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Show AROUNDTHE MINES The i-ighth nnminl" meeting of the Iilnlio Mininir association will be held ut the chamber of commerce at lioise, on February 1 1 anil ili. Uepons f nun the Con. Virginia mine are to the effect that the new raise on the J."i(l-foot level, located lo-cated -10 feet north of the main west crosscut, is now showing a fair grade of ore. The I'.nll Head Oil coinian.v, composed com-posed of Nevada men, filed articles of incorporation last week. The company com-pany controls -.T"i0 acres of land near the Bullhead ranch, about forty miles north of Oolcouda, and is capitalized for ?100,0OO. Plans are being made by officers of the Empire Oil & Ons company to rebuild re-build a receiving house and condemning condemn-ing the tower destroyed by five at the refinery at Okmulgee. Okla. They said the loss would not exceed $40,000. The fire started from an explosion of the still. More encouraging physical conditions condi-tions have never existed in the lower Howell tunnel, according to the management. man-agement. The face of the adit being run to open up at depth, the rich mineralization min-eralization opened up years ago in the upper workings is now 2900 feet from the portal. The second carload of Ubehebe ore has arrived from the mine in Death valley, California, according to information infor-mation received last week. This property, prop-erty, which is owned by the Arrowhead Arrow-head Rico Mining company, is situated situ-ated about eighty-seven miles from Ooldfield. The Elkora mlops at Jarbidge once each month ships the gold bullion gathered gath-ered during the preceding month, and just recently, according to the Twin Falls Chronicle, an auto came in from the camp with $174,000 of the precious yellow metal, which, weighed nearly 800 pounds. , Many independent steel manufacturing manufactur-ing concerns in the Pittsburg district have Increased operations on what executives ex-ecutives were united in saying was a "cautiously conservative" basis after about six weeks in which operations have been entirely suspended or greatly great-ly curtailed. Another new Oliver filter is being installed in-stalled at the Mexican mine, Virginia City, Nevada. The filter will add materially ma-terially to the capacity of the plant, and it is expected to put through at least 140 tons of ore daily, instead of 80 to 90 tons, which is the present limit of the mill. A mining journal in large headlines announces that "It Looks Like Big Times on the Comstock." And so it does, with operations being placed on a business basis and with ore as the foundation for the new prosperity in the district, says the Virginia City (New) Chronicle. The management of the Consolidated Illipah Oil company has received from the foreman at the property some very encouraging news. The foreman's report re-port is to the effect that they had broken through the tough gumbo into a black shale, is the news that comes from Ely, Nevada. Application for leases to' prospect for oil on government laud in southern south-ern Utah continue to pour into the Salt Lake land office. Many of the applications received during the past few days have been from easterners. A total of approximately 70,000 acres has been applied for. Following closely the announcement by the management of the Con. Virginia Vir-ginia mine that a vein of ore ten feet wide and averaging $40 a ton had been opened in the north drift on the 2250-foot level, comes the announcement announce-ment that from ten to twelve feet of $50 a tori ore has been opened on the 1650-foot level. Reports circulated in New York City that the Standard Oil company was planning a 10 per cent wage reduction, affecting its employees in nil parts of the United States, were given added currency by news of cuts made by Standard Oil subsidiaries in widely separated fields New Jersey and West Virginia. Such an encouraging measure of success is being attained by the Prince Consolidated - Mining and Smelting company's efforts to finance the sinking sink-ing of the nmtr shaft to the lower ore beds developed by diamond drilling that the president and general manager man-ager of the organization promises an early resumption of this work of such great importance not only to the mine but to the Pioche district as a whole. Coincident with the Money Creek Mining company's victory in its recent litigation, during the course of which the property was firmly established by the company, work has been resumed re-sumed at the properly. Although the company has large deposits of lead and copper developed in its property situated in the Spring Valley district, near t'rerry ('reck, Nevada, on account of the prevailing prices for these metals met-als at present only exploitation of the zinc deposits will be undertaken. Formal objections to the Mexican government's projected law providing for the payment of oil taxes, has been presented to Ailolfo de la Huerta. secretary sec-retary of the treasury, by a committee representing the Association of Producers Pro-ducers of Petroleum in Mexico. Consolidated Virginia, the premier mine of the Comstock lode, enters the new year, after more than a half century of ore production, by disclosing disclos-ing an ore body at a depth of 2250 feet that promises to again place the property on the stellar list of Nevada mines. |