Show MINES AND MINING A strike of considerable importance has been made recently in the day mine at jack rabbit says the ciocho record mining pure metallic stiver silver in abeln a vein the width of a mans hand Is one ot of tho the wonders of tho the 1200 level ot of the tonopah belmont mine with its long tramway in operation the handling ot of ores from the utah consolidated mine at bingham la Is said to have been reduced from 40 cents to 10 cents a ton it cost the utah copper company cents per pound to produce pounds of copper in the quarter ended december 31 as compared with SM cents for pounds in the preceding quarter quart er the spring valley wyo oil field less than miles east of shit salt lake now has nineteen producing wells the output from the two wells on the texas king property alone Is barrels every twenty four hours production of tin la Is about tons per annum and consumption about the same and both remaining fairly constant this prevents accumulation mu lation of considerable stocks and renders the market easy to maniet late the united states steel corporation announced on february 7 an increase 1 la the price of tin plate from to per hundred pounds there was a similar advance by independent manufacturers in the pittsburg district As a direct result of an amendment introduced by congressman howell of oe utah government employed emp loyes in mine research work will bo be pensioned in case of injury the earno as other government workers in hazardous pursuits there Is much talk or of mining boom lust just now not only talk but unmistakable indications that warrant the belief that a vastly improved condition at least will actually ensue at so io distant time says the mining Minin gRec record of denver nevada mines produce in 1910 and paid dividends aggregating the production Is a gain of when compared with 1909 three fourths the mineral product production ign Is credited to goldfield tonopah and ely leasers leaders on what Is known as the big six property in the black rock ds district triet near sulphur sul nov have struck very rich ore at a depth of only twelve feet they have two feet of ore that assays essays la in the neighborhood of 1000 to the ton the senate has passed the bill introduced trod by senator smoot at the request of the secretary ot of the treas iry andi and authorizing the treasury department part ment to hold in coins not to exceed one third the gold reserve for the redemption of gold preparations are being made at osceola nevada tor for doing considerable placer work in dry gulch this corning coming spring when the melting snows on osceola osccola mountain will be furnishing sufficient water water to move the dirt the gulch Is famous for its production in the past things are looking encouraging at manhattan north of tonopah To where many are leasing with profit profil the miners have been handl because of unsatisfactory milling facilities but this Is being remedied and leas ers are now working on a profitable basis with charges down to reasonable figures A great gold find has been made in th the a winnemucca mountains only a few miles from winnemucca nevada samples of ore have recently been assayed which are said to have shown values radues of from to per ton in gold there Is a stampede on and the country for miles has been staked out eventis event of the last few days are convincing that the foreign forean syndicate which has cornered the worlds supply of tin Is still ela in control on january 30 the london price made anew high record of an advance of D f X 60 a ton from the low of 1910 nearly one half of tho the advance having been made in january A colorado Sp springs ringi dispatch announces that the vindicator consolidated gold mining company has sent out checks tor for dividend no 50 at the rate of 3 cents pc per r share or a total this makes the total paid stockholders on a capitalization on the mines ot of the butte butta district produced about pounds of co copper p in january the production of the anaconda and associated companies was pounds the output of the smelter smaller being pounds and that of the great falls smelter pounds the management of the union chief property at San santaquin utah Is figuring on putting in burley drills with electric power when the work in the lime made almost hard as aa flint by metamorphic action will be expedited ted thia athla winter about fifteen properties are bel being n actively cevelo developed ped in the district any one of which Is almost good enough to mane maito a camp work on the bourn property has been suspended temporarily but the bluster people are going right ahead with development work the bill to protect the locators in good faith of oil aud gas lands who shall have effected an actual discovery of oil or gas on public lands was ordered fayora favorably bly reported to tho the honse bouse by the public lands commit committed tea on oa saturday |