Show I AROUND AROUN THE MINES I Ore currying silver n aS g tOre hl high h as has had just been uncovered uncovered un un- ounces ounce to the ton tOil covered pl O ll in the tile SUn Silver mine In the district Cl In Montana The North Butte Mining lInin company has made malIc a u strike in its l' l East Side property lUch sulphide and amI native copper have been heen cut in the south cn crosscut from the 1 shaft on the foot level leel The rhe Mason n Valley alley dines com company pan has hns laid aside but hut has not dropped negotiations leading to merger with the thc muc milestone Bluestone tone and Nevada Douglas companies of If the tIle Yerington district 1 Nevada e Reports iro from frou Mullan Idaho state stat that a n small ull number of men have heen been employed at the three Morning anti and Hunter mines At Burke a U small addition was wasl l made Lunde to the Hercules crew anti and the tIle I same saline at the heels Ill The Ohio Oil company I is erecting an nn absorption plant in the Lance Creek Cleek field to tu reduce the tremendous How Mow of gas from three wells to profit making gasoline and expects to helve have it in op op- cm ion by Gy the first of ot the year ear According to lo tJ a n report iron Yering- Yering Yerington ton the Mason Valley Mine H Smelter Smelter ter company has lias appealed to the NOvada Novada No- No vada railroad commission for cooperation cooperation opera co tion in securing better rates for the thet t transportation of ore to the smelter meHer Instead 0 of shutting down in ih the thc full fall as was iwas usual In the past In the Helena Mont district mining operators operators opera opera- tors torR are sra now making e every el effort to get their theil plants under rider cover COYer before the snow flies files and continue contin the lite work all nIl winter Carson Hill Gold Mining g company operating on the county countr Cal Cat m l l lode o e gold belt and controlled controlled con can trolled b by the tiui American AmerIcan American Amer Amer- ican zinc interests of or Boston r C reports 2500 tons of 17 17 ore ore mill milled ell In the first ten tea days of the month Since the lie Silver King Consolidated opened OI n 1 up the new ore bod body in the beddings in the Electric LI Light ht claim in its property at Park City something like lila IIII has lias been heln taken out The rhe bedding has lias been heen opened for 1 O 0 feet alun along both boil sides of the the drift and In places tins has a thickness of four feet In its fiscal year August 31 last the Hay Ray Hercules Copper COpel company produced u ll 4 pounds of copper While the company's s plant was pro pro- pronounced complete in Au August 1918 innumerable in in- numerable delays delays' s 's occurred and it was some months after that date that copper cop cop- COIpel copper per pel on a commercial scale came Caine forth As one of the lar largest e t silver producers ers IS I'S of the world Anaconda Copper with the of silver price approximately approximate approximate- ly pr ps ounce and production r running running run run- nning n- n ning close to ounces if if the same rate as 1 1018 8 is maintained Ana Anat- Anacondas Anaconda's condas conda's profit from front this metal should help hlll materially to offset et the loss from frometa ita eta copper Copler Considerable activity prevails pre In the Ophir district in Utah Diamond drilling drill drill- In big ing to prove the geology r o of the district district dis dis- tract i is being done Several holes are hein icing being put down on the south side of the Ophir lull Hill canyon fault with a n aview view of encountering the lull Hill ore zone from which millions have hwe been heen taken Rochester Hoche Mines s and Mills at Rochester Rochester Roch Roch- ester estel Nov Z have been at full fun capacity since fInce September 23 The shut down lasted only nl a few days S As previously I explained the shut down u at Rochester was inns idle due to water shortage at the La- La Lahontan dam the agricultural interests taking first filSt call on available water J for irrigation tion purposes DurIn During the last twelve years ears mineral min min- oral eral oil exports from this country have hae increased per vcr cent using a com- com of Au August shipments this year eal with those of 1907 1007 In August this year eu the value of oil shipments amounted to 8 S. S against 9 o- o In August 1907 1901 according to the Boston News Z Bureau Captain Herman Davis of the Bulls Bulls- I head mine twine on the east enst slope dope of Spruce mountain Elko EIko county countr reported according ac ne- cOllin cording to the Nevada Z Mining Ples that the smelter which he lieis hels is constructing construct in tag ing for 01 the Mlle mine is deafly con completed nail and will be he ready in a n. few days s 's to blow in in 4 consists of ot blast hlat a u furnace wim a i capacity 01 of tHirty mirth to ratty tons I per da day The governors of all aU states ti where ce mining is an industry have 0 received HIg urgent invitations Invitation from frown Governor Frederick cl D D. D Gardner of Missouri fi to I authorize state tate exhibits of mine pro IWO products ducts to be he sent to the national exposition exposition expo expo- of mines and mining alining to be he held In St St. Louis In connection with wIlh the annual an an- nual convention of the American Minis Minis' Min is' is dam ress ress November 17 22 17 inclusive It is not improbable that the recent purchase e of the lie Eureka Palisades Eureka ades nar nar- gauge row auge railroad mn may have bare something something some some- thing to do with the development of the Consolidated com com- company and I ma in the time pany unary may near heat future bear heal the same relation to the company as the Nevada Northern company company com com- lan pany does dues to the Nevada Consolidated Popper Copper company sa says s 's the White While Pine Plume 1 News ew The manager of the North Standard property pert In East Tintic Tintie says ars that the shaft has lias now v reached the foot GOO level and a 11 drift is ib being sent out at this point to Intersect a II mineralized t fissure It is the tho intention to go o deeper ns itS soon as this work I N is accomplished h I The rile activity activity- In Cerro erlO de Pasco Insco Copper Copp Cop Cop- p per PCr l' l company ls l''s shares has been hn hosed based l onlie on onlie lie he realization that the ore continues 0 o show a er very high light gol gold 1 and sliver silver content Tills This of course cur e. e Bring iTi down production costs with result le tout Cerro I is s earning well In excl excess s of din equal |