Show t maies AND MINING the directors direct ois of the utah nine met last week in regular monthly session and posted the usual dividend of 3 cents ner share or 3 in all A quarterly dividend of one half of 1 per cent was declared by the amal copper company on the the previous quarterly dividend wa 1 per cent copper 1 still being shifted to europe in an attempt to lessen stocks here and stiffen the market but the does not meet with much success ore shipments in pounds from park city for the week ending january 18 were as follow s silver king daly judge daly west total the utah copper mill and mine are running full blast at tl mill from e enteen to twenty cars a day are be ing used and at the mine from seventy five to one hundred cars a day an appeal has been issued to the salt lake valley farmers to accept the proposition of the utah consolidated company to pay and stand for damages in order to run its valley smelters another fourteen months utah mine operators representing more than fifty producing mines and practically alt of the productive camps held a most enthusiastic meet ing in salt lake city last weel and organized the utah mine operators association it Is announced abat the mining op orators of montana have secured the services of a prominent member of the american mining congress who is to organize a state mine operators on such as Is under forma tion for utah to exploit and ad vertle the oil in teresta juab county utah Is to hale a weel ly newspaper devoted entirely to these interests known as the juab count oil derrick experts have d s covered a well defined oil belt four miles long and feet wide down on the lower levels of the mohawk mine at goldfen the man ag ement has opened twenty tour feet of ore which will not average below to per ton and with no ground yet developed in proportion to ground available it is learned on reliable authority that a concerted effort is being made ly the mining companies of nevada and other western states to create a greater demand for silver and in tuat manner influence the government to increase its purchase of the metal the plan is to pay oft the employed emp loyes in halt silver what differences that have existed between tte miners union and the mine own rs association at pioche in relation to the wage scale have been satisfactorily adjusted tor the present at least As a result the nevada utah atlon has very materially increase d its working force at tae day mine last week thirty five mechanics were sent from salt lake city to me gill nev to work on the big milling and smelting works at that place all but a few of the men ent out were and the object it is said is to rush construction work so the mill and smelter may bein opera eions by april the directors of the boston mon tana consolidated copper and silver mining company one of the cons titu ent companies of the amalgamated company last week declared a terly dividend of 2 per share and 1 extra this compares with 2 a share regular and 4 per hare extra three months ago just no v after two or three months of in production and house cleaning the coppell trade is assuming a somewhat better atmos phere appearance prices show a trac dional recovery and with easier money even the copper share market is improving and the prices will ably boon hover around 15 cents for some time past there has been developing a tidal wave of d scon tent between the smaller mines and the american smelting refining corn pany as a result of the arbitrary man ner in which ore treatment charges are regu abed As a result the small producer Is talking of independent re fineries AS a means of getting even A review of the metal marl et ot 1907 shows some interesting features it appears that the slump did not affect all the metals to the same degree says mining science silver for in stance lost only 25 7 per cent of its high value copper on the other hand slumped off 62 per cent tin lead and spelter each lost from 10 per cent to 41 per cent henry louis in the mining science calls on to a matter that wil prove of interest to mining engineers and mining writers he states that it 1 a well known fact that ore chutes in a mineral vein do not as a rule coin cide with the dip of the vein but make an angle with it in the same way that i masses often are oblique to the direction of maximum dip of the place in which they lie he suggests that the word pitch be utilized in describing the angle of the ore chute at tre regular annual meeting ot the utah copper company january 24 the stockholders will be requested to act upon an amendment of the of incorporation increasing the capital stock from the present auti capital of 6 to an authorized capital of 7 in montana there is a rumor that the amalgamated copper company controlling the washoe smelter is to ward off tie legal assaults of the em battled farm rs of the deer lodge valley by making a settlement rett lement whick contemplates nothing more or less than the purchase of all the farms the boston consolidated company has just started its new double tram way which when in full blast will he a combined tonnage of 6 tons ct porphyry ores a day by working 01 one sh ft at the present time the management is said to be send ng out 1 tons of porphyry 01 e a day now crane cheek idano is coming to the aront heretofore it has been known strictly as a livestock proposition sev eral she cattle and horse men hav ing acquired linn ense wealthy from as wonderful range but now things have undergone a change and stool raising is to be superseded by mining |