Show washington approximately will be expended in further development of the lead zinc mining companas Comp anys holdings near metaline and in additions to the mill and drill exploration according to manager lewis P larsen the company will be employing from forty to fifty men by the first of the year when the mill will be completed and in operation A flotation system is to be installed at once and the capacity of the plant increased to tons a day one ore shoot on the ground has been opened for a distance of feet with a width of from dwerl ty five to seventy five feet and said to carry 10 per cent zinc the ore is a sulphide in which the zinc is free carrying no iron the united copper mining company op crating at chewelah Chew elah has declared the regular monthly dividend of 1 cent a share payable january it calls for the company resumed the payment of dividends the present month after a suspension of four years by the payment of I 1 cent a share on the these two disbursements increase the total to as the company paid in 1912 manager conrad states that the property is in the best condition of its history the mill remodelled remodeller remodel led and equipped with a modern 20 flotation tation and separation system now is effecting an all exceptionally high percentage of saving and the smelting smelling sm elting contract has been renewed at a satisfactory rate diamond drill prospecting has proven the ore for a distance ot of feet below the lowest workings and the directors have just authorized the sinking of a two compartment shaft from the 1000 level to the 1500 |