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Show I BI1 MUG - It la reported Hint the I'rlnco Con solidated mill nt IJullIonvlllo is operating operat-ing iiriiIii. Jinny fnvnrnblo silver assays (luring : ho recent weeks lend ono to the be- .i ' lief tlmt (looilsprliiRs, the big zlna camp, inny nt sonio tlniu become n sec-' sec-' -ond Tonopiih, Shipments of oro front tbo mines of Ti'Intlc lust week totaled 120 carloads. .?. , - Tills amounts to u total of npproxj-. npproxj-. Jimtely (1000 tons and values at $1715,-' $1715,-' A 000. This Is compared Willi 127 car- ' loads tbe previous week. " Announcement was made from Has- V. . ton last week tlmt tbo directors of tbo v'v'r'V Utah Metal & Tunnel company linvo v , declared anotber dlvh'tnd. Tills Is for .V'Nft JIO cents a sbare. It a(pilres tbo pay- .nient of tbo sum of ?l!0.yli)0. , In explanation of tbo embargoes ' jilaced by tbo Oregon Short Lino . . ; against ore, officials of Unit railroad ' bavo died tlielr reasons for tbo em-'T' em-'T' bargo as being merely to regulate tbo V: amounts being shipped to tbo smellers. Six oil volIs bavo been brought In In ' ; ,j Wyoming during tbo past weok ono ' ; In tbe l.ljj Muddy Held, one In tbo Cody Held, ono In the,lllg Hollow, ono In tbo - I'olsoh Spider, ono In tbo I'lne Domo v .Miction ami ono In tbo 1'llot llutto Jleld. ' . While tbo Knight mines aro not shipping ship-ping as heavily as they would ho If It "Jff'( ' were not for the embargoes placed on 'k-U .their ores by the smelters, u largo vfr -' winount of development work Is going on at these properties, says tbo Ku-. Ku-. reka (Utah) Iteporter. ' ' Operations at tbo ltlco-Argcntlno Mining company's lllco properties aro i ' making good progress, and shipments of oro wilt soon ho going out steadily -from both tbo lower company works ' '' jiikI the upper workings under Messrs. '' Snyder and Fluids lease. '" ' Ono of (be directors of tbo Liberty OH company said last week that tbo last word from tbo Spring Valley ceno of operations Is that tbo drilling, drill-ing, which had been started, Is making good progress. Already a depth of .about -00 feet has been attained. Supt. Thomas Walden of the Sunset Deads word down from Leadoro, Ida., .that the new plant Is now operating. Three cars of oro hnvo been shipped to Utah markets lately. It Is estimated that the ore will net' about -?WK) a ton. The ore out of the wlnzo Is richer than tlmt from tbo tunnel level. A new York commentator says : liar silver Is apparently preparing for u inow rise. Its steady decline In price from the, September high official uou-tutlon uou-tutlon to fl.08Vi.por ouucu ended on Friday, and for the llrst tltno In several sev-eral weeks the prlco improved, moving mov-ing up 51 o to 83c per ounce. Tbo labor troubles which retarded mining anil smelting operations aro apparently ap-parently ended, but, according to tbo expressed opinion of such an cinliiwiit authority as ex-Senator Clark, oveu with a maximum output of metal thcro will still bo a shortage In production uvnllablo for. private Industries. Entrance of a new organization Into the American Fork district Is noted lu the activity of tbo Hog Mining company, com-pany, now operating twelve claims located lo-cated contiguous to tho I'acTilu group m tbo east. Tbo property was discovered discov-ered somo thirty odd years ago and worked quite extensively nt tho time. Tho low prlco of lead has worked .almost Incalculable hurt to western mines In the past few months. This with smelter embargoes and shortage of railroad cura aud congestion ut samplers have been other contributing causes. This has resulted lu tho closing clos-ing dowit completely of many mines tmd great reduction of forces lu others. rigures prepnred by the bureau of julues estimate gasolluo production for tbo llrst slxmonths of 1017 at T.lTJa, 370,81)9 gallons, as compared with ' 058,:ii!2,838 gullons for tbo entire year - ' of 1010. Kerosene production for tbo llrst six months of 1017 Is estlmnted at 78I,111,'-MJ1 gallons, with production of l.lSS.IO.VJI- giilloua for tho entire 1010 v,V i jour. . . . Krom Heaver county, Utab, cornea word that owing to tho present low price- of lead, s.uelter embargoes on ores and Inability ) securo curs for transportation a combination of distressing dis-tressing conditions for tho mlno oper-i oper-i . - utors that a number of tbo largest s producers bavo'closed down. As soon ir," ua conditions will Justify it, tbo mines t- - V - will bo reopened. Hero la tbo way uu eastern Journal . i- . " comments on tbo lead situation; r.-s "There aro many reasons to expect n rise la tho prlco of Ipad. Metal men claim that tbo present prlco does not ? . rolled tho true- status of tho market fi ' und Is wholly artitlclal. Tbo market Is not oversupplled, producers seemingly ' J , being willing to accept tho compara- W'-- ' tlvely small margin of prollt alVordcd ' ,'-,! liy the present price, nud tho steady M declluo Imvlng, In wMno Instunces, tW;" caused producers to curtail output." iV ., Thlrteeu mlues of tho famous Colo- tf.''' - rado camp of Cripple Creek havo dls-trlbutcd dls-trlbutcd approximately $:IO,000,000 In tf-'J - dividends. These are now uctlvo dis- .'- ' ' trlbutors. " Tbo Calumet A Arlnoua reports an "rf - output for October of.RV.ff. 100 pounds h copper. This compart with VOOO r$ in September and -1.20V. UO In August. Production of Now Cornelia In ucto-X ucto-X ler was a.028,000, u how high record for this company. " ,. Tbo Kldorudo, on tbo heights north V - of Ogden, Is starting a long now tun-. tun-. .' L.jt 'j'ho face Is In less than 100 feet, VV' but this work will bo carried ultimate- 'V'"1 : ly' In 2()00 feet. Tbo objective Is to tnp at depth prominent outcropping veins with ore. This will give 000 feet of bucks. |