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Show AROUND THE MINES ' i i Most satisfactory progress has been made in the unwatering of the shaft of the Prince Consolidated Mining & Smelling company near Pioche, New One of the rarest of rare metals, gallium, has been discovered in the old mining district of Lynn, twenty miles north of Curlin, New, it is reported. re-ported. Several companies in the Peavine field in Nevada are eomplet ing preparations prepa-rations lor comprehensive operations, while fully a dozen properties are undergoing vigorous development. The Giant Ledge mine in the Murray district, in Idaho, winch has been under constant development for several months, is continuing to show new ore shoots as the work develops on the 400-foot 400-foot level. The report of a strike iu the Divide Extension mine has created considerable consider-able interest at Tonopah. Thirty-six tons of ore have recently been shipped from the new strike. The ore runs as high as $18S3 a ton. Reuben W. Wright, a wealthy Dunkirk, Dun-kirk, N. Y., man, alleges he has been defrauded out of $11,500 in a mining deal in which he purchased a claim in Idaho county, Idaho. Officers are investigating in-vestigating the affair. Arrangements are being rapidly consummated con-summated where!)' the holdings of the General Oil company in the Sanpete oil field, in Utah, consisting of 32,000 acres, held under a long-teun lease, will be developed thoroughly. It is learned that orders have been received at Eureka, New, from the New York office of the Ruby Hill Development De-velopment company to cot tinue the sinking of the Locan shaft to depth, and that preparations for commencing the work this week are now being carried car-ried out. One of the old-timers of Jarbidge camp, Ed Benane, was in Salt Lake a few days ago and took some pride in stating that during the past year this somewhat isolated camp in the northeastern part of Nevada produced more gold than all the other Nevada camps combined. The Consolidated Ulipah Oil company com-pany has taken steps to materially augment its present holdings in the Ulipah field, in Nevada, by filing on and making application to the United States government for a permit on 25G0 acres of oil lauds in the San Juan oil fields of Utah. According to V. P. Fowler, president presi-dent of the United Metals & Power company, operating in the Hailey district, dis-trict, who has just returned to Idaho from a five weeks' trip to Pittsburg, Pa., the conivany is in excellent position posi-tion to obtain eastern finances for contemplated con-templated development. Plans are being considered by the Utah Placer Mining company with regard re-gard to the development of its property of SOO acres lying on the Grand river, just below the mouth of the Dolores river , in Grand county, Utah. The nearest railroad point' is Cisco, on tha Denver and Rio Grande railroad. Practically the same amount of zinc was produced in the United States last year as in 1919, according to geological survey estimates, which place the 1920 total at 4S5.179 tons, against 4S3,491 tons in the previous twelve months. These totals include the yield from both foreign and domestic ores. The value of the 1920 production was ?78,-599,000, ?78,-599,000, comparing with $70,SS2,000 iu 1919. One interesting development after another follows exploration work being carried on in the Doughboy mine situated situ-ated about nine miles from Mackay, Idaho. A full breast of galena ore has been opened up south of the shaft on the 350-foot level. This ore, which will run in value, it is said, from 05 to 70 per cent in lead, has been opened up in the south drift, about 200 feet from the shaft. Development of plans for standardizing standardiz-ing mining equipment has progressed satisfactorily since a permanent organization or-ganization of the general correlating committee was effected. Pursuant to the plan agreed upon in New York in January, the general standardization committees of flie American Mining congress are preparing drafts of their contemplated year's work for use of the correlating committee. After some delays, the mill constructed con-structed by the Idaho Leasing company, com-pany, holding a lease at Mace. Idaho, on the old Black Bear, one of the Federal Fed-eral prope.ties, lias been made ready to receive its first ore and a test run made. The mill, while small, is modern in many respects, being equipped with tables, jigs and other machinery necessary neces-sary for its successful operation, and is capable of handling about fifty tons per day. An oil of exceptionally high value is supplied by the wells of the Okotox, field, near Calgary, Alberta, according, to a practical oil man. The oil of several of tiiese wells is a clear, yellow wirh a very disagreeable odor. Just as dipped from the wel! in a pail, 'lie oil is so clear that the hntom can be seen easily. During t he pa.-t Two weok a number num-ber of oil prospocrors have been quietly quiet-ly looking over the field iu the Delta. Utah, section, and local oil men are very en; litl:as; ic fiver The po-s jli 1 Ity of a number of wrN being drivea during dur-ing tin; coining spring and siniar.er. The mining indits: i-.v. according 10 the Denver ?:n;ng l:v..p. is to be given tlie fulies: cot , ; , ) i -ya t '. on ai ilie coming si -;on of congress, t'ar minerals are to be liea.c'itfd !:y all I import duty on fotacgn production. i provided for in the talked of tariff bill. |