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Show IillfliG Th uili,;,K dBlrlct3 0f Nevada numbor ahc,t ,no and are lrregularly scattered or the atute Out of tlt U)Ul, of sixU,en mines lhat paid d:kk,nd8 durlng 1914, Tlntio had seven, ,.itVl a com,ined payment f $!'9l,274. Niplssing Mlne3 company's esti-TOatcd esti-TOatcd net irollts for November were lir),3,r4, aainst $123,000 in October 'd $102,1, ,,, January. Vtah-Api, operating net for November Novem-ber was $L',23ti; receipts were $67,505 and expems j.0,32S. Production was 3,900 tons.f shipping ore 'jnd 8,791 tons of miing ore The Ut Copper company's property prop-erty at Uighara and the Magna mill fcave resuu.d operations on the 5(J Per cent cpacity plan after the closedown close-down durig the holidays. Shipmeis of ore from Tintic foi the past eek amounted to seventy elx carloas. Tins is estimated at 3, 800 tons, alued. at $95,000. It is com iw-red wii eighty carloads the week before. DurlnCTtlj, year 1914, Nevada pro duced 5,j,"i;il tons of ore estimated t $37,0 A 10 by Kdw;ard Ryan, state "inspectocl mines. The cost of main tainlng f ,1-department was $9,244.1; in 1S13 ad $9,330.77 in 1914. j With opper metal 2 cents above the recit low price level there hitr develop a belief in some circles thai mine pduction would be increased An inqry among the leading produc ing inlrests develops no basis foi such Uief. 'Sine the beginning of mining ir 'he Ti:ic district, the mines of whici produo respectively, according to th( value f the output, silver, copper gold, :ad and zinc, there has beer addedo the wealth of the world s grandtotal of $154,048,381. Thiore shipments of the Tintic dis trictr 1914 were about 1,000 'car: less ian -for 1913, but the quality ol the e shipped was much higher, s that le total value of the ore shippec in lit is about ther same as that o the re shipped during 1913. The to taTsipment of ore for 1914 was 6,29' cars. Aiecond strike, which, it is be lieve, will eclipse the richness of on nnccered recently, has been made oi the Iresson property in the Cripph Crec district, says the Mining In vestr. Ten thousand dollars to $25, 000 ton is the estimated value of on coniined in the richest portion of thi secod strike. Ifthe .Yankee Consolidated com pan succeeds In getting a contlnua tkuof the ore body recently encount erei in the May Day, It will mean con sidrable to both these properties sayi the Eureka Reporter. The Yan keeand the May Day shares have beei in temand at advanced prices sinci theformer company started its searcl torthe May Day ore. it present Nevada's production o preious metals is rising rapidly am .'aitlough the output of lead is mucl smaller than formerly, it has becomi an important producer of copper. Tin state being divided into sixteen coun ties, each having one or more produc ing camps, is a distinction that m otier metalliferous state of the wes l accredited with or enjoys. ' Undoubtedly the most importan future of the Anaconda Copper com pay's improvement program is tin .' obstruction of the leaching plant, fo mich -the company has made an ap popriation of $2,500,000. The plan ill ultimately have a capacity of 10 fO tons daily in order to care for tin ally output of the concentrator, am ill! make some inroads upon th rountain of tailings. Showing a full force of ore, cu unples of which run from $40 to $6' ton, a drift is being run from tbi Id stope, No. 500 B, on the No. 54! rest intermediate level in the Wes ;nd mine of the Tcnopah district, say he Tonopah Daily Bonanza. No raisi las yet been started on this ore Dody s the management is first endeavor ng to determine what extent it ha n a westerly direction. One Immediate result of the Kurc ean war is to lay bare the fact tha Jerman metal companies and their as soclate smelters have obtained a bi control of the metal trade in London , jt'T'' f XU&ird In the Mining Press ( ?' ov the Australian lead and cop 11 , impauies have been tied tc tf" j while the price of zinc has beei Si'j , tlated by the cartel to such ar ,n !, .s to constitute a scandal, they Crltchlield, a carpenter, whe r"-" o Tonopah as one of the pio y, of 1901, has died an applicatioi J- A tters patent on a device which j, ylcs the "Poor Man's Hoist,' SA- the Bonanza. By a series of lev .1, , iporatiug on two drums he car -ii p power to raise a 150-pounc t twenty-nine feet with ont 1 of the lever, or a 300-pounc ,j seventeen feet. With one ol j . hoists installed at a cost o! C prospector can sink to a depti 1 - eet. . Is much satisfaction among kholders and directors of th ilutte Mining company o county, Utah, o?er the show . is being made in their' prop the Sheep Rock ore zone as i f the new development worl f rted. They are drifting oi ' 3 ( of ore at the '.50-foot leve T indications are that they wii T"t shipment'" out In a short time. J l s are pushing work on th . j )t tunnel of the Spring Lak M 1 located east of Santaquin ' I.jsl 1 teet of $30 ore is exposed in Iteyl 5 of tne drift oeing advanced t-lf I 16 llltlte'6nale contact from the west crosscut off the main fr-J ;st crosscut on the l,T50-tool fLmel the Union ack claim of the ""'1 Mines company, savs the d Tribune. K'SM 11 lnterests have been advised t? e Western Ore Purchasing 111 - has been sold to the Merrill ..J rgical company of San Fran- 4tVf' ' rh Western Ore was a Knight rjv..J y and owned sampling works yJ field, Hazen and Reno, Nev 7 |