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Show AROUND THE MINES The directors of the Tar Baby mining min-ing company have levied another assessment as-sessment of 1 cent a share. A number of Utah mining men are taking flyers in the Texas oil fields, one firm last week making a nice little stake in one venture. The New York Tribune declarer that confiscatory oil measure in Mexico has been pigeon-holed. No action will be taken until September, unless Carran-za Carran-za calls a special session of congress. From New Y'ork comes word that the Consolidated Copper Mines company com-pany produced 1,637,997 pounds of copper cop-per in December, making a total production pro-duction for 1918 of 15, 730,164 pounds. The Emerald Oii company, operating in the Rangley field, will build a small refinery, sufficient in capacity to turn out gasoline enough for the automobiles automo-biles of the Uintah basin, it is announced. an-nounced. Western mining men are much interested inter-ested in a report from Boston to the effect that there is a possibility of the final elimination of London as the maker of the metal prices for the rest of the world. An injunction against the Butte & Superior company, restraining it from using the oil flotation . process, will stand without modification, it was decided de-cided by the United States district judge at Helena. During the month of January, Utah Copper produced 10,500,000 pounds ; Chino, 4,421,000 pounds; Ray, 4,470,-000 4,470,-000 pounds, and Nevada, 4,400,000 pounds. All showing a decrease in production for the same month of last year. Ten million pounds of copper was sold at New York February 6 by large and small selling agencies when the former reduced the price from 23 cents to 18 3-8 cents a pound, with small lots selling as low as 18 cents, according ac-cording to conservative estimates in market circles. Through the consolidation of five of the principal mines of Humboldt county, coun-ty, Nevada, in the Rochester district, apex litigation, which has threatened to tie up indefinitely the principal mining min-ing operations of the district, have been averted, and suit for $2,272,000 recently brought will be dismissed. Declared to be made necessary by the slump in the copper market, a reduction re-duction in wages of men employed in the mines and mills of the Utah Copper Cop-per company will be carried into effect at once. This was announced in bulletins bulle-tins posted at the Garfield mills and the Bingham mines on February 6 The copper situation is the subject of general discussion In- speculative circles. Belief prevails that with the metal at18 cents the miners' activity will be created and consumption will develop. The trading element is inclined in-clined to the view that the copper trade situation will have an unsettling effect. A suit to recover valuable ore, estimated esti-mated as having a value of approximately approxi-mately $1,000,000, was filed by the Utah Consolidated Mining company against the Utah Apex Mining company, with the clerk of the federal court at Salt Lake last week. The claims in dispute are known as the Keepapitchinin and the Battlesnake claims. Reports from Big Cottonwood are that the teams have been pulling out of South Fork, the trucks operating between the Cardiff ore bins and Murray Mur-ray have been stopped and that the mine will make no further efforts to move ore down to market before next spring. Some development .work will be continued at the mine, however. Statistics by the department of commerce com-merce at Washington show that in November, No-vember, 1918, domestic exports of zinc spelter, in pigs, totaled 15,162,733 pounds, worth f 1,601,012 ; of lead pigs, bars, etc., 16,373,181 pounds, worth $1,-216.417 $1,-216.417 ; and of zinc sheets, strips, etc., 2,354,823 pounds, worth $400,752. Foreign For-eign exports of lead pigs and bars, and old lead, amounted to 246,395 pounds, valued at $20,432. The eleventh annual report of the Nevada Wonder Mining company, operating op-erating at Wonder, Churchill county, Nev., covering the year ended December Decem-ber 31, 1917, shows that the development develop-ment work done consisted of a total of 10,916 feet, a monthly average of 909 feet. The recovery of gold was 7512 ounces, and of silver S16.852 ounces, from 55,800 tons of ore, carrying carry-ing 0.141 ounce gold and lG.Go ounces silver per ton. It is stated that Wyoming and Colorado Colo-rado oil companies, or companies which obtain a considerable proportion of their revenue from operations in these states, will have paid out $40,-672.10S $40,-672.10S in dividends during 1918 by the time all dividends declared have been disbursed. The new hoisting equipment at the Tint to Standard company arrived on the ground last week and is ready for installation as soon as the foundations can be put in. The new machinery is of the latest type made, electrically driven, and is large enough 10 handle Ihe work cf the I"-, -.cry f"i' all t'me. |