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Show MINES AND MINING i The shipments of oro from tho Tin-tic Tin-tic for the week ending Juno IS , nmntint to fifty-four carloads. The Lost Packer mine nt Custer, Idaho, will make at least $500,000 worth of Hint to at Its smelter this season. sea-son. Tho directors of the Republic Steel and Iron company last week voted not to doclnre .tho regular quarterly dlvl-dond dlvl-dond of 1- per cent on tho preferred stock. A Gormnii technical Journal has i gono to tho trouble of estimating that tho wntor of the wholo ocean contnlna In solution over 2,000,000 tons of puro sliver. I Two weeks' clean-up of the Mnzumn ' Hills mill nt Maztimn, Nevada, yielded $20,000. Tho mill Is extracting 90 per oent, nnd concentrates go $300 n ton uh n result of this llrst clean-up. Tlntlc Is preparing to celebrate tho building of the Knight smeller In fitting fit-ting stylo on tho 1st of July. The plant, It Is understood, will not ho ready to go Into commission 'until after tho Fourth. Deposits of antimony on Coyoto creek, In (lailleld county, southern I'tah. have been worked spasmodically slnco 1SS0, and It Is reported that moro thnn $100,000 woith of oro has been shipped from this region Tho Keystone Mining company, operated in tho Park City district, hns listed its shares on tho Salt l.ako stock and mining exchange, whero It was given u plnco on the big blackboard black-board nud formally called for tho llrst tlmo last week. Directors of the Utah Consolidated havo declared u regular quarterly dividend div-idend of fiO cents per share. This Is the same as the two previous declarations declara-tions and compares with $1 uluo months ngo nud $ 1.2ft und 25 cents extra n yenr ago. Tho Utah initio of Fish Springs la grndually Increasing Uh prodticjlon. Good weather, with the resulting good ronds, Is making It possible to haul tho oro over tho Hovonty-Uvo-mllo desert road to the railroads In much bettor time, .lust nt the cluso of last week n car of oro was released from Uto sampling works. Activity in tho Storm Mndro mining district, Just 'north of Ogdeu, wns resumed re-sumed Inst week, when Don Magulro and a party of men begun work on tho tramway which Mr. Magulro la building In this district to facilitate tho handling of oro and supplies. Thu tramway, when cotnplotud, will havo cost over $10,000. Tho extraordinary doposlt of meteorites meteor-ites near Canyon Diablo, Ariz., which has occasioned much comment nud dlHcusslon nmong the lending geologists geo-logists of Uie country, Is being mndo tho subject of n study by Prof. Gcureu P. Morrill and Wirt TiisbIii of tho do-partrnont do-partrnont of geology of tho United States NdtionnrMuseurti, i. Tho Uncio Jesse Mining and Milling company rrns Incorporated nt Provo last weok. Tho compnny owns sovon patented claims In north Tlntlc. Tho property of the company has already been prospected. ICven on the surfaco tho lodges hnvo shown some excop-tlonnl excop-tlonnl values. Tho company has a capital of 1,000,000 shares. In tho mammoth 100-ton mill nt tha Consolidated Mcrcur mine, nt Morcur, Utah, tho h lines plant Installed a few months ago Is meeting with marked success, nnd ono of tho vexing piob-loins piob-loins of tho Industry is ceasing to wop ry tho management. The method used for treating tho slimes Is n mod-lllcatlon mod-lllcatlon of several processes which havo proven cumbersome The Rnlnkalala Copper company will Bonn begin work of Installation of a copper converting plant, which will cost $125,000, says tho noston Nows Durenii. It will bo of sufllcluut capacity capac-ity to convert tho matto Into blister copper for nn annual production of 20,000,000 pounds or copper, which Is tho expected output of tho Haiakala company when In full opcr.ttlon. Thomas Cooper land commissioner of tho Northern Pacific railway, testified testi-fied at tho federal rate hearing before a special master at St. Paul, that tho coal lands owned by thnt company savo tho railroad $2,770,000 n year and aro worth to tho compnny $50,000,000. All of tho coal used by tho road west of Illsmnrck, N. !., comes from Its own mines, said the witness, and r peclnlly from Its Uosln mines A decision wns rendered last week In tho suit or tho Outnrlo Sllvur Mining Min-ing company or Pnik City acalnst tho Wasatch nud other Irrigation companies, com-panies, In which the right nud title to tho use or water emerging from the ' drain tunnel of tho Ontario mine wns involved. Under the terms or tho decision de-cision It Is decreed that tho defendants defend-ants bo restrnlnod from Interfering with or claiming any right to tho wntor. C. O. Rnxter nnd associates oro making preparations to begin active oil operations In tho Rangely field. Mr llnxtcr was In Vernal for a day or two the first of tho week nnd loft for Raiigely to look nfter tho proport) leased from the Coltharps, uiys the Vernal Hxpress. Colorado Is not an Important copper-producing stnto. Tho annual production pro-duction rarely reaches 10,000,000 pounds, and In 1000 It wns only 7,427,-253 7,427,-253 pounds To this output eighteen counties contributed, but only two Lake (I.eadvlIIo district) and Ran Juan yielded notablo nmounta. Tho annual report of tho Nevada Douglas Copper company shows that a great amount of development work Is belgn done, tho report Btatlng that "with tho development work carried along In nn Intelligent manner a largo additional tonnage will bo made. tx our reserves In the next year." |