| Show MINES AND MINING during the year 1914 tho the michigan utah consolidated leasers leaders shipped out tons at 0 ore and in 1915 1015 a total of tons the strike in the calgan workings on the weaver no 3 of tho the rochester mines company shows chows a vein four feet wide ot of 70 oro ore shipments ot at ore from the park city utah district last week totaled 1410 tons valued at this la Is compared with or 1029 tons the previous week nearly 1700 a day was the he general average production of the rochester mines company for tho the days of actual operation during 1915 according to figures given out by the company ore production b by y the mines of tho the gintic tintic district last week amounted to a total of loo carloads this la is estimated at tons valued at it Is compared with car loads the week before ore carrying as high as and ounces silver was found recently in III a large bug hole in the old daly mine at t park city utah ten to twelve tons of this rich stuff worth a ton tan was extracted it sampled 40 per cent lead besides the production ot of tungsten ores in the united states during 1915 broke tho the record and was apparently eaulm equiv alent to about 2165 short tons of concentrates cen carrying 60 per cent ot of tungsten trioxide and was wan valued at mora than what appeared to be w large body of nitro has been found near tho the coal mine east ot of fairview utah also a large vein ot of saltpetre salt petre and g potash and a large body of alre clay I 1 making these mines one of 0 the richest holdings in sanpete San Sau pete the white pine group at 0 silver copper mining claims adjoining the st mary mine in the star mining district beaver county utah was purchased a few days ago on a bond proposition by G A kernick Kern lck C W whalen and I 1 E C dart for all of the mining claims and other property of tho the fast east develop ment mining alining company will be sold at sheriffs Bh erlna sale at provo utah on V february eb 1 to satisfy notes and claims held against the company by C AL richard and G P huntley prince consolidated made another weekly ore shipping ship ln record last week it shipped from to the utah smelters shelters sm elters a total of at 80 carloads of ore this Is estimated at 50 tons to the car or tons tells it Is equal to tons dally daily tor for the seven days antimony prices in 1915 were prot ably the highest known since tho metal etal became a regular article of commerce comme commerce ice the high prices led to the largest pr production a the united states has made and probably the same came statement is true tor for the worlds production leasers leaders on the gethin le roy consolidated soli dated of silver island are shipping la in their second carload of 0 ore the ore shipped heretofore from this property e has been high grade silver balver with c considerable onside rable lead the leasers leaders are said to have an excellent showing boston directors ot of the bingham mine milne have given out the information that the utah metal Is shipping from its own ground about two cars per day ot at ore running 3 2 per cent to 5 per cent copper and carrying gold values from 10 to 39 per ton average smelter return in december was 28 per ton according to information from tintie aln iron blossom has opened the new copper ore shoot on the 1000 level this shoot was farst found on the level it was next followed to tha level there a was sunk to the 1000 foot level and a drift sent out easterly and last week it broke into tho the ore shoot it has been found gold nuggets under favorable conditions actually ini crease in size gold Is known to have grown on mine timbers which have long been immersed in mine water in the california state mining bureau museum there is a specimen ol 01 0 a piece of jointed cap and post taken from the comstock lode where it had been under water for years gold had bad formed in the joints and pores of the wood pointing painting out that the total amount of gold in the world since bince the discovery of america aggregates slightly more than and that the total amount of silver produced in the samo same period in coinage value aggregates slightly less than and calling attention to the fact that the cos cost t of the european war to date approaches tha Ahe sum of henry A buchtel chancellor of the university of denver proposes bimetallism as a possible solution of the financial problems rising out of tho the european war forty two per cent of zinc ore has been struck in the now deep tunnel of the lakeview lake view mining company at its promontory property in utah it Is reported that the first car of ore from the 0 K silver property near death canyon will average close to 1000 ounces stiver silver to the ton it Is reported from rico colo that a new strike has been made in the rico wellington the ore is said to carl ca car rl 10 to 15 per cent copper and 38 ounces silver news has been received of a strike in the albion of alta utah five feet ot of commercial grade of ore ora has been ez encountered countered the ore carrying copper silve and gold work has been resumed at the home run property which ada 0 I 1 no the old day bristol mine in the jack lubolt district a few miles northerly from camp in nevada |
