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Show MINK ll MB Electrical machinery will soon be installed at the Lehi-Tintic in North Untie. The total value of the silver, copper, lead and zinc mined in the central states increased from $55,171,306 in 1914, to $121,2S3,262 in 1915, or about 120 per cent. Tungsten discoveries at Cherry Creek, Nevada, fifty miles north of Ely, are bringing that old-time camp into prominence once more in the mining world. The fundamental reason why silver is advancing is because Europe is today to-day on a paper basis, says James J. Phelan, writing on the silver situation in the Boston News Bureau. One of the largest bodies of ore ever opened in the state is being developed de-veloped by the Rochester Merger Mines company at Rochester, Nev., according to latest reports from the mine. Shipments of first-class crude ore and concentrates from the mills of Park City last week totaled 2,054 tons, estimated at $80,000. This is compared com-pared with 1,533 tons the previous week, valued at $60,000. Shipments from Tintic last week broke all production records In more than two years. The output was 242 carloads, estimated at 12,100 tons, valued val-ued at $300,000. This is compared with 222 cars the previous week. Nearly 11,000,000 pounds of copper came down from Alaska during the short month of February, this being the largest total for any single month up to that time, and comparing with 3,678,SS0 pounds in February, 1915. Under the euergetic new management manage-ment with its increased quota of miners, min-ers, the Cedar Talisman is beginning to make good recent promises that the production could and w'ould be materially increased in a short time. . United States Smelting earned for the first four months of this year close to $4,000,000, April showing well over $1,200,000. Partia'.ly esi limiting May and June, net profits for the first half year are expected to touch $7,000,000. The production of silver in the central cen-tral states is always re.utively unimportant. unim-portant. The output in 1915 amounted amount-ed to 647,553 ounces, valued at $:12S,-309, $:12S,-309, of which 5S5 933 ounces was derived de-rived from copper mines in Michigan. A report from Park City is that the ore in "the new strike at the Quincy tested out carried $35 to $40 a ton, mainly in silver and lead. One report is that the ore shows ten feet and no wall; another that it has been opened eighteen feet. During the past four weeks the camp of Tintic has shipped a total of 864 carloads of ore. This is estimated at 43,200 tons, valued at more than $1,000,000. It is one of the heaviest .production months in the recent history his-tory of the camp. Late reports from the old Day-Bristol mine near Pioche, Nev., which is now being operated 'by the Uvada Copper Cop-per company, are that the production is being maintained, and that it will be increased just as soon as more miners can be hired. Coal mines in the Hiawatha, Mor-land Mor-land and Black Hawk districts in Utah have been operating at least three days each week to enable coal miners to earn a livelihood, reports J. E. Pet-tit, Pet-tit, state coal mine inspector, who has returned from a tour of Carbon and Emery counties. Shipments from the tungsten mine on Patterson creek in Idaho during the month of April gave gross returns of over $40,000. About one hundred sacks of concentrates, averaging 65 per cat pure tungsten, were shipped. Sixty per cent ore is worth about $4.50 per pound. An ore testing plant, consisting of a crusher, set of rolls, 'Wilfley table and an engine, has been installed by the Nevada Scheelite company on its property at Minerva, Nevada, to enable en-able it to keep in close touch with the average values of the ore that are being be-ing worked on. According to Director Dilloway of the Utah Metal & Tunnel company, who was in Salt Lake last week, ctter having made an inspection of the Bingham mine, the company now has on hand upwards of $1,000,000 and !3 earning more than $100,000 a month. Dividends are expected to start in luly. Representing very largely the increased in-creased operations of the Kennecott Copper corporation, shipments of iop-per iop-per from Alaska to the United States in the eight months to the end of February Feb-ruary amounted 1 69,062,394 pounns. This was a gain o: more than 200 per cent over the corresponding period of the preceding year. Matters are rapidly being shaped up by the Alta Tunnel and Transpor tation company, under its new financing, financ-ing, to push operations on the 1,000 foot extension of the main 2.000-foot tunnel, which has for its object the development de-velopment at great depth by channel through the rim of the mountains from Big Cottonwood into Alta. Things are looking extremely good at Gold Circle, according to a private letter received from that camp, says the Humboldt Star. The Elko Prince, so far the bbsgest property in the district, dis-trict, is making a great record of production. pro-duction. The new mill Is running steadily, the bullion production being $59,000 the first month, $93,000 the second and $93,000 the next. Conditions are improving at the New Quincy, and a carload of ore will prob-tbly prob-tbly be shipped this week, according to word received from the superintendent superin-tendent of the Park City mine.. |
