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Show i THE CITIZEN uiHiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiunHiHiHmuHnHmnMminininiiiiiniuniiiiiiiiiiiiHniiiiiiiiiiiiHiimiiHiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiHiiiiniiimiiiHiiiimiiiiiiiiiiniiiHiiiniimiiiiii. jfeekly Mine arid Oil Review j iinll,l;llililinniiiiniiiiimiii EUREKA district. rinteiident Charlie Baker of the busi-attgill mine will attend to er vedl few d- - at Salt Lake during the ys. It is understood that is considering a proposi-fo- r the sale of its large mill dump, contains about 200,000 tons of company Recent improvements a e milling business have had Wcy to make such dumps more ore. lead moving in the and copper showing ith right di-lio- a slight the outlook for thejnin-findustrof Tintic is not so os it was some months ago Knight people hope to be able considerable amount of devel-ien-t work in the Iron Blossom, y ovement dis-agin- the io a n g At the last and Dragon. property a contract was recent-je- t brado Led for driving a drift through a the mine which had caved Ition The and shut off ore production. tractors have completed their work of very short time the Tin- mill, at Silver City, will be taking ood tonnage of mill ore from this within a erty. depth of a little over 1,200 the Water Lily shaft of the Chief isolidated company encountered it is probably a minor fracture or which gas has been ik, through ing in such quantities ns to slowr a IUI operations. There were s during the past few days when liras impossible for the miners to itinue work and while Manager :il Fitch feels that the presence of in the shaft is by no means an avorable indication it will likely ay the work to some extent. sinking .tie 63 car"-total k of ore. this being the largeet put that the mine has had in many S. Officers of the company state it there has been a general improve-fn- t in underground workings, which counts for the heavier shipments, d they hope to continue shipping at present rate. This weeks output havp been somewhat heavier it not been for the transformer Manager Raddatz of the Tin- r Standard is very enthusiastic re- friing the future of the mine and t anoutlook for mining in general, due improved metal market. c hearts of western mining men Bladdencd by news that action has en taken by Senator Tasker L. Oddie evada which, it is expected, will Jlt in speedy consideration of the fadden bill. This legislation pro- to stimulate the production of toestic guld by levying a tax of $10 bounce upon all of the yellow metal in thf arts and in industry. In manner, proponents of the bill ?The say, a fund will be created by which the government can pay a premium of $10 per ounce on all virgin domestic gold. and superintendent of the Midwest Development company, a new corpor-t- h e ation which was launched for the pose of taking over a number of Amer-- t ican Fork canyon properties, among them the Old Miller Hill, was in Eureka this week. He says that his company, which was organized by Tin-ti- c and Salt Lake people, already has about twenty men at work and in addition to this force is using ten teams in road construction and in the hauling of supplies, which will be requir-- . ed for the coming winter. pur-jjgrad- in the vein as native metal, usually associated with the carbonate of lead, cerusite. In the' upper part of veins in arid parts of the country the silver is commonly combined with chlorine as silver chloride in the mineral known as cerargyrite or horn on the southeast cross-cu- t level about two weeks ago. There the ore streak was drifted on to the southwest. It appears to be bedding out from a fault fissure and looks very promising. COPPER MINING IMPROVES, SAYS LOS ANGELES MAN These are busy days at the new mill The of the Silver King Coalition. work of construction is going forward with wonderful rapidity, and the machinery for the mill is arriving every day. Before the first of. the year the new mill will be grinding out concentrates by the hundreds of tons daily, -- it is predicted. and a half A shipment of thirty-twdry tons of ore has netted the New Quincy Mining company $1,441.96, aco PARK DISTRICT. R. Turner returned to Salt Lake Wednesday afternoon after a stay of three weeks at the Silver King Coalition, assisting in the underground development of that big O. cording to information received assayed, it is said, 55.3 ounces of silver, 18.1 per cent lead, .04 of an ounce gold, and 1.193 per cent copper, 42 per cent being insoluble. A gross value of $64.68 per ton was returned. There are large areas of mining ground being located . in the eastern part of this district in the vicinity of Scores of location nothe Park-Utatices have been secured from this office by local mining men the past two weeks, who predict great things for that section within the next year or two. GOLD AND SILVER ORES. h. Gold ore is usually found in quartz Directors David Keith and Tom Kearns, of the Silver King Coalition, were both up from Salt Lake City last week and visited the property and note the splendid progress being made, both underground and on the surface. It was Mr. Keiths first visit to the big property since last July, when he and Mrs. Keith