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Show MINES AND MINING 1 Supplies for the construction of a pipe line from the Cat creek oil fields to Winnett, Mont., have been ordered for delivery, and construction Is expected ex-pected to start immediately. Figures which are now available1) Indicate In-dicate that for the year 1920 the Chlei Consolidated mine, Tintic district, will exceed the wonderful record which it made during 1919 In the matter of the production of silver. Arrangements have been madefoi the immediate construction of a powet line to the- property of the Eureka Standard company, where some development devel-opment work is now under way, says the Eureka, Utah, Reporter. Increase of the capitalization of the Prince Consolidated Mining & Smelting company was approved unanimously at the stockholders' special .meeting held December 12, at which a total ot 850,000 shares out of 1,000,000 was represented. rep-resented. The Con. Virginia Mining Co. re-ports re-ports a largely increased ore produc- won ior ine past ween, me nmi snip-ments snip-ments Including 712 tons averaging $21.34 per ton, and having a gross value in excess of' $15,000, says the Virginia (Nev.) Chronicle. v The most valuable of the industrial metals in the world today are those comprising what Is known as the platinum plati-num group. These metals, ull of which are allied with platinum in their chemical chemi-cal and physical properties, are associated associ-ated principally In Russia and in the republic of Colombia Mine and mine operators of the Gold Hill district, at the end of a three-day conference signed up a new wage agreement, according to the Virginia City, Nev., Chronicle. According to this agreement miners are to received $5.50 per day, muckeVs $5.25 and pump men and cage men $5.50. Several bills designed to relieve mining min-ing claim operators of the necessity of doing assessment work for 1920 have been consolidated Into one by the senate committee on. mines. Instead In-stead of eliminating assessment work entirely, the new bill would grant a six" months' extension of tlnK. The Yellow Pine mine was closed down last week for an indefinite period according to persons arriving from Goodsprlngs, Nev. For years the Yellow Yel-low Pine has been a great producer of zinc-lead ores, probably the largest In the state, and was the big mine, In all classes, of Clark county. A remarkable deposit of salt exists about seventy miles south of Mount Irish in Nevada. It Is reported to be about five miles In length and 600 feet in height. The body of salt is of unknown depth. It Is chemically pure and crystalline, and does not deliquesce on exposure to the atmosphere. Directors of the Tintic Standard Mining company have declared a-10-cent regular and a 10-cerit special dividend, divi-dend, making a total payment In all of 20 cents per share. Pnyment of this dividend will make the grand total of disbursements by file Tintic Standard Mining company $1,429,062. The Leonard mine, one' of the largest larg-est copper producers of Anaconda, suspended sus-pended operations December 12, rendering ren-dering 400 men Idle. The property was hoisting 1000 tons daily and suspension sus-pension reduces production of Anaconda Ana-conda approximately to 40 per cent of normal. The strike made a week ago In the United American mine at Oatman has caused renewed Interest In that great sold camp, says the Needles Nugget. In drifting on the lower level they have encountered a shoot of ore which assays several, hundred dollars in gold per ton across a two-foot face, while other samples have run as high as $22,000. Imports of dinmonds into the United States during the fiscal year 1920 were nearly double those of the previous year and more than three times the 1918 total, according to figures given by the National Bank of Commerce In New York. The value of the 1920 lm-oorts lm-oorts was close to $89,000,000, the bank rtiows In the December number of Its magazine. Completion of the Glenallen mill at t-urk City, which has been constructed U a cost of $50,000, Is announced by he officials of the company. Operations Opera-tions of the table concentration plant have begun. The foundations for the flotation plant, consisting of five ones-Belmbnt machines, are coniplet- ed, and It Is thought that within thirty days this treatment of ore can be begun be-gun In this department. Cars loaded with ore, the value of which range from $500 to $1000 a car, are being steadily shipped from a forty-two-year-old mine that the Guegeri-helms Guegeri-helms can point to us to the source of 'he vast wealth that is behind the American Smelting & Refining company.. com-pany.. , The old A. Y. and Minnie property prop-erty In lower California gulch at Lend-vlile, Lend-vlile, Colo., Is the exception that proves the rule that the average life of a mine Is twenty years. - Notwithstanding the slump In the price of lend the Eagle & Blue Bell and the Victoria mines, Tintic district, are making excellent records, operating operat-ing costs having been reduced to some extent through . greater efficiency among the force of miners. I . A greater curtailment In output by 'Copper producers In the united States ill soon be put Into effect and early .n the new year the rate of production will be materially below the present volume. Wages also will be lowered where cuts have not already been node, says the Boston News Bureau. |