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Show MINES AND MINING It is reported from Seven Troughs, New, that the Coalition production in August will reach G0,000. The final taking over of the Big Four and the Four J leases on the property of the Rochester Mines company com-pany has been consummated. Shipments of ore from Talk City last week totaled 1.7S1 tons, estimated esti-mated at $71,000. This is compared with 1.6S2 tons the previous week. Nineteen mica ore claims are included in-cluded in a property located at Custer, Cus-ter, S. D., which is being developed by L. F. Harr and Salt Lake associates. associ-ates. Directors of the Utah Consolidated Mining company have announced a dividend of 50 cents a share. This requires the payment on September 27 of $150,000. Prompt delivery spelter was marked mark-ed up on August 27 at $15 in New-York, New-York, copper was established on an 18-cent basis, lead at $-1.70, and silver advanced 3-8 cent and ounce. Shipments of ore from the mines of Tintic last week totaled 142 carloads. car-loads. This is estimated at 7,100 tons, valued at $180,000, and is compared com-pared with 170 carloads the previous week. In response to the director of the geological survey, two engineers arrived ar-rived in Ophir recently and are taking tak-ing the preliminary steps for a general gen-eral geological survey of the whole camp. Samples of ore have been received in Salt Lake from the Primer claim lease of the Bull Valley Gold Mining company's property which show coarse gold readily visible to the naked eye. The Tintic district miners' union is planning a big excursion to Vivian park in Provo canyon September 5, at which time the miners expect to close up Eureka, Silver City and Mammoth and come over in a body. The raise on the Tar Baby tunnel, located in the Big Cottonwood district, dis-trict, is being driven steadily upward to reach the contact 'between tho quartzite and what is termed the upper up-per black rock formation. None of the mines in Oregon, Utah, or Washington reported any production produc-tion of quicksilver in 1914, and ths output was derived from twenty properties prop-erties in California, seven In Nevada and three in Arizona and Texas. The yield of gold from California mines in 1914, as reported by Charles G. Yale of the United States geological geolog-ical survey, .was $20,563,496, which, with the exception of that in 1883, was the largest production since 1864. . Production of coal in the United States in 1914 was exceeded by that ln only two previous years 1912 and 1913. In 1914 the total production of anthracite and bltmuminous coal amounted to 513,525,477 short tons, valued at $681,490,643. With the realization that the mining min-ing industry offers large returns for the money invested public opinion is rapidly changing and there is plenty of money to be had for legitimate mining propositions, it is asserted by prominent mining men. A mining deal of much local importance im-portance was consummated last week at Ely, Nevada, when a first payment was received from Salt Lake parties on their option on an interest in the property of the Willow Creek Gold Mining and Milling company, operat ing about 100 miles southeast of Ely. At its last dividend meeting the Utah Copper increased the regular dividend from 75 cents to $1 a quarter, quar-ter, while the Butte & Superior paid out $3.25 a share. Some anticipate that even these rates may be increased in-creased provided the skies look bright ahead for the big mines companies. com-panies. Reports from Tintic are that the new discovery on the Yankee Consolidated Con-solidated is improving all the time. The surface shaft has followed the ore down thirty-fi to forty feet and the shoot shows i signs of diminishing diminish-ing in size. Someaiing like sixty to seventy tons of ore, which is estimated esti-mated at $50 a ton, has been extracted. ex-tracted. The management of the Panama-Pacifio Panama-Pacifio International exposition has designated September 20 to 27 as mining week. Mining men from all parts of the world will attend. The American .Mining congress, the National Na-tional Mine Rescue and First Aid Demonstration, Mines and Metallurgy day, the Mining and Metallurgical society so-ciety will all hold sessions. After many years of effort, the famous fa-mous Victoria copper minv at Dolly Varden, NeV., (made famous by reason rea-son of Its native copper production) las fallen into the hand of a company com-pany composed of Goldfield and Seattle Se-attle capitalists, which, within the past five or six weeks has demonstrated demon-strated the value of the property to a greater extent than all other efforts made before. The Sunnyside mine at Sllverton shipped out last week a tralnload of 45 cars of zinc ore to Blend, and the fact that 69 out of seventy-two cars .of ore from Rico were shipped to Utah, makes the average person feel that Durango needs a zinc smelter, says the Durango (Colo.) Democrat. President Wilson has appointed Vannoy H. Manninp of Holly Springs, Miss., director of the bureau of mines in the Interior department. He succeeds suc-ceeds Dr. J. Holmes, who died recently. re-cently. Mr. Manning was assistant director of the bureau. |