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Show MINES AM MINING Further antimony activity is announced an-nounced in Wild Horse canyon in Nevada. The average price of electrolytic copper for the month of August was 16.941 cents, against 18.796 cents in July. Shipments from the Park City mines last week totaled 2,634 tons, valued at $105,000, compared with 1,727 tons the previous week. It is claimed that the "Lose Josephine" Jose-phine" mine in the Hanksville district, dis-trict, in southern Utah, has been found by Colorado prospectors. For the second consecutive month the Miami Copper company produced in excess of 4,000,000 pounds, August total being 4,038,348 pounds. Secretary Fitzgerald of the Lehi-Tintic Lehi-Tintic said last week that preparations prepara-tions are under way to have the property prop-erty in north Tintic resume work in the near future. Inspiration Consolidated Copper company com-pany will have its mill in full operation by the end of this year, according to Arizona advices. With the fulfilment fulfil-ment of its program the company will be turning out copper at the rate of fully 12,000,000 pounds a month. Recently a prominent Utah mining operator was looking over the new mill construction work of the Tintic Milling company and afterwards said it will represent approximately $150,-000 $150,-000 investment. Already, he declares, the expenditures have reached probably prob-ably $75,000. One of the best high-grade molybdenite molyb-denite showings of the entire inter-mountain inter-mountain region is situated in Humboldt Hum-boldt county, Nevada, according to the reports that are coming from the Jack property, on the north end of Osgood mountain, twenty-four miles northeast of Golconda. After an inspection of the properties proper-ties -of the Majestic Copper company in Beaver county, President John M. Dick of Boston said last week that work on large lines will be undertaken in a short time. He says that a syndicate syn-dicate of wealthy New York people has become interested. Silver was given an impetus the past month or go through purchases made by the government. Purchases by director of the mint, from August 3 to September 3, inclusive, comprising compris-ing the main takings by the government govern-ment thus far this year, amounted to 2,675,000, ounces fine. Owing to the lateness in the spring when the pipe line was completed, the hydraulicking season of the Round Mountain Mining company was rather limited,, the Tonopah Bonanza reports. The. clean-up . for ..August was practically prac-tically the same as July, $10,000. net, while the mine netted about $4,000. That the Anaconda company will have a 100-ton zinc reducing plant in operation within several weeks, with an estimated production of zinc in the form of a high-grade zinc special amounting to about 20,000 pounds daily, is the stotement made by one apparently in close touch with affairs af-fairs at the Washoe works. Within at least fifty feet of driving the main tunnel of the Bingham-Tooele Mining company, the property of which is located at the head of Middle canyon can-yon in the Bingham district, will cm another large body of Jordan limestone, lime-stone, according to the estimates of the engineers that have been surveying survey-ing the property for patent. It is reported from Cache valley that the Moon property near Hyrum will soon ship another carload of zinc ore to the Salt Lake markets. The first sent down sampled 21 per cent zinc. This is not a marketable grade, so it was stored in Salt Lake and will be mixed with a car of the higher grade and the aggregate disposed of probably prob-ably at a profitable price. Among the more important happenings happen-ings in the immediate vicinity of Lovelock Love-lock during the past week, from a mining standpoint, have been the tightening tight-ening of the Lincoln Hill deal, the clean-up at the Derby mill of the Delaware Dela-ware Mining company in the Seven Troughs district and the possibility of further antimony developments in Wild Horse canyon. This is how the Boston Commercial looks at one of Utah's big mines: Utah Copper shares have been presented pre-sented from advancing by the continued contin-ued heavy selling of foreign holders. It is probable that between $S,000,000 and $9,000,000 worth of Utah Copper shares have been liquidated in this market in the past eight months by French investors, who have felt that they were obliged to soli by the exigencies exig-encies of the war. .The general public has little conception concep-tion of the scope and far-reaching experiments ex-periments in the wet reduction of rom-" plex zinc ores being corfdueted in the Washoe laboratories of the Anaconda Copper company, says a Butte correspondent. corre-spondent. The progress of the experiments experi-ments and testing work is such that from sources presumably c'.ose to Anaconda Ana-conda metallurgical circles conies the prediction that the Anaconda company is on the eve of revolutionizing the reduction of zinc ores. Prince Consolidated of Pioche last week mined and shipped to the Salt Lake, markets a total of fifty-four carloads car-loads of ore. This consignment is estimated es-timated at 2.700 tons and valued at near $27,000. It is compared with thirty-six cars, or 1.S00 tons the previous week. With the object of constructing a twenty-four-inch cog railroad line from Wasatch to Alta. a distance of eight miles, preliminary papers have been drawn up for the incorporation of the Mta-Cottonwood Railway company. The capital -Uork is $100,000 |