Show AROUND THE MINES A tunnel lins fins been stated on the alice claim at he the miner dilill to make air connect ibus with tile the I 1 level evel lev el and prospect some fissures in the liue dow jones says copper year en ended 1 I d december 31 lun shows surplus income diio me affer aber all charges 11 a decrease of as compared with 1010 this surplus equals a share as compared with the senate oil lei leasing tsing bil bal amended to give the alie government authority to lease or operate oil lands in california and wyoming to meet w war ar requirements bequir e was ordered favorably reported by tile house Pil public lille lands committee op on may 7 the six porphyries ries of the county utah chino ray kay con nevada con inspiration ration and miami produced pounds of copper in 1017 1917 at an live average rage cost of about cents a n pound their contribution to the yield of the united states approximated 25 per cent with roads in III big cottonwood in fairly good condition the cardiff card iff has resume resumed the lie movement fit oi 0 o from tile the south pork fork bins to the railroad four trucks are employed in the work and they tire are making one trip a day each there are approximately 1500 tons tolis of ore accumulated at the bins plans for the development of the holdings of the hill creek oil shale company in the uintah basin of utah were outlined last week at a meeting f the board of directors of the ol 01 organization the company controls acres of oil and shale lands in n the hill creek country and it Is planned to put th u drilling rig on the ground mid and start operations as quickly Us possible utah copper producers will be represented at the price fixing conference to be held at washington may 22 according to a decision reached at a special meeting of the utah chapter of the Aln american erlan mining congress tho the principal copper producers fit of the state voted to prepare figures and other data pertaining to production cst cost and submit it to the washington conference statistics es compiled under the supervision of J D northrop of the united states geological survey department of the interior from reports submitted by all railroad companies that operated abedoll oil burning companies in tile the untied united states show that th the quantity of fuel oil consumed by them in 1917 1017 wits was per cent over 1910 and I 1 a larger consumption than in any other year the new crushing plant of the ohio odilo copper was given a test run last week and operated satisfactorily and the notation flotation plant was given a tryout the two units of the plant have a dally daily capacity of 1200 tons of slimes from the old mill and the third unit of C GOO tons is expected to be ready for service by june dune 1 two more units are expected to be in operation between july 1 and 15 giving the plant a tot total at oil 11 flotation capacity of tons dally daily most of us think clay Is something as common and abundant as sand or gravel consequently it comes as a surprise to be told by the shipping board committee on mineral imports and exports in washington that even in tills this day of great shortage of ocean going ships we have to import from england every year to long tons of clay says the salt lake tribune last year we imported more than tons over the ocean announcement that the new plant of the dayton recovery company at virginia city had been operating at capacity for more than a week was made may 7 by superintendent george fuerman ile he also announced that the recoveries being made were fully up to expectations the dayton placer company was waa organized in 1917 and the construction of a mill begun to treat the tailings of the old virginia city mines while the pittman silver bill IK ig popularly supposed to fix the price of silver at 1 nn an ounce the question lias has been raised whether this Is not a minimum price and that no have been placed on oa a maximum price the law ns as passed does not commandeer the output of silver neither Is there anything in the law or any agreement between the silver producers lucers and the governments government that the mining companies shall sell to domestic cou consumers sumers at the same price as to the government the precious metals reserve ot of the united states has decreased in the first nine months of the fiscal year as shown shon in n re report T ort by the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce exports of gold totaled of which japan took TO spain and mexico the remainder going chiefly to south america C gold 01 ol d imports were purchases of silver have hae increased more than per cent but still are OW less than exports A dividend of 10 cents a share payable in 4 per cent liberty bonds and war var stamps on may 15 35 to stockholders of record may 10 lias has 1 been declared by the eagle blue bell milling company tn piny according to notices received in id salt lake government control of tuii Koten dur ins ing the war was mas urged by L A aried man of lovelock nev a producer prodie er before the seftan sei late julnes bulnes committee tungsten Is fi that voil A ty 4 ne v ida alone IB isa 4 able W to supply all abc ull united t 1 stated StAte 4 |