Show ROUND AROUND A THE MINES I 1 production of chino for april ti mounted to pounds compared pa red with pounds in march and pounds la april 1912 at least five leases eases are being worked in the and bristol districts at the present time mid and in all probability othorn will be in operation inside of the next fortnight at the mcdonald ely property what looks like the biggest strike of high grade ore over ever mado made in the district is 13 being developed through the golden gate shaft says bays the ely expositor since the utah people took over the old simon davis mine at aurbin nev and named it tha clio lucy lucky deposit they have shipped three carloads of ore the third now being at the sampler butte manes in the aggregate have a pay roll about equal to the estimated pay roll of tho the three biggest camps of utah bingham lintle and park city with the mills and smelter which they furnish preparations aro are being made by the florence silver mining company to harness up princess creek in the ains worth district of british columbia and to turn its ita energy into the development of the property fresh reports report sare wo out that the western pacific will directly put a large force of meu men on the prop proposed ased branch blanch line from wendover miles nto into the heart of the deep creek mining district near gold hill cutting a large station at the 1550 level of the silver king consolidated nt at park city has begun this station stad oil will be 14 feet high 14 feet wide and 30 to 40 lee fee ong this word work I 1 haa started in the solid linio limo formation ore shipments from the park city district for the month of may t totaled tons of an estimated valuation of df this runs a little higher than for april march and january but was about equaled in february prom from silver city comes the report that the work Is progressing in a most catis satisfactory factory manner at the site of the new concentrating fating plant which the knight people aro are erecting erect ng for the treatment of low grade grada ores from their various parlous properties development on an extensive scale of eight claims at saltese maltese Sal tese lit in the montana section of the coeur calenes dA lenes Is planned by the switchback mining smelting smelling Sm elting company compan recently incorporated under the laws or of washington with a capitalization of rawhide nevada la Is once more producing bullion and appears to have reached an era of mine development indicative of a prosperous and stable future two mills are in operation another Is in process of construction and development work Is progressing in montrose county colo there are 91 ore claims covering about 1000 acres controlled by the standard chemical company the mines have an output of 10 tons per month from which is derived a yield by a special refining process of only one gram ot radium reports from the mcdonald ely are to the effect that everything is ia working smoothly though no details detail s of operations i erat ions are given out by the management it is known however that some of the recent finds of ore Is being mined and hoisted to the new ore bins that have been finished with the completion about the middle of april of its now new water supply system the nevada hills company at goldfield was enabled to considerably increase the tonnage treated in its mill and the indications are that the may production has exceeded that of any month for some time past the pay roll of the butte mining companies for the month of f april aggregated gre gated which Is in rouba figures angures within of a record month the miners at present are being paid at the rate of 3 75 a day according to the agreement by which wages are regulated in accordance with the price of copper immense deposits of gypsum great beds of salt and permanent veins eins carrying the richest copper ores which tire are shipped in bulk to the salt lake valley smelters shelters sm elters are characteristic or of the country down to the south ana west of st george these copper mines have been known and in some instances worked for over 40 years operating statistics of practically all important copper producers whose year ends december 31 are now available says the boston news bureau A compilation shows that twenty six companies produced pounds of the metal net earnings were over while seventeen companies disbursed a total of in dividends several utah men are now successfully operating in the southwestern corner cerner of oregon where extensive plans aro are under way for developing the old placer fields of that section by the senit la Is said that deals aggregating near have been made recently by which 2000 acres of placer ground have gono gone into the hands ot of largo large compan companies les for 0 operating on oa a big scale seventeen utah mining companies already in 1913 have paid out or declared dividends amounting to goo this Is for the first live months ot of the year or at the rate of a month this Is approximately a year or just a little less than tho dividends for the year 1912 ore hauling from dry canyon in tho the stockton utah districts district began last week and regular shipments will be made ma de all summer us as it is estimated that over 1000 tons are stored on the dumps with a good force of men work ing |