Show AROUND THE MINES I 1 tiia tife value oi of th the egold gold silver copper lead lei d find and zinc mined in nevada in ill 1917 1937 wits was over mo tho the second furnace of the mason valley smelter at thompson nov nev has been blown in and Is treating OZO to tons of copper ore a day union oil company for tile year ending december 31 1917 shows not net profits of against tile the previous year says a los angela dispatch production in 1917 1017 by the mines of idaho Is placed at according to tile united states geological estimates ti this Is an increase of moro more than over 1910 1010 the amount of petroleum produced and marketed in the united states last year reached the record breaking total of barrels exceeding by 14 per cent the record output of 1910 yio 0 copper valued at more than half a billion dollars was produced in III tile united states in 1017 production was slightly less than in 1010 1910 the geological survey announced in statistics tor for the year buete superior in december produced pounds of zinc in concentrates cen and ounces of silver this compares with pounds of zinc and ounces of silver in november the union oil gas company which has holdings along the shores of the lake near farmington utah has tiled filed articles of incorporation the capital stock Is shares with a par value of I 1 cent each unless costs show a sharp upward turn during the last three months earnings of the chile copper company for the year 1917 should show about 2 per share on th the e shares outstanding says the boston news new s bureau estimates made by victor C halkes in charge of the salt lake office of the U S geological survey place tile the 1917 total production of utah mines in gold s silver liver copper lead aad zinc tit at this Is more than in 1010 close to in bullion hasteen has been turned out of the mill of the rochester mines company during the month of december says the lovelock nev review evlow Il the second shipment for the month Is going forward the first of 0 tho the week to talling the manganese association Is now shipping a carload of high grade manganese every day and Is gradually increasing tile tonnage hauled in a short time it will be able to increase the tonnage hauled to two cars each day says the las vegas nev age T more afore high grade scheelite tungsten ore is being found in the frankle mine of the woodman mining company in the above the main tunnel find and at about thirty feet below the surface the she elite Is found associated with copper ore but apparently not in combination with copper stocks of refined copper at the beginning of 1917 were about pounds making the alie years available supply exclusive of seron secondary dary capper about pounds export for the first ten months were pounds anti and for the year were beyond the billion pound mark the miami copper company is vald said to have earned between 8 and 9 per share in 1917 against paid in li dividends and in the face of a strike which seriously curtailed production and raised raided costs the production for tile the year was about pounds against pounds in 1010 the mines of beaver county ire are go ing to break into the production list in such a manner one of these lays days As as to make the other camps of the I 1 state sit up and take notice in the opinion of dick mcloughlin of milford utah one of the veteran prospectors and miners of beaver county the manager of the columbus columbu s rp alx lx x all intimated last week that lie he Is planning to put the alta mine in such bhame that when the transportation facilities are settled down clown to a permanent nian elit and dependable basis in early sprint spring the mine will be in shapo shape to make inake a production record to be proud of the dividends from idaho mining for the past eleven months amounted to nearly the principal contributors tribu tors were bunker nill leill sullivan caledonia hercules con soll soil dated interstate callahan pittsburgh idalio wilbert empire copper big creek leasing douglas richmond black hawk leasing and tamarack castor caister what I 1 Is s declared to be a new and shorter process has been patented for extracting oil from the shale and pioneer development Is IN now going on oil Is the latest word from colorado that state already ling has a dozen small 11 plants ilits in course of construction coash action mainly e c to work oyt oat best methods of treating the oil of the i respective it its ia declared areil that there Is no lio royal road to successful oil shale it is as a balled und with certain refractory almost alli lost us its complex a proposition as treatment of pres ores shipments of ore from froin the mines of tintic this week tota leif carloads these are estimated at tons and valued nt native nathe copper ore lia lias been proven erlven along the north south drift for a distance of feet according to tin official facial of the montana 1 I 0 condoll Con soll dated this thesis Is at a point feet in from the portal of the main tunnel this native copper appears in bunches in seams and in the cracks and crevices besides beside being impregnated atea through some of the r masses cort mosing the great foot vein |