Show I AROUND THE 1 MINES I II I Within the next few days the Jib property at Basin Bashi Mont win will probably probably ably be In shape shale to start shipping A id di dividend nd of or 5 cents a n share Is looked for from lom Gol field Consolidated when the company's directors meet Operations recently resumed at the time Cottonwood Metals mine In the Big Cottonwood can canyon on are are proceeding smoothly and amid meeting sleeting with encouraging encouraging ing conditions Copper corporation with frith witha a n production of pounds of copper In September registers a record output for fOl the present year with the exception of January when a n little lithe littleover c cOel over O pounds were turned out The lubricating oil output for the first filst six months of l 1918 lS and for a similar period in 1919 lOW is practically the same saute according to the time bureau of mines minerals Investigation amounting amount amount- ing lag to approximately gal gal- Ions Jointly with Sinclair Consolidated United States Smelting has acquired a n 50 51 per cent interest in the Wrights Wrights- ht man mami oil producing properties known as the Johnson Johnsoa told and P Polley leases In the Bull Bayou ou oil field of Louisiana I Lenses of ore carrying rite and native c copper cop con copper per are ale bein being encountered ll in hi the cross crosscut crosscut cut drift to the Mogul No 2 2 southwest fissure on the property of the Western Utah Extension company at Gold Hill lUll Utah United Verde Yelde Extension Mining com company pany pan produced pounds of copper in September compared lc with 32 42 pOUD pounds ls In the he preceding month Mining lIning has boon been resumed and ami approximately normal conditions pr prevail prevail pre pre- vail vall at the time property The average e co east cost t leff df producing a 21 pound of copper COppOl In ithe Utah Nevada and California fi during 1918 1913 when the selling price was fixed bythe bythe by bythe the government was waR cents according ac at according cording to figures figureR made public b uy by fhe fe federal elat trade slon Reports of an Impending strike In Tonopah ah or of both miners and an craftsmen craftsmen crafts crafts- men were brought to an abrupt end enil h by a recent reent meeting of the Divide Miners liners and amid union at which statement was Issued declaring declaring ing there ther-e was no thought of strike American Smelting's e earnings outlook out out- outlook look for the final six mouths months of 1910 1919 Is largely larel dependent on developments dc in the copper topper trade accordi according g to the Boston News 13 Bureau In the fir first t half year em a deficit of war was after sifter time the the common common dividend The heavy leav snows that have fallen falcon in the tIle oil fields in W Wyoming omin during tb the past few di days s 's have acted as a serious serious se se- rious dons barrier to operations according to announcements The chief dela delay is caused 1 lay by the condition of the roads which has virtually prevented moving ne nears Heavy j supplies Work at the Temple Mountain uranium u u mines still continues and on onIt onIt ona It a larger scale calc sa says s 's a Moab loab Utah cor cor- respondent More men are being put putto putto to work each week and supplies are continually on the roa road Several new veins of f fer er very ery rich ore have been opened up recently Steady progress is s heln being made in driving riving Hie he drain tunnel on the property prop elt erty of the time Panama Mining and MillIng MillIng Mill Mill- 1 Illing Ill Ill- Ing company near Moab Utah This tunnel which when completed will be beISO ISO HiO feet in length len th will rid the mine mime f the water which has heretofore hindered hin hin- hindered dered development Miners liners coming into the Coeur dAlene iAlene district from Republic Wash do not approve of the actions of the miners in that district which caused the camp to close according to the time Wallace Press rime The ore Is of a n ver very v t w grade glade said one of them therm and the tire Aerators were IJa paying all the they could Important ore discoveries disco in the mine at ut Eureka Nev New are announced In the below the foot le level in the west end of the property the company compan is prepared to take tale out tons of hl high h grade a month of or th the total tott value of about 10 10 and this merel merely by hy doing the sar development work By an act of ot congress of Tune June 30 mining upon Indian reservations of the states of Arizona Arizon California Idaho Montana Nevada a New Sew Mexico Oregon Oregon Ore Ore- gon on Washington ton and W Wyoming was authorized By this act ad the secretary of the interior wa was empowered to prescribe pre pre- prescribe scribe general regulations rl for the time leas leas- Jag of mineral lands upon UlOn Indian reserva reservations res res- erva Ions to citizens of or the United States Ul of the Maryland Idaho vertical shaft t to a n d depth of or 4 0 feet has been accomplished b by compressed air all suction sa says s 's the time San an I Francisco Chronicle It Is state by local engineers engineers engineers engi engi- that this marks the first lal large large- escale e- e scale of or an any California mine b by the compres compressed ecI air method which totally eliminates the use of pumps and Is far more economical than the old practice There has been heen very heavy buying ln of If silver for far tar eastern account India India In In- dia dla would bu buy this cO country's s annual yield according to well posted silver men If It It were available u and still need more Of or late China has been hu buying ln heavily both In New York and London An otter offer of ot severn several I hundred thousands thousands thousands thou thou- sands of dollars for the time Spruce Spruce Monarch Mon Ion arch Mining company's property inthe In Inthe the Spruce Mountain ro mining district I twenty three miles from Tobar Is IsRa Ra fn to have been refused recently b by the Salt SaIt Lake Interests in control I Df Of t the company |