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Show AROUND THE MINES j i The campaign of work which is to i put the Keystone mine in the Park City district once more into the active j class has already been begun. j New quartz properties in the Kus- j kokwim country, long believed to be , one of the richest mineral sections of j Alaska, will produce several millions j j of dollars in gold this winter. James Hulse. who is leasing in the territory adjacent to the lioston and I I'ioche mine, now owned by the Mascot-Silver Milling company, recently broke into u three-foot face of lead carbonate ore. With the opening of spring, depth mining operations will be resumed on the Bellorophon. the Silver Wave and the Yankee claims, in American Fork, Utah, district, limv being worked by the American Leasing company. An ore shoot, said to be the larg-gest larg-gest ever opened in the mine, has been found on the 'JHil-foot level of the Prince Consolidated at Cold Circle, Nevada. The shoot is reported to be five feet wide, assaying 4 per ton. Elbert H. Gary, chairman of the board of the United States Steel corporation, cor-poration, declares that the steel strike is ended and that the mills are-operating at near full capacity. The strik ing workmen aver that the strike has only begun. The Gold Crown mine, which lies about six miles west of Milford, Utah, has caused considerable excitement and interest among mine owners, of adjoining properties on account of its high valued silver ore which is being encountered. Preliminary work on construction of what will probably be, when completed, one of the largest shale plants in America has been commenced by the American Shale and Petroleum company com-pany of San Francisco on its property situated near Green Kiver, Wyo. The output of gold, silver, copper, lend and zinc from mines in Utah in )1D. according to Victor C. Seikes of the United States geological survey, sur-vey, had a value of about .f 4ri,4M9.t)t0, which represents a decrease of nearly $41,000,000 from the value of the output out-put in 1918. Satisfactory progress is being made in the drift which is being driven by the Tintic Paymaster company from the 350 level of its main shaft. This drift was begun about a month ago to cut two important veins, which on the Lehl Tintic estate have been proved to be highly mineralized. Alaska's mineral output in 1919 was the smallest of any year since 1910, and its value was less than half that of 1 91 G. preliminary estimates of the geological survey made public show. The output for the year brought only about $1 S.SoO.OOO, as compared with $28,254,000 in 1918 and $18,000,000 in 1916. A new and important discovery lias been made that promises to extend the territory of the Cnndelaria district, in Nevada.. To the northwest of Cnndelaria Cnn-delaria is a section that for years' has been passed over, prospectors not even thinking It worthy to monument. As usual this has been changed by a "tenderfoot" so far as mining Is concerned. con-cerned. Total sales made on the Salt Lake stock exchange during the year 1919 have more than doubled those of the preceding year; the report of the local lo-cal stock exchange shows that the past year 23,389,199 shares, with a market valuation of $5,070,210.92, were traded in, as compared with sales of 11,059,-387 11,059,-387 shares, with a valuation of $2,174-449.04, $2,174-449.04, for the year 1018. Mining engineers have solved the historic prophet's problem and have lit-. lit-. erally "moved the mountain to Ma-, liojnet." Ten million feet of Saeru-jnent.o Saeru-jnent.o hill, adjoining Blsbee, is being' shoveled by steam and carted away by railroads, so that the Phelps-. Dodge corporation can reach 7.000,000 tons of copper ore which is part of the ramifications of the Copper Queen mine. At no time in the history of the Columbus Itwr.nl 1 property at Alta, it is declared, has there been the promising prom-ising showings of ore that there are nt present, yet, at I lie same time, jt Is imiMisslhle to even approximate wlmt the showings will amount to. and there 1 still a large amount of work to be lone before the management will be in a position to get u line on what it has. The total dividends paid by mines of the state of Utah during the past year compares unfavorably with the year 191 S. in which dividends to the amount of $10,511,744.98 were declared, de-clared, as against $29..'i.'!9.451 in 1017 and $24,790,140 In 1910. Dividends distributed dis-tributed during the year bring .the grand total paid out by mining companies com-panies of the srate well above the $200,000.1X10 mark. Most promising conditions prevail in the Alta district, near Salt Lake. Mining Min-ing men returning from an inspection of the mines of the camp slate that the various mines of the district never were in hotter condition and that with spring unprecedented activity should prevail. Kxports of copper during the first nine months of the current year amounted to Pt.ooO.OOO pounds, as against 012.Oiki.ikhi and 8I7.oiki.ikki. respectively re-spectively . during the equivalent periods of 191S and 1917. Willi tin1 enming of spring an era of increased aetivity should beg'in for the camp of Tuscnrorn. Nev. The hope nt' the future of the camp lies i j in depth operations, a rding to those familiar with the ilistriet. The deop-' deop-' est shaft was sttttk to the 7o'-f.i.it level, while the rest were not drieu I deeper than 250 fee;. |