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Show AROUND THE MINES ! Tonopah Mines the past week produced pro-duced and sent to mill a total of 7020 tons of tre estimated at $120,540. Pig iron production for March, according ac-cording to Iron Age, was 3,090,2-13 tons compared witli 2,940,168 in February. Larger production last month is accounted ac-counted for by the greater number of days in March. From various sources of information It Is apparent that conditions f t the well drilling in Salt valley are such as to give the greatest encouragement to those who have had the optimism to prospect there for oil. It is semiot'ticially announced that the Merritt Oil Corp- in drilling to the second Wall Creek sand in tlie Big Muddy field in Wyoming has already penetrated 205 feet of oil hearing sand, known as the first Wall Creek sand. Advices from Boston to the Wall Street Journal say that overseas movements move-ments of copper have shown a sharp contraction since the beginning of the year. It reached its low point In March, total shipment being 9735 tons, compared with 13,549 in February and 33,343 in January. According to the Lovelock Review-Miner, Review-Miner, two discoveries of high-grade ore in the southwestern spur of the Humboldt range near Lovelock caused the wildest excitement last week and many locations' were made in both camps, which are within nine and ten miles each of Lovelock. According to advices from Texas, there has just been consummated a deal in which one of the biggest prices ever paid for an oil lease- figured. The 'story says that the top price for Burkburnett production was paid last week when the Adams lease, covering cover-ing two acres, sold for $275,000. Crude petroleum run from wells and producers' field storage tanks and delivered de-livered to pipe lines, marketing companies, com-panies, and consumers, in the United States, in February, 1919, totaled approximately ap-proximately 26,511,000 barrels, an increase in-crease of 708,000 barrels, or about three per cent, compared with February, Febru-ary, 191S. Just a few miles' south of the now famous camp of Divide, Nevada, is an old mining district which is almost a counterpart of the camp of Tintic, according ac-cording to a Salt Lake operator who knows the belt well between Goldfield and Tonopah. This is tlie little camp of Klondike into which reached the staking of claims in the recent Divide excitement. From Idaho Springs, Colo., is sent the optimistic word that with an assured as-sured feeling that the signing of the peace treaty will result in the government's govern-ment's withdrawal from price regulation regula-tion of silver, and a sharp advance in the price of the white metal, attention is being directed more and more to the rich silver properties of Clear Creek county. The Park City Record declares that with the vast virgin mineral, the vast ore bodies in the old workings now being be-ing mined and developed, the improved methods of mining and milling now being be-ing inaugurated, the expert service employed, and the ever improving conditions con-ditions of the metal market, ,1919 is going to see wonderful imprsved conditions con-ditions at the King Coalition and consequently con-sequently improved conditions in Park City. , Some think there may be soon a rush to live in Wyoming, in order to evade one phase of the "two surest things in life, death and taxation." A story from Cheyenne says that dreams of a taxless W7yoming may soon be realized. One section of state-owned state-owned oil land will be paying a royalty roy-alty of $300,000 a year before the end of the present year, and if others prove anywhere nearly so well, the annual revenue to the state will reach unheard of figures. ' The Anaconda Copper company has had two notable ore disclosures during the past week, the most important of which apparently Is that In the Orphan Girl claim in the western part of the Butte district, known as the "West Side" or the Hibernia neighborhood. The second find was made in the Emma Em-ma property of the Butte Copper & Zinc company. Reports from the property of the Tonopah Divide Mining company in the Divide, Nevada district the mine which has caused the greatest sensation sensa-tion in almost a score of years by reason of its richness is to the effect that the showing is proving up to expectations, ex-pectations, with indications that even, something bigger is going to result in the near future. The interstate commerce commission has decided existing rates on plaster in carloads from Gypsum, Utah, to points in California on the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific are unreasonable and ordered a reduction to 29.5 cents' per hundred pounds. Within the next few days an energetic ener-getic campaign of development will he inaugurated upon the Gold Seam property, prop-erty, formerly classed as being located locat-ed in the Klondyke district, but now properly entered in the Divide, says the Tonopah (New) Times.. John Clegborn, well-known mining man of Utah nnd Nevada, has gone down to the American Fork district with a small force of men to resume work on the Globe Consolidated. He will be the second operator to start the 1919 spring work in this old camp. Reports from the Eureka Bullion in East Tintic are that last week a second sec-ond shift was started, and these men were put on the main shaft. This makes two shifts working. The shaft is down to the SOO-foot level, and the intention Is to carry It to the 1200 level. |