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Show AROUND THE MINES A new high price for Lake Superior iron ore was reached November 22, when 1S3.000 tons for delivery In 1917 were sold at $j.0o a gross ton. This is an increase of $1.30 above the price asked last season. Columbus-Rexall has started a small force of men cleaning up the main workings. The management anticipates antici-pates increasing the force as soon as the place has been put in shape se more men may work to advantage. Plutus will be entered from the Eagle & Blue Bell side in about sixty days, according to word from Tintic. A drift has been started from the 1,200 level. It has 400 feet to go. Progress is being made at the rate of six feet a day. The owners of the Arrowhead property prop-erty in Iron county, Utah, have decided decid-ed to purchase at once a 3-ton auto truck for transporting the ore over the 20-mile highway to the railroad at Lund. The fifth car of ore Is now at the sampler. ' Production by the Moscow Consolidated Consoli-dated Mining company of Beaver county, coun-ty, Utah, in the month of October amounted to approximately $12,000 to 115,000. There were twelve carloads car-loads of ore shipped to the local smelters; smelt-ers; ten of lead-silver and two of zinc. Rumors continue to come out of New York that there is 'brewing a great merger of some of the big copper mines of the world. They name the Utah Copper, the Chile of South America, Amer-ica, and Kennecott of Alaska. These are all so-called Guggenheim companies. compan-ies. Engineers just returning from an examination of the Pioche Bristol have recommended the sinking of a shaft for at least 200 feet when they expect to encounter a rich ore body. The letting o a contract is now be-; be-; considered by the board of directors, direct-ors, 'The Eagle & Blue Bell at Eureka, Utah, now has its main shaft to the 2,010 level. It will he carried down to water level, which is anticipated in about another fifty feet. The mine is increasing its shipments. So far In November it has sent out twenty-seven carloads. After another inspection of some ot the old workings of the Rico Argentine, Argen-tine, it is announced that Messrs. Wiggins Wig-gins and Snyder, who are now at Rico, Colo., have taken a lease on a promising block of ground. This is called the Log Cabin end of the Black-hawk Black-hawk ground. Shipments of ore from the Victoria mine at Tintic are heavier today than they have been in many years. The production the past three weeks in November has amounted to seventeen carloads, estimated at 850 tons. The shipments in October totaled fourteen carloads, or about 700 tons. The manager of the Santaquin Syndicate Syn-dicate reports that the property is improving im-proving rapidly, with indications good for ore soon. The tunnel is in 1,000 feet with a depth of 5,000 feet in the east and west 'break, which cuts the north and south fissures and is in a, highly mineralized formation. Everything Is in good shape at the Hope Mines Development property at Senora, according to the manager, who is in from the California mine which is right now developing gold ore in three different places. A raise is being sent up, a crosscut sent out and a winze sunk, all in likely territory. terri-tory. News has been received of a big strike in the Antelope Star property near Black Rock. In the face of the lower tunnel, which has 'been showing lead and spar several days and otherwise other-wise manifesting favorable indications, what appears to hava all the characteristics charac-teristics of a large body of lead-silver-copper ore was disclosed. According to an eastern source of information, "the strength of Consolidated Consoli-dated Coppermines to around $4 is based on the rapid approach of the company to a producing and earning basis expected by the end of the year The company is now installing the flo tation process at its mill, and it is planned to put the property on a producing pro-ducing 'basis of 500 tons daily." . The railroad from Wendover to the Deep Creek district has all the grad ing done and ties laid down to the Erickson ranch, about thirty miles to the south. . Laying of rails has commenced com-menced and is being hurried along. It is expected that at least twenty miles of rails will be down in two weeks, or by December 1. Nitrate deposits in many parts of the United States have been examined during the last two years by the United States geological survey, department de-partment of the interior. The importance im-portance of finding a natural supply of nitrates within our own borders which might serve our needs in case of war, has given incentive to this work and has directed widespread public attention to the subject. October's clean-up at the Rochester Mines will amount to approximately $55,000, according to figures given out by the management, says a camp report. re-port. Samples of the product of the largest larg-est working sulphur mine in the west, the Midwest Sulphur of Wyoming, have been placed on exhibition at Salt Lake. The quarry is not being worked during the winter. A dividend of 1 cent a share was paid October 1. The upward march of copper prices continues, says the Boston News Bureau. Quotations for first quarter lelivery have been moved up to the ecord level at which spot sold last veek 32 cents a pound with sec-ad sec-ad quarter at 3'JM. cents, also a new aigh for that position. |