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Show ! AROUND THE MINES Reports that have reached Carson, New. are to the effect that repair work is being done on the Thompson smelter, w hicli, it is claimed, will resume re-sume operations v.iiliin a collide of months. Indications are that the nianimoth Kaolin clay deposits, known as the Kendall clay beds, located in Cedar valley, seven miles east of Fairfield, Utah, will soon change hands and be placed on a productive basis. Utah's coal supply, estimated at 200.000,000,000 tons, constitutes one-tenth one-tenth of the total of the United States, according to a statement made by H. A. Strauss, consulting engineer, while delivering a lecture at Salt Lake. Suspension from December 311 until April 29 of schedules providing reduced re-duced rates for smelter products, in carload lots, shipped from Nevada and Utah to points in California, has been ordered by the interstate commerce commission. The export of oil from Mexico in the first six months of the calendar year 1920 readied nearly 00,000,000 barrels, an increase of 72 per cent over 1919. In 1913 Mexico furnished one-fifteenth one-fifteenth of the world's oil, while now it furnishes more than one-eighth. Metal mining engineers are wanted to fill vacancies in the bureau of mines, department of the interior, and the civil service commission has announced an-nounced examinations. All applications applica-tions must be received by the commission com-mission uot later than January 18, 1921. Development work at the Uncle Sam mine is being done in a most favorable favor-able formation. Two drifts are being run above the Beck tunnel level. One of them, being driven upon a strong fissure, lias opened up a body of quartz which carries from 7 to 10 ounces of silver. The United States Smelting, Refining Refin-ing & Mining company has declared a quarterly dividend of 50c a share on the common stock, a reduction from $1.50, the amount paid in recent dividends. divi-dends. A dividend of 87 cents a share on the preferred stock also was announced. Because it lias been found on revision re-vision that the estimated receipts from oil lease royalties will probably not be as great as they at first were figured, fig-ured, the house committee on appropriations appro-priations has cut the total appropriations appropri-ations for government reclamation work from $24,000,000 to $19,000,000. Development work is being prosecuted prosecut-ed steadily at the North Standard, in the Tintic district. The main working shaft, which has reached the 9G5-foot level, is in a very favorable soluble lime formation, said to be similar to that in which the large ore bodies in the Tintic Standard have been developed. devel-oped. The Anaconda Copper Mining company com-pany lias passed the dollar quarterly dividend it has been paying since May 2G, 1919. Directors of the company, after their meeting, issued a statement in which they said that "on account of prevailing conditions in the metal market, no action will be taken on dividends." The superintendent of the Silver Bar mine, in the Mina, New, district, says : "In a shaft about sixty feet deep there are eight inches of chloride and bromide ore which will average across its width 2000 ounces of silver. At present I am running an adit to cut this shoot at a vertical depth of about 300 feet." The work In the lower tunnel of the Old Veteran mine is making a gratifying sliowing, according to men who have been working on the property, prop-erty, says a Pocatello dispatch. The face of the tunnel is sliowing two stringers of ore about eighteen inches apart near the roof of the tunnel, which have practically united near the bottom of the tunnel. Information of considerable interest relative to the status of the Utah Apex mine is contained in the annual report re-port of the company to its stockholders. stockhold-ers. Gross receipts for the year ending end-ing August 31, 1920, were .$1,279,502; expenses, including cost of litigation and a charge of nearly $100,000 for depreciation de-preciation and depletion, amounted to $1,224,277, leaving a net gain of $35,285. Metal mine production in the Rocky mountain states has declined more than 50 per cent in the past three years. In 1917 the gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc mined in Utah, Montana, Idaho, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Arizona, was valued at $005,122,-G7G. $005,122,-G7G. In 191!) the total value of these metals In the seven Intermountain states had fallen to .$294,403,450. They dropped materially more than 50 per cent. The so-called "crater" of Canyon Diablo Di-ablo in Arizona is still as much a mystery mys-tery ns it ever was. The supposition is that it was formed by the impact of a giant meteor. Perhaps the projectile projec-tile was a comet. The crater is circular. circu-lar. three-iiiari ers nf a mile in di:nne-ter di:nne-ter and 2iKI feel deep. Wesley Everett of the Amazon-Pixie Amazon-Pixie company, is auilioriiy for i'ie statement that the tunnel into the Leslie property is now more llum 2'HM) feet long and is rapidly appl-onching its objective point, is the news that comes from l'oca'eiio, Jdalio. The l,',r:ix or tincnl deposits urrnr-rin:: urrnr-rin:: in Tibet were probably ilie first borates over utilized. About ''L.'0 ions wore evported annually from India, ;::id Ibis, v. hb li js pra c: !c:i ; iy ail ob- ttiiticd fr..:n Tibet and Lndsikh. is imported im-ported K. r.. the frontier in Die Pun-Jab Pun-Jab and l.i.i'e provinces. I |