Show MINES AND MINING the marysvale Marys vale utah district Is looking exceedingly good this fall from all accounts lead productions production a Is from GO to tons a year its zinc output Is about 2000 tons a year lead production in 1908 in the united was pounds and la in 1908 pounds both ot of these totals including lead smelted smelter in bond there Is now every indication that the proposed merger of some of the properties in the park city dist district vict ol of utah will not be attempted until after the first of the coming year it if at all 1 another carload of high grade gold ore from vale utah Is now at the utah samplers it Is estimated it will run not less than to the ton making the car of twenty five tons tone worth about lower Al mammoth ammoth Is sending out notices that the annual meeting will be held january 9 at which plans tor for future operations will be discussed at length work Is now being carried on on the and 1000 levels reports from rhyolite are to the effect that the Al montgomery shoshone consolidated company has determined to cease operations pending a more thorough investigation of the condition prevailing underground and in the mill at a meeting of the directors of the montana tonopah mining company hold held in philadelphia a dividend of 6 cents per share was declared payable december 20 to stockholders ol of record december 10 this will distribute among the stockholders that the day mine of the nevala utah mines and smelters shelters Sm elters corporation near is shipping a sufficient quantity of ore to the salt lake smelt ers to meet the durrent current development expenses ot of this company Is touched vouched for by representatives of the organization george E roth collector of customs for the city of rochester N Y and one of the owners of the famous Homes tako mine near neal ida reports that his men have just installed a ton ten stamp mill and cyanide works at the mine and will commence to ship concentrates within the next month eastern papers are discussing a thanksgiving dinner held by many of the leading copper producers of the ille country of which john D ryan the president odthe oe ibbe amalgamated copper company was the leading spirit it Is supposed that the preliminary details of the big copper colaer merger were gone over on this occasion the production of gold in alaska in 1909 amounted to which was larger than in any prior year with the exception of 1906 the excitement cit ement over mineral discoveries in the Indi caused many opera toia tori and miners to leave the fairbanks district and for that reason the total production of gold for alaska may be somewhat smaller this year than it was in 1909 A letter issued by the W 11 II childs company brokerage firm of salt lake city says the local stock market has undergone a healthy reaction during the past few days nothing of alarming proportions however having developed we feel all the more confident that added strength will be given many stocks behind which are important mine conditions and changes soon due J E calne caine and abax junghandel have brought suit for against frans frank J hagenbarth in the federal court of idaho to recover on a mining deal covering an option on the ludwig property in nevada it Is estimated that the white men employed on all transvaal gold mines received in salaries during the year ended june 30 1910 the sum of 17 while the natives and chinesa chinese earned and respectively develop developments ments at the mason alason valley mine continue to prove the ore bodies to be wider than originally estimated and the sampling which Is being done by mine cars to show the grade better than the underground samples indicated dica ted the output of gold from tile the mines of the transvaal during october amounted to ounces of fine gold valued at which compares with ounces having a value of for the month of september tungsten Is one of the rare metals and is s now worth in the market 7 per pound or per ton it v w discovered in 1781 and named the swedish tung heavy and sten stone it is not found native but occurs as tung of iron and manganese in inthe the mineral and as the calcium tung stale in the mineral scheelite the wild scramble for claims continues at valdez alaska with tho the nl r approach of cold weather tho the amateur as well as the seasoned prospector Is making use of every minute of daylight to place his monuments enta on un staked ground visitors from ely say that it Is no easy mauer matter to give the capacity of the nevada consolidated mill the capacity varies according to the kind of ore treated the plant has a nominal nal capacity of tons of ore a day but it has been known to treat as high us als tons dally daily the american smelting smelling Sm elting refining kompany Is in readiness to lay the area beneath tho the sixth lur ur naces at the garfield smelting smelling sm elting PD parks which will give this plant t docs 0 as additional dally daily rapacity for the reduction of copper concentrates |