Show AROUND THE mE MINES The silver lead deposits of tho the Wood River Inver mining district In Blaine county Idaho arc attracting considerable at at- I I Gold ore assaying from 1480 to 2700 per ton found in the Altitude and Windy claims at Nev I Is Is' being exhibited I j That the UH recent developments at the I property of the Tintic Pa Paymaster master I Mines company compan with holdings In North Forth TIn Tintic tic are arc of real Importance Is the opinion of the owners Assurances that difficulties will be bo adjusted so that American producers of ot silver who sell to smelters may receive receive receive re re- re- re the price stipulated by the PIttman Pittman Pitt- Pitt man act net has lias been received by Nevada mine operators Anaconda Copper Mining company has bas uncovered an ore bod body at feet while sinking a n shaft In the tho Stewart mine showing an fin extension downward of or high grade ore oro Deposit Is moro more than six feet wide A good goOt strike of ore oro assaying ounces of silver and and 30 30 in gold is reported in the Champion tunnel now being operated by the tho Butte Jardine I Metal Mines company says a n Deer Lodge Mont correspondent Silver lead ore in the sulphide form has hus been struck on the foot leelo level le o of the Simon imon Contract Mines property In the Simon district according to tomine tomine tomine mine officials that arrived last Jast week in Nina Mina from the property Samples were brought in for assay Negotiations for extensive purchases of copper by French consumers have been closed at nt New York according I to well-known well copper producers and refiners Contracts for a total of about tons valued at approximately approximately are arc said to h lu have vo o been completed Copper prices drift aimlessly from day to day Jay says the Boston News Bureau Notwithstanding everything has been done with a n view to aiding quotations the Inexorable law of supply sup Sill ply and demand rules Manufacturers have lost all aJl fear of being without syr- syr plus stocks b of metal Progress is slow but sure at the theVan theVan theVan Van Dozen Duzen discovery well where the deep test is being made to determine the productivity of the second sands In the tIle Devils Basin sn says s 's a dispatch from Roundup Mont The well Is now more than 1425 1423 feet deep and the cap caprock caprock caprock rock is expected at any time Reports of assays of the silver lead ore encountered on the foot level of the Simon Contact Mines property situated In the Simon district of Mineral county count Nevada Neada show It to contain 2 ounces of silver per percent percent percent cent lead per cent zinc and 02 of or an ounce of gold to the ton The 1019 rise In silver to the November November November Novem Novem- ber crest of 1375 1375 per ounce the highest highest highest high high- est for practically a half century was not riot more sensational than the perpendicular perpendicular per per- drop rop to 84 cents says the Boston News Bureau The current low prices are arc further ther emphasized by bythe bythe bythe the fact tact that sliver silver is down 28 8 cents from the average level for last year ear of off 15 16 cents from the 1918 1915 figure and even lower than in 1917 when the tho average was cents The Thc total supply of radium in the world today Is estimated to be four lur ounces an ounces an amount hardly sufficient to fill the cup from which you ou drink your morning coffee The total annual annual an an- nual production of the metal throughout through through- out the world Is now about one ounce a n year and comes chiefly from the ores of Colorado The present present pres pres- present ent value of this annual output which can be held in a n tablespoon is In the neighborhood of Plans for the extensive development of ot new coal properties In Carbon county Utah were disclosed at nt a meeting pf of of the state slate board of land commissioners with representatives of oft t the e Rio RID Grande le Fuel company The Theland Theland Theland land board agreed to lease Jense to the fuel company a section of school land at ata ata ata a minimum rental of 1 1 an acre per year t for r. r the first two years at nt a n royalty of ten cents a n ton on a n minImum minimum minimum mini minI- mum production of tons of coal for the third year and a minimum production of tons of coal for forthe forthe forthe the fourth year and amid thereafter The ore reserves In the Tintic Standard Stan Stan- 4 dard are arc being Increased and the mine is looking better than at any anytime anytime time in Its history according to millers min mill miners miners ers who have been through the underground underground underground under under- ground workings Shipments are not being crowded because this is not an opportune time to cut and slash Into ore deposits V- V As depth Is attained at nt the American Ameri Amen can Standard mine in the Schell Schell- bourne district north of the Siegel mine is Increasing according according ac nc- ac- ac cording to reports received last Jast week Report of the Ontario Sliver Silver Mining 1 company for the year ear 1919 shows that profits accruing from the operation of the property totaled and general expenses Including a dividend disbursement of totaled Day and night shifts arc are being run on the time prospect oil on and gas well on tye 9 Oscar Barton Darton farm south and west of Utah The men are now now- working on n a new well wen which is now down more than feet Meet and cased with an nn inch eight casing The Ille pronounced growth of domestic t consumption and the Impetus given to Important manufacturing activities t. t justifies a bright outlook for copper and the correlative Industries accordIng accord accord- ing lag to Information given out by the National Conduit and Cable company ny a lurge large consumer of the time red metal meta |