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Show UTAH MINES PRODUCE BIG DIVIDENDS agnin the l:irc;es: producer of silver In t'tab, and it was followed by the Chief Consolidated, 1'ark-l'tah, Silver Sil-ver King Coalition, and Park City Mining & Smelting companies. Oilier Oili-er lare silver producers were Hie United Slates, Utah Apex, Victoria, Ontario, Utah Cupper. Iron Woss-om, Woss-om, Utah Delaware, liullion Beck, Pllltus. iinham Mines, Maniiaulli, and Ophir Hilt properties. .... j Hi2t to about $3,ti81,000 in 1925. Practically all the gold .was recovered recov-ered from, ores and concentrates smelted us the Tintic Standard Mining Min-ing Co., was tile only one that recovered re-covered any gold or silver in bullion or precipiUites. Pronounced increases increas-es in the output of gold were made by the Park-Utah,. Utah Apex, United States and Chief properties, but there were large decreases from the Utah Copper, Utah Delaware, and Centennial. Eureka mines. As a res-nlt the gold from the Park .City and Tintic districts was much more than in 192-1, but the output of Bingham, which produces most of the gold of tile state, was slightly slight-ly less. The largest producers of gold were- the Utah Copper, Chief Consolidated (including Grand Central), Cen-tral), United States, Park-Utah, and Utah Apex companies. Other mines that produced more than l(M)i) ounces, each were the Utah Delaware. Dela-ware. Silver King Coalition, Tintic Standard, Park City Mining & Smelting, Bingbnm Mines, Iron Blossom,. Mammoth, Victoria, and1 Eagle & Blue Bell properties. The output of silver increased from 17.253,092 ounces In 1924 to 21.177.000 nonces in 1925. thereby exceeding the former record of 1923 of 19.137.170 ounces. No neighboring neighbor-ing state compotes with Utah in silver output, and It produced more sliver than Nevada, Arizona ami Colorado combined. -The value of the output of silver Increased from $11. 559.974 to Sl-Un-LOOO. There was a general Increase in silver from Park City, Tintic, and Bingham, Bing-ham, but the largest Increase caiue from the Park City district, large-1 ly from the Ptrk-Ulah nunc. The Tintic Standard Mining Co. was! The mines of Utah in 1925 produced pro-duced gold, silver, copper,, lead and ziuh valued at .fS2.7U3.0o0, an increase in-crease of nearly $10,000,000 . over the output of 1924, according to estimates es-timates of V. C. Heiks, of the Bureau Bu-reau of Mines, Department of Commerce. Com-merce. The output of silver and lead exceeded that of any year since the mines, were discovered, and tbe output of zinc and gold were decidedly larger than that of 1924. The quantity of copper, the most valuable output of the State was slightly less than in 1924. Utah was first in the United States in tbe production of silver, second in lead, and third in copper. Its lead output was greater in 1925 than that of Idaho, which, has held ser-ond ser-ond place for many years. One of the imiiortant features of the industry in-dustry was the. great progress made In the concentration of zinc-lend ore hy defferential flotation at International, Inter-national, Bauer and Midvale. The dividends paid by mining companies in Utah in 1925, as shown by published statements, amounted to about $12,454,940 exclusive ex-clusive of $2,492,232 paid by tho United States Smelting, Itcflning & Mining Co., which controls mines at Eureka and Bingham, as well os mines in other states. The companies com-panies that contributed to this total were the Utah Cupper Tintic Standard. Stand-ard. Silver King Coalition. Utah Apex, Park-Utah Consolidated. Park City Mining & Smelting, Chief Consolidated, Con-solidated, Hiughain Mines, Ohio Copper, and Mammoth. Tbe production of gold Increased about 21 per cent, from $3,028,152 In |