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Show AROUND THE MINES ! Advices from Wyoming are that the Lincoln county oil fields are all shut j down on account of tho cold weather, j Directors of the Chief Consolidated Minim: company have declared the first j quarterly dividend for the new year. It consists of the usual amount, l-Vz cents a share. In spite of the unusually st-.ore cold weather that lias prevailed for weeks in the t'iutah Basin, good progress is being made on both the mine and the new plant of the Collar Butte nil company, com-pany, located near White ltocks. Copper Leaf has started to drift on the KKKl-foot level, according to news that comes from Tintic. The streak of ore which has continued from below tile !HH1 level will lie followed out into the walls, probably both ways on the strike. Reports from .the Tonopah Midway property have been encouraging of late, and the fact that an important discovery dis-covery lias been made above the l00-foot l00-foot level will prove pleasing news to all interested in t lie future of this district, dis-trict, says tile Tonopah Times. The Tintic Standard in 391S paid out in dividends 27 cents a share, or $317,-'SiiO; $317,-'SiiO; in 1!)17 it distributed 7 cents, or $S3,2r0. This makes a total of 34 cents a share, or $400,4X0. The company lias lately been shipping at the rate of about 2500 to 3500 tons of ore a month. Superintendent Fisher of the Nail-driver Nail-driver reports conditions improving all the time at this property, says the Park City Record. The ore reserves uae opening up stronger every week, and regular shipments are being made. It looks as if the Xailtlriver is a permanent per-manent mine. The Toriney mine, near Salmon, Ida-bo, Ida-bo, in the same zone as the Pope Shenon property, is being opened up by Thompson and Mathews, and further deevlopment is planned on the strength of returns on a recent shipment to the smelter at Salt Lake, which gave lSVa per cent copper. Assays from the samples of ore taken from the recent strike made in the Woodlawn of Honeycomb gulch, Alta district, and which were stated by those who had no connection with the company to be exceptionally promising, proved no disappointment when the official of-ficial figures -were received last week- The Columbus-Rexall Consolidated Mining company has paid its first dividend, divi-dend, 2V2 cents per share, about $14,-000 $14,-000 in all, which was fo have been paid December 31, vbut disbursement of which was hefd up by a restraining order and petition for an injunction on the part of the Monetaire Mining company. com-pany. ' , At the Pope Shenon mine, six miles south of Salmon, Idaho, a force of men are developing a large body of copper ore, opening it by means, of main adit on the vein. The operators have installed electric power to operate a number of air compressors and it is reported that development work on a large scale has been planned. Chile Copper company last year made a record with a smelter output of 102,134,512 pounds, against S9.022,-126 S9.022,-126 in the previous year. ' Production will be curtailed for some time owing to uncertainty as to the copper outlook, out-look, says Dow-Jones. Otherwise Chile would undoubtedly have started the ear with another record as regards output.' Copper is one of the. six metals mentioned men-tioned in .the Old Testament. There are mines in the desert of Sinai which probably supplied metal for ancient Egypt. Those mines are said to be the oldest known to man. The work' lugs are still visible and they were operated as recently as 1300 B. C, at which time a bronze statue of llameses II was. cast. American companies producing oil in Mexico are opposed to payment of rentals and royalties on land which vhey own there, because such payment would mean recognition of the government's govern-ment's ownership, according to a statement state-ment issued by Chester O. Swain, representing Standard Oil interests in the Mexican oil title and tax difficulties. difficul-ties. .... News of a gratifying improvement in the ore of the Pope Shenon Mining company, operating a large holding eight miles out of Salmon, Idaho has been received. The ore is nearly the full face of the tunnel and three assays as-says taken give values of S.S0, 31.7, and 26 per cent copper, the lower assays being believed to be a fair average of Hie entire face. Operations at the Cobalt property, at Blackbird, Idaho, have passed the experimental stage, and' the property is now shipping steadily and regularly. A reduction plant is in operation, which produces a high-grade concentrate concen-trate of cobalt, which is forwarded to Kokomo, Ind., for final treatment, where it is used in manufacturing a hard alloy called stellite. The total paid by United States mining min-ing and metallurgical companies in 101S was $105,134,907: by Canadian, Mexican. Central and South American mines, $23,54S,2II I : and by holding companies, $2,101,S71. From Tintic comes word that Iron King officials are reported to lie rather elaled regarding the indications in their main working shaft, in which sinking has been going on for some lime and which lias now reached a depth of nearly 13110 feet. It is said that the Cherry Creek Mining company is planning to resume work on a large scale on the old North Mountain and Mary Ann mines, which produced heavily ton years ago when the price of silver was very low. Large bodies of low-grade ore are said to be j exposed in the mines. |