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Show AROUND THE MINES While representatives of the largest larg-est copper companies have agreed to the 2o'-cent price, attempts were made by some of the smaller high cost properties prop-erties to have 30 cents a pound named. From Boston and Philadelphia conies word that silver is again beginning begin-ning to move in considerable volume, and the major portion of it is being absorbed in the far east, India and China. The old Metallic Hill ground, a copper-silver-lead property in the Dugway district that shipped a considerable amount of good ore about two years ago, is to be again operated by John Mczzalo of Salt Lake. The development of the past week at the Divide district is not very spectacular, spectacu-lar, but evidences confidence of the soundest kind by the operators in the future of the mines in that district, says the Tonopah Miner. The 26-cent price for copper is understood to apply to existing contracts con-tracts from July 2 to August 13, says the Boston News Bureau. On the latter lat-ter date another price-fixing conference will be held at Washington. At the offices of the Tintic Milling company last week the information was released to the effect that the lust lot of copper-silver bullion, about 35 tons in volume, now on its way to the eastern refinery, had a value in excess of $40,000. Conditions are very promising at the Naildriver property. Interested Park-ites Park-ites visited it the first of the week and found a vein uncovered measuring 17 feet in the crosscut run to cut the vein on the 700 that was cut on the 900, says the Park City (Utah) Record. Rec-ord. An important sale of quicksilver property was completed here when John Boss, a well known mining man of Mill City, and associates, purchased pur-chased the cinnabar property owned by Frank Childress and associates in Shoshone valley, Lander county, says the Humboldt Star. Gus Malmborg, well known as the superintendent for several years at the property of the American Consolidated Consoli-dated Copper company in the Big Cottowyood district, has charge of the work of retimbering the, No. 1 shaft at the Gold Hill mines of the Western Utali Copper company. Demands for higher wages hive been made upon the copper mir ing companies of Arizona, Montana i;ud other western centers and the knowledge knowl-edge of this new unrest played an important im-portant part in the decision to fix copper cop-per prices at 26 cents a pound, effective effec-tive from July 2 to August 15. That the famous old Ontario mines of Park City, which for many years held the palm in silver production in the historic camp and which last year began to come again into its own after a long period of comparative quiescence, quies-cence, will this year far surpass last year's record is the opinion of those in a position to know. The management of the Western Utah Copper company, with extensive holdings in the Deep Creek country and of the Deep Creek Railroad company, com-pany, announced last week that plans had been virtually completed for the construction of a concentrating mill to handle the ores of the Calaveras group of the Western Utah Copper. At the general offices of the Michigan-Utah mine of Alta it was reported last week that settlement had just been made for the last shipment of ore down from the Copper Prince tunnel. tun-nel. This netted the company ' 44.32 per ton, and after deducting freight, transportation and other charges the check amounted to the neat sum of $931.87. In 30 feet on the ore since it was encountered on the tunnel level a few weeks ago and with ore both above and below the tunnel, Manager M. R. Evans of the Columbus-Rexall Consolidated Con-solidated Mines company says that after spending two days at the Alta property he finds it in a condition generally gen-erally better und more satisfactory than ever before. The latest to enter Marysvale's alu-nite alu-nite mining field is Swift & Co. of Chicago, Chi-cago, represented by E. G. Briggs, who is now on the ground. Swift & Co. have taken an option on the Bradburn group, lying between the north end-line end-line of the Mineral Products and the base of Mineral peak, toward which all of the large aluuite veins on the north side of Cottonwood creek converge. con-verge. Dividends paid in June, 191S, by 40 United States mining and metallurgical metallurgi-cal companies making public returns amounted to $24,062,S38, as compared with $.18,365,9:38 paid by 49 companies in June, 1917, says the Engineering and Mining Journal. Holding companies com-panies allied to mining paid $323,4.1,1, as compared with $70S,433 in 1917. Canadian, South American and Mexican Mexi-can companies paid $2,2SS,942 in June, 191S, and $1,892,601 in June, 1917. During the first six montlis of 191S the mines of the Tintic district have shipped a total of 4547 carloads of ore, or about 227,350 tons. With silver at an established and assured as-sured price of $1 per ounce, there will come the revival of many of the old silver camps of the west which were compelled to shut down more than tweniy years ago because of the slump in the price of the white metal. Net earnings of the Davis-Paly Copper Cop-per company, Butte, Mont., last month fell but $27 short of $00,00, the exact figure being $59,973. Pracieally all of this was realized from shipments from the Colorado mine, only three or rmir ?a"rs having gune forwarj rrom the Hibernia, |