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Show (RECORD ESTABLISHED UTAH ORE PRODUCTION rjaetal production of the mines of Utah throughout 1012 ML valued at $44,21S,S50.41, "against $36,837,4.57 in 1911, an Eease of $7,381,391.-11. X' Itivill be seen by studying the tables of Utah production iTPflra tliat tlic increase is due more to the higher prices -foiled for the various metals than to an increased output, iKiU prove to be a surprise to those who have anticipated 'Ml Amount of metals produced Tvould he largely in excess Ktf expected, for instance, that the copper output during Kid reach nearer 160,000,000 pounds than 150,000,000, for Stir market range of the metal had encouraged innumer-'Kiler innumer-'Kiler producers, for many years idle or producing in lim-iSotitics, lim-iSotitics, to resumption of mining along a wide scale, while jp Copper company during the first three-quarters of 1912 S 83,268,508 pounds, against a total output in 1911 of Bpounds. But the Utah Copper company, as did all Bing-Swacers, Bing-Swacers, lost forty-days of production owing to the striUJo Ki and this complete cessation, of mining in the big camp jBVthft smaller gold production as well as the. very slight win the case of copper. j OF THE DECREASE IN GOLD Beascin gold during the year is accounted for also by the Mtoiugc band led by the straight gold producing properties Stile. Silver shows an increase of 957,498 ounces, while ;Sn the largest increase from Ihc standpoint of volume, Sarly 5,000,000 pounds, duo to the better lead prices stiinu-jKnducHon stiinu-jKnducHon in all the lead camps of the state. p'decrenBe in zinc when an increase was anticipated wilL be jHtyiitmeni. 1o many, but there is a good reason for this, as jKtocrcased zinc production was looked for owing to the mfa producers of this metal' late Tn the year, but the fact Brlookcd'tliat some sources of -this metal in years past were Swtly reduced in activity or ceased, altogether during 1912. JMjwcd the' largest increase in zinc production throughout B 'Tintic ziiie was an unexpected result of. the high spelter Ruriugtlie many long years, of successful mining in Tintic jjBftor has found zinc ores accompanying his silver, lead, KB copper ore bodies from level to level, but wherever this Jfos found the operator had to cease his operations in that ft as the presence of zinc in his lead shipments occasioned 5'3t the luiuds of the smelters. IK TONNAGE LEFT UNTOUCHED c ore could not be mined and marketed at a profit hence he-nce of the metal was too low and the market too dis-s dis-s ziue tonnage from year to year was left untouched loped, and no more undesirable product could be imag-when imag-when spelter early in 1911 began to advance from $5.45 1 pounds into Gf and to average -15.75 in 1911, on into in 1912 the operator began to recall this' despised, tog useless and'a drawback to lead mining. Zinc bc-e bc-e throughout the world and the middle west smelting tognn to scour the west for this metal. bcSHir investigating y.ine and in several instances dur-tonniifrc dur-tonniifrc was round extensive as well as sufficiently 1 to stand the shipment to Oklahoma or Kansas, and simmer and fall months zinc was one of the most im- J remunerative mining features of this, district. The Yankee Consolidated, Lower Mammoth, Gemini and sev-Koperties sev-Koperties were especially well provided with this char-e' char-e' and the cost of its extraction was reduced to a minimi mini-mi having exposed the zinc ore throughout the past search for other classes of ores, the mine owner was STTEMPre TO MAINTAIN PRESTIGE, Wore, assisted bravely in the attempt to maintain the, Mthc state as a zinc producer, and had the camp been Krj6 attention earlier in the year for its zine riches the T would have been an increase rather than a decrease. jK?',.C0PPer ami zim: during 1912 enjoyed much better avcr-'vKl,ln avcr-'vKl,ln 1911, illc Bruges S''cu i the accompanying table Mfc f1' 1912 boinS s,ruck tluriS lhc first olcveu montlls Wk I''Ul 8ll(nvcd "P firmer earlier in the year and lead 'm ..c receiving a veiy satisfactory price until, the talk JBL Vlfij? grcntly reduced the market price for the metal. dvideud-iayjng standpoint, Utah has closed an ex-Ktto"1 ex-Ktto"1 ycnr' six,f;on companies of the state in 1932 MBL .,48jS5l, all .good clean money . made in honest nnn- 'Ueen companies the year before paying $8,973,850: jJKJJ108 arc entering the dividend column for 1913 in gen-mJj1 gen-mJj1 several having declared dividends during the past flJL.., the turn of the year. !l dy of the accompanying tables will demonstrate fX Ulah pays generous returns, about' one-fourth' of the jK'iJjjCtion beinE distributed to stockholders in the |