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Show AROUND THE MINES Investigations of oil possibilities of the Peace River country of British Columbia are to bo continued ibis summer by the provincial government. Coal production in Utah for the first five mouths of the current year aggregated l,)2T,tK.K) tons, according to figures just received by C. A. Allen of the bureau of mines. Two new hydraulic oil well drilling rigs have arrived in the Fossil field, Wyoming, and will be immediately installed in-stalled upon the property of the Arizona-Wyoming Oil company. What is rapidly developing into a strike of considerable importance has been made on the 350-foot level of the Simon Contact Mines company in the Simon district of Miueral county, Nevada. Ne-vada. Operations will be resumed upon the 2000-foot level of the Ontario mine, at which depth for more than twenty years no work has been done. Is the news that conies from Park City, Utah. Development and prospecting work tliis year in the north will be handicapped handi-capped greatly by scarcity of labor and high mining costs, according to George Craddock, a Montana and Idaho Ida-ho mining man. Shipments of approximately fifty tons of ore to the Utah smelters are being made daily from the Ward mine, about twelve miles south of Ely, New, which is being operated by the Ward leasing company. Oil production in the United States is averaging l.lfJo,200 barrels a day, against 1,09.1,200 a year ago, an increase in-crease of 100,000 daily. This reflects largely output of north Louisiana oil fields, particularly Homer. Physical conditions at the Wood-lawn Wood-lawn copper mine in the Big Cottonwood Cotton-wood canyon are so promising flint the manager has started miners stup ing ore in three different places in the vein on the 100-foot level. Arguments in behalf of claimants under the war minerals relief act in regard to questions under dispute with the commission functioning under that act, will be heard by the secretary of the Interior, John Barton Payne. Development work at the American Consolidated Mines company, whose property, a consolidation of the Earl-Eagle Earl-Eagle and the Bog mines, situated in the American Fork canyon, is reaching reach-ing an interesting stage, according to the superintendent. Transfer to Reno, Nov., of the experiment ex-periment station that was established at Denver in 1010 and moved to Golden Gold-en in 1017. has been approved by the secretary of the interior. This station sta-tion will be known henceforth as the Rare and Precious Metals station. In a suit against the Monotairo Mining Min-ing company to recover $.'000 alleged to be due for legal services. N. V. Jones, a Salt Lake attorney has been awarded a verdict by a jury in the Third district court. The Jury assessed assess-ed the rightful claim of the plaintiff at $3000. Salt Lake men, attracted by the phenomenally rich oVe exposed in surface sur-face showings in the Silver Bar group, situated thirty miles from Mina and twelve miles from the Tonopali and Goldfield railroad, have taken a 20-year 20-year lease upon tills property owned by A. A. Bass. In the Fossil field, in Lincoln county, coun-ty, Wyoming, the Wyoming-Pacific Oil company, which is drilling upon section sec-tion 2-1, has its well down to a depth of 070 feet. Encouraging showings of oil have already been encountered. The Southern Petroleum company has a well on section 10 down H00 feet. Pat Sullivan, who wns injured by picking into a hole in the Cardiff mine, August 22, 191S, by which he lost his sight, was awarded a lump sum hy the state industrial commission commis-sion of !?9O!1.20 and an additional award of SO per week for 101 weeks, to be paid by the Cardiff Mining company. A report from Simla Maria, Cal states that a party of officials from the office of the United States Producers' Pro-ducers' Refining company, shale oil developers, have left there for a six month's trip in northern Texas, where they will make locations for leases and the building of a $1,000,000 shale oil plant. Great confusion has been caused among the oil shale men of the De Beque. Colo., district, due to the fact that several of the townships have been surveyed so that their lines overlap. over-lap. Because of this many large tracts of land have been located several sev-eral times and much litigation probably prob-ably will develop. Considerable interest is centering in well-drilling activity which will begin in the next few days at Kscnlimte Garfield county. Utah. Shipments of approximately fifty tons of ore to the Utah smelters are being made daily from the Ward mine, about twelve miles smith of Ely, Nevada. Work at the big .lualin mine, near Juneau. Aln-ka. has been stopped and will not be resinned until Belgian francs get back to a "resonable" exchange ex-change basis, Jean Voiioplicin. president presi-dent of the Belgian company which owns the mine, announced recently. That the Silver King Con-oliilated Mining company wa a'-ting within Its powers when it si. Id 20.os:i shares of its capital t.:oek at Sl.mi a share in June. 101-t. though the imle for which the s'.ici; was ciurity was tiot di ur.t.l tin; f'li.n'Aing September, was ITii decision r-jael.ed by the supreme court. |