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Show MINES AND MINING l oiisldeial.lt. cm,!,, i, ill , n work Is -IOW III pn'HIC M III till- tllllllOM- ills- tici iii Mali" Hie slnplueira fioin Ihe I'.nk City I ir.fl for the wick Jus: einli'd iiMounicl to a ioil of i :ii".i;mi imhiiIs. .Ju, I ul iippioxiiiiiitely I.Mi.onil The liniit.lil smelling plant of tho nniciiciu SniclMiig . Itctliiluit com-.any com-.any Is ic.civiio: a xery iM-ncrous tonliai'e ol coppcl siler ores rioni lie la llii'tol plopt-rty of Hie Ilria-ol. Ilria-ol. N.-a.l.l. section The smeller of the M;inii Valley Mines company produced approximately approximate-ly I, .'."i i pouiuU of copper ilnrlni; Jul) This brought the production lor the llisl seven months' oiM-ratlotis lo Khr.lill) heller than 1"' ."") pounds. Hller Is at present the highest In live cii In r.m? Ihe price ran n KIM,, l,l.....r ,,,l In V,,i..t,,l.,.. I'l, lit It advanced to 71 cents an ounce. Since thai date, however. It look to the to-ItoRKuti to-ItoRKuti for a long time, at times hovering hov-ering horribly close to r.n cents an ounce. The Tonopah Miner figures the pro-luiilou pro-luiilou or Ihe Tonopah district last week nt li.'.i'i" tons or ore, I lie estimated esti-mated gross value of which was KIV i'J.V The various proieries of lb" atnp were well provided wllh en--ouriiKliig iU'M'loiiuclitB li. .'Inn llio aeik 1 hlny seven uilnliiv compantse nav reported to the l-.'ngliif criug aid .Mining .Min-ing Journal dividends paid In July, Ihe total being il.HMI 7 : lllelalllirgl. ,-nl, coal. Iron and holding companies paid I I.TlK.iliia, while CnundlBn nun Mexican mining compaiilca paid ll.fir.K.l.'.il. An unparalleled period of prosperity Is demonstrated by tho midyear line (commonly known as apelterl alalia. Ilea recently Issued by Uie geological iiirvey, which show an Increase In both production and consumption of ipproxlmiitely 9 per cent over the previous pre-vious six months. Silver made another almost aciiaa-tb. aciiaa-tb. mil advance on the l.Mh, reaching ill' Si cents an ounce In settlements on, the Salt l.nko market. Thla means a gain to I'tuh sliver mine operators Mr the week of ll.'.x.nnii. Ilgurlng on last year's production In tho suite of l'J,-ti7'.i l'J,-ti7'.i c.:i:i ounces. During tho mouth of July Ihe Tonopah To-nopah Extension company made a new record, "he June results measured meas-ured 101.144. and those of July Just :',UMI In-tier, the company producing Mill pounds of bullion from 4 MI3 tons f ore. The mill uiado an extraction of J84 per cent. It la reported that liwer Mammoth has soma mine rw on the ,loo tooi level and 100 feet weat of the shaft i . - ... .i.-i ...,.v,..l ti in In gold, 4.6, ounces silver and 1 1 per cent copper. Streaks of even higher grade ore are said to have been encountered en-countered on the 1.000 level. ' The strike of extremely rich gold ore at a dopth of Via feet In tho iiuo-foot iiuo-foot tunnel on Ihe Yellow Dog property prop-erty at tho camp of Dyko In the I'lne Forest range Is proving the great attractive at-tractive feature among mining men and proapectora In this section of tho state, says tho Wliinemucca Star. There have been at leuat two table liven by different statistical Journals if mining dividends declared and paid In the month of July, and on gives Ave Utah companies paying a lotul or I22I.VH0, while another gives seven I'tah companies known to have paid profits last siouth of I'JSU.alU. At a meeting held August 2, 1912, by the mine ownera and opuratora of Ihe atnio of Utah, for the purpose of Investigating remedial legislation as regal illlik the Issue of pul.'iils to public pub-lic domain nnd tariff legislation, a commllleo of five was apisiluled to docldo UKjii somo organization to ob tain tho net-did relief. Willi the final Chlno figures nro not yet at hand, tlm preliminary returns re-turns give an output for the month of July of 3.114,000 iKMind. This com. pares with liiil! lino xiunils III June, This remarkably largo Increase for nnii month la due to a combination of soveral factors: a heavier tonnage milled, a greater recovery uud a higher high-er grudo of ore. Unless tho new Utah owner of tho Nevada (iold Northern Mining company com-pany are badly mistaken, they aro now opening up In Churchill county. Nevada, one or tho blggeat propositions In the state. Competent mining cnglueers who huve recently examined the big dumulii tell them limy have ul least Itoo.Ooo tons of oro blocked out above the 200-fout level which average $J0 a Ion, or $1,000,000 III the ugregate. Tho superintendent or Ihe YnnVeo Consolidated reports thut several cur-loads cur-loads or sine oro hnvo been oxua ied ami that more Is In sight. Tho new ruto of ti 30 a ton from camp to the Kansas tine smellers Is stimulating the search for this molul. The operations of the lllliv'liam & Garfield railway during the past quarter quar-ter were very satisfactory In every respect. An average or 10,2n3 tons uf ore pet day were hauled, all from the mines to Ihe mills, for tho period, aa compared with 7,910 tons per day for th previous quarter. Indications once more nto favorable for a road to Contact. Judging from the personnel of a crowd of Western I Pacific officials who rocently msdo a trip by automobile from Wells uii through that big copper district and jn Into th Twin Falls country. |