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Show MINES M 116 The production for the week at Tin-tic Tin-tic was 116 carloads, estimated at 5.S00 tons valued at $14.1,000. This is compared with 119 cars the week before. be-fore. Shipments of ore from the mines of Park City, Utah, last week amounted to 1.740 tons, valued at $69,000, compared com-pared with 1.744 tons the previous seven days. From Goldstrike, in Washington county, comes word that the strike in the west drift of the Goldstrike Consolidated Con-solidated is much richer than was first supposed. It is reported from Goldstrike, Utah, that the Bee Bee's new shaft has opened ore of considerable value. The shaft was started on an outcropping vein about ten days ago. The cleanup of the Seven Troughs Coalition last week amounted to $5,-300. $5,-300. The dividend checks for the last quarter were mailed June 3, making the second for the present year. The new ore body cut by drifting to the southwest along the Flagstaff fis-sure fis-sure in the Columbus Extension property prop-erty continues to widen, according to reports received from the mine. In the north end of the Iron Blossom Blos-som property, located in the Tintic district, the work of sinking the winze from the 600-foot level is under way, the winze now being down more than 150 feet. The barytes mines of Missouri, Alabama, Ala-bama, California, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia dug 51,547 tons during 1914, for which they received $153,715, or $2.98 a ton. During 1914 the people of the United Unit-ed States used 34,315 short tons of refined re-fined barytes and paid $447,358 for it, according to statistics compiled by James M. Hill of the United" States geological survey. According to a Boston authority, a "real famine" has developed in the spelter maTket. The ' Boston News Bureau says that the shortage, if extended ex-tended over a full year, would amount to over 300,000 tons. Stock of the Bannock Gold Mining company has been listed on the Salt Lake stock and mining exchange, and started off with a iively whirl with 22,500 shares, bringing from 50 cents up to 70 cents a share. The Tintic mine operators are rejoicing re-joicing over the rise of lead to $5, and hope to see it go higher, and that It will carry silver up with it. On the annual production of 27,000,000 pounds of lead it means about $50,000 to the camp. According to a Boston director, the operating profits of Utah Apex company com-pany for April were $19,174, compared with $10,020 in March. The company treated 13,343 tons of ore, compared with 13,628 tons in the previous month. The first carload of ore for the present season from the Alta Consolidated Consoli-dated Mining company's property, located lo-cated in the Little Cottonwood district, dis-trict, near Salt Lake, arrived at the sampler last week. It contained S0,-000 S0,-000 pounds dry weight. Production of ore in the camp of Tintic in the month of May amounted to a total of 540 carloads. This is estimated es-timated at $27,000 tons valuerl at $700,000. It is compared with 580 ;ar-loads ;ar-loads in April, 356 in March, 297 In February and 430 in January. The total production of Portland cement ce-ment in the United States in 1914. according ac-cording to Ernest F. llurchard of the United States geological survey, was 88. 230. 170 barrels, valued at $81,789,-308; $81,789,-308; the production for 1913 was 92,-097,131 92,-097,131 barrels, vaiued at $92,567,635. Joe Peasley, a leaser who has been working for some time on the Albion at Alta, is taking out ore from one of the old upper tunnels. Already he has extracted several tons of good commercial com-mercial grade. This level is in 700 feet and is above the old long tunnel. President M. R. Evans of the Rexall Mining company says he will send a competent man up to make an examination exam-ination of the property with a view of starting work in the near future. The Rexall has an old tunnel in about 800 feet well up the mountain but it opened no ore. Mining operations at the Prince Consolidated are running along like clockwork, according to the management. manage-ment. The new double compartment working shaft from the sixth level Is now down 100 feet. A station is being be-ing cut and a crosscut will be sent out for the ore. The quantity of domestic fluorspar reported to the United States geological geologi-cal survey as marketed in 1914 was 95,116 short tons, valued nt $570,041, compared with 115. ISO short tons valued at $736,286, marketed in 1913, a decrease in quantity of 20,164 short tons and in value of $160,21.1. Teams began hauling ore last week from the Alta Consolidated property, located in the Little Cottonwood district. dis-trict. They will continue to haul the ore to the loading station at Wasatch from now on. unless the weather conditions con-ditions are such as to make the roadway road-way to the property impassable. The advance in the price of lead to $5.4.1 per hundred at St. Louis was received .with considerable satisfaction satisfac-tion among the various companies producing lead ores in Utah. The advance ad-vance means thousands of dollars to the companies operating in the various vari-ous districts of the slate. Showing a net profit to the company com-pany of $44.931.2.1 from April 1, 1914. to March 31. 1911, and a net profit of ! $13,357.94 from April 1. 1912, to March 31,.1S14, the eighth and ninth annual reports of the Round Mountain Mia-j Mia-j ing company have -been Issued. |