Show Z AROUND MINES camp in plute count utah ta Is livening up again utah copper Is in aking metal at th rate ot of pounds a month th utah copper coin company Vany production in may was pounds against in april and lu in may the gold bearing body struck ork on the lower level of the buckhorn mine in the ton ten mile district in III idaho la Is opening up extensively under develop development according to reports from the proper property tN placer gold mining macht machinery nery la is being rushed into position at horseshoe bend baud on green river twenty ingles due no south of vernal utah A machine invented by A custer of salt lake la Is to bo b put in operation according to tile the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce the imports of iron ore into the united states in 1912 were long tons edns compared ared with tons tona imported in ma 1911 an increase ot of IG 16 per cent there la Is a movement on oil foot to glye give the yerington district a custodo cu leaching plant as well as aa its rather young smelter it la Is claimed that the new process will treat per ores an aa low grade as aa I 1 per ent cent the copper nera ners statistics for may again show a large decrease and the american stock of refined copper now stands at only about lb ib which la is not much more than the ordinary working stock that must bg be pix on hand always according to a report that cornel comes from r authoritative source it Is s declared that tile the railroad officials have given the mine owners ot of th tb deep creek district an assurance 0 01 the building of the railroad before tile the end of f the present year while cutting the station at the 1600 1500 level the silver king ed last week tall ran into some more ga lena jena ore it if la Is similar to that discovered rove reid about seventy feet above the find has not been opened sufficiently yet to give any adequate idea of its importance the ton mill ot at the national copper copier company near mullan idaho will bo completed this fall by that time it Is expected to have a raise ol of feet from the 1700 foot level completed on ore A tramway of one ralle in III length will connect the mine and the mill the seventieth carload of ore has been shipped from rochester nov district and the returns made the average carload has been thirty five tons and the alue aralue of the ore has bas ra ranged eged anywhere from 20 to 1000 to the ton it Is believed that 35 la Is a fair average iron ore irined in the united states I 1 in III amounted to the great total ol 01 long tons 1 compared alt with tons cinq minted in 1911 an I 1 increase fi of tons or 2569 per cent according to an advance statement by ernest 14 F burchard of the united states geological survey the state of virginia mined short to tons of coal in 1912 valued at a 17 an increase of nearly hearly 17 I 1 tons over the production for 1911 according to figare compiled by B S AV parker of the th e united states geological survey in operation cooperation co with the virginia geological survey one of the most important pieces of t work completed in gintic tintic in a long tinie time was the connection which was made june 19 between the old gemini mine with its ita div dividend adelid record of over olef and the chief con consolidated soli dated thimas this Is on the 1600 level the work has been in progress for many months having first successfully driven a foot well for natural gas on the knudson property half a mile south west from brbgham city utah another well has fias attained nearly an equal depth on an the erdmann property to the west while a third will be started in a few days on the jenson jensen property in the vicinity strengthening the prediction made last fall by several well known mining men that the deal water section of the he north fork district in idaho Is destined to develop a second butte a remarkable strike has been made at the property of the clearwater gold copper silling company in that section the minnesota iron ranges are arc producing at pre present sent considerably more iron ore than la 14 produced in n all the rest of the states together ba having y ing turn furnished I 1 dished nearly per cent of 0 the total for the united states in 1912 the whole lalie lake superior district com ty rising all the mines in minnesota and michigan and part or of those in wiscon sin mined tons in 1912 or near nearly ly per cent of at the ille total strontium la is apparently one of the minerals which the united stat neither i produces nor I 1 imports in ports in any large quantities according to Y J mi nill ot at the united states geological survey in 1911 only onar 44 worth of strontium salts were imported and this supply seems to have been sufficient for tw two 0 years it Is reported that the united states mining amelung company has haa re deuced its shipments ants affron of iron ores ires from chri camp of barth nov nev to its local ig fe nelter to 50 tons a day at one time the production from there eherd was tons a day this laa la 19 a high grade hematite ore according to report the values of the mine production of gold silver copper and lead in washington in 1912 according to C N gerry of the United States geological survey was ll compared with in 1911 arid and in 1910 t |