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Show AROUND THE MINES The Tlitlic district is liialiifeMing glval aciiviiy and the future of this di-:rict eciiis moi promising. The Micliigan-l'iali is shipping regularly, reg-ularly, now thai the train is manifesting manifest-ing iis ability to work sniooihly. Interest in ihe prospect ing for oil now goinur on near I'atiersoii mountain, north of l'ioehe. Nevada, is increasing. Operations are under w ay, w hich in a short lime should make the properly prop-erly of ihe Aliiininum-l'oiash company of America, near .Marysvale, Piute county, t'tah. a steady producer. Localise of the great use being made of silver today, as money, the gcJd standard is threatened, at least in a great many countries, which were, to all intents and purposes, on a gold basis long before the war. Between 190H and 1017 there was an actual decrease of about .VJO.OOO.OOO in the production of gold throughout the world. During the same period, however, the foreign coniyierco of the world increased by over $17,000,000,-000. $17,000,000,-000. Due to the increased industrial con-suniijtion con-suniijtion of gold, the world's gold coinage coin-age in 1913 was only S.'ilS.SOO.OOO, compared com-pared with .f454.900,000 in 1910. The world's silver coinage on the other ' hand Increased from 10S,S00.000 in 1910 to $178,300,000 in 11)13. Announcement from famous Cripple Creek is that the gold production of the camp in May amounted to $091,-801.45, $091,-801.45, an increase of about $20,000 over the previous month. A total of G3.375 tons of ore was mined and carried car-ried an average value of $10.75 per ton. American Fork mining is starting out this season in a pretty satisfactory manner, and now that the roads into the district, just south of Alta, are good, new operations are expected to be started up every few days, until finally the entire district is the scene of much activity. Japanese interests are manipulating the silver market in an attempt to impede im-pede the advance in the white metal, states the Financial Review of New York. This attempt is along the same line of effort as that of London speculators spec-ulators who have been attempting to depress the price. Calumet and Arizona has declared a 50-cent dividend. The United Verde Copper company has just declared a dividend of $1.50 per share. American Ameri-can Smelting securities, a quarterly dividend of 1 per cent on preferred "A" stock, and 1 per cent on preferred pre-ferred "B" stock. According to the Ely News, judging from the impression made by the managers man-agers of the Consolidated Copper Mines company during their visit to the Ely district last week it appears that the building of a smelter in the near future is no longer merely a dream of the optimistic but a fact that may before long become tangible. The old statement that rich mine strikes are the signal for litigation seems to be coming true in Piocbe, Nevada, for during the past week the Lloyd brothers filed suit in the district court charging the Nevada Volcano Mines company with having fraudulently fraudu-lently misrepresented in its application applica-tion for patent for the Volcano lode. Forty years ago work was stopped on an old Nevada mining property and not a lick has been done since, but with the advance in the price of silver, new blood is being infused into the otherwise other-wise dead corporation, and another producer of high grade silver is promised, prom-ised, according to word from Lander county, where the old Elsworth mine is being reopened. According to word from New York, E. P. Earle, president of the Nipissing Mines company, limited, has sent a letter to stockholders of that company which states that the company has recently re-cently acquired an Important interest in approximately 1000 acres of undeveloped unde-veloped land south of the Petrolia oil and gas field, about twenty miles southeast of the Burkburnett oil pool. A deal involving a large sum has recently been consummated for the Carrie mine -at Silverfields, thirty miles northwest of Tonopah, according to the Goldfield Tribune. The mine was first worked by Mexicans in the early '80s, who packed their rich silver ore on burros to Belleville, and later was located in 1897 by Gilbert and Thompson, who mined it until the Tonopah Ton-opah excitement, and produced by that time $25,000. From Denver comes the announce-ent announce-ent that "mysterious white metal" was discovered in the Clear Creek district dis-trict of that state in 1S02. The country coun-try was wild with gold excitement and little came of the discovery until two years later when a scientist announced that the white metal which came with the gold was silver. In 1809 a great lode was opened in the Caribou mine and from that discovery there devel-- devel-- oped a rush for the silver districts Colorado became a mecca for the second sec-ond pilgrimage of prospectors and investors. in-vestors. The management of the Eureka Lily, Tintic district, reports that the work on the 1640-foot level, where the station sta-tion was cut some time ago, is progressing pro-gressing with generally satisfactory results. The company is now driving j south on the first north-south fissure. The total tonnage of ore and con- j centrales shipped from Pioche during the year 191S was 104.140.31 tons. This shows a decrease of 40.850 tons from I the output of the previous year, anil it is explained by the solver; wash- j outs along the roadbed of :l I'-'vo rnilroail. ' |