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Show "siissl MINES AND MINIM I Tho directors of tho Utah mine met' IsiH ilast week, In regular monthly session J and pasted tho usual dividend ot 3' -.H cents per Bharo, or $3,000 in all. 'H A quarterly dividend of one-half of' ''sail 1 por cont was declared by tho Atrial-gnniated Atrial-gnniated Coppor company on tho 10th. 'H 'Tho previous quarterly dividend was 1 por Copper Is still being shifted to Europo In an attompt to lesson stocks hero and stiffen the market, but tho effect docs not moot with much success. Oro shipments In pounds from Park' biih City for tho week ending January 18, wero as follows: Silver King, 331,000; Daly Judge, 303,000; Daly West, 300,-000; 300,-000; total, 034,000. Tho Utah Copper mill and mine aro running full blast. At tho mill from Bovcntccn to twenty cars a day aro bo-lng bo-lng used and at tho mine from seventy-fivo seventy-fivo to ono hundred cars a day. An appeal has been Issued to tho Salt Lake valley farmers to accept tho proposition of tho Utah Consolidated company to pay $125,000 and stand for damages In order to'ran Its valloy smelters anothor fourteen months. Utah mlno operators representing moro than fifty producing mines and practically all ot tho productlvo camps, held a most enthusiastic meet-lng meet-lng In Salt Lako City last week and organized tho Utah Mlno Operators' association. It Is announced that tho mining op-orators op-orators of Montana havo secured tho services ot a prominent member of tho American Mining congress, who Is to organlzo a State Mlno Operators' association, such as Ib undor forma-tlon forma-tlon for Utah. To exploit and advertlso tho oil In-forests, In-forests, Juab county, Utah, Is to havo a weekly nowspapor devoted entirely to these interests, known as the Juab ,fl County Oil Derrick. Experts havo dls-covored dls-covored a well defined oil bolt four miles long and 800 feet wido. ' Down on tho lower lorels of tho Mohawk mlno at Qoldflcld, tho man-agement man-agement has opened twenty-four feet ot oro which will not average below $250 to $300 per ton, and with- prao tlcally no ground yet doveloped In pro-portion pro-portion to ground available. It Is learned on reliable authority -that a concerted effort Is being mado by tho mining companies of Nevada a and other western states to creato a ' greator domand for silver, and In that manner Influence tho government to Increase Its purchaso of tho metal. The plan Is to pay off tho employes In half What differences that havo existed between tbo Miners' union and tho Mlno Owners' association at Plocho in relation to tho wage Bcalo have been ,L satisfactorily adjusted for the present 'J at least. As a result tho Nevada-Utah Nevada-Utah corporation has1 very materially . Increased Its working force at tho Day mlno. Last week thlrty-flvo mechanics wero sent from Salt Lako City to Mc-Dill, Mc-Dill, Nov., to work on tho big milling fl and smelting works at that placo. All but a few of tho men sent out woro brlckmasons, nnd tho object, it Is said, lH Is to rush construction work bo tho mill and smelter may begin opera-Hons opera-Hons by April. H Tho directors ot tho Boston & Mon- 'H tana Consolidated Copper and Sliver -H Mining company, ono of tho constltu- ;H ont companies ot tho Amalgamated company, last week declared' a quar-terly quar-terly dividend of $2 per sbaro and $1 H extra. This compares with $2 a aharo regular and $1 per Bharo extra .H three months ago. Just now, after two or three months of retrenchment In production and. "houso-cleanlng," tho coppor trndo, Is assuming a somewhat better atmos-phero atmos-phero appearance. Prices show a frac-tlonal frac-tlonal recovery, and with castor monoy oven tho coppor Bhnro market Is Improving, and the prices will prob-ably prob-ably uoon hovor nround 1G cents. For somo tlino past thoro has been developing a tidal wavo of discontent between tho smaller mines and tho American Smelting & Rollnlng com-pauy, com-pauy, as n result of tho arbitrary man-ner man-ner In which oro troatmont chargoj nre regulated. As a result tho smull producer Is talking of Independent re-fineries re-fineries us a means of "getting oven." A rovlow ot tho metal market ot 1907 shows somo Interesting features. It appears that tho slump did not affect all tho niotnls to tho samo degrco, says Mining Science Silver, for In-stanco, In-stanco, lost only 25.7 per cent, of Its high value; coppor, on tho other hand, slumped oft 52 per cent. Tin, load and spelter each lost from 40 per cent to 41 por cont. 9HI Henry Louis, In tho Mining Sclcnco, UK calls attention to a matter that wilt w0f provo ot interest to mining engineers dE5fc nnd mining writers, Ho states that It fP? Ivj a well-known fact that oro chutes In ia' a mineral vein do not, as a rule, coin-cldo coin-cldo with tho dip ot tho vein, but make Wff ' an angle with It In tho Bamo way that i?a lenticular masses often aro obllquo to tl?Vy tho direction of maximum dip of the ' placo in which thoy He. Ho ruggests ' : v'- that tho word "pitch" bo utlllzod in iflf describing tho anglo of tho oro chute. . J At tho regulnr annual mooting ot Ift'rlfi1 tho Utah Copper company, January Iv' tv 21, tho stockholders will bo requested fetf-' to act upon an amendment of tho car- tlllcates ot Incorporation Increasing Ji tho capital stock from tho present If'-str1' authorized capital of $0,000,000 to an authorized capital of $7,509,000. ',!(m In Montana thero is a rumor that illKsl tho Amalgamated Copper company, tfilC controlling tho Washoe Btnelter, is to KiFl ward oft tho legal assaults of the om- 'BW battled farmirs of the Deer Lodga mM valley by making a settlement, whlcti . contemplates nothing moro or lest .-HH than tho purchaso ot nil the farms. |