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Show MINES 11 HUB'" Production of ore by the Tonopah nines the past week totaled 9.ST1 tons, falued at $203,600. Several new outfits have gone into :he American Fork mining district in Utah recently to commence new activities. ac-tivities. Clah, Nevada, Idaho, Montana and j rther western states were largely rep- j resented in America's mines which distributed dividends to stockholders ; in April. Six metallurgical companies have had a good four months' period for they report disbursements totaling $4,133,041, with total payments to their credit of $169,74,670. Showing net earnings of $704,734 and a production of 10.815.6S0 pounds of copper, the report of the Nevada Consolidated for the quarter ended March 31 has been issued. Word has been received of the results re-sults of the first cleanup at the Rochester Mines plant at Rochester, Nev The first shipment of bullion was sent to the Selby smelter. It amounted to $32,500. Tentative plans are being considered by the Dern interests for resuming work on the property of the Gold Springs Mining & Power company, locattd in the Fay mining district in Utah near Stateline, Nev. Reports from the mining companies operating in the Coeur d'Alene district dis-trict for the past year show gratifying Increa ie, both in the tonnage of ore mined and in the net values obtained, says an Idaho correspondent. From Provo comes word that txe Chief Consolidated people have recently re-cently located and the past week had recorded 183 mining locations. This covers approximately 2,660 acres, much of which is in north Tintic. Construction work on the new mill which is to be located at Atkinson, a point seven miles north of Park City, has begun. The mill has been designed de-signed ;o treat 800,000 tons of tailings, and is being constructed by the Big Four Exploration company. Shipments from the Tintic mines last week totaled 147 carloads. Thif is estimated at 7,350 tons and valued at $180,000. It is compared with 149 carloads the previous week, which was the heaviest weekly output by the camp in many months. From a no less authentic source than D. C. Jackling comes the assertion asser-tion that at the present rate the world is using up copper there are not known sources of supply in existence capable of meeting the world's requirements for the next twenty years. One of the best gold properties in the eastern part of Nevada, that is reaching the mine stage is that of the! Willow Creek Gold Mining company, located in the camp of Willow Creek in the eastern part of Nye county, some ninety miles east of Tonopah and about the same distance from Ely. Among the important developments of the Fortuna gold camp north of Beaver, Utah, within the past week was the commencement of the Pay-mal Pay-mal shaft on the Faust claim lying between be-tween Choke Cherry gulch and Rocky Hollow in the heart of the Fortuna district, and the uncovering of a rich strike in the Gold Queen. Last year the total tonnage of ores extracted in the Coeur d'Alenes was 2,395,277.92, which yielded in moneys $17,953,310.62. The net profits of the operators, after deducting operating expenses and betterments, reached the colossal total of $5,636,195.46. The losses sustained by companies which operated throughout the year totaled $46,340.40. One carolad daily of good grade lead ore is the present shipment ol the Utah Metal & Tunnel company from its large property at Bingham. I The ore is averaging near $20 net smelter returns. Since ore started going go-ing to the local smelters a short time ago a total of approximately 600 tons has been shipped. This is worth approximately ap-proximately $12,000. The United States bureau of mines has issued a primer on explosives for I metal miners and quarrymen. Several I years ago a primer was issued on explosives ex-plosives for coal miners, which since that time nas been in considerable demand, and it is expected that the new primer dealing as it does with methods that will tend to decrease accidents ac-cidents will also be in demand for some time to come. From reports made to the Mining and Engineering World it is learned that eighty-seven American mining companies paid dividends during the first four months of 1915 amounting to $24.SS9.522. This, however, does not include the J.".222,94 4. paid by five securities-holding corporations, whone : profits are secured from holdings in other companies and from the opera-' opera-' tion of their own mines. I Sixty-one properties paying divi-j divi-j (lends in 1915 are classed as gold-silver-lead-zinc producers and they paid dividends during the year totaling S11.SS6 622. Since incorporation these companies have divided $281,907. 133, an excess over outstanding capital amounting to about $75.0'"0,irio. It is estimated that the figurps for April production of Utah Copper will not fall below 11.0"0.on0 pounds, and that in May the output will reach and probably exceed 12, ooh pounds. This is within about l."ou.C""'i pounds of the big months of 1914. |