Show dips spurs and A agles ng the guggenheim exploration company has declared an extra dividend of two per cent in addition to its regular of three per cent bringing ane years distribution to 1312 per cent on its 25 shares pennsylvania ranks second among the states in the value of its clay products and these also constitute the second in rank of the states mining industries the value of the clay products increased from in 1911 to in 1912 L T brockbank and frank pearson have a force of men at work on the highland national about thirty miles from battle mountain nevada the property contains what appears to be a good deposit of silver lead ore although only a small date stockholders of the rocher de boule mining company operating at new hazleton british columbia are dissatisfied with the terms of the lease which the continental development company has on the property and are talking of interfering by court procedure with the operations of tho the lc lepree asce pree in the manufacture of coke as in the production of coal and the manufacture of pig iron pennsylvania ou all the other states furnishing 60 per cent of the total production in 1912 the quantity of coke made in pennsylvania Pen sylvania was 27 short tons valued at against short tons valued at in 1911 ore shipments from the south hecla mine in alta district utah have been discontinued owing to the inability to secure teams for haulage to the smelters shelters sm elters at sandy the management however has the ore bins chock full of ore and large tonnages ton nages blocked out in the mine workings in the spring an era of heavy shipments will be inaugurated pennsylvania leads in the production of cement lime mineral paints sand slate and stone and in the manufacture of coke and pig iron and is second in the value of clay products and natural gas the combined value of anthracite and bituminous coal in pennsylvania in 1912 was equivalent to about 50 per cent of the total value of the coal produced in the united states and nearly 78 per cent of the total value of the mineral products of the state new mexico is abw now accounted one of the important coal producing states of the west much of her output being bisti distinctly natly of high grade in the raton fieldi field which furnished about 75 per cent of the production in 1912 the coal is a true coking coal and most of the operations are conducted i on an extensive scale in 1912 there were eleven mines that produced each over tons and two of these produced over tons nearly tons of coal was made into coke the first record of coal production in montana was made 32 years ago in 1880 when the output amounted to only tons up to 1888 the development had been rather slow the output in that year amounting to tons it rose to ons in 1899 and increased rapidly until 1895 when it reached a total of about 1500 tons it averaged approximately quantity each year until 1904 and has since shown an increasing tendency teaching the maximum of tons in 1912 the production of natural gas in pennsylvania increased over cubic feet in 1912 compared with 1911 with an increase in value from to the consumption of natural gas in pennsylvania is more than cubic feet in excess of its production the output of petroleum in pennsylvania decreased from barrels in 1911 to barrels in 1912 but in sympathy with the general advance in prices the value increased from to 19 the lehigh cement district of eastern pennsylvania with a few plants in new jersey is the most important cement mak ing region in the world As a whole the lehigh district makes nearly one third of the cement produced in the united states the production of cement in pennsylvania in 1911 was barrels valued at against barrels valued at in 1912 pennsylvania is by far the leading state in the production of cement with approximately one third of the total output of the country the coal fields of montana are widely scattered and their output ranges in quality from lignite to a bituminous coal of fair grade nearly all of the eastern third or great plains section of the state is underlain by lignite and low grade coal toward the mountainous district the coals pass into high grade and true bituminous coals these occur for the most part in relatively small and much scattered areas in the valley region of the western part of the state the coals grade again into lignite but unlike those of the eastern part they are widely scattered and at present are not of economic importance pew few pe w mining regions in california have attracted so much general attention and held it for so long a time as the klamath mountains of siskiyou you and trinity counties in the northwestern part of the state the placers along trinity and klamath rivers were developed early A in the gold rush and have been worked with energy to the present time the la grange mine which is one or of the largest hydraulic placers in the world is now in the height of its activity an account of an investigation of the auriferous gravels in the weaverville Wea verville quadrangle which embraces portions of shasta and trinity counties by J S diller is contained in bulletin A recently issued by the united states geological survey with the payment at the spokane office of the standard mines monthly dividend of the total distributed by kooten ay boundary british columbia mining and smelting smelling sm elting companies this year is brought up to over in excess of the total amount paid during the whole of 1912 to this years total the granby company of grand forks is the largest contributor having paid the standard mine at silverton is credited with the consolidated mining and smelting smelling Sm elting company at trail and rossland has paid the hedley gold mining company has paid out the le roi no 2 at rossland has distributed and the british columbia copper company at greenwood has paid to its stockholders the production of limestone is the principal factor in giving pennsylvania first place as a producer of stone the state is also first in the production of slate sand and gravel and lime in 1911 the total value of the stone quarried in pennsylvania exclusive of slate and limestone made into lime was in 1912 it in the production of slate pennsylvania is credited with nearly 60 per cent of the total output of the united states the value of the output in 1912 being pennsylvania has nearly one half the total number of lime producers in the united states and its production is about 25 per cent of the total quantity and 20 per cent of the total value in 1912 the production being short tons valued at lime burning as an industry is scattered pretty well over the state in quality the coals of colorado range from black lignite in the denver region through various grades of bituminous including the high grade coking coal of the trinidad and glenwood springs fields to true anthracite in the crested butte and yampa fields some of the coal beds of colorado attain enormous thickness this is especially true in the glenwood springs field and some of the beds in the north park field are also said to be of great thickness the total area underlain by coal in Color colorado adb is estimated at square miles and about 60 per cent of that entire area is believed to contain coal that is workable under afes present ent conditions the state contains areas embracing over square miles about which little is known but which may contain workable coal and nearly square miles in which the coal lies under heavy cover and Is therefore not workable at present 0 F porter of salt lake is highly elat ed over very satisfactory reports brought in from nevada concerning property i which he is interested por for several months 1 E J daughters the bearer of the good news has been directing development in ill the property of the nevada central mining company in which both gentlemen are heavily interested and less than ten tell days ago the main vein of the property was en 1 countered in the main tunnel level pr prior to leaving the mine mr daughter says the ore body had been crosscut cross cut a distance of ten and one half feet without disclosing the further wall and the indications are alej that this new discovery will develop into a gigantic deposit of payable ore the thel values run in silver lead gold and cop per and mr daughters estimates that vol val to the extent of have already been blocked out assays essays and analytical tests are being made and it quite groballi pro baLLi abla that shipments will begin at an early day daiv T lic property of the company is located in gold run district fourteen miles south of 0 golconda since the first record of mining statistics was written into the history of the united states pennsylvania has stood at the top of the list exclusive of the value of pig iron and of coke and other derived or secondary products not included in the total made in the state the value of pennsyl mineral production is nearly one fourth of that of the entire country and is ia only about less than the combined am A output of illinois west virginia 1 I ohio and california the next four states in the value of their mineral production the value of the mineral production of pennsylvania reached the enormous t total otal of in 1911 and the still greater figure of in 1912 according to a statement prepared by edward W parker of the united states geological survey in cooperation with the state of pennsyl v vania ania pennsylvania holds the leadership primarily on account of her supremacy in the production of coal the combined value of the production of anthracite and bituminous coal in pennsylvania nearly equals the aggregate of all the mineral pro ducts of west virginia illinois and ohl 0 the second third and fourth states dively in rank |