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Show MINES AND MINING I Somo rich ore Is now being sacked ut the Lehl Tlutlc property and a car-load car-load shipment will be made shortly, according to reports from the mine. Lessees, who ale taking ore from the old workings o mho Howell initio In the South Fork of Hlg Cottonwood canyon, arc preparing to make a ship- Interest In the strike of idl it tho litistuvesou Oil company's property in fl Diamond Fork canyon has caused a number of other interests In that part of Hie country to start work. Diamond ilrllllug N proving the ex-Istem-e of exteusi deposits of ore on tin1 properly of the Consolidates .Mines company, according to the report of Hubert Linton, imimiglug director. iMorc men wilt be put to work over at the Judge Smeller next week, to UKslst In getting the big plant In read-Im.-ss for the resumption of work about the first of September, su.s thu Park HHl City Most satisfactory progress In tint HBl vork preliminary to operation of tin- HBl liroperiles of the Jib Mining company HBi ;u the llaslti district. .Montana, Is re- HBi ported by M. L. Hewett, vice prcsl- HBl lent mid gene al manager. HBl Colonel Daniel C. Jnckllng has run across iinotber mining bonanza near HBl liulf, In tho state of Texas. Tills lal- HBl est find of Mr. Jnckllng Is a sulphur HBl mine, which Is located In Hie count; HBl of Matagorda. He bus a thousand HBl acres of laud, and ut a depth of IIMni HBJ feet Ihero has been discovered it fab HHl lloiisly rich and largo dead bed of HBl While profits of United States Smelting, lleflulng & .Mining compiitry HjHJ Of $1,:UK),000, after all charges for see- and quarter this year uro considered HHJ good, It Is expected they will be sub- HBl Itantlally Increased during current HBl quarter, says the Huston News Hiirciiu. HJ Expectation Is based on higher prices HBl for metals the company produces. HBi According to officials of thu Walker HHl Mining company In Plumas county, L'ullfornln, progress in driving the main tunnel has been speeded up and now lis high ns 17 feel u day Is being made. This tunnel Is now hi u distance of 1000 feet. It was cxpcclcn Mutt the main vein In thu properly would bo cucouutered nt It.ltX) feet, but more re- cent surveys have shown Hint this will fl bo cut between 2000 and 11000 feet. Manager G, K. Allen was at tho Centennial Kiireka mine and gave or-ilers or-ilers for pulling the pumps anil ills-continuing ills-continuing tho campaign of work which has for several months been under way on the 2000 level, which Is considerably under thu water level. It Is understood that the pumps have al- 'J ready been removed and that nearly 1000 feet of worklmrs below tbo' water level are now filling with water, suys Iho Kiircka Iteporter. Copper production In tho mines of uorlhern Michigan will not get back to normal during the current year, 1010, unless there Is somo radical rhtingu In tho labor situation, says Hm Huston Nuws Iliireau. Tho explain!-Hon explain!-Hon Is perfectly simple there arc not enough men to do It. While a reus- 1 sniiblo percentage of the Michigan ', miners are coming back from tho nil-tnmohllo nil-tnmohllo Industries, there will not be enough In total to offset thu number ivho left In tho spring. D. II. Illllhnuso, former chief of po-lice po-lice of Iteno, Nov., Is one of the hit-est hit-est converts to the. possibilities of oil development. He. together with II. A. Whlttukor, one of the wealthy ranch-rs ranch-rs of Nevada, and II. I). McConnell, 3iie of the largest oil operators In Tex-is, Tex-is, will be associated In n closed cor-poratlon cor-poratlon to bo formed for the purpose it Immediately commencing active de-relopment de-relopment of 2100 acres of oil land lu tho Cumberland oil district south of Waterfall, Lincoln county, Wyo. All mechanical departments and op-arntlng op-arntlng employees of tbo Consolidated Copper company and Nevada Northern Hallway company, with few exceptions. .vent on strike Inst week following the -nmpnny's refusal of a demand by the men for restoration of tho pro-nrmls-lice wngu scale. This would menu un Increase of $1 per day, while the com-pany com-pany has posted a wage Increase of in cents per day. The Wllbort Mining company, opor-ttliig opor-ttliig lu tbo Domo mining district, Hluluo county, Idaho, umdo an excel-lent excel-lent record us a producer and dividend payer and was In a fnlr way to enjoy i prosperous cureor of continued dlvl-dends, dlvl-dends, when tho flro Inst year de-stroyed de-stroyed Its phiut. Advices from tho iroperty, howover, nro that operations hnvo again beeri resumed, and that the .lew development program, which has already started, comprises a thorough exploration. There was a decided decline In the production of copper by tho lending American copper mines last mouth lOlghteCn representative producers showed a combined output of 77,252. W0 pounds, compared with 87,20!),(HXI pounds In tho previous month, a de-cllno de-cllno of roughly 104)00,000 pounds, lays the llo-don News Ittirvau. Itevelopment In tho Fpssll oil field it Lincoln county, Wyoming, Is now In full swing. Suvornl crows tiro busily ragaged upon thu Ilersimiu Oil coin-jmiy'.s coin-jmiy'.s holdings lu the Fossil field drill-tig drill-tig wells, and pther crows are work-ng work-ng speedily to complete tankage and )lpo Hues to take euro of tho shallow HJ )ll already developed upon tho field. HJ Utah's production of metals in 1018 flj mis lower- than during tho piyvlom BJ car hy mbre "thaii ijTll.OOO.OOO,. uccoriT? i" iwj ng to tho report wheh hos Just been' HJ ssucd by Victor S. Holhes of tho HJ Julted fitnto.i .Geological survey. HJ iLhVhI |