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Show AROUND THE MINES United Yerde Cojijier lias declared a dividend of SI. 50 per share. Keasonable progress is being made in sinking the shaft on tlie property of the Pioclie Bristol comjiany near Piochc, Nov. j One of the latest silver districts to arise ami shake oil' her shroud is lite J'.luck Mountain disiricl in Mineral county, ten miles south of Minn. Nov. ure which is declared lo average S20 a ton lias been followed for IS feet in tlie tunnel at the Bellorphan jnop-eny jnop-eny in American Fork canyon. I lab. Toiiopah Belmont develoiinieiit dividend divi-dend declared of 5 per cent, payable October 1, is a reduction from 10 jier cent and was due lo the strike of the miners at Tonopah. Cajit. Owen F. Brinton, manager of the Western Utah Copper company in Ihe Deep Creek country, has assumed the mine management of the Jib property prop-erty at Basin, Montana. Shipments from the Black Metals mine near Pioclie, N'ev., with the installation in-stallation of the new equipment have been increased, according to information informa-tion received last week. The average monthly prices of quicksilver quick-silver in San Francisco during tlie second sec-ond quarter of 1919. as quoted in the Minim' unit Sloi nil I i tic Press were April. 73.12; May, 84.80, and June, .S94.40. Owing to tlie altitude of the underground under-ground workers in refusing to return to work at less than a dollar advance, the mines at Tonopah have not resumed re-sumed ojierations after being closed for several days by strike conditions. The high-grade seam of ore, running 500 ounces in gold, which was last week an inch wide, has, in driving eighteen feet on the Florence Divide lease on the' Goldfield Florence property, prop-erty, oiiened up to eighteen inches of high-grade ore. Tlie output of the Davis-Daly C'oi-per C'oi-per company last month, amounting to 1,300.000 pounds of copper, was nearly doubled that of July and was by far the largest monthly production in the company's history, says tlie Boston .Yews Bureau. Within the next 500 feet tlie Spiro tunnel, being driven by the Silver King Consolidated at Park City, Utah, should open up the Disappointment fissure, fis-sure, from which some rich shipments were made that carried 35 per cent lead, 35 ounces In silver and $5 in gold. Much placer mining is being done iu and about Burley, Idaho, this fall. A Stalt Lake mining company has secured a lease on a group of claims belonging belong-ing to Louis Hill in the vicinity of Martaugh, and two carloads of mining machinery are on the way to the property. prop-erty. The machinery will be installed ut once. Upon its own initiative tlie Yellow Pine Mining company at Goodsprings, Nevada, put a new wage scale into effect ef-fect at the mill and mine September 1. The new scale makes a 25-cent raise for muckers, trammers and laborers, la-borers, or $4.75 per day for this class of work, and a 50-cent raise for other employees. ' The output of quicksilver iu tlie United States from April I to June 30, 1919, was 3940 flasks of 75 pounds net, a decrease of 2020 flasks, or of nearly 34 per cent, as compared witli the output in the first quarter. Only sixteen six-teen mines were producing in the second sec-ond quarter of the year as against twenty-three in tlie first quarter. Development of South American oil production is being pushed actively by both American and British interests. Tlie latter are reported to have obtained ob-tained millions of acres of prospective lands in the various countries. Although Al-though some production is now obtained, obtain-ed, the main difficulty lies in tlie present inaccessibility of tlie fields. - One of the few places where a plant has already been installed for the distillation of oil from shale is near Dillon. Mont. The shale at the site selected se-lected for the operations Is a part of tlie Phosphoria formation, which contains con-tains the beds of rock jihosphale that are mined at several places near Bear Lake, in southeastern Idaho, for tlie manufacture of fertilizer. That Nevada will again take . her place as the greatest silver producing state in the union is becoming more evident every day, not so much through the discovery of new districts as by the resurrection of old and proved districts which passed into the discard dis-card and have practically been forgotten for-gotten since the demonetization of silver, sil-ver, says the Nevada Mining Press. France, which was the largest "importer "im-porter of American copper, drojiped to third place during tlie past year, yielding yield-ing first position to England, while Italy's requirements advanced that country from third to second jilace in this respect. Scandinavian countries have mtered this market for copper in substantial quantities. It is believed that some of this metal may find its way into Germany Ger-many in manufactured if not raw form. Practically every subject of importance impor-tance to the American mining world will be discussed at Hie 120th meet- ! ing of tlie American Institute of Mining Min-ing and Metallurgical Engineers, which convenes at Chicago for a live-day session on September 22. j The production at the International smelter is about the same as it has : been the past few weeks. Two rover- j Iterators are in operation and aie producing pro-ducing ajiproximately 215 tons of copper cop-per Jier day. All of the current production pro-duction is being shipped as fast as the bullion K being produced. |