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Show MINES Hi MINING Development work at the Wooillawu copper mine in Big Cottonwood is being be-ing steudily prosecuted under most favorable fa-vorable conditions. I'roduction ot ore of the Tlntlc mines shows that for tb week end-. end-. lug September 3 a total of J45 carloads had been shipped from the district. The failure of copper to advance in price, due to the application of the new freight rates, is causing considerable consid-erable discussion among metal men. More than 125 men are now busy with the construction of the Tintlc Standard's new mill at Warm Creek, and every effort Is being made to get the plant in running order before the end of November. The. tin mining Industry of Cornwall Corn-wall Is in a deplorable condition, says the Mining and Scientific Tress. Efforts Ef-forts have been made "recently to obtain ob-tain the aid of the British government In behalf of the industry. The Mammoth Mining company has commenced the shipment of its farge mill dump. Although the present rate of shipment, two carloads per day, could be considerably exceeded, as the smelter can handle but this amount of ore, operations will be restricted to tills tonnage. The Grass Creek Oil field in Wyoming Wyo-ming has 4415 barrels daily produc- . tlon and the Rock Creek field, generally gen-erally considered second or third larg est, Is given only 3850 barrels production produc-tion per day. The Crass Creek production pro-duction comes from 315 different pro- ducing wells. . The Salt Creek Oil field, forty-five miles north of Casper, Wyo., has a daily production of 30,485 barrels from 242 wells. The Big Muddy field is credited with having the second largest production In the state, a total of 5550 barrels. There are 229 wells in this field producing. Favorable conditions contiuue la the development work at the Cactus Nevada Silver Mines property in the Cactus Springs district, in Nevada, according to reports from the mine. Drifts are being driven easterly and westerly on the 205-foot level and the showing is very promising. Proving the ore-bearing character of the .Simon ledge for an additional distance dis-tance of 1400 feet beyond the Simon silver-lead shaft, a strike of considerable consider-able importance is officially announced an-nounced by the Simon Contact Mines company, operating In the Simon district dis-trict of Mineral county, New The Illipan Petroleum company has installed ten-inch casing in its well being be-ing drilled hi the northern end of tue 'Hipah field and has the drill down learly 400 feet. The water has been shut off. The management is confident confi-dent that petroleum in commercial quantities will be encountered below the sandstone. Fire In the mine of the Utah Fuel company at Sunnyside, while it is believed be-lieved to be under control, is still of sufficient potential importance to lead the company officials to determine not to send any mine rescue and first aid teams to the competition at Denver under the auspices of the United States bureau of mines. Aside from the announced determination determin-ation of several of the larger companies com-panies to give a thorough test to. the possibility of developing oil In southwestern south-western Utah, many residents of the state and persons from other parts of the country are making applications to the government for permission to prospect. pros-pect. The average production of Wyoming oil wells runs exceptionally high, according ac-cording to statistics from Casper, Wyo. The average daily production per well in the stale is now running about 43.5 barrels. In comparison with other fields of the country, this Is remarkable. The total daily production produc-tion of (he state's 1K0 wells is about 53,250 barrels. Many old California gold mines, which produced millions for the "forty-niners" "forty-niners" and the men who followed their trails, still are able to produce many millions more, according to mining min-ing engineers of the Porterville section sec-tion of California. The pioneers, the engineers say, in most Instances took gold from the shallow pockets- or surface sur-face veins of high-grade metal, leaving leav-ing millions of dollars of gold ore wider wi-der the old workings. Cold imports In July, 1020, were R10,8l7,75S, decrease of $0,047,225 from June, 1020. but gain of .$17,071,203 over July. 1010, snys the Boston News Bureau." Exports of $21,872,78,'!, increased in-creased $10,520,008 over June, 1020. but were less than half the outward movement of $54,07:1.227 In July. 1014. Excess of silver exports, largely to India and now chiefly to Hongkong, since January 1, 1918. over Imports during July, amounts to $350,012,000. Present net gain on both precious metals met-als together does not exceed $250,000,-000. $250,000,-000. As neariy as can be est hunted, from. 1521 to 1801. the mine of Mexico have produced silver to the value of $4,000,-000.000. $4,000,-000.000. During the years 1781 to 1SOO It Is estimated that Mexico yielded two-thirds of the world's production of silver. Mexico at present is shipping approximately ap-proximately one-third us much oil as United States is producing. Production Produc-tion In the United States Is at the rate of approximately 450,000,000 barrets annually, while Mexican shipments are at the rate of 150,000,000 barrels annually. |