Show AROUND THE MINES I 1 metallurgical companies six in num her ber have paid dividends for this year totaling since ln incorporation corpora these companies have shared with stockholders ben D luce former member of 0 the tha salt galt lake stock wining alining enc ange iange Is in tonopah To according to reports weeping the bubbles oft off the slime allma ponds and making a fortune latest reports from the paloma I 1 mining company in deaver county utah say that at present the tha curn company pany Is working one of the largest forces in the district and that rapid progress Is being made august proved an exceptionally good month for holders of stock in Arne american rican mines and works tor for according to 0 o reports made to the mining and engineering world in dividends were disbursed according to a report rece recel veil iveLl from lovelock nevada orders have been placed for the enlargement of the tha present Ro coester mines mill according to the management the mill Is to be enlarged from tons a day to tons tonit davie irish one of the pioneers of the nevada copper camp who was in salt lake last week announces that progress of the mine development in district within the last eighteen months has been greater than ever before in its history activity in copper company shares is based not so BO much on the belief bellef that the dividend will be increased at the december meeting as it is on the realization that the company will have a net cash and copper surplus of something like at the close of during the months of 1916 ended with august companies have paid dividends totting incorporated these companies have divided among the share hold ers no less than the combined issued capital of these companies amounts to under a contract given by the board of directors of the secret TAI mining ining aiming Ill ling company work has been started on the lower tunnel near the at al blon boarding house the contract calls for feet of work the tunnel Is already in seventy five feet and Is showing some the semiannual report of the amerlean american Sm smelling smelting elting refining company for the months ended june 30 last hows an enormous enor moua goin in earnings ear ninga over the first half of 1915 net et income for the six months month ip to dividends amounted to an increase over 1915 of miami copper company ono one of the tha smaller porphyries ries continues to give an excellent account of itself its production is now running very consistently at the rate of close to go CO pounds of copper per tritium annum lt it Is only a very verr chort while ago that pounds appeared to be limit active work has bee started on the independence mines property iro perty in fortuna district in utah to prospect tile the big ledge that runs through the country cutting through this property and se leeral oral others Is a ledge that tha jut dziut crops above all the other formations and for some time it has been looked upon as the most likely dike of the district since the gintic tintic milling companas comp anys mill at silv silver er city has passed the ex perl peri mental stage entirely satisfactory to the manager preparations are now under way to enlarge the plant by the addition of new equipment by means of this addition the company expects to bring the mills capacity up to tons per day and also it handle andle a larger tonnage IRP reports ports received from park city said that the long tunnel being driven on the silver king consolidated ground has encountered the solid formation and inston drills have been installed the soft arouni Is now disappearing overhead with willi the new drills going more rapid progress can be made the ore body is improving in the bottom of the on the buffalo consolidated mining alining wiling milling com banys property located on lion till hill in the opeil district according to reports that have reached the local 0 officials the main tunnel Is being driven along a fissure into promising territory the management of the property la is confident that the present plan of ex work under way at the tha emma copper mining companas comp anys property located in the little cottonwood district will result in the discovery of the faulted ore bodies that made mada t the e old E emma mma property one of the famous producers cers of that section reports from bonanza a mining camp near challis in custer county are to the effect that there Is unusual activity in that section A number of rich strikes have been made in the tha vicinity of estes mountain which has created an excitement which promises to develop into one of 0 the biggest mining booms idaho has ever known the bonneville lumber company last week received an order tor for av feet of lumber from the fissures leasing company for HSC in croc erecting ting the ehg pacific mill now building null dlug on dutchman flat and which is intended to work the ore from the pacific and dutchman mines in order to open the ore are body struck recently on the croff craft mining com banys property located it in i the lincoln mining district of beaver county counte utah the company has lot let a con contract traut for sinking the shaft an additional feet |