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Show Production of ore by the mines of Tonopah the past week totaled 9.S43 tons valued at $L'04.S34. - It is claimed discoveries of potash have been made within ten miles of Green Kiver. Utah, one locator asserting assert-ing that lie has 300 acres of it. One of the best posted factors In the copper industry estimates that not tar from 50 per cent of the current year's output has been contracted for. Beaver county, Utah, is bringing in another shipper in the Dippy, which Is attracting considerable attention. The Dippy group is in the Beaver Lake mining district. Shipments of ore from the mines of Tintic the past week totaled 113 carloads, car-loads, estimated at 5.650 tons, and valued at $141,000. This is compared with an equal number of cars the previous pre-vious week. A voluntary wage increase of 25 cents a day has been granted to 25,-000 25,-000 mine and smelting employes in Butte, Anaconda and Great Falls. The order for the increase in wages became be-came effective January 1. Shipments from the mines of Park City the past week totaled 1,829 tons, estimated at $72,000. This is compared com-pared with 1,836 tons the previous week,' or practically the same amount. There are five shippers in the list. The Sheep Rock mine, a high-grade producer several miles east of For-tuna, For-tuna, has just been purchased by the Beaver Gold Mines corporation on a bond proposition for $240,000. The purchaser is a San Francisco concern. But ten days' supply of spelter were on hand at the beginning of the year, says the Boston-News Bureau. Production, Pro-duction, however, which was exceedingly exceed-ingly heavy last year, will be even greater during the current twelve months. During the year just passed, the mines of Pioche, Nevada, contributed to the world's wealth the contents of 2,300 cars of ore, which were shipped from that point over the tracks of the Salt Lake Route to the Salt Lake smelters. Directors of the Alta Tunnel company com-pany have levied an assessment of 1 cent a share for the purpose of pushing developments. One of the officials of-ficials said that this assessment assures as-sures the driving of the tunnel 500 feet ahead. Anaconda has taken over from leasers leas-ers operation of precipitating plants at all its Butte properties. Present high price of copper has made these concessions extremely valuable and the company will derive additional profit through this precipitating method. In the ten months to November 1 there had been exported from the United States 128,700,000 pounds of spelter, a 100 per cent increase over the previous year. In 1914 the outward out-ward movement of spelter did not really begin until after the commencement commence-ment of hostilities in Europe. From Ely, Nevada, comes word that the miners and mill men employed by the Nevada Consolidated Copper company com-pany have threatened to walk out unless un-less their demands for increased wages were met. It is reported that 4,000 to 5,000 men would be affected and that the demand will amount to about 90 cents apiece a day. From New York comes word that the American Smelting & Refining company has blown in three furnaces at Monterey. It had arranged to resume re-sume at its smelter at Chihuahua and some furnaces would have been blown in within a day or two but for the murder of American mining men near Chihuahua City by Villa troops. According to word from Fortuna, Utah, the first machinery in the Fortuna For-tuna end of the Newton district went into commission a few days ago, when the United States Smelting, Refining & Mining company started its 18-horsepower 18-horsepower gasoline hoist on the vertical ver-tical shaft it is sinking to the 200-foot 200-foot level on the ground it recently acquired. Mining deposits in central Utah have hardly been touched, and it will take several years to develop the mining min-ing industry in that part of the state, it is asserted. The discovery of potash pot-ash in commercial deposits and the intention to work up the pyrites into sulphuric acid have caused the prospectors pros-pectors to look for other minerals Jfeihan gold and silver. ril-T new mining district on Promontory Promon-tory rumf"hieahttut i'Mjjf into its "'own with a real ra'Airr!au. The proposed pro-posed line is to be a narrow gauge about four miles long, extending between be-tween the Southern Pacific railroad station at Saline and the Lakeview Mining company's properties. It is estimated es-timated that the railroad will cost $25,000 to construct and equip. , Inspiration Consolidated is expected TtwrffT a dividend payer before 1916 is many months old. A comfortable cash position the company has from $1,-500,000 $1,-500,000 to $2,000,000 net working capital cap-ital and large earnings, soon to be larger, are responsible for this anticipated antici-pated entrance of Inspiration into the circle of copper share dividend payers, pay-ers, says the Boston News Bureau. Netting the company $76.35 to the ton there has been settled for another car of ore from the Wasatch Mines property, located in the Little Cottonwood Cotton-wood district. The ore was broken In the west end of the property on the main tunnel level and near the No. 2 slope. The imports of silver Into the United Unit-ed States for the ten months ending October 31, 1913, were valued at $28. 504,857, of which $17,036,255 cam from Mexico, $5,410,020 from Canada $3,577,627 from South America, anc 44L4S9J09 from Central America. |