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Show AROUND THE MINES j Casualties in American coal mines in j IMS, reported Monday to Secretary I Lane by the bureau of mines, included 2075 men killed. A reduction in wages for employees of the Kl Paso smelting works, one of the American Smelling & Keiining conipany"s ehain'of smelters, was announced an-nounced last week. South lleela now has 11 to lo teams regularly on the job of ore-hauling. The teams are finding good roads between be-tween the mine at Alta .and the railroad rail-road terminus at Wasatch. Prilling is going steadily ahead at the Virgin Dome Oil company's well on Purgatory flat, near St. George. Utah. The drillers are still in the hard formation, which prevents rapid progress. Black Metals Mines company people have lined up their affairs to such a degree that shipments of ore at Hio rate of fifty tons a day will be the order in the near future from the property in the Jack Rabbit district, northwest of l'ioche, Nevada. During two days of last week the Michigan-Utah kept its tramway going so steadily that in that period it succeeded suc-ceeded in transporting from the mine in east Alta to Tanners Flat a total of 240 buckets of ore. The buckets contain about 700 pounds each. Bunches of good lead-silver ore have been encountered in the new work which is being carried on along the new incline which was sent down from the 1700 to the ISOO-foot level of the Ontario-Silver at Park City. The main work has been on the 1000 and 1700 levels. Mining engineers of the United States and Canada rolled up their sleeves and sat together at a meeting at New York on February IS, to urge a uniform mining law for the continent r- -.-..... rrMio noenston WllS or -oiui .-tim.Mtj. -ii.v, -- the ll!)th meeting of the American Institute of Mining Engineers. ' ; a The Ontario, at Park City is now employing em-ploying a force of seventy-five- to eighty men. The weekly shipping records from camp credit the Ontario with recent shipments at the rate of about 050 tons, or 1310 tons for the two first weeks in February. The January output totaled 2779 tons. Somewhat of a surprise was sprung on stockholders of the old Mammoth Mining company when they were notified noti-fied of an assessment of 5 cents a share. This is assessment No. 2 of the famous old Tintic mine, which, has produced pro-duced many millions' worth of ore and distributed $2,800,000 in dividends. Conditions at the Woodlawn Mining company's property in Big Cottonwood canyon are held to be ideal for the making of a real mine, according to F. V. Bodfish, general manager of the Alta Tunnel & Transportation company, com-pany, who is just down from his own property that Is a neighbor of the Woodlawns. Announcement was made last week by S. II. Huffaker, secretary of the Sunset Mining company, operating at eadore. Idaho, -at the first car of concentrates that has been sent down since the new mill was put into commission com-mission brought approximately $1100. Tnis was a small car, containing only thirty-four tons. Officials of the Milford-Magnolin Mines company are much gratified over the assay returns from recent samplings of the ore disclosures in the workings in the property a few miles southwest from Milford, Utah, and near the old Moscow and Red Warrior War-rior mines. The ore ranged gross from $30 to $100 to the ton. Kennecott Copper company, according accord-ing to interests conversant with affairs of the corporation, will borrow $12.-000,000 $12.-000,000 for one year at 6 per cent. , It is believed that the loan will he made by the same bankers who furnished the corporation $10,000,000 in the early part of 1916 to pay for something like 200,000 shares of Utah Copper stock. The second oil well drilled on the property of the National Gas & Oil company's holdings west of Brigham City, Utah, has struck a flow of gas at a depth of 200 feet. A pressure of seventy pound nas ueveiopeu. r c first well was sunk on this property on January 30, when gas was found at a depth of .230 feet, with a pressure of thirty-five pounds. According to advices from New York, at the meeting of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, moving pictures showing operations of New oornelia ..fining corporation, Utah Mining company, Nevada Copper company; com-pany; milling operations of the. Utah Mining company and smelting rev. rations ra-tions of the Garfield Smelting company com-pany were shown. Old Emma and Emma Consolidated Consoli-dated stockholders" are in receipt of official notice, from F. B. Cook, vice president of the Columbia Trust company, com-pany, relative to the proposed consolidation consoli-dation of the important Alia interests. inter-ests. The notice says .all the Emma Con. assets have been taken over and transferred to the reorganization, whirh has not yet been named. One carload of what is called the "scinisulphido" ores of the Alta Consolidated Con-solidated was put through the sampler be past t et'k. and showed gross values of about $15 a ton. This carload amounted to :;s dry Ions, and is expected expect-ed to bring in well-over $1''0. From ibe lowa-t 'uj 'per -umr-s the en-' en-' rourai :ig news fnim Manager Pave j Scolt that small pnekc;- .f high-grade I copper ore is being found in tin' drift , from the shaft, ami w.-ii.t coining In at j tl.tf f.i' c in'iVnting i'..:ir tV- rt':i-t i j oeing ma-!i '1. ;i,o Par:; ''ity j (Utah) It".- l |