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Show UTAH MINES SHOW BIG PRODUCTION ' FORLASTYEAR The mining situation In Utah, for the year 1917, is thus summarized by Victor E. Koikes of the United States geological survey, department of the Interior: The output of gold, silver, copper, .lea?A,1? zlnc from toe mlnes of Utah . a value of 0Ter $106,000,. SJOW, an increase of nearly $ 17,000,000 over 1916. This is a record value for the state output, reached largely because be-cause of the high prices of silver copper cop-per and lead. There was a decrease in the output of gow, lead and zinc, out the increase in the output of silver sil-ver and copper and the higher prices i greatly increased the total value iLmnng two months in 1917 two of the large smelting companies placed ' on their ore shipments an embargo which affected particularly the small-i small-i ?,r ,8.h,PPers- These larger companies ! limited their shipments to half the quantity called for in their contracts. ,1? , , account of the congestion of j 7 freight on railroads it was difficult to get sufficient cars, but in spite of all difficulties, about 15,000,000 tons of ?aJ'.?1,ned durlng the ar, against 13,920,643 tons in 1916. j The mines at Bingham produced about 14275,000 tons of ore, an increase in-crease over the 12,777,683 tons mined In 1916. A large part of the ore was i, moved by steam shovels. The por-Pjyfy por-Pjyfy copper ore mined amounted to 13,4.52,000 tons, an increase over the :. 11,767,996 tons mined in 1916. Tlntic ShiDments. The Tintic. district, with more than 40 shippers, produced about 413,000 tons of ore, which, however, included considerable oxidized iron ore shipped from the Dragon property to the . smelters in the valley as flux. JSven 1 after this ore is deducted, however ! the output still showed a slight in- ' I -ale over t,mt of 1916 whh was i I 36o,949 tons. There were 14 shippers 1 and each shipped over 4,000 tons dur-i dur-i J Ing the year. The largest shipments ! I were made by the Chief Consolidated it I Iron Blossom, Centennial Eureka and j&on- The Tintic Milling company hihated local ore and produced considerable consid-erable silver and copper, most of it from base bullion and precipitates ; Ehiprw n-w, father wesr ! From the i3ig end Little Cottonwood ! and American Pork districts nearly 6;),000 tons of ore were shipped, a decided de-cided increase over the 42,828 tons Iu "X lal0, l ne Cardiff mine, in the Big Cottonwood district, main- ' ; lts output of lead- an(l the Max- 1 f' ' and Iowa PPerties made large JL .Wtoments. The Michigan-Utah, South 1 Hecla, Columbus Rexall, and Emma y m) mines at lAlta made Increased output r. v Improvements In progress at the mills' will ultimately increase the output of concentrates and improve the recov-ery- A larKe leaching plant to treat oxidized copper ore was completed during the year and will be read for regular production In 1918. Other important im-portant copper producers of the Bingham Bing-ham district are the Ohio Copper, the iilmpa mine, Bingham Mines, United Staves Mining company. Utah Consolidated Consoli-dated and Utah Metal and Tunnel company. com-pany. In San Juan county a leaching plant was erected at the Big Indian I property. j Lead and Zinc. 1 The mine output of lead In Utah de- creased from 201,490,075 pounds In I 11 2 t0 over 1M.000.000 pounds in J The value of the output lncreas- 1 "d from nearly $14,000,000 to over $17-J $17-J 000.000 in 1917, as the average price . of lead was approximately 9.2 cents a j pound. There was a distinct Increase , In the output of the Park City region ; esneoiallv at the Silver King Coalition, ; Daly Judge, Silver King Consolidated, f and Daly West properties. . At Bing-: Bing-: ham a fire closed the Utah. Apex mine ; for a considerable period and decreas-' decreas-' ed the shipments of lead ore. The low j price of lead toward the end of the i year .prevented many of the small operators from shipping lead ore. The output of recoverable zinc decreased de-creased from ovpr 29.000.000 pounds in ; 1916 to about 22,000,000 pounds In I 1917, or more than 25 per cent. The ' j value of the output decreased from $1,962,719 to slightly more, than $2,-000,000. $2,-000,000. There were ' 33 producing properties, the most .. productive of i fUrh were the Daly Judge Caldo i leasing company, Utah Apex, United 1 I States. Mining company, 'Midvale Mineral Min-eral company, Childers Leasing company, com-pany, Scranton, Lake View, Chief Con-; Con-; , solldated. and Horn Silver. Most of the product was shipped to eastern , smelters, but part or It was taken to the electrolytic zinc plant at Great Falls. Mont. The Judge Mining and Smelting company began to produce electrolytic zinc at its plant at Park City in 1916. ' Dividends Declared. l' i , complete dividends of Utah mines J) i wanted to nearly $29,000,000 in 'W, against 124.376,567 in il&16. jJheHe were the Utah Copper, Mam-Vjpoth, Mam-Vjpoth, Silver King Consolidated, Utah v-'onsollilated, Judge i.Mlniug and Smelt- lng company, Utah Apex, Bagle and i Blue Hell, Iron 'Blossom, Dragon Moscow, Mos-cow, Chief Consolidated, Utah Metal, Gemini, Daly. Horn Silver, Grand Central Cen-tral Tintic Standard. Bingham Mines -ompany and Utah 'Leasing company. |