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Show Blini Mention S7:'iUS2',tieejcy Survey Report romei in that a large deposit of potash has been discovered in Iron County; no further details at preient. Cedar-Talisman slock i soaring. Less than a month ago it was quoted at Beveu cent", with little interest shown; Wednesday 's quotations place tliis stock at seventeen and a half cents. - According to the Mining and En gineering World, one hundred eleven companies operating American mints, have, during the first four months of the present year, paid to their stockholders stock-holders the turn of $46,780,286.00 in dividend. This is $10, 340,385.00 greater than the banner year of 1913, and . $21,683,804.00 in excess of the same period for 1915. Statistics show, says this ji urual, that of all legitimate mining investments, only 369b fail, while the rate of failure in general coinercial enterprises is Hfr. Tha Beaver Lake Metals has Just completed working improvements, including in-cluding a compressor and hoist, at a cost of $4,000.00. The new shaft is down thirty feet and will cut ore from v the Dippe, Number 6, from which i some valuable shipments have been made. Smelter returns show 44 per cent lead and 15 ounces silver and an ureij uf iron. This ore ci mmaids a prr mium at the smelters The tunnel of the Baby Jack, owned by the samf company is now nearing the ore bear-lug bear-lug vein. Ttis tunnel will tap the shafi ot the Baby Jack at a depth o 90 leet. Ore in this shaft shows values of SO ounces silver and 65 per cent laid. This property is located tw.6lf. miles north east of M'fln the north end of lheer Lake Th( ' JiS Mining district,. Mountain, the e: T hog-luifVcently incorporated day a ( 'j"uani Beaver Lake Metals, shorn ' company in'ends prosecuting Mine: : cjyeloi nit-nt operations and to sand Jie. different ore bodies within while i!-:: boundaries. sixtei Ti e property adjoins the Bearer baud: Ci pper on the Sou h, at a distance of tnete aljout one thousand feet. The balance nd a of this property i under bond and Portn lease to William Vivian who has just yet. 1 now gotten out another shipment of sliver lead ore. The Beaver Copper has intstalleri m ichinery and is down about seventy feet and so far, has been sunk through Thi hli grade copper ore all the waj, meet showing about 5 per cent copper; the week ore also carries a high silver value. prop . Prospects seem veiy bright in the meet: Beaver Lake region, for continued ano Frida successful activity. Many men are at will work and progress i good. next |