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Show iSiiiaaMi a at aasasaaasasasisimii aasa MINES AND MINING Recent ri .'tta I.i the mint director atatea thai dnrlns ihe eleven years 1' I'M" Hi- world's production of tiol.l h.ih aouic'hlnu over II mm ix.ii. Tln mln. a ut Tnuopah ilnrlna their brl. f hlaioty. h ue pr, u, ,., worth of oie. an. I Ji:!.nn:i,v,.i a the sum pa d io. kh.'l.l. i In Hie fhiin' of divl.l. n.la. The rnlt.it stntea furnlahes about per ti nt .'f all t!ie inpp. r pr... In. i d In tli" w.'il.l. in . otilmi: to et.it Ihi !-! compiled I.y ih,. Knitliiit'rliig and M III1I1K .lout II .t 1 The Shannon Copper coinp:lliv for the month ..r April m.nle pmiiiH ol allchlly over !..... which la al liie Irate of nliniil 1 1.", per Hharo on tho rumpati) a .Mil. almrci. The wide api, .id of i npiHT since the fliat of Hie year has Iniplled Hie hope In lloatnn that several prnduiiim coinpunlea will Increase their dividend tale hour comp. inlm already have dune ao thla )ear. flaci obi an. I lllai kliome d'strhis never looked belter, according to A (1. Ilurrltl, m.iicic. r of the oimmi MlutiiK company, who has returned lo Salt 1-nk" from a vialt to the While I'lne cnuniry southeast of Kly. I The Snake Creek tunnel Is now In 4".lill Ui'. w here a flow of one half sec I orid foot of water hua In-en encounter fid. The waterway haa it capacity of twenty second feel mid eaally takes cum of the flow, the Kia.le being oiio-fourili oiio-fourili of one icr cent, Tlio prilnuctiig area of tl amp of Tunopah, Nov., now Is il.Tuo by !iiu yards In extent and there ate aliy-nine aliy-nine mill's of underground workings In the district. New dividend payers are soon lo be mlded to the Hat and production is Increasing sieatltly. It Is up to the directors of the Colo, rado us to whether or not the regular three rent iiuarierly dividend will bo decliiied the tenth of Juno or not, aiy lording to I'realdeiit Jeaae Knight, lie nilinlia there la a goodly sum atlll In the treasury, aatd to bo over t'.iu.lllMI. The l ulled Stales geological survey estimates thai the coal land In Iho lllack Mean llel.ls In Arizona, envois t.l'u'.i wiiuare miles, and that l lie Ileitis contain 14 iiss.ihiii.imiii short Ions, of w hich K.uuii.o iii.iiiiii tuna urn recover- I able, the real being under very heavy AtthoiiKli Arloua line produced no coul on n commercial scaie, It coutiiltm promlalug llehls. whlcli may be profitably profit-ably exploited when truusiairtution Is nnorded mid when itopuiattun and ninnufacturea have reached a point which will provide a market for tha output. Work will be resumed on the Carl-boo Carl-boo Hold A Copper company property In Idaho, north of Boiln Springs, about Juno 20. Already a rarloail of high grade ore la ready to haul down and ship from Soda Springs. This ore will run IK to 20 per cent copper and $-0 In gold. Rome line ore running as high ns 40 ler cent Is rcKirted to have been found In May Lay, while ore running ns high as tlL In gold la reported In a winn twenty feet below the l.tnii). foot level. It Is claimed at least i!.ift lohs of the rlnc product bus already been broken down. Ill spite ot lliq Heavy snowiaii or j Die paat winter, tha old ramp of Tank City, went right on producing an av-1 i erage of nenrly S.notl tons a week. As thla ore and the concentrates average i from It" to f.M) a Ion, It means a monthly production of upwards of half a million dollars. j A three nuarter Inlereat In the Ka-1 me ruldu at Hold Circle. Nev . has ' I ii sold for It.Vloo. The Ksmrt-1 alilu estate Is slliiuled In Hi" heart of the Colli Circle camp and Is a prmluc. Ing proiorty of great merit. Almost from Hie discovery of the rnmp thej ! property has been under develop, j inent. "Ore carrying more gold than rock la a com sight" nt the Adumaon- Turner mine near Wlniiemiicca, no conlhiK to a local paper of thai place, und regular shipments of whut is called aecond class grade, but which In most camps would be ten I high grinle, are now being made from th.s pr.iicrty which two I'tali boys discovered dis-covered neurly two years ago and have been diligently developing ever since Production of xlnc and line ore has mailii a marked Increase In the 1'nlTeil States during I'.Hl. The total production produc-tion of spelter In Hill was 2!l'..n:i tons, of which 9.030 Ions la estimated to have been derived from droae. scrap, etc tagalnst 77'J.I tons In lillfll and the remainder from ore. Tills does not Includi! the production of speller by concerns which treat dross and scrap only whose output amounts to ln.Oiiii to Itl.Oi'il tons a year. Arrangements have been mode for maikelliig all the uranium vanadium ore Iiml can tie mined from tho Levi croup near lireen Itlver, I'luh, and the crusher und other machinery for a reduction plunt will begin arriving abort ly One of the richest rarloada of lead ore ever shipped out of Iho Kly die-I die-I rid was inaiketed In Salt Lake last week by tho Kly 'llhrultar Mining company, a Salt l.uko controlled concern. con-cern. Thla car carried 80,0(10 pounds, or forty tuns, which aasuys 82 pnr cent lead, with three tu Ave ounces silver. Swansea Consolidated mine at Silver Sil-ver City Is making a splendid record In the matter of ora production, and ! for tho past ten days tho shipments , i have averaged about two cdroluda, 01 I 100 Ions, each day. |