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Show MINES Ai MINING Shipments of first-class crudo oro and mill products' from tho plants of Park City last week totaled 1011 tons. The nggregato" Is estimated at moro than $80,000. Compared with u yenr ngo the dividends divi-dends pnld out In September by American Amer-ican mines show n decided decrease. Tho general rlso In the costs of mining min-ing nnd smelting is given ns the principal prin-cipal cause. The old Newhouso or South Utah mine In western Heaver county, Utah, Is said to havo $00,000 cash funds on hand now nnd anticipates clearing up about $150,000 out of the present leasing leas-ing operations'. Assessments on local popular mining min-ing stocks hnve been moro numerous this year than In possibly any previous year In the history of Utah mining. Already on such stocks tho assessments assess-ments have numbered 100. With a total production of more than $110,000,000 and dividends of moro than $:il,000,000, Tonopah mines eon-tlnuo eon-tlnuo producing today at the Hate of about $000,000 every thirty days, or moro thnii $7,000,000 n yenr. 'Shipments of oro from the mines of Tlntlc last week totaled 104 carloads. These are estimated at 8000 tons and valued nt $210,000. This Is' .compared with 115 cars tho previous week and 100 cars tho week before that. According to the Goldlleld Tribune, the new electrlcnlly-drlven surfneo equipment of tho t Tonopah Dlvldo mine should bo In operation within less thnn a week nnd with this In plnco additional air drills' will bo Installed and tho great oro body will ho developed devel-oped on nil three levels. It hns been reported from American Fork canyon that tho American Fork Fissures company has ordered the closing clos-ing down of the mill, owing to oro running short. Tho mill has been steadily producing hlgh-grado concentrates concen-trates for nearly n yenr, milling crudo ore nt tho rnto of 150 tons per day. Dr. Adolph Knopf of tho United Stales geological survey spent several days In camp this week. Dr. Knopf Is tho man who made tho original write-up on tho lloss mine, says tho (iooilsprlngs' Gazette. Ills mission was. In the Interest of tlio government to slr.e up tho possible production of platinum. plat-inum. Under the bend "Publicity a Safeguard." Safe-guard." the Denver -Mining & Financial Finan-cial ltecord says that It does not pay to buy a pig In n poke. It does not pay to buy s'inres In n mining or oil company without first making a thorough thor-ough Investigation and securing full tlctulls upon which to bnsu your Judgment. Judg-ment. Throughout the American oil fields, in September there were 0170 new rigs and drilling wells, with nn uggrcgato nf 143,300 barrels of forty-two gallons each. Wyoming reports un Increase of thirty over August. That stato completed com-pleted sixty wells In September, recording re-cording eighteen dry holes and flvo gas wells. Several Dtigwny properties aro In tho actlvo list this full, and tho mining min-ing operators of that camp nro so op- mlstlc of the future Hint they havo radically completed tholr plans for hu erection of a mill to treat a portion por-tion of tho lurgo tonnages ut second-class second-class ore suld to bo found In n number of the old mines. Very few deposits of manganese oro oro known In Wyoming. A deposit In (ho northern part of Albany county was' examined by K. Ij. Jones, Jr., of tho United States geological survey, department of tho Interior on October 5, 1017. The deposit Is being exploited exploit-ed by tho Wyoming Manganese company com-pany of Laramie. ,.It Is reported from the old Coenr d'Alene district In northern Idaho, that tho recovery of tho mineral values from old tailings dumps nnd from tho accumulation of tailings along tho river riv-er unil In dums built to protect tint river channel has grown to bo a branch of the mining Industry of considerable con-siderable Importance and Increasing profit. There nro fulr prospects that the fight on between the minority and majority stockholders of tho Old Rmmn Mining company may be settled out nf court. It Is' understood that a rather definite proposition Ims been received by wire from George Graham lllrti of New York, In which ho agrees to liquidate liqui-date nil outstanding debts, probably cull off the 8-cent assessment nnd do other essential things In consideration of the suit being dropped. From W-hlngton comes word that Secretary of the Interior Lane announced an-nounced last Week that the United States Is becoming Independent of Ger-man? Ger-man? for potash. "Germany has thought and still thinks, no doubt, that she has u whlphand over America because be-cause of her supply of tills mineral," said Secretury hmo, "but America can In two years become entirely Independent Indepen-dent .of 'Germany In this regard by tho development of her own deposits' and the use of prdcosses devised by. Dr, Cottrell of this department." . i, . |