Show AROUND THE MINES the latest news from park city utah la Is that tho the snow la Is eight feet ot OE the level the gold output of utah show fit slight blight increase from in in 1911 to in 1916 the news comes from st george utah that the idaho copper will build a 40 ton mill to treat silver reef ores copper authorities of the highest standing are in agreement that nc surplus stocky stocks of the metal will conic come upon tile the market upon definite indica eions of peace eighteen inches of ore that assant a ton in gold silver and lead has hae been uncovered in the schenectady mine at chloride ariz the drift la in which tile the vein was met Is 13 on tho foot feet level copper production in utah broke all records the past year increasing fron from pounds in 1915 to pounds in 1916 an increase of as 2 4 per cent in quantity and over 33 1000 in value twenty two mining companies in ili utah paid to stockholders in divi alvi bends the tha past year az as against in 1915 about 14 tons of ore oie were mined min ec I 1 in 1916 against tons in 1915 1916 I 1 general Man manager ilger dem of tile the tanti miling company said last week that thai the plant at silver city had just shipped out the largest consignment ol oj mill products yet forwarded fi from om tin tic by the company it consisted 0 a 76 75 tons and is estimated at the silver king consolidated min ing company has just paid its fou fourth artl quarterly dividend of 15 cents a shaie shai a the total amount paid out in the las iasi quarterly dividend was the total dividends paid iby by the prop erty this year amounted to in 1916 two new mills were erected at frisco and newhouse in beaven county utah to work talling tailing yielding copper lead and zinc concentrates which with ore shipped from the dif ferent mines minee aggregated tons an increase of more than tons over 1915 the park city utah region pro deuced during the past year less mill ing ore and more ore of shipping grade which with concen concentrates concentrate trat es from three ore mills and two large tailing plants amounted to nearly tons a decrease of about from the output of 1915 according to telegraphic advices advises re calved from new york the bond which has for some time been held by the shearer interests on the claims of the utah company the property of which is located just out of colton carbon county will be taken up jan uary 1 although the anaconda company compan has plenty of cars several ot of th mines will be down a shift or two bo be cause of the inability of the tran tation companies to furnish sufficient engin engines es to move the ore and because of ore freezing in the cars during the present cold spell ninety seven million dollars in gold silver copper lead and zinc was the production of the metal mines of utah in the year 1916 a record breaking out put of ore and an increase inci ease of 77 per cent or over the output of 1915 all the metals showed in creases and there were record out puts of copper lead anil and zinc that the history of butte will be repeated in jerome arizona is a belied that is steadily gaining ground there in butte it was thought tor for years that tho the ore lay within a certain circum scribed ascribed area then certain bold spirits drilled holes in the lime down jon an tee hats flats miles away from the camp and found copper the development company companas comp anys lease twelve miles west of lund utah Is still manifesting every lymp torn tom of constituting the beginning of a great lead mine As the result of a production that is only limited by the hauling facilities of the he property two more carloads totaling seventy tons of of we ore were delivered to the samplers last week james harry macmillan formerly a newspaper new man of utah and montana was in salt lake last week and was wae advising his friends in graphic la lan U guage to get into arizona and get there quick incidentally mr air mac alac milan with montana and eastern as socia so clates tes have aken over the magma superior property of acres which adjoins the great magma holdings a 8 mine that has been the recent west we t ern em sensation the ophir mill at butte which re constructed throughout started opera eions several days ago is treating ap proximately tons daily of the davis daly zinc ores and to date has hae operated most satisfactorily it is ex pecked that the capacity of the plant soon will be increased to a dalli daily ton nage of tons I 1 over ove pounds of copper ore is now being shipped out of battle Mounta nl nev dally daily it is the pro duct of several mines near the town and from present indications Indica tiong the ton nage will increase materially thle thie winter settlements for the last car jt if new nev quincy ore shows per cent lead and ounces silver the cal cai weighed thirty nine tons tang an official of the midvale minerals Min erale company reports that the new plant it Is now tr treating atlig tons dally daily of tho united states smelter dumps the miners bring word down from the new quincy at park city that mine has improved a great deal late ly local people interested are en thus lastic over the present shipping grades of ore exe are now nov b ins ing taken out every day |