Show MINES AND MINING recent reports to the mint director states that during the eleven years IDOO 1910 the worlds production of gold was something over tho the mines of tonopah during their brief history have produced worth of ore and la Is tile the surn sum paid stockholders in the shape 0 of dividends the united states furnishes about 55 per cent of all the copper producer in the world according to statistics compiled by the engineering and mining journal the shannon copper company for the month of april made profits of slightly over which la Is at the rate of about 1 25 5 per share on the companas comp anys shores the wide spread of copper since the farst of tile the year has inspired the hope lif in boston that several producing companies will increase their dividend rate four companies already have done so this year osceola and blackhorse distri ti never looked better according to A G burritt Burrl tt manager of the oliana ohana mining company who has returned to salt lako lake from a visit to the white walto pine country southeast of ely the snake creek tunnel Is now in feet where a flow of one half see sec ond toot foot 0 of t water has been encountered the waterway has a capacity of twenty second feet and easily takes i care of the flow the grade being ono one fourth of one per cent the area of the camp or of tonopah To nov now is 2700 by yards jn in extent and there are s sixty nine miles of underground workings in the district new dividend payers are soon to be added to the list and production is increasing steadily it Is up to the directors of the colorado as to w whether hether or not the regular three cent quarterly dividend will ie be declared the tenth of juno or not ad cording to president jesse knight he admits there la is a goodly sum still in the treasury said to be over the united states geological survey surey estimates that tho the coal land ta in the black mesa fields in arizona covers square miles and that the fields contain short tons of which tons are recover able the rest being under very heavy cover although arizona has produced no coal on a commerciaL seale it contains promising fields which maybe profitably exploited when ban transportation la Is afforded and when wan and I 1 manufactures have alicher a point which will pr P aae for tho the Z output work will bo be resumed on the carl car boo gold copper company property in idaho north of soda springs about june 20 already a carload of high grade ore Is r ready e ady to haul down and ship from soda springs this ore will run 15 16 to 20 pir per cent copper and 20 in gold some zinc ore running as high as 40 per cent is reported to have been I 1 fou found nd in may day while ore running as high as 12 in gold to la reported in ih a twenty feet below the 1000 foot level it Is claimed at least tons of the zinc product has already been broken down in spite of the heavy snowfall of the past winter the old camp of park city went right on producing an average of nearly 2000 tons a week As this ore and the concentrates aver average go from 40 to 50 a ton it means mean a 9 monthly production of upwards of 0 halt a million dollars A three quarter interest in the esmeralda at gold circle nev has been sold for the esmeralda estate is situated in the heart of at the gold circle camp and is a prodoc ing property of great merit almost from the discovery of the the camp the property has been under development ore carrying more gold than rock Is a common sight at the adamson turner mine near winnemucca according to a local paper paper of that place and regular shipments of what la is called second class grade but which in most camps would be termed high grade arenow are now being made from this property v alch which two utah boys discovered nearly two years ago and have been diligently developing ever since production of zinc and zinc ore has made a marked increase in the states during 1911 the total prodoc tion of spelter in 1911 was tons of which tons Is estimated to have been derived f from rom dross drosa scrap etc against tons in 1910 and the remainder from ore this does doea not include the production of spelter si by concerns which treat dross and scrap only whose output amounts to to tons tonj a year arrangements have been made for marketing all the uranium vanadium ore that can bo be rained mined from the levi group near green river uta utah h and tho the crusher and other machinery for a reduction plant will vw bekin begin arriving dortly hort ly i |