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Show Miming and Financial The cop'per producers 'report, Issued Is-sued this week was bettor than expected. ex-pected. It shows a decrease In tho visible supply of 14.CB0.610 pounds, for the month of June. This Is tho largest decrease for some period and brings the estimate of copper stocks on hand, at the beginning of July, to 52,004, COG pounds, which is about tho lowest point rouchod since the compiling of monthly statistics has been undertaken by the copper producers' pro-ducers' association. A small increase in tho amount of copper stocks in European markets Is shown, and an increase in consumption, there, is also shown. There Is a decrease in consumption shown in tho United States, which may not be viewed with complacency and it need not be surprising sur-prising if July shows a further increase. in-crease. This is probably one of tho underlying factors tending to koep the price of mqtal shares at tho present low level. That the big decrease shown in copper metal, is due to tho decrease In production, must therefore be apparent. The refiners of copper have not put out tho amount of copper cop-per that it is possible for them to do, at this season of tho year. Hot woa-thor, woa-thor, likelihood of a strike in one of the largest eastern refining plants aro two reasons assigned for this lack of output and still anothor renson which is as good as any, Is that l)y kooping down tho output the prlco of tho metal is steadied and tho chances of better bet-ter prices arc greatly enhanced. Up to date each month of this yoar has shown a substantial decrease In copper cop-per production. However, with any sort of revival in the manufacturing industries that require copper, it will be easy for prices to advance, adding legitimate values to copper stocks and also affording the opportunity for manlplatlon that Wall street never overlooks. Financially, it Is doubtful if there Is another state In the Union that Is In as good a position as Utah. Tho mines are doing well, as the announcements announce-ments of -dividends of tho past few -days" indicate. The farmer never was In better shape. Spring and early summer rains have made oven the dry fanner smile and almost wonder at the term. Better crops were never promised. Livestock, cattle and hogs, never, brought- better prices, and with , buyers;; 031 the field representing all tho coast points no trouble to sell at satisfactory prices Is found. The really real-ly only unsatisfactory Item is wool. And for Improvement in this there is small' encouragement, for the present, pres-ent, $f$Foast. r "- ThJIyiSh Consolidated has declared a flfjfllfomt a share dividend, which ' mealHnMlstrlbutlon of $160,1)00, and tl fho aBI' Conolldated has declared Its sei-seml -annual dividend. The c ihfcajeijtiof Beaver county, Is show- '"fn'g" he't"'" Earnings eery month and Mtlio'ilftt sdbn be in the dividend ranks. I It is good to know that the Tlntio i Standard, located In the east-Tlntlc district, h"ar"at"Vit encountered ore of a commercial valuo and that tho Indications are that tho strike Is loading up to better and larger ore deposits, so that tho company is In a fair way of getting on a paying basis. Heretofore It has been "Irish dividends," divi-dends," but the faithful have stuck nobly to their guns and richly doaervo all the success and moro that seems to jo In store for thorn. It is noted that tho American Flag, of Park City., is to be a .regular shipper. ship-per. The management in settling for the lots shipped and settled for the fore part of the weok found that tho values averaged as follows: Copper, $1.20; gold. $28.20; silver, $43.08, and lead $24.82 per ton. This makes a very healthy shipping ore. The ore now mined could readily be graded grad-ed so as to run bottor than ono hundred hun-dred dollars per ton. The output of lho Tlntio district, which is the greatest district of Its kind and bears tho proud distinction of having more dividend payors than any district in the state and any like area in the country, produced and shipped 232,060 tons of ore for the first half of this year. Tho approximate approx-imate valuo of the ore Is placed at $5,826,000. Add to this tho outputs of Bingham, Park City, Altn, Stockton, Stock-ton, Beaver county, and Ophir, and one must exclaim, "What's tho mat-tor mat-tor with Utah? Sho's all right." ! The following articlo contributed to tho Mining & Englnoorlng World by tho commissioner of Minos of Colorado, Colo-rado, Mr. Ilonahen, Is very apropos. It shows that the present conservation conserva-tion policy Is retarding the discovery discov-ery and subsequent development of mines and also the ridiculousness of the practice of having the "ranger" pass upon something of which few if any are competent in the .slightest degree de-gree to pas3 upon. "The administration of tho national forest reserves has been the cause of considerable complaint from mining men, on the grounds that