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Show H MINES AND MINING BBB BBB V j Tho Pioneer Consolidated nt Gold. BBV, .i Held has Installed a ten stamp mill. BBVj Tlntlc's mines In tho month of Sep- BBV' W tember yielded to tho stlito a total BBV' . of S95 carloads. This Is approximate- BBV, H ly 25,750 tons of an estimated vnlun- BB 'l tlon of $750,000. BBV lllg business Is to liavo an Inning BBV; ij at tho sixteenth annual session of BjBJi tlio American Mining congress to be BBY held at tho Rollovuo Stratford hotel, BjBJ In Philadelphia, during the week of BBV October 20. Hellablo reports aro that tho old Hj Ontario mine at Park City, Utah, Is , BBV opening up In splendid shape between BR tho 1400 and 1500 levels; that tho BjBJi Silver King has an Immense body of BBV shipping ore on the 1300 level. BBJj VIslblo copper Bupply In England BBl! France and Elloat thereto to Octobe' H 1 was 22,553 tons, a decreaso of 3.4S8 BjBj tns In past two weeks. VIslblo Blip- BBlj i piles at Itotterdam, Hamburg and Hro- BBji 1 men on October 1 wero 5,205 tons a BjBJ ' . , decrenso of C31 tons. Copper metal authorities nro all agreed that tho producers report for September will show n further decrenso de-crenso In stocks In this country. Estimates Es-timates place the decreaso nt from 10,000,000 to IC.000,000 pounds says a Now York dispatch. Production from tho camp of Purk City for the month of September aggregated ag-gregated nearly 7,000 tons of oro of an estimated aggregate valuation of $2S0,000. This compnres favorable with liny month of tho past nine months of tho present year. From tho cast comes tho regular announcement of a $1.50 dividend a share to tho stockholders of tho Centennial Cen-tennial Eureka, the biggest mlno In Tintlc. This will mako n distribution of 1300,000 so far In 1913, hnd gives tho company a total dividend record or $3,900,000. It is reported that prospects aro good for tho beginning of shipments or oro rrom a district nbout twenty miles cast or Downey, Idaho. Mining Min-ing has been carried on in tho vicinity vicin-ity ror n dozen years with fair success. suc-cess. Tho Lena Hell Is ono of the principal properties. Tho prlco of radium has been advanced ad-vanced $10,000 a gram because of an unprecedented demand for tho precious prec-ious substance. Medium now Is quoted quo-ted nt ?115,000 a gram, which means n pound of It would bo valued nt over $52,000,000 If such a quantity could bo amassed. Productln of gypsum In 1912 was tho greatest In the history of tho Industry, In-dustry, according to the United States geological survey, the amount of gypsum gyp-sum consumed being 2,G00,7G7 short tons. Tho valuo of gypsum and gypsum gyp-sum products was $6,663,908, an In-creaso In-creaso of $101,873 over 1911. Utah Consolidated directors nro ox-pected ox-pected to meet somo tlmo within tho near ftituro and declare a quarterly quar-terly dividend of CO cents n share, snys George L. Walker in his weekly week-ly letter. During the first six months of this year jtho company earned $1.25 and pnld $1 In dividends on its stock. Of tho ten sets of leasers on tlip Rochester Mines company at Rochester, Roch-ester, Nevada, four nro shipping and four others nro sacking oro. The camp's present production is about 1,000 tons dally nnd it should average aver-age $30 up to $230 a -ton. Tho popu atlon of tho camp has settled down to about 700 people. Wbllo no antimony was produced in tho United States last year from domestic ore, a considerable quantity was saved In the form of nntlmon-lal nntlmon-lal lead, which' is obtained nt the smelters of precious metals In tho course of their operations, and large quantities or antlmonlal alloys tiro recovered re-covered from secondary sources. The Silver King l8 tho most noted mine In tho vicinity of Superior, Arizona. Ari-zona. It was opened in 1875 nnd for many years produced high grado sit-j sit-j ver oro rrom a deposit or tho form commonly called by minors a 'chimney.' 'chim-ney.' Tho mlno is now Idle. Tho production of tho Silver King Is variously var-iously reported ns between $10,000,000 nnd $15,000,000. A mining man who has just coino in rrom Rochester, Nevada, says that values are growing richer with depth on the Rochester Minos company. In No. 1 lease, tho Big Four, ho says that thero Is now three feet of ore In ono placo which has sampled as high as $300 a ton. The shipping product from hero has been running nbout $60 to the ton In cnrlohd tots, nccordlng to roports. The numerous coal beds of what is known a8 the Darber coat field, In Johnson county, Wyomtngr ncr Crazy Woman and Powder creeks, are described de-scribed in a short report Just issued by the United 8tates goologlch! survey. sur-vey. In tho report an Idea of tho Immense Im-mense qtinnttty of coal underlying this field may bo gained from tho estimate es-timate given that tho nrca, which con-Islsts con-Islsts of seven townships, contnlns !, 021,000,000 .tons. |