Show I AROUND THE M MINES MINES' NES NESI I The Walker mine located about twenty miles out o of Tortola Cal and held largely l hy by y Salt Lake interests I Is making an nn impressive e showing What promises to lo be a sensational strike of or fine copper ore has been made ver very rec recently at nt the Expectation group on or Expectation mountain Colo Cola C. C W W. Ce Geddes Ides who holds the controlling controlling con con con- trolling interest in the property of the Nevada Manganese mine at ut Shatter Nev Nov announced last lust week that the company was vas ns now sending out an air average average av a av- av of or one one car per day Fifteen men are arc now working at the Baker properties north of Brigham City Utah The ton mill of the Min Mineral eral Ridge Co is now operating on the lead lend ores crushing and jigging About fifty tons of or ore daily dally are re being treated Unconfirmed reports from Nevada are that it Is the expectation to start sturt startup startup up the second unit of the Mason Inson Valley Valley Val Val- Ic ley smelter this week weel or 01 next It has hns been heen treating something like tons tonsa a day mainly copper ores from company company company com com- pany mines and the Nevada I Another old mine said to have a I production record of upwards of but practically abandoned after I the lie fall of silver thirty years ago will l willbe willbe ilbe be revived The property is the old I Black Warrior and six miles southwest of Tecoma station Jut just across the line la in Nevada Ne I Utah men aro are developing several groups of mining claims In the Black mack Pine district fifteen miles northwest est from Snowville but across the state stateline stateline stateline line in in- Cassia count county Idaho The Valentine Valentine Val Val- entine Cinnabar Mining company tho Hazel Pine and Valley View are reported reported reported re re- re- re ported to be the lie most active this fall The Douglas Milling and Power company compan of Gardnerville N Nevada vada has employed Engineer of Fulton Fulton Fulton Ful Ful- ton to complete the work on the power dam Faulty construction is said to have been the cause of much water escaping and it is believed that a feda few fe da days s 's will see the dam darn In good condi condi- tion Compiled figures just released by tho the bureau of the mint and geological survey survey survey sur sur- vey place the total 1016 production of ot gold by the nation at fine ounces valued at D Utah is credited with ounces valued at If It puts Utah seventh se In Inthe Inthe inthe the states California Alaska Colorado Colorado Colorado Colo Colo- rado Nevada and South Dakota lead Settlements ts of the ore which is now being shipped to the smelters by the Tintic Standard show that excellent profits are accruing from the sales of the mixed ores from both shafts One recent lecent lot of several cars brought tho the company a n check this week Another smaller lot of two cars brought 4 This ore has been carr carrying carrying car car- r Ing 10 to 12 per cent lead and thirty thirty- five to fifty ounces silver The conclusion of a standing long I controversy between Butte stockholders ers of the Butte Ely Copper company company com com- pany IHm a subsidiary of the Consolidated Copper Mines company compan was reached last week when Colonel E E. A A. A Wall of Salt Lake Inke City a large stockholder In both the Ely and the Consolidated purchased all the stock held by the Butte Dutte interests amounting to shares at le per share The c cyanide plant recently installed by the Walker Waller River Copper company on the Nevada Empire-Nevada ground west of ot Yerington station Is virtually completed ed and it is stated that treatment of ores will begin In a few days The rhe first ores to be treated will be taken from the so called red shaft with which mining men of this state are more or less familiar and anti the result will be await awaited cd with considerable In In- terest A telegram has bas been sent to the war shipping board at nt Washington by the Utah public utilities commission asking asking ask ask- ing that an order be made demanding that empty cars cars passing through Utah consigned to points outside the state be diverted en route that they may be utilized in hauling coal from the Carbon Carbon Carbon Car Car- bon county mines to aid In checking a n possible threatened coal famine throughout Utah and Idaho during the coming winter Miners 1 coming In from Dugway bring the report that there Is a comprehensive comprehensive com com- scheme on foot to give that isolated Tooele district a unique railroad connection either from the Salt Lake Route Houte ne near Faust or with the Western Pacific to the north Either route would be about forty five ort miles mlles The proposition is to build a n wooden railroad over the flats fiats for the accommodation of auto trucks with their string of trailers According to a n Boston statistician for Cor the first time in history exports of copper from the We United States for fora a 1 full year yeat exceeded pounds the tho total shipped abroad from he United States during the fiscal period ended June Tune 30 having mounted to pounds lounds comparing with 16 pounds in hl the precedIng preceding ing corresponding period and 12 1 pounds two years ears ago One of the Utah mining miming companies which Is beginning to feel the good results re re- suits Juas of the spectacular rise in the price of silver sll is the Judge Mining Smelting company Its annual production pro pro- Is about ounces One of the officials of the Revelator Mining lIning company said last week weel that thata a L second shipment from the Park City property brings net smelter returns of or a n ton The ore carries about gross glOSS The lot of or nine tons Drought about The ore carried carded U a ounces of silver sliver and 31 per cent i lead d I |