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Show i MINES MING It is expected that the Inspiration Copper will during the week declare a quarterly dividend of $2. Jim Butler's net May profits were $23,360 compared with $4S,793 last yeaT. Copper exports the week ending June 15 "were 8,705 tons vs. 2,447 in 1915. since June 1, 10.937 vs. 11,170 in 1915. The New Quincy mine at Park City has resumed operations. Ore shipments ship-ments will soon be coming out of the mine. Copper, visible, In England, France and afloat thereto decreased 1,503 tons from June 1 to June 15, being 13,807 tons on the latter date. Ophir and Salt Lake people who organized or-ganized the Banner Mining company have resumed operations. They have seven claims and leases on old mines. Sale of 200 flasks of quicksilver is reported to have taken place on June 15, at $65 a flask for shipment to Japan. The high price since the war began was $320. The normal price before the war was $35. A new electric compressor has been installed at the Daly mine, at Park City and new electric machinery is being installed in the Keystone mine by Frank Kane, master mechanic mechan-ic of the Daly West mine. The pottery industry in 1915 made considerable progress compared with 1914, the output of the potteries of the United States being valued at $37,289,456, an increase of $1,891,295, or more than 5 per cent, over 1914. Following the recent strikes of high-grade high-grade ore in the Dugway mining district, dis-trict, which is situated about seventy-five miles west of Faust, Utah, a station on the Salt Lake Route, this distTict is attracting a great deal of attention. Seeking an accounting, which Involves In-volves in its total of principal amount, dividends and interest approximately half a million dollars, John C. Dugan has entered a suit at Salt Lake against Solon Splro and the Silver King Consolidated Mining company of Utah. The discovery of a large supply of ore in the mine of the Zinc King company, com-pany, twenty-eight miles north of Og-den, Og-den, Utah, has drawn the announcement announce-ment from Drew Marshall, secretary and treasurer, that the company had completed plans for further extensive development work. Orders have been received from tile smelters curtailing the output of a number of the Tintic mines, it is reported. re-ported. While this unusual 'condition may 'be cleared up within a few weeks, the big shippers of Tintic may on the other hand find themselves without a market for some time. Reports are current at Kellcgg, Idaho, that operations will soon begin on the mammoth milling plant that is to be erected by the Interstate-Callahan Interstate-Callahan company on the site secured some months ago at Enavllle. According Ac-cording to the reports the reduction plant is to be rushed to completion as rapidly as possible. Ore shipments from the different miens in Park City for the past week were as follows: King Coalition, 1,-. 1,-. 374,803 pounds; Silver King Consoli-r Consoli-r dated, 575,450 pounds; Daly West, . 561,150 pounds; Ontario, 5S7,550 , pounds; Daly, 31,700 pounds; Judge Mining & Smelting company, 654,550 ! pounds. Total, 3,785,205 pounds. Stockholders in the Belorophon of I American Fork are feeling good over , the results of an assay made from t some of the stringers of ore which . were cut this week in the new tunnel. tun-nel. A sample of the ore shows gold, .81 ounce; copper, 25.85 per cent, and j silver, 379.85 ounces. At present . prices this ore is worth $405.09 a ton. The shipments of Portland cement t in 1915 were 86.891,681 barrels, val-; val-; ued at $74,756,674 in bulk at the ) mills; the shipments in 1914 were 86,-j 86,-j 137,950 barrels, valued at $80,118,475. f The .finished cement made in 1915 i Amounted to 85,914,907 barrels, which r compared with the SS, 230, 170 barrels made in 1914, shows a decrease of more than 2 per cent. It is computed by C. A. Stoneham & Co. that Nevada Consolidated this year will pay to its stockholders the largest year's dividends in the history of the company. Directors of the cor-noration cor-noration this week posted the regular luarterly dividend of 37 . cents a share and an extra of a similar amount, the largest individual quarterly quar-terly dividend yet disbursed by the company. The history of mining In the Atlantic At-lantic district in Wyoming dales from the early '40s, but there was no extensive ex-tensive development until about 1867. By 1871 the principal veins of the district were located and twelve stamp mills had been erected. Up to 1873 the gold production of the district dis-trict appears to have amounted to about $550,000, and the best available avail-able data indicate that the value of the total output does not exceed $1,500,000. Jarbidge, which dates back to 1907 a as a mining camp, now has a population popula-tion of 500, and is located 100 miles ' from Elko, 75 miles from Deetb, and t is connected by a fairly good aulomo-s aulomo-s bile road with Weils. 45 miles away. Twin Falls is the nearest commercial point. i Ore shipments are to be resumed r 'rom the Copper Uranium Mining i company's property, located In the Hamilton mining district in Blaine ";unty, about thirty-eight miles north r and west of Arco. Idaho, according to :he management |