the policy pursued is detrimental to the Interests Inter-ests of the prospector for minerals, and retards the development of the mineral min-eral resources of tho country. I believe be-lieve the complaints in general are well founded, notwithstanding the denial de-nial of the department of the Interior and the officials of tho forestry service. ser-vice. It is the contention of the federal fed-eral government that It desires to aid In the development of the natural resources of Colorado and other western west-ern states, but that this muut not be done at the expense of the great forests for-ests which cover the Rocky mountains. moun-tains. The government contends that it makes liberal provision for the prospector who honestly desires to locate a valid mineral claim In the fbrest reserve, but rules are In Id down to establish the validity of a claim which are unjust and unreasonable. unrea-sonable. "Shall we say that a forest ranger, who may or may not be a mining man, and, as a matter of fact, in most eaes knows nothing of mining, should be cor.ipetent to judge whether a pros, pector has located a alid claim? Does It not look more reasonable that the prospector, willing to devote his fl time and hard labor to the develop- H ment of a prospect. In which there Ik no reward for him unless he strikes H mineral, be allowed to take tho H chKnce, instead of being told off-hand H by a forest ranger that he has not H located a mineral vain? Is not the Q prospoctor who tramps the hills H month after month, yoar after year, H In search of a mine, to be oncournged, H at least to tho extent that, when ho H finds what he thinks Is the object of his search, he be permitted to prove to his own satisfaction that he was mistaken? "The world needs all the minerals that can be produced, and since there is no means of producing them unless the prospector first discovers them, 1' is an outrage to retard him in his work. There are In the forest reserves re-serves of Colorado approximately 13,-000,000 13,-000,000 acres, all of which are practically prac-tically closed to most prospectors, bo-cause bo-cause under present conditions they fear tho rod-tape methods of tho forestry for-estry service. There aro 1,804,800 acros In tho forest reserves above timber-line, on the mountain tops, where no trees grow or can grow. Although some of the richest mmes in Colorado are located above timber-line, timber-line, tho forestry service continues to ID maintain this vast area in tho forest H reserves, when it is of no practical H value for forestation purposes The H acreage above timber-line In tho vur- H lous forest reserves of Colorado Is us H follows: H Acre". H Arapahoe 1 30,000 H Battlement 1,300 H Oochetopa, 180,000 H Colorado 120,000 H Durango 56,000 H Gunnison 00,000 H Holy Cross 51, 0o., H Leadville 385,000 H Montezuma 50,000 H Pike 107,500 H Rio Grande is,50o H Rout...f 7,500 H 'Continued on Page 14 ) fl H MINING AND FINANCIAL. H (Continued from Page 7.) Mj r a ' - H snn Tsabel .. .. 80,000" H ' San Juan 80,000 Hj .opjJ8 ... . ' T. .'.V 7. "llB.OOO H r Uncompnhgro .. ... 100,000 PI " ' White River .' .. . ' 75,000 ME '-- - : v M - L -' ' 1,804,800 H "i holloxe that C5 per cent of the H land above timber-lino is mineral H land, and I can see- no-roason for plac Hi i n- ing -and keep It. in tho.fqiost j-osoyc, MM other than trjing to coljct rnynl- H ties dh aqy ores that mlgjjt'bo pro- H tluced I Jjalioap-prDapoctxicajuvd join- . H ing men making mineral locations on H t 4land avhero good timbei is available, KB should be permitted to use ail the Bwj ; timber neeestarv -for the mine and B buildings connected -with ,lt. but under K ,. no consideration "should they boal- IH lowed to sell the timber for commer- MM tm 4 H . olnl purposes. . B , Locators of mining claims should bo B permitted to locato mill sitts for mlll- H ing .purposes. ( Ninety-five per cent cS . t , of our metalliferous mlnes'must erect MM mills for the treatment of medlum- B t . igradfi ores that aro taken from thoso B mines. For this purpose I 'can see MM H no leuson why the locator of mining MJI Mj claims should not be permitted to B locate mill sites without, be'ing com- B polled to show that theie is a vein on B wild mill site. B, , I believe that, when an owner of BH' any mineral location has complied H with tho federal laws and y inn Ices ap- M plication for a patent, should ' any H " ((iiestion arise as to tho validity of said claim, the secretary of the ln-MJ ln-MJ B terior should call upon tho commls- H asioner of i. tines of the state in w)ich B the land is situated to ,. determine B whether the claim is alid. B ( . J4 submitted those suggestions to S Walter Fisher, secretary of the fh- Bm tenor, in a letter dated Aug, 8, 1911 B t , I l'ecelved no direct reply from him, HI but my letter was answered by the H Denver office of the bureau, in which H the cuiftomaiy statement, that the H prospector is not hlndeied In his B -norlc, was made." M |