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Show AROUND THE MINES Diiliilli wires lluil lii'li f;i';ide copper ore, ruiiiiliiK 15 per cent, hus' been foil ml on the twelfth level oC Consolidated Consoli-dated Copperinines. The t'resson Consnlitlaleil Gold ilin- j lng & Milling company, whose Drop- t erty is in Cripple (..'reek, Colo., has de- j clared the regular monthly dividend of 10 cents a share. Directors of the Ureene-Canauea Copper company hist week declared the regular quarterly dividend of $2 a share. This will bring' the l'.HS dividends divi-dends up to $S a share. Pemh Valley Scolty is now, as for many years past, ranching in the Heath Valley region. He raises cantaloupes, can-taloupes, watermelons, ti.L's and many other tilings, including .peaches and "rapes. He is said to have a big ranch. The Independent Coal Mining company com-pany at liouiiilnp, Mont., has installed a new large tipple, built a wash house J4xT0 feet, and changed over to electric elec-tric power in operating all parts of the mine. About .10 more men will he employed em-ployed anil the output of coal largely increased. Mining operations in the district of 1'ai'lc City these days are "up against It" when it comes to paying the camp u visit, even if it is strictly on business. busi-ness. The town has been tniarant ined. Every man from the outside is met at the gates ami politely but firmly told to "go back." Captain K. .T. Itaddatz, president and general manager of the Tintic Standard Mining company, has made-emphatic and specific denial of a rumor that has been persistently circulated to the effect ef-fect that' the Tintic Standard company was negotiating for t he control of the Eureka Lilly stock. The agency or agencies of the government gov-ernment to make effective the provisions pro-visions of the so-called war minerals bills, carrying authority for the expenditure ex-penditure of $50,000,000, will lie determined deter-mined only "when the president sees lit to make the designation, which the bill leaves to his discretion. Minority stockholders of the Old Emma are considering ways of making mak-ing some sort' of a reasonable settlement settle-ment of the knotty case. It is understood under-stood that overtures have been made tosthem from the majority. One of these is said to have been a plan whereby all indebtedness would be cleared up and perhaps operations resumed re-sumed at the Alia mine. Raymond T. linker, director of mints, who was in Reno for a short visit last week, announced that a meeting of assurers of the mints in the west will be held in Carson City as soon as the influenza epidemic is over. At the meeting he expects to take up some matters of great importance to the minis and to the mine operators of the west, but the gold situation will not be touched upon, be said. The I'nited Slates supreme court lias . before it the petition of the Minerals Separation North American corporation for a writ of certiorari in Its case against the Untie & Superior Mining company. Before the end of this month a decision should "be made as to whether the court will permit a reopening re-opening of the case. Upon this decision deci-sion will depend the operation of dotation dota-tion patents controlled by the .Minerals Separation company. Some people talk about the "price for gold" being "fixed," as though that were an arbitrary act of some government, govern-ment, or governments, which can arbitrarily arbi-trarily altar the fixation. The value of gold is what it will buy. There is no price for gold and no' fixation. Sovereigns Sov-ereigns and dollars are simply names corresponding to certain quantities of gold. The alteration of those names would not affect anything, says the Egineering and Milling .lournal. The Cnevaila company has secured about a thousand acres of land along the old Carson -river in Nevada. In the balmy days of the old Comstock mines there were many huge reduction mills strung up and down this stream. They are declared to have treated many hundreds of millions of dollars" worth of ore from the phenomenal old Coin-stocks. Coin-stocks. In that day the process used was crude and a heavy percentage of the gold and silver, along Willi the amalgam, passetl off into the tailings down the river. It is , the pt.rpose of the I'nevaihi company to scih.ii up and mill these old tailings. . , At the property of the t'nionvilie Mining company, which litis large holdings; hold-ings; at the once-famous camp of Un-ionville, Un-ionville, New, President .1. A. Spiker reports some sensational and highly encouraging developments in the pon-ing pon-ing up of a 'rich streak of high-grade gold ore. l'.ig Horn, where L'tah people tire managing the Utah-Wyoming Consolidated Consoli-dated Oil company affairs, is not the only gas field in that state displaying wonderful potentialities. The i'tab-Wyoming i'tab-Wyoming litis four gas wells, each estimated es-timated at 5.000.0(H) cubic feet to many times that amount of gas a day.- Rut over in the Rig Sand Draw section they now have a whopper estimated at G0.000.000. Although tin ore is rare in the great western states, yet the spclactilar rise from 15 to '-'0 cents a pound in prewar pre-war times up to $1 a pound now has stimulated the search for mines embracing em-bracing tin values. According to a Roston journal, there Is a wide divergence of opinion anions copper men as to the course of the red nit oil itfier the war. The argument of those who favor rising prices ami increased demand is no less eouincing I It:: n lhaj of those who predict de; clining limitation:-, and a surplus of the metal. |