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Show " MINES " AHD HIMIHG Cripple Creek (Colo.) production in . December totaled 83,750 tons estimated estimat-ed at $1,354,000 gross bullion value. The Tonopah Extension report for November shows the receipts totaled $133,539; expenses, $74,336, leaving operating op-erating profits of $59,203. A copper famine, which for several months has been forecasted by the Boston New Bureau, is now apparent and there are no supplies of any consequence con-sequence in sight to hold the price. New York banking interests close to the property are confident that American Amer-ican Smelting directors will place the $50,000,000 common stock upon a 6 per cent dividend basis in the near future. It seems certain that the zinc-reduc-Uod capacity of the United States will soon he equal to every conceivable call upon it. The all-absorbing question is as to what demands will be made upon it in 1916. General Manager M. J. Sweeney of the Rex Consolidated Mines wires from Wallace, Idaho, that he has a full face of mineralization on the fifth level and six inches' of high grade lead-zinc. The construction work at the reduction reduc-tion plant of the Tintic Milling company com-pany is rapidly nearing completion and it is expected that the new reduction works will be treating the low-grade ores of the district by February. Tintic came in with the second dividend announcement for the new year, when the directors of Iron Blossom Blos-som at Provo declared 5 cents, to be paii' on January 25. Chief Con. first announced a $44,000 distribution. Regardless of the extreme cold and stormy weather good progress is being made by the Winnemucca Mountain Mining company on its new fifty-ton reduction plant being installed on the north end of Winnemucca mountain. As an indication of what lies in store for the new gold camp of For-tuna, For-tuna, Beaver county, Utah, the district dis-trict is being visited by an unprecedented unprece-dented number of prominent mining men from, various parts of the west, particularly from Goldfield. Writing from Gold Circle, in northern north-ern Nevada, L. D. Dougan of the Siko Prince company says that the new mill has been in operation since December 13 and is giving a fine account of itself. He says the mill at capacity will handle from fifty to sixty tons oAore a day. Nevada-Doug1.'1' t-onsolid - ship sever? 'carloads of coYV cipitates f-a the new plant V5-V rag to Sv.J'e'intendent Warr. to theA'irilon Times that t;' ic'is assuming so much activit I . days that it reminds us of itsU'h prosperous year. 'W It is highly probable that within t" next ten or Seen days an official ai 4 ' noiraceiMnt win be made as to thet progress being made in the negotia- ; - ttons under wy looking to the merg-mg merg-mg of He Tom Reed Gold Mines and the United Eastern Mining companies at Oatman, Arizona. It is reported that D. J. Sullivan is drilling or oil near Grants station R Tooele county, where he and asso- , ciates hive secured control of the surface sur-face riglts on 30,000 acres. The rig on the ground is one of the large Standari outfits eatable of going down F 3.000 fes if necessary rtc. Oil flotation is being used successful- ly in reciveringtheralues of the large Pje tailings lump from the old Cactus viai mine by the Utah teasing company, gim says the Salt Lake Tribune. Just at present tie manageimnt is considering all possble methods for decreasing a Uie cost and increasiig the recovery. ery James Callahanmi:ionaire prospeo- Gi tor of the Coeur d'Aloes, js enjoying It; f his first vacation. Ater thirty years In tl i of rigorctis living in he hills, years G i- spent in prospecting ad ultimately sea. discovering and developing the second Fr largest zinc mine in the'b'nited States, by T Callahanhas gone to Haolulu for the I winter. The production of pniary spelterjT from domestic ore in IB is estiir ;' ed at 460,100 short tons, tnd frory ' eign ore at 30,000 tons, alolal iJ? ' 000 tons, worth, at the iy 1 Louis price, $139,160,000 Y a total 0:' 353,049 tons J $36,010,99?, and madyr of domestic origij foreign origin i The Dally f Utah, mzjr periocl |