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Show lES II MINING' Iiring the year 1914 the Michigan-Utah Michigan-Utah Consolidated leasers shipped out 6.671 tons of ore, and in 1915 a total of 4,036 tons. The strike in the Colligan workings on the Weaver No. 3 of the Rochester Mines company shows a vein'four feet wide of $70 ore. Shipments of ore from the Park City, I-'tah, district, last week totaled 1,410 tons, valued at $56,000. This is compared with $72,000, or 1,029 tons, ihe previous week. Nearly $1,700 a day was the general average production of the Rochester Mines company for the 203 days of actual operation during 1915, according accord-ing to figures given out by the company. com-pany. Ore production by the mines of tho Tlntic district last week amounted to a total of 100 carloads. This is estimated esti-mated at 5,000 tons, valued at $125,-000. $125,-000. It is compared with 113 carloads car-loads the week before. Ore carrying as high as 600 and 700 ounces silver was found recently in a large "bug hole" in the old Daly mine (t Park City, Utah. Ten to twelvb tons of this rich stuff, worth $375 a ton, was extracted. It sampled 40 per cent lead besides. The production of tungsten ores in the United States during 1915 broke the record and -was apparently equivalent equiv-alent to about 2,165 phort tons of concentrates, con-centrates, carrying 60 per cent of tungsten trioxide, and was valued at more than $2,000,000. What appeared to be ai large body of Ditre has been found near the coal mine east of Fairview, Utah, also a large vein of saltpetre and genuine potash and a large body of fire clay, making these mines one of the richest holdings in Sanpete. The White Pine group of silver-copper silver-copper mining claims adjoining the St. Mary mine in the Star mining district, Beaver county, Utah, was purchased a few days ago on a bond proposition by G. A. Kernick, C. W. Whalen and E. C. Dart for $25,000. All of the mining claims and other property of the East Tintic Development Develop-ment Mining company will be sold at sheriff's sale at Provo, Utah, on February Feb-ruary 1 to" satisfy notes and claims held against the company by C. M. Richard and G. P. Huntley. Prince Consolidated made another weekly ore shipping record last week. It shipped from Pioche to the Utah smelters a total of 80 carloads of ore. This is estimated at 50 tons to the car, or 4,000 tons. It is equal to 571 tons daily fcr the seven days. Antimony prices in 1915 were prob-ably prob-ably the highest known since the metal became a regular article of commerce. The high prices led to the largest production pro-duction the United States has made and probably the same statement is true for the world's production. Leasers on the Gethin Le Roy Consolidated Con-solidated of Silver Island are shipping in their second carload of ore. The ore shipped heretofore from this property prop-erty has been high-grade silver with considerable lead. The leasers are said to have an excellent showing. Boston directors of the Bingham mine have given out the information that the Utah Metal is shipping from its own ground about two cars per day of ore ' running 3 per cent to 5 per cent copper and carrying gold values from $10 to $39 per ton. Average Aver-age smelter return in December was $28 per ton. According to information from Tin-tic, Tin-tic, Iron. Blossom has opened the new copper ore shoot on the 1,000 level. This shoot was first found on the 600 level. It was next followed to th3 90C level. There a winze was sunk to the 1,000-foot level and a drift sent out easterly and last week it broke into the ore shoot. It has been found gold nuggets under un-der favorable conditions actually increase in-crease in size. Gold is known to have grown on mine timbers which have long been immersed . in mine water. In the California state mining bureau museum there is a specimen of a piece of jointed cap and post taken from the Comst.ock lode, where it had heen under water for years. Gold had formed in the joints and pores of the wood. . Pointing out that the total amount of gold in the world since the discovery discov-ery of America, aggregates slightly more than $15,000,000,000 and that the total amount of silver produced in the same period, in coinage value, aggregates aggre-gates slightly less than $15,000,000,000, and calling attention to the fact that the cost of the European war to date approaches the sum of $50,000,000,000 Henry A. Buchtel, chancellor of the University of Denver, proposes bimetallism bimet-allism as a possible solution of the financial problems rising out of the European war. Forty-two per cent of zinc ore has heen struck in the new deep tunnel of the Lakeview Mining company at its Promontory property, in Utah. It is reported that the first car cf ore from the O. K. Silver property near Death canyon will average clOoe to 1,000 ounces silver to tlu ton. It is reported from Rico, Colo., that a new strike has been made in the TJco Wellington. The ore is said to carry 10 to 15 per cent copper and 38 ounces silver. News has been received of a strike in the Albion of Alta, Utah. Five feet of commercial grade of ore has been erv-.ountered. the ore carrying copper, silvo. and gold. Work has been resumed at the Home Run property, which adjoins the old Day-Bristol mine in the Jack Rabbit district, a few miles northerly norther-ly from Pioche camp jn Nevada. |