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Show AROUND THE MINES Granby's October production amounted amount-ed to 2,040. 171 pounds of copper, compared com-pared witli 3.3" 1,54.-1 in September. A deficit of nearly $300.0(10 is shown in the statement of the Ray Consolidated Consoli-dated Copper company, for the quarter ended September 30. France alone is in the market rigftt now for copper equal to about the total to-tal production of all the mines of the United States for three normal months. Because no longer required for public pub-lic safety, the director of the bureau of mines at Washington, in charge of the explosives. lias rescinded -all regulations regula-tions relating to ingredients to be used in the manufacture of explosives." Average settling price for zinc for the week ending November 20, according accord-ing to quotations furnished the Utah Ore Sampling company by the Engineering Engin-eering and Mining Journal was $7,917. The (puliation for the last day is given as $7.80. Word comes from Rico, Colo., that the entire camp is "down with the flu." It is said that for a time the Rico-Wellington, Rico-Wellington, Argentine and all the other mini's had to close up temporarily. Just bow long the camp will be tinder the ban is simply a matter of guess. Magnitude of the ore bodies of the Tintic Standard property of Tintic appears ap-pears to be steadily revealed as larger with each shift completed in the sinking sink-ing of the new shaft and also with the drifting done on the 1200-foot level, generally known as the 1300 level. By the first of the new year it is expected full capacity of the electrolytic electroly-tic zinc plant of the Anaconda Copper company will have been attained. This will permit a production of 12,000.000 pounds of high-grade spelter monthly, or an annual yield of 144,000,000 pounds. Following a visit to California C. A. Allen, state inspector of mines, lias decided de-cided to put into operation in Utah a "safety first" system, which he says has proven satisfactory on the coast. By it he expect to reduce materially the number of deaths and accidents in Utah mines. According to information received direct di-rect from the mine and released by the general manager of the Western Utah Extension Copper company of Deep Creek, the No. 2 winze is' now very close to the 450-foot level, and when this point is reached crosscut drifting will be started. Activity of the Beaver Lake mining district in Beaver County, Utah, is attracting at-tracting much attention. Persistent ore conditions point to a considerable increase in-crease of production. Numerous properties prop-erties of the district have resumed operation, and a general activity becomes be-comes noticeable. Butte & Superior has issued its report re-port for the quarter ending September 30, showing profits of $145,447. This is equal to 0 cents a-share as compared com-pared with profits of $12S,387, or 44 cents in the preceding quarter, and $95,320 or 32 cents a share in the corresponding quarter of 1917. ' It Is officially announced that the management of the Nevada Douglas has decided that' the leaching plant fails to meet the mine's requirements. The plant is now being dismantled and the machinery sold. At this time of great shortage in material, it is thought that from $50,000 to $75,000 can be realized. With the ending of the war, a new phase has entered into Anaconda's manganese operations. An improvement improve-ment in the shipping situation permitting permit-ting the importation of manganese ores from South America on a large scale again would be followed shortly by cessation of production by the Anaconda Ana-conda company. According to the Park City (Utah) Record, the GOO tunnel of the old Ontario On-tario is a busy place these days. With the many men going back and forth to work to the Ontario, the Ontario lease, the old Daly, the New Quincy and the Daly West, and with the many ore trains that make regular trips to these producers a scene of activity Is presented. pre-sented. Six states receive coal from Carbon county, Utah, according to Inspector Crawford, in considerable quantities. During the entire year of 1917 the total shipments out of Utah from that county's mines reached 947,775 long tons, apportioned as follows: Nevada, 178.214; California, 352,424; Montana, 20.415; Oregon, 30.739; Washington, 25.011 ; Idaho. 340.972. After quietly "pegging away" for a number of years and but seldom making mak-ing public announcement of progress, the Garrison Monster Mining company, which holds twenty-seven patented claims in the Peep Creek region, situated sit-uated about eight miles out of Gobi Hill on the Deep Creek branch of the Western Pacific railroad, has just received re-ceived smelier returns from two trial shipmonis of ore that are more than encouraging. P.iim'aam Amalgamated Mining company com-pany lias finished its drain drift, and ,lf.s means that ail the ground in thai 'lock to the 4ihi wiil.liereal'ier be about 's 0: y as a bone. I |