Show AROUND THE MINES shipments of ore from tho the district of gintic tintic for the week just ended amounted to a total of carloads this Is approximately tons valued at tho the butto butte central copper companas comp anys concentrator la Is now working under the most encouraging conditions and concentrates aro are being shipped regularly to the eashoo smelter the sum of to bo be furnished to china it employed in thoo tho pur chae of the white metal would nt at its current gold price take up somo ounces of silver A falling oft off of 16 per dent cent in the abo april production of miami copper company was the direct result of tho the cave in at the mine the output botand pounds against joarch JM arch an ore bin Is being erected at the tha 11 ead frame of the florence goldfield mine in preparation for hoisting the product that will be ba sont sent for treatment to the bonafe claro clare will mill operated by the jumbo extension company it was given out in new york last week that the chino copper company report for the quarter ending march 31 shows a total of income of against last year this la Is based on an average price of 1606 1506 cents a pound tor for the metal private information from rochester Is that in the codd lease on the rochester mines three men were seen working abreast on a body of ore 12 feet across this la is at a depth ol of about N feet et on the main banzel fissure which has been proven for about 2000 feet through the dis district the industrial consumption of silver has haa been increasing by large strides in 1906 1905 it absorbed only 30 per cent of the worlds output by 1909 nearly half of tho the output was taken for the arts alfs in 1911 tho the percentage of industrial du absorption of the production reached almost 64 per cent deep mining is still ln in progress at the grand central mine at alam mammoth moth and in addition to the exten extensive siv 0 campaign of work which Is being prosecuted on the 2200 level the management ment is also driving a drift toward tho the south on the 2380 level reached by a from the 2200 on the property of the jumbo extension company at Gold goldfien goldfield fiel the work ork now in progress la Is all development and the oro ore that Is being broken lu in the progress of this work Is being stored in old from which it can be extracted with little trouble when milling operations are resumed anaconda directors will wili meet some time next month to take action on dividend and no change in rate Is expected says a wire from new york since Jat january fuary 1 1 anaconda has been producing at tho the rate of about pounds of copper a year comparing with pounds in 1912 2 the main shaft abaft of the silver pick consolidated is being sunk at a good rite rate of speed the work having been started at a depth of feet the former depth of tho ho abaft nothing ot of importance has been found in sinking arid and there has been no expectation of any developments lit in the progress ol 01 this work light bight furnaces furn acea hn have ve been blown in at the tooele thoele smelt elf of 0 the international Sm eltink Ite refining fining company tour for treatment of bf copper ores and the same for lead ores another other lead mack black will shortly bo be add ted ba the copper r furnaces have an in dividu 61 capacity of bf treating tons tona loic at charge hafke dally I 1 the increased bre asea wage scale abdie paid las last t year year the scare scale bein being g based 0 on the price alce of copper Is given as one y reason eason why the anaconda company had an unusually high cost of popper copper product production lon through ont 1912 this cost was given as close clode to cents per pound and the ilia net profit per pound was 54 cents a p during diming 1912 e eight shoshone county mines of the idah 0 adur cde ur daleno dalene district made total net na profits profit of an increase of over the profits made by seven companies in 1911 according to fo the annual statements filed with the shoshone oAe county assessor the 1912 profits were approximately greater than i those of 1910 of the manufacturing industries Indu based on mineral raw materials one of the most important la Is the product production loti of portland cement this isdio Is due not so 30 much to the direct commercial value of the finished product though tho the output of portland cement in the united states Is now worth some 60 or 70 a year as to the way in which the product enters into general industry during the first three months of tho the present year the mason alason valley co produce from its own mine a total of tons ot of ore while the smelting smelling sm elting plant handled tons producing tons of matte which were shipped to the Amerl american dan smelting smelling Sm elting refining plant at garfield from this matte the company netted pound of cf nobber opper the first venture of china la in currency reform will doubtless b be the substitution sti ution of silver for the chaotic c cop op per currency now in vogue and the rehab rehabilitation III tation of that count rys affairs will unquestionably lead to an enlarged use of silver as a circulating medium down at Blary avale the bully boy webster Is working a force of SO 0 men the ton mill Is about ready tor for operation tho the greenhorn mine has a foot adit just finished it la Is I 1 reported thero there Is a dealon for tho shamrock Bb amrock and dalton properties |