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Show AROUND THE MINES - i Uranium-vanadium properties adjacent adja-cent to Moah, Utah, are the scenes of considerable activity. The working force at the Keystone mine. Park City, has been increased until from Tw'eiity-t': e to thirty men are employ e,l steadily. The new smelter of the l.oui.siana Consolidated Mining company, operating operat-ing at Tyho, Nevada, is completed and will be ready to blow in within a lew j days. Conditions prevailing in the Com-Slock Com-Slock District near Virginia City. Nev., ' indicate that there may be in the near 1 future a rather important revival of ' mining. j The eut-off road from Warm Springs j to Silvertoti, the new mining camp in Nevada, saving a distance of 19. S miles between Tonopah and that district, may he constructed by the state. Recent developments in the Yellow Tiue mine, in the Goodsprings dis- trict, Nevada, are reported to be ha ly favorable, with new orebodics now opened on the 90t-foot level and some ore found on the 100. Another well is to be started at Moab, Utah. A contract has been let to sink a well in the mouth of Moab canyon just wesi of Grand river. A rig is now being brought from Thompson, Thomp-son, according to the report. Notice of a dividend of three cents per share amounting to $2S,574.1o has been sent to stockholders of the Fair-view Fair-view Round Mountain Mining company. com-pany. The company operates its own mill at Round Mountain, Nevada. The Hybla Mining company of Nevada Ne-vada has now taken over, under favorable favor-able long time lease, the entire Kou-now Kou-now claim of the Stella Mines company com-pany from which much high grade ore has been mined during the past year. Construction of the l'ope-Shenon's volatilization plant upon the company's property near Salmon, Idaho, has been steady during the past week. So nearly is the mill completed that officials of the company will he disappointed if "warming up" is not started in two weeks. The report made by the Eureka Hill Railway company to the public utilities utili-ties commission of Utah on its operations opera-tions in 1919 shows' that the operating revenues of the road fell short of the operating expenses in 1919 by S0514.95. The revenues from operations totaled SG3.439.9S. The Fallon, Nevada, Eagle states that the coming week will sec work 'started on the great chemical plant to be erected on the Dixie valley potash deposits by the Humboldt Potash corporation, cor-poration, a million dollar New York company, whose holdings cotnprisa 3G.OO0 acres. The announcement conies from Mont-pelier, Mont-pelier, Idaho,' that the Anaconda Copper Cop-per Mining company has become interested inter-ested in phosphate mines in Caribou and Bear Lake counties and that unlimited un-limited capital is hack of this company com-pany vhich will be used for' developing the pi.osphate industry on a large seal. Every westltind train out of Fort Worth is janffl.ed with people attracted attract-ed from all arts of the United States to the new field opened up at Toyah by the Bell discovery well. Pecos and Toyah are reported to be taking on the appearance of tent cities to accommodate ac-commodate the thousands who are swarming to the new Eldorado. Consideraable progress has been made at the Harmony mines, a few-miles few-miles east a' the I'ope-Shcnon property, prop-erty, in a similar formation, says a Salmon, Idaho, dispatch. For the past year or more the Harmony Mining company has been carrying on an extensive ex-tensive program of development work. During tills time considerable equipment equip-ment has been installed. The Ophir Hill Consolidated Mining company and the Clark Electric Power company of Tooele have applied to the public utilities commission for an order to compel the Utah Power & Light company to extend for another ten years present contracts held by the two companies. They also enter protests against the proposed increases in rates now before the utilities commission. The German potash board, with the nssent of the minister of economics, has announced a further increase in the schedule of prices of potash for domestic consumption. This is 'the fourth time that the prices have been raised within a year. The new increase amounts to about 45 per cent. The new prices are about six times as high as the prices in force at the time the war began. After many years of successful operation, op-eration, the Rockland mine, located 27 miles south of Yerington. Nevada, has been closed and its affairs are now in the hands of the bankrupt court. Refusal Re-fusal of eastern stockholders to accept a voluntary assessment to pay for new-surface new-surface equipment amounting to approximately ap-proximately $125,000 is given as a reason rea-son for throwing the company into bankruptcy. Production of a zinc carbonate ore averaging 52 per cent is proceeding ! steadily at the Utacala mine, situated j near KeebT. Cal. This ore. which is I said to be the highest grade produ -r j in the world, is shipped to Mineral Point. Wis. I Those interested in the Arrowhead ' district in Nevada were most ai-oo-I tib'y surprised last week w iieo :.n-! :.n-! noun -eti.enr was made concerning an important mineral find havim: been made on the Arrow-head i .i,s,,;:.at.-d prop, Line-lies of wire siImt are 1 being etieoim: ercd in the oast drift. |