Show AROUND THE MIKES A mining man who hai just returned from mexico Nl exico says ruining is booming there the mines are arc heavily and many prospects arr arn beginning to ship definite plans are under way war to make salt isalt lake not only the biggest iron and steel producing center in the int intermountain e reglo region n but to make it r rival IV al eastern centers samples sample s of rich lead silver ore just opened intha in th stampede mines com banys property in the old lincoln district between Mi mildford liford and beaver have been received atsatt at salt luke lake 01 D quartzite I 1 maxfield of the logger mining company wase down from big cottonwood last week with samples of ore from the north drift that assayed up to a ton ailt Is reported from eureka that I 1 duncan and al alien ler will not only carry the south standard tunnel forward but will start sinking a where a cross fissure was cut by the tunnel ambassador fletcher in the city of mexico notifies the state department that carranza has issued 4 a decree se seizing izing all mines owned by aliens which were not being worked on february 14 both the eureka mines company and the ridge valley mining company appy held their annual meetings last week submitted financial reports and selected new boards of directors the two boards are almost identical important development worn woric clial will necessitate the employment of abbout out miners in the near future has been started in the rochester portion of the rochester combined mines blines company at rochester nevada 4 george A storrs reports that thai stringers of ore carrying up to 10 in gold and 19 per cent copper are being encountered countered in the alpine empire ground in american fork another 60 50 feet in the adit Is expected to reach the contact severe storms during the past few days have somewhat handicapped practically all mining operations throughout the rochester district but as soon agthe as the effects of the storm are over the usual energetic activities 0 will again prevail the american mining engineers in session at new york on february 21 discussed preparedness with the tha naval consulting board the immediate subject was the erosion or the hardening of the surface of guns in connection with the meeting of the tha american institute of mining engineers As a result of the upward tendency in the silver metal some attention is now being given to the shares of the silver mining companies on the stock each exchange we and the curb states the now new york telegraph predictions predict lona are made that silver will go to 1 an ounce and that earnings of the silver mines will establish new high records one of the leasers leaders on the Lake lakeview view mining lining companas comp pomp anys property at tory thomas roberts reports that he has a lease on a block of ground on the level here he has been encountering some very good pockets ol 01 zinc ore in the limestone he Is just shipping a carload of 43 tons that samples 2895 per cent zinc some isome times ago an agreement was waa entered into for the sale of oc the property of the cypress gold and copper company to arthur murphy and associates tor for the sum of the majority of the stockholders assented to the proposition and a meeting was held in salt lake laka last week to ratify the action the property Is located in bli mineral county nev on january 1 1916 silver was quoted at 55 c in new york on december 31 the quotation was 75 c a gain during the year of 20 cents an ounce dunce the high point reached during 1916 was cents and during last month the price fluctuated between 75 and 77 cents it is reported that the manufacture of carbon black will be in progress in the first unit of a mammoth plant be ing erected at cowley wyo early in august the production will be at the rate of barrels a day or representing an annual commercial valuation of more than I 1 utah copper stock sold as low as 97 last week which represented a 8 valuation of for its property equipment investments and other assets this companas comp anys net met income 00 m e tor for must have been about or around 25 a share it paid only in dividends mining men of utah montana and nevada are keenly Inter interested eked in the movement now on foot by nevada citizens to take advantage of the appointment of raymond T baker of hat state as director of the united states mint to have the carson city mint now closed reopened opened re tor for coinage shipments of first class ore and mill concentrates from the mines of park city last week totaled 1550 tons estimated at this Is compared with 1500 tons the previous week it Is reported that the tryout try out of the new zinc smelter of the judge mining smelting smelling Sm elting company at park city is proving the success of the process and the perfection of the machinery several experts expert have been at the plant watching the preliminary workings returning from chloride artz ariz G E ford says that tho the district Is full of activity he tells of excellent showings in IL the ithe keystone which Is owned by ii ahmen Ut the work Is being dono eithe and levels work at he G georgia Is deve developing develio loo g a six foot eio |