Show MINES AND MINING the shipments of ore from the tin tic for the week ending june 18 amount to fifty four carloads the lost packer mine at custer idaho will make at least worth of matte at its smelter this sea eon I 1 the directors of the republic steel and iron company last week voted not to declare the regular quarterly dividend of 1 per cent on the preferred stock A german technical journal has gone to the trouble of estimating that the water of the whole ocean contains in solution over 2 tons of pure iver two weeks clean up of the mazuma hills mill at mazuma nevada yielded 20 the mill is extracting 90 per cent and concentrates go a ton as a result of this first clean up gintic tintic Is preparing to celebrate the building of the knight smelter in fit ting style on the 1st 0 july the it is understood will not be ready to go into commission until after the fourth deposits of antimony on coyote creek in county southern utah have been worked spasmodically since 1880 and it is reported that more than worth of ore has been shipped from this region the keystone mining company operated in the park city district has listed its shares on the salt lake stock and mining exchange where it was given a place on the big black board and formally called for the first time last week D rectors of the utah consolidated have declared a regular quarterly div idena of 60 cents per share this is the same as the two previous declara eions and compares with 1 nine months ago and and 25 cents extra a year ago the utah mine of fish springs la gradually increasing its production good weather with the resulting good roads Is making it possible to haul the ore over the seventy five mile desert road to the railroads in much better time just at the close of last week a car of ore was released from the sampling works activity in the sierra madre mining district just north of ogden was resumed last week when don maguire and a party ot men began work on the tramway which mr maguire is building in the district to facilitate the handling of ore and supplies the tramway when completed will have cost over 10 the extraordinary deposit of meteor ites near canyon D ablo ariz which has occasioned much comment and discussion among the leading geo legists of the country is being made the subject of a study by prof george P merrall and wirt tassin of the department part ment of geology of the united states national museum the uncle jesse mining and milling company was incorporated at prove last week the company owns even patented claims in north gintic tintic the property of the company has already been prospected even on the surface the ledges have shown some exceptional values the company has a capital of 1 shares in the mammoth ton mill at the consolidated mercur mine at mercur utah the slimes plant installed a few months ago Is meeting with marked success and one of the vexing plot lems of the industry is ceasing to wor ry the management the method used tor treating the sl mes Is a mod of several processes which have proven cumbersome the Bala kalala copper company a soon begin work of installation of a copper converting plant which will cost say the boston news bureau it will be of sufficient capac U to convert the matte into blister copper for an annual production of 20 pounds of copper which is the expected output of the balabala Ba lakala company when in full operation thomas cooper land commissioner ol 01 the northern pacific railway fled at the federal rate hearing before a special master at st paul that the coal lands owned by that company save the railroad 2 a year and are worth to the company 50 all of the coal used by the road west of bismarck N D comes from its own mines said the witness and especially ally from its bolln mines A decision was rendered last geelt in the suit of the ontario silver min i ing company of park city against the wasatch and other irrigation corn canles in which the right and title to the use of water emerging from the drain tunnel of the ontario mine was involved under the terms of the decision it is decreed that the defend ants be restrained from interfering with or claiming any right to the water baxter and associates are making preparations to begin active oil operations in the langely rangely field mr baxter was in vernal tor a day or two tl e first of the week aid left for langely rangely to look after the property leased from the Col tharps sas the ernal express colorado is not an important cop per producing state the annual production rarely reaches 10 pounds and in 1806 it was only 7 2 3 pounds to th s output eighteen counties contributed jut only two lake leadville district and san juan yielded notable amounts the annual report of the nevada douglas copper company shows that a great amount of development work is done the report stating that with the development work carried along in an intelligent manner a large additional tonnage will be made to our reserves in the next year R L colburn formerly resident of salt lal e is in a fair way to make another big stake out of a lease at Horn silver a new camp thirty miles south of goldfield last week an ore shoot was opened up twelve feet below the surface and the ore exposed Is literally covered with horn silver grading on the site of the new ten stamp mill at the utah arizona copper mine has just been completed and the machinery for the 11 is on hand the property lies in the weaver mining district in northern arizona it Is about twenty five miles from chloride apfl utah capitalists are interested |