Show i MOUND THE MINES for tho ton ui of 1913 the tha tou niber of tons treated at the white caps mine at manhattan nev totals with a gross value of tu lu gold making na an average per ton of f pig iron production in prance tor for tile the half year ended june 30 is ie re ported by the ministry of public works at metric tons toile in 1912 and 2 in 1913 tin an increase of tons tona the iron and steel market Is in practically the same sama position ar a it occupied two weeks ago according to the iron iro trade review orders con coll billue to fall off and m mills sare are reducing operation monthly average prices of electr and lake copper as compiled by the E engineering ligi and At mining hillig journal declined from to and to cents respectively during november employed la in arizona mining operations are more than men about 00 per cent of these in the production of copper they will earn and distribute in the present year more than the 1913 dividend paying mines of utah to date number twenty three this Is the number which appeared ill hi tile the list of 1012 1912 five now dividend payers were admitted to the honor list during the year the black hills lithia deposits aro are of particular interest inasmuch as aa they are the only deposits in the united states at present worked tor for lithium although california has some du do posits of potential value the underground workings of tho the butte mines of the anaconda company aggregate 1800 miles the shafts of thesel properties if placed end to end wound represent a vertical hole extending ten miles below the earths tur surface face the united copper mine near cho belah washington has shipped about thirty five tons of conden concentrates dally daily seven four horse teams with trail wagons being employed transporting transport lne tile the product from the mines to thu railway lall way beginning saturday three park city mines will start out with an aggregate distribution c of f dividend money amounting to well over a third of a million dollars to be paid within four days to be exact it will amount to returns from the first shipments of ore from the big ore shoot on tile the 1500 level of the sliver silver xing king consolidated at park city utah fulfilled the prediction of the management tha that t it would run about 50 to 60 a ton by the carload gintic tintic mines mine produced during the past week approximately tons ot of ore which is IB represented in cars care shipped out with an estimated valuation of this is fifteen carloads or about tons increase over the production tor for the previous week it is stated upon good authority that preparations are now being made for the shipment of a large quantity of low grade dump ore from a nur number fiber of the properties which are located in the he south end of the district this ore to be placed on the cars at silver city between 80 and 85 pr per cent of all the pig iron of tile the united states is made from lake superior ores while the imported ores are of relatively high grade demonstrating that the tha comparatively low grade ores used by southern furnaces do not operate to pull down tile the average yield returning from seven troughs nov nev L A friedman general manager of the seven troughs coalition reports that splendid progress is being made on the level the scene of the recent strike the from the 1000 Is ilow now down thirty three feet the rich vin vein Is increasing in width at depth work has been resumed on a promising mining property called the benvenue Uen Beli venue about three miles north ot of meyers falls wash and ore which seems to improve in quality and extent as depth is obtained la Is being mined with good results A twenty ton car was shipped recently which netted 20 to tile the ton in gold and silver with a force ot of sixteen men tha rico argentine Al mining filing company la 13 now producing on an average about a carload and a half of oro ore dally according corringto to advices advises coming from the colorado camp in spite of somo some drawbacks in the ahe way of two feet or snow enow covering the ground the camp in general is making excellent progress this winter not including tho the large profits and dividends paid out during the year 1913 by the three big smelt eia of the state the american at garfield the tha international at tooele thoele and tho united states at murray Al urray and also excluding profits from the bingham properties of the united states smelting smelling Sm elting company the dividends for utah mines for the present year amount to work I 1 is progressing very slowly on the oil well west of brigham city utah the drillers drillars dr illers have encountered some very hard formation for their drills and progress has been slow they were compelled to wait several days for pipe and now they are working two shifts from alta came word last week that the of the alta Con consolidated soll Is now down twenty feet and the rich streak ot of ounce silver ore continues going down strongly it pinches and widens but maintains au all 12 average of about a loot foot in width |