Show AROUND THE MINES tho the santa fo fe mine at S searchlight I 1 nov nev may erect a ten stamp duill amalgamated has raised tile the price ofa bl electrolytic to 15 5 cents benti a pound in london utah earned 2 01 per share phare in fit 1912 against in 1911 in 1910 gl 51 cents cent in 1909 and in 1908 A strike 0 of f twelve feet of silver lead ore that will concentrate into 80 to to the ton Is reported at tho the ivanhoe mine near II alloy idalio idaho tho To tonopah mining camp with its monthly mineral production of 0 irately pays paya out one fo fourth aith of this for the ine wages of employees the current silver production ot tile the world may be estimated at about ounces the rho united states mint calculates the industrial consumption of silver by the world at ounces N it Is estimated that the new rico wellington mill at rico la is making tor for the company between 1000 and 1 1600 1500 a day and that the crude copper and lead ore ord la Is bringing in an additional dally daily thirty corporations are engaged in operations or are preparing to engage in them in the chewelah Chew Chow elah district of washington as compared with four or alvo years ago according to ad vices from the camp the nevada consolidated company is arranging to treat tons tono of ore that will average only I 1 per cent copper says saya the ely expositor this marks a new era in mining especially pec specially ally lally so in the porphyries ries on april 1 1913 the american As visible copper surplus measured exactly pounds and tile the european visible supply measured pounds bringing the total worlds visible supply to pounds shipments of ore from the camp ot of tintic for tho the past week amounted to a total of carloads this cornea comes to tons which Is estimated at A the week falls eleven cars behind tho the record of the previous seven days copper production for march by twenty five of the largest producers amounted to pounds an in cera cerase so of pounds over march a year ago and pounds over the the february output says the boston news bureau the eleventh carload of ore from tho no 1 lease on the rochester mines companas comp anys ground familiarly known as the ilig dig four was forwarded to the smelter several days a ao ago o and the twelfth car Is being loa loaded dedi says saya the tha rochester miner in february the nevada consolidated at ely nov m made ado the best average dally daily output of ore from the pits pita of any month during its existence the production for the month average tons a day and was larger than usual on account of the character of the ore that was mined operation of the South Utah mill at newhouse Is about three days a week according to a correspondent to tho he heaver beaver weekly press who says the management is only moving ore enough to give ample room for le of the large ore bodies being opened up price of copper having fallen below 15 cents during march in accordance with miners union agreement wages of underground men ddn at butte has been reduced to per day the old figure when copper was selling at 17 cents or better the miners millers were receiving 4 a day it is reported that the strike on tho the 1300 level of silver king coalition at park city shows a breast of fully thirty feet of rich ore one person who claimed to have had his information straight said this face would sample 19 in gold 25 to 28 per cent copper and to ounces in silver of the quantity of fuel manufactured in the united states in 1912 showed a sino sina 1 gain over the output for 1911 and according to E W parker of atthe the united states geological ge 0 survey the braquet industry may be considered as now passing out of the experimental stage and is suming a more substantial and permanent character changes recently made in methods of handling ores at morris shaft of giroux both on surface and in underground workings have effected a material reduction in working costs and expense per ton of ore mined Is now lowest in companas comp anys history the ore is now handled automatically from the time it leaves stop slopes es u until n 1 I it reaches the smelter W 13 hubbard of the hubbard investment company and M T miller superintendent of the montana bing ham bam mining ning company at bingham haye bave just returned from a business trip to boston and new york fur during in their absence they succeeded in interesting eastern capitalists jn the foot drain an tunnel nel to open a numb number r of bingham mining properties in the east side aldo ot of camp the work of cleaning out and re timbering the fir or foot level of the old blue J jy y property at yerington nev now under bond to tho the gunn thompson people has boea been completed and the large ore chamber that was opened up on thir level some borne ten years ngo ago has baa been entered the highest prices arief s reported paid for the zinc sulphide ore in the jop ln in mo district during the past week was 47 the base bane per ton of 60 pet per cent zinc ranged from 40 to 44 zinc silicate sold on a base of to per der ton of 40 per cent mae |