a syndicate of New Yorkers, who plan to open the mine on a scale in accord with its great value. The mine is reported to have produced !?."i(KI,0iK) worth of high-grade high-grade silver-gold ore, much of which was concentrated in a small plant on the ground. War minerals claims to the number of 11124 have been acted upon, leaving only eighty-three unsettled, according to a report of the war minerals coin-mission coin-mission which was complete to November Novem-ber 27. The commission expects to finish its work by February or March. Claims for $li),S-7,47i).G- were considered consid-ered and awards totaling $'2,.').ri7,4lll.33 were recommended. With excellent ore demonstrated in the Standard Metals, Fravel-Paymiisler, Black Paniher and other properties, and the various operators and mine owners strongly organized into a progressive pro-gressive association, pledged to foster legitimate mining activities, tlie I'ea-vine I'ea-vine district, about three miles north of Keno. is rapidly taking its place among the premer mining districts of Nevada. Ernest Baniberg-.T, speaking for tlie ' Utah mine producers, and Jerome J. Day of Wallace, representing the Hercules. Her-cules. Tamarac and Custer Mines of W'allace. Idaho, on January 14 appeared ap-peared before the house ways and means committee and urged that a i specific duly of two cents a pound lie levied on lead in the forthcoming general gen-eral tariff bill lo be reported at the special session of eomrres. The famous Ontario mine in Park City, which was a big contributor, even j when the mining industry of I'iah was j still in its infancy, .continues as a I heavv and consistent oi-odiirer. The ouipiu last year by ibis mine was ap- ! I proximately liis.lKKI tons. I1 The mine output of lead ami zinc and the refinery output of lead in i the Tniied Stales in:-reaed grcaily in 1 1!rjl. after declines in j The output of silver I nun mines in California was about l..".".s.(Mi fine -ounces in HUO, an increase of 4:'. 1.-171 fine ounces over that in lf'10. I'tnh's twin industries of milling ,.nd ; smelling, and which remain the most 1 important of all the various Industries Indus-tries for which the state is noted, were far more prosperous during llC'o than generally was realized while the year's : operations were in progress. |