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Show MINES JUID HINIH6 " Shipments of ore from the mines of Park City last week totaled 1,039 tons, valued at $40,000. This is compared with 1,410 tons the previous week. Stockholders of the Lower Mammoth Mining company are in receipt of the annual report for 1915, showing total receipts of $54,848, and cash on hand $5,578.19. What promises to be a new shipper has just been developed by ore disclosures dis-closures at the Copper Granite property, prop-erty, five or six miles west of For-tuna, For-tuna, Utah. Shipments of ore from the mines of Tintio last week totaled 119 carloads. This is estimated at 5,950 tons, valued at $150,000. It is compared with 100 cars the previous week. The report of mine and mill operations opera-tions at the Tonopah Belmont Development Devel-opment company's property In Tonopah Tono-pah for the month of December shows the imposing returns as net profits, of $80,135.13. ' Jesse Knight of Utah heads a syndicate syndi-cate of western operators who have purchased the Golden Pen mine at Rand, Mineral county, Nevada, from which has been taken gold ore said to run $20 a pound. Word was received at the Salt Lake offices of the Paloma of Beaver, Utah, that the west drift from the foot of the 400-foot incline shaft is now out twenty-five feet in the monzonite, which continues heavily mineralized. As a result of mill operations at the Tonopah Extension 'Mining company for the first two weeks in January, a shipment has been made to the Selby smelter of forty bars, weighing 83,835 ounces, having an estimated value of $58,684. With lead above 6 cents per pound, Utah-Apex as one of the country's largest producers of that metal is making mak-ing record-breaking earnings. The company is ouipttting 35,000000 pounds per annum at a cost of 3.6 cents per pound. It is reported from New York that the American Smelting & Refining company has five furnaces in operation opera-tion at the Monterey smelter in Mexico. Mex-ico. This is the first of the company's Mexican smelters to resume, but everything is in readiness to blow in the Matehuala plant. Unless relieved shortly, the blockade block-ade on the Southern may cause quite a loss to the Rico-Wellington company, whose chutes and stopes are reported as being full of ore which would ship handsomely at the present advanced price of copper and other metals, says the Rico (Colo.) Item. According to word from Montana the Butte & Superior estimates that two new three-compartment shafts will be ready for use by the end o the present pres-ent year, as crews are sinking and other crews raising from 1,200 level. Large additions are being made to the working force to develop new ground. Wilbert Mining company's total receipts re-ceipts during the month of December were $14,418.07, and the net profits for the month came to $2,158.31, according accord-ing to a statement compiled at the Salt Lake headquarters of this Idaho mine. The receipts included $12,185.10 from ore sold and $2,232.97 from the boarding board-ing house. With ore carrying better than $16 as an average now being milled, the reduction re-duction plant of the Rochester Mines company will doubtless create a record rec-ord for the number of days of actual operation in January, despite the loss of a number of shifts through pipe line trouble and snow blockades on the Nevada Short Line railroad. The Pittsburg-Idaho at Gilmore, Idaho, is congested with ore on account ac-count of the railroad blockade of three or four weeks between Leadore and Gilmore. Probably fifteen carloads of ore are now tied up at the mine, filling the bins, shoots and drifts. The men have been taken off the ore and are now developing the mine on a large scale. From Butte comes word that the Increase In-crease of 25 cents daily in the wages of; employes in the Butte district and the employes of the Anaconda company com-pany at its reduction works at Anaconda Ana-conda and Great Falls means a month' ly increase in the Butte payrolls of the mining companies of $130,875 and for the Anaconda ajene in this district an increase of $90,000 monthly. Prom Provo, Utah, comes word that the condition at the Tintic Central continues to improve, according to reports re-ports from camp. Some fine looking mineralized quartz has been received at the Provo office. This is from the bottom of a twenty-foot winze on the 800 level sunk from a 200-foot drift going south from the shaft. Today there is not an idle man in the Tintic district who wants work. There Is work for everybody and all the houses are full of happy families'. The new increase in wages makes everybody feel good. The mines are In excellent condition. They are putting put-ting out large tonnages and the physical physi-cal conditions are better than ever. In spite of the heavy fall of snow, development work continues at a halt dozen properties in the vicinity of the Sheep Rock mine, five miles east of Fortuna, Utah. Among the properties on which development work Is proceeding pro-ceeding are the Beaver Gold, Rob Roy, Beaver Butte, Gold Hill and Keystone. For the purpose of getting underneath under-neath the body of iron and manganese developed on the 730-foot level of the Emerald property, in Tintic district, a drift is being driven along the north-south north-south break on the 1,000-foot level. I |