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Show AROUND THE MJNES 7H Tho Ray Consolidated July output measured 3,105,165 ixiunds. Over a dozen properties giving cm- H ploymont to more than 100 men, nro H now working In tho Neho mining dls B In Utah H Tho llambcrgcr nnd McCoruIck in- forests of Snlt Lako nro reported to H hnvo ncqulrud tho control of tho Cnsli J Doy lenso nt Tonopnh. J Tho Ely Consolidated company hns liiiB started to crosr:ut on tho 700-foot "fl level of tho Stack shnft for. tho vein 9 t hnd on tho upper lovcls. 1 During tho year 1911 tho nnvy usod j H 15,000,000 gallons of fuel oil, and It Is WiiiH estimated that tho consumption for 'H tho present year will bo 21,000,000 gat- i "ibH On tho basin of 17-"i cont copper, il Novndn Consolidated la said to bo '-'H earning near to $8,000,000 a year. It la H now paying lu dividends at tho rata ot H $2,400,000 n H Thcro wcro forty deep mines nnd H 15C placer mines operated In Oregon H lu 1911. Of tho plnccr mines 88 woro H hydraulic, 3 dredging, 9 drifting and H 3G sluicing properties. H It Is estimated thnt for tho firs', six H months of 1912 tho Old Dominion B company has earned $025,000, or $3 HBVJ per sharo on n production ot 15,011,- HBVJ COS pounds ot copper HBVJ Thrco hundred HnBks of quicksilver H nro produced each month by tho Mer- H cury Mining company, which U opor- H ntlng nt lono In tho northwestern cor- H nor of Nyo county, Novndn. H Tho Union Chief property on tho H lowest lovel la reported to bo looking H extremely well. Tho mnungemeut 1b H now engaged In tho pIonBnnt tnsk of H hauling ore to tho railroad. L9 Tho most Important foaturo dovel- Afl oped by tho oil Industry of 1911 has 1 been thu realization or a supply ot 1 fuel largo enough to bo reckoned an H ns n national unset In tho production 1 Heaver county mines will ship from H tho Mllford station In AugiiBt close to H 65 carloads, or about 2,500 to 3,000 H toiiB, according to J. M. ltoyuoUU, gun- B crnl manager of tho Noonday Mining (pKVJ BVJ Kastorn advices Monday wcro that BBVJ tho American Smelting & Itollnlng KVJ company had advanced lend $3 n ton. HBVJ Thin will bring tho local nottlcment BBVJ prlco next week up from It.CO to BVJ about II.G5 n hundred pounds. HBV Tho combined output of gold from H southwestern Oregon In 1911 wan H $188,971, ot which $123,008 wns plncor H gold. Tho plncor gold production of H this region decroaBcd $7,095, nnd tho H deep mine, output decreased $13,258. , El Tho valuo ot tho mlno production ot VssB gold ,llvor and. coutwr, lnpjegon. Ja - H 1911, n"ccoWlnirto'"UhArfeB U.iVHloTot 1B tho United Stntcs"goaloglcnl survey. H H was $669,016, against $700,670 In-1010. U H No output of lead or zinc was report- fi M ed in olthor 1910 or 1011. r H Tho mines of northeastern Oregon L H produced $444,430 lit gold In 1911 ot H which tho plncor yield wns $15,266 and ' M tho deop-mlno yield $399,170. Tho , H pincers of this region showed nn lu- ( H crenso of $4,414 nnd thu deep minus M a. decrease of $30,172. t H J. F. alenu, tho town shoemnkor, H who Is nlso a capable prospcr-tor M having to his credit tho locating of M norno ot tho best mining property In M Arizona now believes thnt ho )oti- H Hesscs quo of the best prospect that M ho over saw, Bays tho Scurchllght Uur M Oro or n high milling grndo Is being H broken nt several points In tho Flor- M onco Uoldllcld mlno nt Goldlleld, and B tho main shaft has passed the 1,200- M foot point nnd Ih being sunk to afford M n sump of umplo depth below thlu M level Iwforo a station Is cut near tho B Tho mill of tho Nevada Hills Mining :ompnny Is working porfcrtly nnd H milling costs hnvo been cut to loss H than $3 per ton anil tho recovery nd- H raucod to 92 per cent, which Is a uci- jjM tcr showing than any silver mlno In H tho state Is making, Bays thu Goldlleld H Blnco tho beginning ot tho oil In- H dustry lu tho United States over two H and n half million barroln have boon H produced nnd thu total vnluo of tho H oil, reckoned In tho crudest condition B at tho mouth of tho well lu over two H billion dollars. Moro than half ot this H oil camo from New York. Pennsyi- H vanla, West Virginia und Ohio. M Tho high prlco of zlno eulphlda or H at Joplln, Mo., last week was $6,550, H tho baso per ton ot 60 per cent zlno H was $56 to $62.53. Zinc slllcato sold H from $32 to $31 per tun ot 40 per cent iM zinc. Tho nverago prlco of nil grades BH was $57.68 per ton, Tho high prlco of sWJ lead oro was $62, nnd tho nvurago K price all tgrodeH was $59.80 por ton. R Tho smelter nnd freight rntes com- uiltteo of tho American Mining com- H gross will meet lu Suit Inko City, M Utah, during tho month of uctober m ind will consider any cobcs of iUs- H ;rlmlnatlon or unjust rates practiced H igalnst oro producers. H It 1b reported from ningham that H jno of tho drills with which tho Utah M Copper Is prospecting Ita ground at H depth has Btruck three por cont cop M por oro at u depth of GOO to 800 feet. M Tho company Is oporntlng Bovoral Hj churn drills at tho outer edges of tho B great porhpyry pit, where tho oro M averages n llttlo below 2 per cont cop- H t per sulphides, H I Ilubort Weirs, a mining man from H I California, has secured a lease on tho H Johnnie Mining company mlno av jH Btatollno. Tho property Is credited M wltL a production of $100,000. H |