Show do dips ap s spurs an and angles dAngles the american smelters shelters Sm elters securities company has declared the usual quarterly dividend of iya 11 per cent on the preferred A and 1 per cent on the preferred 13 11 stock payable april 1st ast the company is controlled by the american smelting smelling Sm elting refining company with a fire raging in the depths of the lincoln coal companas Comp anys mine at lincoln illinois the owners have been compelled to abandon it the fire has been burning for more than five months and the mine has been sealed and resealed time and again it is the largest coal property in that section metallurgical chemical engineering published in new york has transferred its western editorial headquarters nead quarters from denver to salt lake city and has opened offices in the newhouse building ernest E thum metallurgical engineer is in charge this is along the line of the growing importance of this city as a mining center stock of the recently organized sioux mines company has been listed on the salt lake exchange the capitalization is 1 shares par value 10 cents each with in the treasury reed smoot is N president and R L anderberg secretary the company is a reorganization of the old sioux consolidated with holdings at mammoth th utah davis kimball working on the co property at gold hill utah have discovered an old shaft about thirty five feet deep on the ground sunk so long ago that the oldest dest inhabitants knew nothing about it drifts from the bottom aggregated about thirty feet and a good showing of high grade grade copper ore was awaiting the lucky finders shipments from this portion of afie the ground have commenced already the treasure box mining company operating in city creeck canyon about twelve miles north of salt lake has contracted for the extension of its lower tunnel a distance of feet which will take it to the point where ore is expected it is now feet in length the company has about tons of high grade zinc ore exposed in its upper workings and the lower tunnel is designed to open this shoot about feet deeper than the workings above A dispatch from lima peru dated march ath stated that the cerre de pasco mining company in the big copper and silver producing region miles northeast of there had suspended operations throwing more than men out of employment it was given out at the new york offices of the company that dispatches from the property on the same date contained nothing to indicate a suspension of work and the officials stated that they aid not believe the report john berry an employee of the american smelting smelling Sm elting refining company at its plant at murray utah gives the following figures regarding the new stack there said to be highest in the united states height feet inside width at bottom forty five feet middle twenty eight feet and top twenty feet rests on a solid concrete foundation thirteen feet in thickness and ninety five feet in diameter bricks used one object of the great stack is to prevent smoke damage to surrounding vegetation newton A dunyon of salt lake mine manager and consulting engineer for the ontario ailder mining company reports conditions as exceptionally promising on the 1600 level of the famous old producer located at park city utah conditions on the 1700 level are improving also with a great tonnage of milling ore being mined advices advises from camp are that the mine is in a fair way to increase its record of practically in dividends stock on tile the eastern markets is showing great strength the new ton concentrating plant of the melcher mining milling company operating near albion idaho is expected to go 0 0 into commission early in april the company has developed an enor enormous nus tonnage about 20 90 a running of milling ore ton it also produces an ore of about an 80 grade which it has been shipping for some time the nearest railroad point is declo dealo twenty four miles from the mine the property is under the t he of pere and samuel M of salt lake is general manager |