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Show AROUND THE MINES j The stiver mines located in the viola- Ity of Montello, Nov., and Wendover, Utah, are responding rapidly to the Increased value of silver. I It is understood that California peo- I pie are Interested in a recent lease taken on the old Areola oil well in the San Juan district of Utah. It is reported that operations are getting under way on the old Hickory ; mine in Bearer county, Utah, two : shifts being at work upon a number of excellent leads. Mining camps of eastern Nevada are looking forward to a period of prosperous pros-perous activity, and even the pessimist must concede that prospects are cou-siderably cou-siderably brighter than in the months past. Utah's mining properties, particular. Iy the silver mines, are being as much discussed In London and Paris these days as they are in Salt Lake. The bright future for silver Is responsible for this condition. Some idea of the rapid development made by the Tonopah Divide can be' gained from the fact that in approximately approxi-mately a year developments have justified justi-fied changing the entire equipment at this property three times. Holders of Tintic Standard stock hove been advised of another dividend of 8 cents, payable June 2S. This will make 16 cents for the present year. The Standard last year paid out 2T cents a share, or $217,230. It is expected that the new railroad line to the Tintic Standard, in the Tin-tic Tin-tic district, will have been completed within the next two months, when several thousand more tons per month will be sent out from that property. Jake Johnson, a veteran prospector, claims to have found in the Battle Park district of the Big Horn mountains, moun-tains, east of Hyatvllle, Wyo., the famous fa-mous "Lost Cabin" mine, for which intermittent search has been nRTde during the last half century. The new Harding mill, which has been installed recently on the property of the Sunset Mining company at Lead-ore, Lead-ore, Ida., began operations for the first time last week. The mill, which is running three shifts, is operating in a very satisfactory manner. After five weeks of Idleness. It Is believed that the strike at Park City will soon be ended. The men, it is understood, will accept an increase of 75 cents a day and an eight-hour day, instead of their demand for $1 a day increase and a six and a half hour day. When the eight-mile aerial tramway of the Walker Mining Company in Plumas county, California, is completed, com-pleted, in two to three mouths, the cost of transportation of the valuable concentrates from mine to railroad will be reduced from $4 a ton to 60 cents. Including the million-share day on Wednesday, there have been 41 consecutive con-secutive million-share days of trading, Saturdays excepted, since April 7 of ibis year, says the Wall Street Journal. Jour-nal. This record h;is been exceeded but three times' in the history of the stock exchange. A very much more optimistic feeling exists in the copper selling trade as the result of the large sales made during May, says the Boston News Bureau. Against a production of 115,000,000 pounds In that month, total sales by all producers were 207,000,000 pounds, and June gives promise of duplicating results obtained last month. According to a story that comes from Boston, Butte & Superior Mining officials offi-cials consider that the recent decision of the flotation litigation is a partial victory for the company, which may use 1 per cent or more oil per ton of ore, but to use any fraction of 1 per cent constitutes a violation of the decision de-cision as well as the patents covering the process. According to a statement made at Salt Luke last week, miners have picked up one of the richest silver-gold silver-gold mines ever discovered in the west. The property is near Basin, Mont., where the Jed Mining company Is located. lo-cated. The last shipment brought $14,480 for a single carload. Some of the recent shipments showed 470 ounces silver and way up in gold to the ton, 10 to 20 ounces. Encouraging results are beginning to make their appearance in the face of the new crosscut which the Alta Tunnel Tun-nel & Transportation company Is sending send-ing out to the southeast with a view to opening the fissure system nt a more promising formation than that which the iiiuin tunnel proved to be. During the past few weeks, the Co-limibus-Itexiill improvements have been very gratifying to the management. manage-ment. The way the ground Is opening open-ing in the block up about 375 feet ami to the west of the main slope promises a no small tonnage of firM-cluss shipping ship-ping ore for almost immediate movement move-ment to market. It is reported that the Plutus winze from the 1000-foot level is beginning to get into something of more interest. It is down probably 250 feet, although the soluble lime was expected ut 50 to MO feet. The lime lately lias been Improving, Im-proving, is the report. The Bunker Hill and Sullivan mines, at Kellogg, Idaho, discovered through chance In 1W by N. K. Kfliojrg, and located by 'Dutch Jake" Goetz. I'hll O'Rourke, Con Sullivan and Harry Baer properties which have produced millions, are siiil active and earned 41,610,558 In 1918. |