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Show AROUND THE MINES The work of bringing in a new oil well at Moab, Utah, Is getting tinder way. The fig is a light one., but is expected to be able to reach the first oil strata. The United Verde Mining has declared de-clared the usual T'O-ceut share dividend and the usual extra ot 2. cents, payable pay-able February 1 to stock record of January 3. Settlements have been made for the car of carbonate ore the Alta Consolidated Consol-idated first got out of the Bralne fissure fis-sure in the drift to the east. The ore carries about $50 values to the ton. The Mohawk Milling company in November produced !)M0,S2."i pounds of copper. The Wolverine Mining produced pro-duced 3o0.3.';2. and Michigan Copper company 134,302 pounds of copper in November. From Boston comes word that W. L. Creden has resigned as general manager man-ager ot Davis-Daly Copper company, which position he held for the past six years. He will still be retained in an advisory capacity. From Butte conies word that, the Anaconda An-aconda Copper, company has notified-Butte notified-Butte & Superior, Kim Orlu and other s-.inc ore shippers that, for time being, t desires to suspend all custom shipments. ship-ments. No reason was given. Reports were circulated at Salt Lake last week that the ."Cardiff lias made a new strike up near the Tar Baby." This appeared simultaneously with the oth-er oth-er reports that the Tar Baby has made .one of its regulation periodical ore disclosures. dis-closures. More than $2,000,000,000 in annual production of minerals, coal and petroleum petrol-eum was represented in the -meeting of the American Mining congress just closed, at Washington, which was attended-by leading-producers from fifteen fif-teen states. From Brigham City, Utah, conies word that an oil-gas drilling outfit has reached the town with an expert driller, dril-ler, and that the rig will be set up at :once at the Jensen place, a mile to Hie west, where it is proposed to drill for natural gas. Application lias been made to the state engineer by the Bull Valley Gold Mines company of Salt Lake for the use of five second-feet of water from a spring in Washington county. Utah, for irrigating 320 acres of land in the vicinity of Nelson's ranch. The management of the Silver King Con. has sent word down from Park City that 2W0 ore sacks be sent up to take care of the first clean-up at the new mill in Thayne's canyon. The sacks are . necessary so that the fine ore may not freeze to the wagons or lie sifted .out and lost. Extended litigation is promised in connection with the sale of various jnining companies' properties which were advertised by the state treasurer .of Utah as delinquent for the nonpayment nonpay-ment of the 3 per cent tax on the net proceeds of mines and which have been offered for sale at public auction. auc-tion. Below is a table of the yearly dividends divi-dends of the Utah Consolidated of Bingham in the past ten years, inclusive inclus-ive of a 25-cent dividend which will he distributed on December 24: 191 S, $l..r0; 1917, $3..i0; 101(5. S3.70 ; 1915, $2.00; 1914, S2.0O; 1913. Sl.oO: 1912, $1.1)0 ; 1911, 50 cents; 1910,. 50 cents; 1909, $2.00. Tintic Standard is employing something some-thing like eleven large trucks in the haulage of its ores from the mine, to the railroad, a distance of five miles. These outfits have been hauling as much as twelve to thirteen tons to t he load with the trailers when the roads were in first-class condition. They make four round trips of ten miles eich day, or forty miles in a day. Official Announcement Is made thai; the Dayton Placer Recovery corporation's corpora-tion's mill at I-'ayton, Nov., is now operating at full capacity (liM tons per day) and is making a good extraction. ex-traction. The plant is treating by the cyanide process the old mili tailings from the Coinstoek lode, which years 'ago came down from Virginia City' through Six-mile runway and were 'impounded in the Carson river . valley near Dayton. : After a . long and persevering cam--paign of development, it appears rea-: sonably certain that the Tar Baby : Mining company", operating :n (he Alta Cottonwoods. has reached one of ils' main objectives, in that the whole' face of the Victor tunnel, now in Tar ( Baby ground, is reported as being j filled with sulphides that streak the formation to such an extent that the miners may truly be said to be working work-ing in low grade ore. Gossip on Great Northern Ore is to the effect that leasing of nil tlie developed de-veloped ore lands relieves the company of the necessity of making large expenditures ex-penditures for exploitation and at the same time reimbursing the trust for former expend ill' res. Thus the earnings earn-ings may he devoted to payment of di blends, and while the trustees did not commit themselves ;o any regular payment, it is believed the 4 rale tt'll tie maintained. Directors of the Daly Mining coin-pnny coin-pnny h ive av.noinn'cd a double dividend divi-dend f ir ttio end of the present year, is tie; news lh: lor.ios from Park City, l.rat-,. 'ih's (n:is for ;be regular quarterly payia -ut o: l? cents a -share, and an extra of equal amount. Leading copper producers of the United States, t.t'dng ndvnnlage of the provision of the Webb ' .export trade law ;ieri.i;i;ing ilien: unite for the punx'-v of iim!tit'i!:i-! ;,.r -Km trade, ca-i ,'ov, Y,.,-:; ! o e:o'; ; 17 and 1 Soci;i ' ' ' ' |