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Show 1 AROUND THE MINES Actual drilling operation by the Virgin Vir-gin Dome Oil company, with general offices in St. George, Utah, and holding under lease S50 acres of patented land ' in the vicinity of that city, has begun. Houston Oil company announces that by a decision of the supreme court of Texas the suit of about $1,-500.000 $1,-500.000 and approximately 80.000 acres of land lias been decided in its favor, confirming the decision of the lower courts. With only one or two exceptions the . mines of this country began their curtailment cur-tailment program December last. The production of smelters' copper aggro-'" gated 143,823,311 pounds, a decline of about 5,000,000 pounds from the previous, pre-vious, month. . - !., The syndicate that is drilling on section sec-tion 111,-. Teapot dome, in West Salt Creek field of Wyoming, has brought in good commercial well' .at depth of 2743 feet. This well proves new field for Wyoming, or' the continuance of the famous Salt Creek pool.1 Under its policy of curtailment, Inspiration In-spiration Consolidated will probably turn out about 7,000,000 pounds' of the metal monthly, says the Boston News Bureau. Running at full blast, it could produce between 11,000,000 and 12,000,000 pounds of copper a month. Further entrance of Salt Lake and Utah capital and talent into one of the big producing oil sections ef Texas was made known last week, when John F. Cowan, C. E. Wharton and their associates tied up under lease a tract of twenty acres in the Burk Burnett field. From Denver comes word that telegrams tele-grams received at the office there of A. E. Humphreys, president of the Consolidated Copper Mines company, report the discovery on the thirteenth level of the Alpha mine of a body of ore which, assays' 12 per cent copper, the highest yet found in the company's property. Directors of the Greene Cananea have declared a dividend of $1.50 a Share. It was stated after the meeting meet-ing of the directors that the dividend reduction was caused by the uncertainty uncer-tainty of conditions throughout the copper industry, and the desire of the management to conserve the company's com-pany's resources. '' ' ' " " Advices from Kingman, Ariz., say that what is claimed to be an excellent excel-lent vein of quicksilver has been discovered dis-covered in the mountains to the north pf Thoenix. The vein . is small, but the Ore is- rich. Specimens exhibited from the property is said to run about 50 per cent quicksilver and the vein shows evidence of permanency. According to word received at the Salt Lake offices of the Sunset Mining Min-ing & Milling company, operating out of Leadore, Idaho, the company's new concentrating mill, which has been in regular operation since January 14, is' giving excellent satisfaction and effecting effect-ing a high degree of saving in the transformation of the ore into concentrates. concen-trates. . . " " . . The second legal step to prevent the enforced payment of the state occupation oc-cupation tax was taken last week when attorneys representing twenty-four mines operating in Utah filed a brief with the clerk of the. United States district court. The suit, which is the outcome of a tax recently levied upon the mining companies, involves nearly $1,000,000 in taxes alleged to be due the state. The management of the North Standard, Stan-dard, East Tintie, Utah, announced last week that the new gasoline hoist had been fully installed and was In successful operation and that an Inger-soll-Rand compressor of modern type had been purchased and would be delivered de-livered at the property soon. A carload car-load of lumber and mine timbers lias been purchased and is now on its way to the mine. From Cobalt comes word that more than $25,000,000 in silver and gold was produced last year. Such is the enormous enor-mous output of the precious metal mines during 191S in this part of Northern Ontario, including Cobalt and Gowganda in the silver districts, and Porcupine and Kirkland Lake in the gold districts. Nearly 400,000 barrels a day have been added to the available oil production pro-duction of the Gulf coast fields of Mexico during the last six weeks. This enormous output, which could be turned into commercial channels at almost a moment's notice if transportation transpor-tation facilities were ready to haudle it, all comes from six wells. Capitalize. on of 294 California oil companies as of December 31, 1917, was $292,314,595, and in year 1917 they paid 1G.9 per cent in dividends. The small producing companies without re-lining re-lining or marketing facilities were capitalized cap-italized at S123.433.OOS and paid C.9 per cent in dividends. Production of ore by the mines of Park City in 191S totaled 104.580 tons. I'liis aggregate is estimated at between :t j.i i; ii ivr.j and .sT.i'titi i,., .. This prodm--ti.-u is (llll:ir'.l v.iill 9. ''!' i-.ns vie! i . i! i:i l'-UT ;,: y:o I |