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Show - n '' I 'if" f --t - - 1 One of the picturesque bridges over the Vesle which the retreating Huns destroyed. 1 Little Serbian refugees who arrived in London and were seut to country homes. 3 f irst photograph showing the retreat of the Bulgarians before their surrender. ! AROUND THE MINES Production hy the mines of Tonopah the past week totaled l.t.tio tons of ore valued ac .Sl.Vr,."i(l."i. Nevada Douglas Consolidated in the week ending October It; shipped to the Mason Valley smelter at Thompson 1150 tons of ore averaging S.til per cent copper. It is reported that the Hico Argentine Argen-tine recently struck a new ore body in uncontested territory. This is in the new tunnel about (ioo feet. The values are in lead, silver and y.ine. Contractors working on the Globe Consolidated Mining company's property prop-erty in American Fork are down from the canyon and report that the stringers string-ers of ore are still showing up near the face of the tunnel. According to word from Tucson, the Standard Oil company (California) has attacked as "capricious, whimsical and unwarrantable." the state hoard of equalization's method of tax valuation, and is resisting collection. Western oil fields have been hit hard by the prevailing disease. It is declared de-clared that the spread of the Spanish influenza among the workers caused many drilling operations to be suspended, sus-pended, and also handicapped the handling hand-ling of the leases. According to word from Tampico eight of the oil companies operating in the Mexican fields shipped a total of 4.4()(i,l()6 barrels of oil through the ports of Tampico, Port Lphos and Tux-pam Tux-pam during September. Only a small part was distilled and refined petroleum. petro-leum. Manager Ralston of the Unevida Gold Mines company, wired from Nevada Ne-vada last week to a Salt Lake official Unit the miners have succeeded in sinking sink-ing a shaft through, oae of the old Oomsloek tailing dumps to the bedrock, bed-rock, where improved values in amalgam amal-gam were found. Tintic Standard's new shaft in sinking sink-ing from below the 1300-foot sump passed through fil'teeu feet of good commercial lead ore, according to one of the officials. He said that the new work is down 100 feet and is now in low grade ore. This brings the shaft to the 1400-foot level. Eastern directors of the Utah Apex Mining company have declared a capital cap-ital dividend distribution of 25 cents a share. It will he paid on November 11. This will require the distribution of $132,500. This will bring the 1918 distributions up to $265,000, as a similar simi-lar amount was paid out in August. Active development work has been in progress for some time past on a property situated in the Harmony range of mountains, about six miles east of Winueniueca, Nev., and reports from that town state that ore of good grade has been exposed in considerable quantity in the progress of this work. Most of the Alta mines have had a double handicap to contend with the past few weeks. Added to the frequent storms with their consequent muddy highways conies the inroad of the in-' sidious little influenza germ. Already some of the husky miners have succumbed, suc-cumbed, and many others are down with the disease. Advices from Ely are that the Nevada Ne-vada Consolidated outstanding capital stock at $20 a share is given a market valuation of slightly less than $40,000,-000. $40,000,-000. As the company will produce approximately ap-proximately 79,000,000 pounds of copper cop-per this year its productive capacity is capitalized in the stock market at about 50 cents a pound. Relative to the matter of the government gov-ernment extending the 26-t;ent-a-pound copper, to January 7, it is remarked that some men in touch with the situation situa-tion think that the government will control the price not only while hostilities hos-tilities continue, but for something like two years thereafter, so as' to avoid any drastic readjustment in prices when peace comes. According to reports' received here, considering the length of time the mine was worked during the past season and the amount of material handled, the Round Mountain placer mine at Round Mountain made the best showing of its entire history, but owing to water shortage, the giants were operated under un-der a full head for only one month, says the Goldl'ield News. It is reported from New York that fifty-six companies with an aggregate authorized capital of $59,922,000 were organized during September for the development of oil and gas resources of this country. This is the best showing for any month since April, when the total was .$01,729,000. From Washington comes the news ;hat blast furnaces running at capacity are operated at the record production ate of 3:i.0O0,OO0 tons of steel and 42,-(011.000 42,-(011.000 tons of pig iron a year, ac-ording ac-ording 'to announcement by the war ndustries board, the demand Is np-iroximately np-iroximately 50,000,000 tons a year. Completion of the United States Ietals Reduction company's plant, located lo-cated fifteen miles out of Castieton '.nd fifty miles from Cisco, for the entment of the radium-bearing ores here, is announced. From Spokane, Wash., comes the re-lort re-lort that the mines of Idaho, I'.rilish 'olinnbia and Washington paid $5.G2S.-"C $5.G2S.-"C in dividends during the third piarter of this year, according to tig-ires tig-ires compiled from latest reports ob-ainable. ob-ainable. From Fairbanks, Alaska comes the 'epnrt that present (lay Alaska gold itampodes are quiet affairs, generally icld with as little publicity as possible pos-sible by the men who rushed north in the 1S9S rush ; more of it was heard in the madhouses than on the gold creeks, even then. |