left for tbe France- - Mr- - Keith bfnB ne. in 200 LeBion membf8 PriiciDate Ct' the unTeiling of tbe im0nument fff ed t0 tbe meraory of mena 80 at Flirey, as special guests of the French government. Superintendent Paul Hunt, of the Park-Utareports ore conditions proving all the time at that property and regular weekly shipments are ing made. A force of seventy-fivmen are employed and additions are being made to the payroll weekly. A new bunk house, 2Sx5S, to accommodate forty men, is in course of construction and will be ready for occupancy by the first of next month. Great things are ahead for the Park-Utah, im-jul- d be-fUbl- e. e h. The Spiro tunnel workings of the Silver King Consolidated Mining com-ip- s pany have excellent showings of ore in the west face of the iron drift and t in the southwest drift on the level above the tunnel, says those in 275-foo- at the companys office recently. This ore, which was taken from the new strike, producer. charge. The ore in the Iron drift has just come in. Evidently it is an extension of the shoot just opened on the drift above which was abandoned on account of water. There the ore was three feet wide and very rich in silver, lead and gold, assaying about $300 a ton. Similar rich ore was entered by the 275-fo- ot A. W. Larson, who is vice president Civil Engineer 11 veins, which may cut almost any kind of rock, such as granite, schist, or slate, according to the United States Geological Survey, Department of the Interior. The gold may or may not be visible, and the only sure way to tell whether any quartz vein contains gold is to assay it. If the gold is free, however that is, if it is not contained in some sulphide like pyrite, or not combined with tellurium it can generally be detected by finely crushing the quartz and washing the powder in a pan. Gold is found also in gravel or sand derived from rocks and deposited in stream beds or Such gold, known as on beaches. placer gold, can usually be seen by washing the gravels in a miners pan. Placer gold is generally rather pale, dull yellow. It may appear as minute scales or flakes cr as more or less rounded nuggets weighing as much as several ounces. Like all gold, it is soft, can be flattened out easily with a hammer, and does not dissolve in the common acids, although it is soluble in a mixture of hydrochloric and nitric acids, known as aqua regia. Silver also occurs in veins but in so great a variety of forms that it is impossible to describe them briefly. By far the greater part of the silver obproduced in the United States is tained from ores that carry either lead r ores Iho or gold. In the silver is generally combined invisibly in the mineral galena, which is the sulphide or lead. In the upper port of these deposits, where the galena has been oxidized, the silver may remain gold-bearin- lead-silve- g silver-bearin- g silver. The following comment regarding copper is from the pen of Maurice W. Bacon, well known Los Angeles min- ing expert: The first and most important industry in the world is that of agriculture. Second in importance to our civilization is the industry of mining, and second in the importance of the mining industry is that of copper, gold, of course, coming first. The copper industry, as well as most of the others, has been experiencing a period of great deflation and a consequent depression brought about by the tremendous inflation during the period of the war and continued excessive production long after the discontinuance of the war. It was apparent to many interested in the business that production should have ceased at the time of the armistice, but in anticipation of the tremendous tonnage that would be required in Europe for its rehabilitation the abnormal production was continued until the financial burden became so great it could not be carried on further. The business, however, today is convery rapidly assuming its normal dition. The surplus copper on hand January 1, 1921, was something like 1,500,000,000 pounds. This surplus is reported to have been reduced to approximately 750,000,000 pounds and is continuing to be reduced monthly at a rate exceeding 50,000,000 pounds. The consumption at this time being in excess of three times the production that for July, 1921, was pounds, which is only about s of the worlds normal consumption, and in all probability about 50 per cent of what the demand will be as soon as the worlds financial situation is again clarified. A normal surplus for this country alone is approximately 350,000,000 pounds. The average price of copper since 1S50 has been 19.22 cents per pound, and this average, eliminating the period during the war, Is approximately 18 cents per pound. At these prices or several cents less, with the labor and supply situation again assuming its normal positions, the copper companies have and will again flourish very satisfactorily. 70,-000,0- 00 two-third- COPPER CONSUMPTION. The worlds average increased copper consumption per annum has been about 8.9 per cent, which average we expect to be exceeded during the next decade, due to several factors, the largest of which may be the tremendous demand from central Europe for this metal to replace the wars de- - |