Show AROUND THE MINES Preparations aro being made for tor the continuance of operations throughout the winter at the Cottonwood Grand Central mine near Salt Lake Sales of copper for domestic sUc tlc an J foreign account were probably under rather than over pounds during October according to the AmerIcan American Amer Amer- ican Metal Market It is estimated that the tile output of crude copper In the tIme Unload States State last month approximated pounds sonic some of the mines having transferred men from producing to development work American mining methods are ore needed needed need need- ed In to make mining and the smelting of minerals successful there says s 's F. F P. P Egeberg a naming mining engineer if f Christiana Norway who Is visiting Salt Lake York Work on the Emma mines which was started recently following the un un- watering of the main shaft has reveal reveal- revealed ed ell a streak of high-grade high ore which assays ounces of silver and per cent lead leall The Time vein recently struck on the 7 foot level le of the Western Utah Cooper Copper Cop Coo per mine at Gold Hill Rill Utah has been drifted upon for a 0 distance of feet and proved pro by a crosscut to be fifty feet from hanging wall to A company to be known as the Silver Triumph Mining company Is being organized organized or or- to work the Triumph mine and the Imperial group adjoining both th the tha Triumph and North orth Star property la Is lathe the news that comes from Halley Ida The incorporation of the Lone Mountain Moun Moun- tam tain Silver er Mines company company owning eight claims near Tyrone N. N M. M marks an Important step In an attempt to revive revive revive re re- re- re vive this once rich silver sliver mining district dis- dis district dis where mining has been done intermittently intermittently in In- since 1860 Owners of oC valid aUll claims either to coal oil phosphate gas or sodium lands in the time west will be permitted to perfect their claims under existing laws as provided pro b by section 37 of the leasing coal-leasing bill bUl which has been passed b by both houses of congress There has been considerable activity In The Pas las district in Manitoba of ot late due to the new finds on Copper lake and the probability of the Fun Flin n Flon s sulphide mine starting operations this coming winter according to the Mining l and Scientific Press J. J Benjamin Parker chemist and metallurgist of Salt Lake City has accepted ac nc- a n position as flotat flotation on engineer with the Consolidated Interstate Calla han Mining company of Wallace Idaho Ida ho where he Is working on the selective selective tive flotation of lead and zinc sulphide o ore The high-grade high values values values' of the ores mined on the time property of the Chief Consolidated Mining company in the Tintic district make possible the I extensive extensive extensive ex ex- ex- ex development campaign prosecuted prosecuted prose prose- b by the company In searching for new ore bodies according to the man nina Work on the Consolidated West Vest Extension Extension Ex Ex- tension Simon Mines lInes company at MIna Nevada I is being pushed vigorously the Ule crosscut from the foot nO-foot level being In feet from the shaft In Prospecting prospecting prospecting pros pros- on the surface sum the other day daya a ledge was uncovered at a point about bout feet in a n westerly direction from flom the shaft There Is an an unprecedented demand demaud for gold fo for foi domestic commercial and manufacturing purposes according to the Boston News Bureau Sales of the time metal to the time trade In October all records The Time New York a assay as us- say ay office sold approximately of the yellow cs tal in iii October The disastrous fire reported to be raging on the sixth level IC of the old Homestead gold mine maine at Lead S. S D D. the foremost gold mine of America brings to mind the record of or this property property prop prop- ert erty which up to January Januar 1 1 1017 1917 had hail produced a total of 1 Only er very meager details of the recent fire firc have ha been published An Important step in the Ule Attempt to ti solve 0 the Ule labor shortage problem In Inthe Inthe inthe the Porcupine camp is the installation of mechanical muckers which will shortly be done clone at the Hol and McIntyre mines says a dispatch from Cobalt Ont Onto The muckers resemble small steam shovels which will lift the rock into tram train cars after a n blat blast t The Time petroleum produced iu in Alaska Is derived derl wholly from a single pat pat- claim datum in the tIme Katalla oil field according to the United States ge geo geological logical sure survey department of the In In In- tenor The Time The old ld wells on this claim and the refinery were operated as usual in 1018 1918 Two new productive wells were also drilled in the Katalla field Driven f for r a of nearly five miles un under er the center of the time CrIpple Creek Cleek mining district of Colorado Colora o th tha Roosevelt drainage tunnel has tei u ore bodies 1 lying deeper than thed time the d deepest workings in the district an and anal s h. a n permanent solution n for foi wat once seemed a hopeless drainage drain age problem Ireland reland Is making some headway in regard to the time development dc of her mineral min rain eral resources but much remains to be done jonc Considerable developments have ha taken makeim place In recent years jears with tho time working of deposits of barytes k and ochre The deadlock between copper producers producers cers and copper consumers continues business busi- busi There is absolutely no big copper ness moving notwithstanding the recent recent re re- cent reduction In price by the tho lar large e selling agencies from 23 cents to tot 21 t cents says the Boston News Bu Bu- Bu reau enu nu |