Show AROUND THE MINES I I News of the discovery ry of or n mass of rich silver lead ore In the upper end I af of 1 the Old Emma ore ore body at Alta AHa was ns confirmed last week Leonora has made a new discovery In tn th the east end of or the property that rooks looks very promising Is the word that T Utah comes from Beaver county count The Packard mine nine at Packard Nevada Nevada Ne No- vada Is building a quartz mill which will viii have a capacity of from between and tons of ore a day The mill Dim will employ men State Mine Inspector II n. N. N Bell has hns returned from a n weeks week's visit to the mines and prospects of or the Basin country In Idaho and reports considerable considerable consider consider- able activity and some sumac interesting new discoveries Plans arc are being consummated where where- by a n mining company company T will be organIzed organized organized organ organ- to develop I properties in 10 Salt Vale Val Val- le ley The company will be known as the Salt SnIt Valley Mines company compan T and will take over the tho the properties belongIng belonging belonging belong belong- ing to II II H. E. E Blake and amI associates From Bingham comes word that the Congor continues to ship from Its workings a adjoining the Montana Bing ham Consolidated and that its production production production tion in the tha past Jast year or so has proba- proba oly reached d gross values The Congor Is on the east side of or camp Leaser Isher Fisher of the at Park City Is read ready to commence tankIng tankIng tanking tank- tank Ing water just as soon as coal can be bo unloaded at the mine The new compressor compressor compressor com com- Is la all ull ready rendy to be put in commission com commission com coin mission find and the property Is better equipped quipped than ever to go after after the ore and get it it It Is reported from American Fork can canyon Ton Utah that a strike has hns been made In the old Miller mine This was wasa wasn a n large producer In its day Recently the engineering firm of Kirk secured a bond and lease ease on the property property property prop prop- erty and has been working quite a a force orce of men for some time Realizing the time crisis which confronts the Hie oil industry in California committee commit commit- tee on petroleum of California state council of defense has presented to Governor Stephens plans for averting shortage for oil which threatens to tie Ue up transportation and Industry In general general gen gen- eral in the Pacific coast states Copper cement is a n term now beIng being being be be- ing used by the Nevada Douglas Consolidated Consolidated Con Con- to cover some of the product product product prod prod- from Its new leaching plant now operating in the time Mason 1 Valley district Recent controls on this product show that It averages a n. little more than 5 56 per cent copper or 1100 pounds metal meta to the time ton Granting a substantial increase In wages when prosperous conditions prevail prevail prevail pre pre- vail modifying the tits rustling card system system system tem and giving the miners a weekly pay day T the larger mining companies of the Butte district reached an agreement agreement agree agree- ment last week which it is generally believed will end the labor disputes which have paralyzed business in Butte for a month or six weeks past Known tin deposits in the United States are few few bu but buE A Alaska aska is something something some some- thing timing of a n contributor to our much needed tin demand Alaska lode tin was discovered curiously enough by bya a geologist of the time geological survey department department department de de- of or the interior as he was helping two prospectors by crudely smelting In a c camp mp cup a piece of pe pe- looking culiar-looking ore which the prospectors prospect prospect- ors rightly suspected to be tin Recently Fred L. L Schrott was inns in the Wood River Ida country and inspected inspected inspected in in- the Paymaster property DeIs Heis lie He lieis is quoted as follows by the Halley Times The Time Pa Paymaster is the biggest thing I have seen in Idaho There Theres There's s is exposed an nn ore body nineteen or tent twenty twenty t en t ty T feet wi wide e and to GOO COO feet Ion long The ore Is good concentrating We Ve Weare Weare are now driving a n tunnel to tap the same ore bod body feet lower This tunnel will wilt be done this summer More petroleum was produced In Kansas In 1910 1916 than In any other year ear earIn in the history of the time petroleum industry industry indus indus- try in that state According to statistics statistics statis statis- tics Just completed under the time supervision supervision sion slon of J. J D. D Northrop of the United States geological survey department of the interior barrels of crude petroleum were marketed from wells in Kansas In 1916 1910 This quantity Is nearly double the tIle output In an any preceding preceding preceding pre pre- ceding year and amid exceeds the output in m 1915 by barrels or per cent Mining in the tho Silver fork of cf the upper Big Cottonwood is ideal in summer summer summer sum sum- mer time and with a n. little forethought it can be made safe and practical to work the time entire year This Timis is being demonstrated by the Alta Tunnel Transportation which has hns been persistently pery per developing its Us large domain for the tho past five years There is a n good auto road to the portal of the tho tunnel the tho hills are woo wooded ed with all kinds of mining miming timber and the water that bursts from the sides of the time Is ice col cold in midsummer Since the time sl strike ike was mado made in the Columbus less than two weeks ago ngo at least sixty tons of ore have been broken and saved lor the tn m map keg et Ohio Copper of Utah Is no nos mining and treating from 2000 to 2300 2500 tons of crude ore daily dully The Time new flotation department continues to treat GOO tons dall daily with an un extraction of about 80 SO per pel cent of the values This is mainly the thc slimes from the old mill The Hecla Mining company passe passed the million-dollar million mark murk for 1917 dl dividends divi- divi 1 lends when the regular monthly dIsbursement disbursement dIs- dIs at 15 cents per share for Jul July luly T was declared amounting to Time The dividends for 1917 now amount to and the time total to tolate I late date |