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Show AROUND THE MINES j From LeaJville, Colo., comes word of the agreement by four leading producers pro-ducers on the ."?4 minimum wage scale and acceptance by the mine workers' committee. It is the expectations of the mine operators of Alta to have -the camp open for a free egress of ores to the smelters at least a month earlier this season than usual. Chief Consolidated Mining company, reported its net- proceeds at $773,737, which would make the value of the mine .$2,321,211, plus $113,000 for machinery ma-chinery and improvements. Gross yield of Utah Consolidated Mining company during the year 1918 was !'2.S27.571. Deductions were .?'-!.-fi571,0(J0, leaving the net proceeds of the mine $2.G.rll, which, multiplied by 3, gives the value of the mine at $709,533. , It is senii-officially reported that the Plutus Mining company's winze has readied the more favorable soluble limestone. This objective was not encountered en-countered until the winze bad been sunk a little more than 100 feet from the 1000-foot level. Trading on the SuU Lake mining exchange ex-change during the month of April, totaled to-taled 1,GGG,0S6 shares', valued at $3G1,-720.50, $3G1,-720.50, according to the official figures. fig-ures. This is compared with 1,222,SS6 shares in March, valued at $1HS.112, or an increase of approximately $163,-000. $163,-000. . Advices from Washington are that the silver situation is continually improving, im-proving, owing to the increasing demands, de-mands, but especially from the Orient. The outlook is; so good that all over the west mining men are beginning to comb the camps for meritorious silver properties. Directors of the Three Kings Consolidated Con-solidated Mining company held a meeting meet-ing at Salt Lake last week and listened to the favorable verbal report on the Park City property by the superintendent. superinten-dent. After the report had been submitted sub-mitted the directors decided to double the shift and push the development work. The report comes from the Nail-driver Nail-driver at Park City that the main developments de-velopments now under way are above the 700-foot level. Here conditions are looking favorable. Some ore is being broken. Owing to the bad state of the roads, however, no shipments have been made for a number of weeks. The manager of the Paloma Mining company of Beaver county announces that the drift on the 900-foot level is now within about 75 feet of the biggest big-gest fissure that cuts through that part of the district. He hopes to reach it within the next month, and it is the expectation to find something important. im-portant. There has been some talk of a pos-. sible 'purchase by large eastern interests inter-ests of one of Tintic's large producing mines, but owing to the fact that there was no possible getting together in the matter o price the deal was declared off instanter the minute the possible purchasers found the remarkable figure fig-ure asked. - . Production by the Chief Consolidated Consolidat-ed of Tintic the first quarter of 1919 amounted to 15,170 tons of ore yielding yield-ing $413,201. The metallic content of the ore was as follows : Silver. 582,-943 582,-943 ounces; lead, 1,144.908 pounds; gold, 610 ounces; and copper, 4753 pounds. The ore netted $27.24 a ton, with $10.33 deductions. Word comes from the Mil ford-Magnolia of the opening of three feet of good grade ore on the 200-foot level. The values run mainly in lead, silver and gold. The ore is coming in before it was expected. It is yet 15 to 20 feet before the miners were expected to cut the main fissure which showed a considerable .shoot of ore. Utah Copper's complete 191S report was released in New York last week, showing operating revenue of $44,525,-129; $44,525,-129; operating expense. $30,717,827; net income. $13,807,302 ; other income, $5,138,478, or total income of $18,945,-780. $18,945,-780. The dividends amounted to &10,-244.900. &10,-244.900. . surplus, $2.200.,S,S(, and a profit and loss of $50,194,408. . With the exception of June, 191$, gold imports of $10,481,197 in March, 1919. were higher than in any month since August, 1917. Exports of $3.-803.22!) $3.-803.22!) compare with $3:110.153 in February. 1919. and S2.S0U.35!) in March, 1918. Lolh inward anil outward out-ward movement lias gained since November. No-vember. 1918. wiih must of the increase in-crease on the import side. Production of the Chief Consolidated of Tintic hist week .was reduced to only twelve carloads or about 000 tons. This is 'compared with its normal of 1IH1 tons or more. The reason of the decrease is that there was an accident in the shaft and a big cave-in occurred occur-red during the week. Several more Utah mining companies com-panies filed reports of their net proceeds with (he state board of equalization last week. Taxation will be based on a valuation of three times the.net proceeds as reported, or as estimated by the board. A carload of ore each week is being be-ing shipped from the Witi-Unnidon-Taylor Mechlin leae si t I he Elorem e Coblfield. which attracted attention several mon;hs au'o by the opening of a seam showing free gold over a v. idih of from six to eighteen inches. Since United Verde Extension uncovered un-covered such rich ore in the we-iern ; part of "is property, ir.e whole .lenmic. j Arizona, cmnp bus 1 n expec;:i:i; finding like vo:i:-!i. but nc ;ic;ie development de-velopment ri.i.,, j ;n I'-.i.Ti-s : cepi l.y ( '.i .uni.'t & Ari'.outr :".,- |