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Show ! AROUNDTHE MINES Goveniiir I in vis has appointed del-j del-j eynles to represent the slate of Ida- ho at Hie Third International Mining eohvemion. to be held at Portland from April f to I). The raited Stales bureau of mines has issued Hie first approval for a storage battery locomotive for use in j gaseous mines to the (ioorge H. Whit- comb company of Uoebelle. III. The Feliruary output from l lie mines of Cripple Creek lotnied 30,0 Kl tons, valued at SC(;4,K!H. Average values per ion. SI l..-,0. The smelters ban. lied li-ed l'ik.'ii tons (close lo 5 per rent), the Golden Cycle iniit L'0.00:) and Hie Portland Port-land mill 17.0OU tons. 1 Mailing work is to begin on the holdings of Hie Lincoln-Idaho Oil Company Com-pany as soon as possible, says the management. man-agement. Cold weather has prevented opera! Mais. The holdings of Hie Lincoln-Idaho enmpafiy are situated about forly-live miles ' from Keminerer. The village of liarneston, Neb., is going to have paved streets and some of its (i.izens are to be outfitted wilh new clothes as a result of a promise by Anthony Melick that he would pay the bill if he struck a gusher after investing in-vesting in some Oklahoma oil land. Portland is lo he the scene of the third annual Internal ional Mining congress from April 5 to 9. Officials who are arranging for Hie convention promise an excellent program and a representative attendence of mining men from the northwestern states and Canada. Assessment of a mine "dump" from which ores were later recovered, as a mine, at three limes the net proceeds is to be contested in a suit in Beaver eounly, Utah, of which the state board of equalization lias received preliminary prelimi-nary notice before the case was actually actu-ally filed. The annual report of the Utah Copper Cop-per company, filed with Hie state board of equalization, showed net proceeds of the company for Hie year 1920 amounted to ijfl.Oi'O.riRO.'iO. Th's compares com-pares with G.).S;.,")6 for the year 1919, while a few years ago the net proceeds of this oire company, were more than S-O.OlAOOO. Development work on the 1S0O level of the May Hay mine in the Tintic district dis-trict is being carried on in the most promising formation yet encountered. For the past two months a quartz fissure has been followed through a mottled limestone. This mottled limestone lime-stone is cons'dered the most favorable of the Chief Consolidated series. Dividends paid for 1920 by the gold mining companies operating on the Rand aggregate 8.312,407, which compares com-pares with 6,401,992 on account of 1919, and the record of S,SST,18o in 1910, says the Mining and Scientific Press. Ten years ago the average so-called so-called working cost was 1.7s (id per ton, as compared with 2os 9d in 1920. Arkansas possesses what may prove to be the largest platinum mine in the world, according to tile belief of some investigators whose findings are chronicled in the Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.) The article states that an assay of the ore taken from the field near Iintosvillo lends strength to the hope that the Arkansas mine may be of great value. The governing board of the engineering engin-eering council has arranged its plans for a joint dinr.er of all the engineering engin-eering societies of Utah, lo be held in mid-April, on a date yet to be determined. deter-mined. At this dinner there will be included not only all the members of the state and national bodies of the engineering societies, but also all independent in-dependent and unattached engineers of Utah are invited to attend. The Simon-Silver-lead Mines company com-pany has prepared prints of the flow sheet of the mill now being constructed, construct-ed, and announces that construction is 00 per cent completed and that 90 per cent of the machinery and materials are on the ground, is the news that conies from Mina, Nevada. Returns thus far received by the United States geological survey, de-parlment de-parlment of the interior, from the producers' of pol.-ish in Hie United Slates during 19211 indicate that Hie output amounted to 107. 340 short tons of crude potash s.Jts conlain'ng 4S,-02.1 4S,-02.1 short tons of actual potash. Some of Hie mining towns of the Sierra Nevadas of California are isolated iso-lated by impassable barriers during rhe winter liine. Naturally the miners ;. re desirous of keeping in touch with ihe rest of the world, so it has heen s;:v;.':es;eil that an nil-year-round airplane air-plane iino service be established. The only d'amond mine thus far discovered dis-covered oil the wesiern heiaispliere is located in Pike c unity. Arkansas. The iralnonds are foam! in a "pipe." the crater of .m extinct volcano which ages ago boiled up through tin' surface. had its lel'l'if'c ile.lt ri'illod by the waters of all inland sea. and left bits of carbon sratlefed throughout the perlodo! i to w Sicli now fills Hie crater, to be In'o-sed lo dranio!els by tin? con- 1 racl ion of i he rock. Ore shipments bv the mini's of the Park City ipstrict, a loial of 1S01 ions of ore, for the past week made a slight increase as compared with Hie previous week's total of 1K',) tons. Otie of tiie largest ami most important import-ant t I'ansiii't ions iu mineral property In tiie hiMory of ihe Pacific coast has been consummated at San Francisco. I'.y its terms, all rights ami title to a newly discovered immense deposit f borax in ('lark county. Nov.. -oes to F. M. (Iiorax) Smith, ami incidentally puts the former "borax king" hack on the throne again. |