Show I AROUND THE MINES Tonopah production last week wa was wal tons valued at nt In the past PESt ten months the Ophir Hill Consolidated Is credited with n a P production of ol tons of ore It Is reported that the old Horn Silver Silver Sil Sil- ver mine of Beaver county has bc been n lately shipping about 1200 tons of ore orea oren a n month According to eastern advices the tho Consolidated production for the first fourteen days of November November November Novem Novem- ber was pounds and the estimate estimate esti esti- mate for the tho month is made as 1500 pounds From TIntIc comes word that the Zuma Is now installing a donkey on the GOO level with a view to sinking to greater depth This is at a point where two shallow proved the values were making better at depth Reports coming down from the Alta Tunnel Transportation workings Inthe in inthe inthe the Silver Fork section of Big Cottonwood Cottonwood Cottonwood Cotton- Cotton wood are that the face of the tunnel is now In approximately feet Under the new contract some 50 GO feet has been added to the length of tho the tunnel Utah and Idaho men have recently organized the Kent Placer Gold Mining company with a capitalization of The company compan has located four quarter sections or acres of gold- gold bearing ground on the Snake e near the mouth of the Salt river In Idaho That operations will soon be resumed resumed re re- rc- rc in the Bluff oil fields is indicated indicated indi indi- by visits of capitalists to tho the southern part of San Juan practically every week Last week two parties of prominent men went to the field tomake to tomake tomake make preliminary Investigations nn and sur surveys eys S Copper producers in Intimate touch with the situation state there Is no basis In fact for current rumors that revision in January either upward or downward of price for the metal established established by the government at 23 has been definitely or even tentatively decided decided de do- on Shipments of ore from the Prince Consolidated for the past week amounted mounted to eighty carloads As these cars i t average not less than fifty tons each tills this represents a total movement movement movement move move- ment of tons during the seven days That Is at the rate of approximately approximately approximately tons every every twenty four flours S Recently the work worl of drilling on the Utah Petroleum company's oil well near Juab station was stopped The I well was down about feet It is reported from New York that the operations operations operations op op- op- op will be resumed but probably at ata a point different the as-the site of the old well seems to have been unwisely selected S According to the latest bulletin from the Wyoming-Montana Wyoming Public lublic Oil exchange exchange exchange ex ex- ex- ex change of Casper W Wyo o the Wyoming Refining company has hias purchased a site for the plant Part of of the equipment Is on the track ready ready to begin work worl Three cars of material material materIal mate mate- rial including six stills have arrived and four more are In transit tr Japan took In gold from the United States from January to the end of September as ns compared with In the same period of 1 1910 lO and was virtually the only one of th the allied countries to receive precious metal from America in September Spain imported D for nine months in the same sarno period of the pre lre preceding e eding year ear From Alta AHa comes word vord that the Wasatch Mines company compan l keeps plug along on its big drainage and transportation tunnel Two shifts arenow are arenow arenow now working The They are making tank nine to ten feet progress a u da day when there is no heavy timbering and all Is well The Thc work Is now und underground lS 1350 O to 1400 feet Of or this approximately 1000 feet is In the solid formation With a 11 view Ies to eliminating a n lot of ot I shorting of stocks or this is the general general genral gen gen- genI I eral ral interpretation the Salt Lake Stock Mining exchange Is about to enforce one ore of Its most wholesome but hut neglected long long neglected rules This rule requIres requires requires re re- re- re quires that contracts of all ull future delivery de de- delivery de- de livery sales be deposited with Ith the secretary sec see rotary within eight forry hours hOUlOS The Tho penalty penal ty Is a n 5 flue for fat every offense When asked what one thing he considered considered considered con con- would best hest lift the western mining industry out of its present case of dumps one of or the largest and most successful operators of Utah said For Fot the government to at once sec t equitable prices on all ull the metals I believe elleve that there should be a government govern govern- overn- overn ment mont clearing house on metals and the prIces should be he fixed through such an nn Institution Announcement Is by the go governor governor gov gov- vernor v- v vI I of ot Nevada that the silver producers producers pro- pro lucers of Nevada will probably send their heir representatives to Washington to confer with Secretary McAdoo and Director DIrector DI- DI rector ector of the Mint Bul Baker er regarding the proposal of the government to fix fu fixa a v on silver sliver without wr wF r the conclusion of the proposed proposed proposed pro pro- posed conference ut at Salt I Lake ake between various arlous western states stales It is given out In Boston that during he tue first ten months of this year the Bingham Mines and Its subsidiaries earned arned OO This Is compared with for 1910 1916 They earned In October against in September 5 1 The high grade ore are In the Empire rein cin of the Lehl Lehi Is growing richer rich rich- or er r with development de according to a n report received from the mine milie Tho The miners are raising on the vein eln and ond report report re- re port ort that ore Is getting richer us as tho the work ork progresses and the deposit big big- ger er 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