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Show inJune! "lii!ff?S?Wvri was 5,7S0,0OO poundsV Arizona copper conipany'r production in August was 2.000,(XX) pounds of copper, contrasted with i;,-KM),t)Ort pounds each in the four immediately im-mediately preceding months and 4,300,-000 4,300,-000 in August a year ago. The Yellow Pine Mining company has again resumed operations at both the mine and mills' at Good Springs, New The mine had been closed down since the destruction of the power house by fire last March. The gradually increasing price of silver is aiding Utah's earnings, and each cent of advance this year will mean an increase of better than $100,-! 000 in profits, should the output this year lie even below what it was last year. Potassium sulphate, which is converted convert-ed from aluniie to the amount of ISO tons a day. is being shipped from the plant of the Mineral Products company com-pany at Alunite in Piute county, Utah. The plant is about live miles from Marysvale. Although Governor Boyle has tried twice to bring about a settlement of the strike at Tonopah and Divide, the miners are still out. It is the intention inten-tion of the governor of the Sagebrush state to again try and bring an end to the strike. The occurrence of complex ores of zinc, lead and antimony on Pine Creek, in Idaho, has long been known, but it was not until about 1014 that active ac-tive mining of 'these deposits began. Since then development has gone forward for-ward rapidly. Alaska Gold Mines company during August milled 202,268 tons of ore, averaging av-eraging .S7S cents per ton, comparing with 153,000 tous milled in July, of an average assay value of .974 cents and l."i9,510 tons, averaging .94 cents a ton, in June. Output of oil refineries of the United States in June amounted to $28,920,700 barrels, compared with 30,207,227 in May. Stocks on hand June 30 last were greater than May 31, except gasoline gaso-line which showed a decrease of about 200,000 gallons. The first gold brick from the Harry-King Harry-King lease on the Wedge Gold Mining & Milling eoinpnn'i property, near Marysvale, Utah, has been received at a Salt Lake assay office. The brick weighs 10 ounces and is valued at $2100. This was secured in panning the ore taken out at a depth of 100 feet. Governor Carey of Wyoming is endeavoring en-deavoring to secure an amendment to the Smoot mineral land leasing bill whereunder Wyoming and other states in which petroleum may be produced from leased federal lands will have Ihe option of taking their shares of the royalty from such leases either in cash or crude oil. The Midwest company has proposed to the slale land hoard of Wyoming voluntarily to surrender its lease on section Hi, Salt Creek field the most productive state owned 040 acres of petroleum land and to have a new five-year operating lease recently agreed upon fo go into effect October 1 instead of January 1. Chino produced 3,321,S57 pounds of copper in August, smallest, showing for any mouth since December, 1914, when less than 3.000,1 Kill pounds was reported. The only month in the current cur-rent year to record over 4.000.000 pounds was January, and the average? for the eight months was exactly 3,051. ISO pounds a month. Apart from fuel oil conditions, there has never been a time when the oil industry was in so favorable a position po-sition as now, said a representative of the Standard interests in regnrd to the domestic and world position of the oil industry, according to Ihe Sun Francisco Bulletin. This is because of the demand, both in this country and abroad, a demand which, it is not possible to fill. A wild stampede is on to a sensational sensa-tional gold strike in the Birch Creel; district, ten miles east of Austin, New A boom camp known as Telluriilc has been established and miners and .p-erniors .p-erniors from all sections of Nevinh. are flocking to the scene. According' to a report from Pioclu the Vi r'iriiiiii Louise Min'ng coinp:i,.v has just entered inio :i new conlr:"' Willi the I'liile.l Sillies ' 1 1 ! e I I L' c puny by u hidi it will dc '!', ei- I'm ; if Ol'e ihiy. Il is (!ec':l...-.l I), ; I company will receive 'u ;i's I more u;ir,-r i!.,- j,,-,- c i |