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Show i r ' - T" AROIJNDJHE TWINES When Iho Keens Cement company and tho Jumbu company aro running full rniuiclty. the quarries and plan' st Reguerd. In rP-vler county. I lab. p give employment to at least lou men During December thn Nevada Con solliintod company produced 4i;7:'m4 liounds. aKnlnst fi.Siii.si.l pounds for the month before, ami sc:ilnt :;. 4r.l piuml in July. tl 0. whlih Is tht !.' recotd for tills HX ililutl'Mi. Hhltimentu of ore from the Tinilo district fur the pun! week tot tiled ll'if ' carloads, nr over t mm tuns, valued nt probably belter lli.lil IKllllml This I lens by twelve cars than 'hi prevlnus week, due somewhat til bad r mails According to John Dern. president of the American Mining cungre, n cull ha been Issin-d to member und other oth-er Interested to join hamlj In bringing bring-ing every rcNource to bear to blockade block-ade Iho passage In tho t'nited Hiates sinnto of any bill I but I ulined la reduce tho tariff on melnla. It la creditably reported that last week New Yolk ll"ii:inia marketed ' i:i:l tons of shipping ore, und that luring Hi" p:il week it hlpi'd 1.14 lima. Thla ore will probably over- tig 110 a Ion nr around that llr.ure, mnklng the output for the two week nbo-.it II'. 47". That thn M:ite of Nevada has turn- ed its attention for the hour tn th discovery of polnsh ilcmslia. iho government gov-ernment Inspiring the search for . i.i precioua material that, to uo a familiar famil-iar expression, "one might be put over on Oermnny," la the newa from th Hiigeliriish tune. The December copper production of th l.'tull Copper company Is reported re-ported to have been 9.0JH .".'? pounds, agnlnst 9.1 17. Ml pounds tor the month before, and against .2K.i.3KI pound of lust September, which wu th largest mouth exiK'iienced In the history his-tory of the organization. With a dor.cn carloads of Ml In $ i, ore having been shlpied to the Halt Ijike valley smellers to Its credit, th Allen l.ncey mine In thn lied llllll district, not fur from the I'tah lln below Ihapah, In Tooele cviiniy. Rive promise of continuing It credltahl showing during the coining year. The drilling operations of the geological geo-logical survey nt Fnllon, Nov., are to be suspended temporarily. I'nfuvor-able I'nfuvor-able weather condlllnna are somewhat some-what Impeding tho work on Timber Lake well and It hna been decided that thla may be continued mora efficiently ef-ficiently aomewhat Inter In the season. sea-son. The enormity of the scale of operation opera-tion In th Michigan district I prob- I ably no mora Impressively reflected - J than In th fact that durlns 111 tta itamp mill treated close to 11,000 f 000 ton of rock, from which ths j yield waa approximately 223,000.000 I pounds of copper, thua Indicating an Pi sverage recovery of s trlfln over twenty pound per ton. Q The remedy for the existing evil (j of Idle mining property must b a sought cither In the adoption of leasehold, under whlrh the govern- 1 ment ran enforce operation, s ays- I torn which fully attain thn desired I end of promoting mining develop- vl ment In Australia and New Zealand, I according to Ihe ration made In 117 I by fleologlst A. C. Veatch of the geological geo-logical survey to the president, or-In or-In tho thorough revision of tho existing exist-ing system. The Pennsylvania and I'tnh Interest Inter-est which have opened In the (Ill-more (Ill-more district of Idaho one of the big lead producing aectlons of the went during tho past two years, bringing one proposition to the steady dividend divi-dend list In the Pittsburg Idaho company, com-pany, atill further have demonstrated their faith In thla camp by the or-gnnlxntlon or-gnnlxntlon on Friday of tho (lilmor Mining company under Ilia law of th state of I'tah. The growth of thn copper Industry In the L'nlled State haa been notabl according to th figure of the t'nited Rtatea geological survey. In U.'iO th production waa 1.4.r.fi.0ll0 pounds; In 1(70 It wa JS, 225.000 pound; In 1K1HI it was 268,703,1192 pounds; ,900 It had Increased to 806,117.146 pounds; In 1905 It waa 901,907,843 pounds, and In 1909 It passed th billion matk. with I 092.9ril.ti24 pounds, decreasing In 1910, however, to l.O80.ir,,r0S pounds. Gold In flakes and In nuggets was found near Mlntonaa, Man., on Wednesday Wed-nesday by driller attracted by the newa that gold had been found In chlckena. An offer of $10. 0' wa refuted re-futed for a claim more than a mile away. One of the leading mining engineers engi-neers of this country aay "It teem rather a atartllng atalement to mako, but I am convinced that we hnv found our Inst big copper properly in this country for . many years to come." The recent market arllvlty In and attention attracted to tho tirecne-runanea tirecne-runanea Copper company eastward la explained by the declaration of the initial dividend by the board of directors. This dividend Is for 2 cents a share. At the Veteran mine of tho Nevada Consolidated Copper company tit Vorklng force Is being dally Increas. ed, and the amount uf ore sent to the smelter for reduction is rapidly near-lug near-lug the 1 .0 m ton a day mark. TIito are now two hundred and eighty. five men employed about the mlno. Don Magulre ot Ogdcn, general manager of several big properties In the Sierra Mail re district north of Ogden, is now employing a force of right men, but expect to greatly In-jreas In-jreas this when th Prod King lift hla Icy bold from th mountain top. i . , ..,,,. . i ,. w mmmmftmmmm |