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Show AROUND THE MINES S'.eady progress is being made In the diamond drilling work at the Three Kings mine, situated in the l'ark City district. 1 I 'e elopmetit work which has been recently resumed at the Louise mine in the Alia district lias met with very encouraging conditions, j Sinking of tlie I'rinee Consolidated j three-cuhiparumiit shall is being ac-' ac-' coniplislied at the rate of from two j and a half to three feet a day. A report from 1 'ark City that ore had been encountered in the Spiro tunnel of the Silver King Consolidated Mining company, has been confirmed. Work of removing the snow from the t nick of the Little Cottonwood Transportation company's railroad has been completed to ibe Sells mine ore bin and shipping has begun. Samples of me showing in the different dif-ferent faces of headings in t lie Kye-patch Kye-patch mine, situated four miles from Kyepatch station. Nevada. ' show that the silver contents are very high. Great excitement prevails at Win-nett. Win-nett. Mont., because of the striking of a big deposit of oil in the l'rantz well across the Musselshell river from its discovery well, in Garfield county. American producers shipping copper abroad through the Copper Export association as-sociation under the new credit system of payment will he guaranteed by strong French banks, according to the Boston News bureau. A map of Montana and northern Wyoming oil fields and projects has been issued by the Billings Commercial Commer-cial club. The map is the work of experts and includes all fields discovered dis-covered up to the time of publication. A large party of eastern capitalists, headed by Joseph Flynney and Albert II. Cutter of Boston, are in Nevada on a tour of inspection of Nevada mining min-ing interests, and especially the Cactus Cac-tus Springs district, thirty miles east of Goldfield. Driving of the Tacoma Consolidated mine adit has been resumed. This work was temporarily suspended while a ventilator was installed at the portal in order to overcome the bad air which virtually made work at the face impossible. Ninety-one coal miners lost their lives in Colorado during the year 1919, according to the annual report of James Dalrymple, state coal mine inspector, in-spector, just made public. Of this number eighty-nine were killed underground un-derground and two fi the surface. Due to uncompleted extensions, the Uraden Copper company's mines in south Chile are operating under capacity, ca-pacity, according to E. DeWitt Bur-lingame Bur-lingame of the mines welfare department, depart-ment, who arrived in Salt Lake last week for a several nVmths' vacation. Shipments of bonanza ore from the Black Metal mine are arriving at the Murray smelter, according to information infor-mation received from officials of the company. The first car of a three-carload three-carload lot was sampled, and the report re-port showed 283 ounces of silver, 27 per cent lead and some copper and gold. A rush of prospectors to a new, unnamed mining district, on the southern south-ern borderline of Churchill county, Nevada, (Jo miles southeast of Fallon and 45 miles northeast of Lulling, is in progress. The center of the excitement excite-ment is the Broken Hills silver mine, located by Stratford and Arthur, two prospectors. Outstanding features of the forty-eighth forty-eighth quarterly report for the first quarter of 1920 of activities of the Utah Copper company by President C. M. MacNeill and Managing Director D. C. .Tackling are the decreased cost of production, the doubling of net profit from the production of copper only and the large increase made in the net surplus as compared with the last quarter of 1919. The Alps mine, located about one mile east of I'ioche, is to be reopened at once by the Alps Mining company. The Alps mine has an enviable production pro-duction record. From the records of the old company, which have been preserved, the gross yield of the mine has been figured by engineers to be in the neighborhood of $1,000,000. The ore produced in the early history of the mine was rich. In a report issued by the Tonopah Mining company, covering the period of six months ending March 1, an operating loss of $39,700 is shown by the Nevada property, which was more than offset by profits of $02,092 from other sources. The Butte mining companies have not begun to take on men since the managements recently announced that they would no longer employ members of the I. W. W. The members of that organization are holding daily meetings, meet-ings, but they have not been weil attended at-tended since action was taken declaring declar-ing the strike tiff. A new Nevada mining district that Is attracting attention is Broken Hills, in Churchill county, 12 miles ' from Lodi. There is not going to be a famine of gasoline and other petroleum pro'luets in the United Slates, A. ( '. Bedford, chairman of the board of the Standard Oil company of New Jersey, told the seventh annual National Foreign Trade conveniion at San Francisco. Few of the mining districts that have attracted aneniion in Nevada in the past two years have met with the general approval of mining engineers en-gineers as has Silvertoti. in Lincoln county. 7"i miles south of Ely. and men who are far from the "boouier'' type say Silvertoii has unusual merit. |