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Show I AROUND THE MINES i During the month of Pehroary. 1911, 114 more carload of ore. approximately approxi-mately 6.700 tons, vnejed at about 1130 OuO. were shipped out of the mmp of Tlntlc than during February of 1911. New mills for treating tungsten ores were operated at Osceola, Nev., aod In tho nine Wing district on 1'nUersun creek. Idnho, Inst year, and a new mil waa being built at the close of th year at Kound ..Mountain. Nev Hainplea of ore currying friimHO up to as high aa t.'inl In cold have recently re-cently been brought out of the new intiip of J.troirtp. sitiiiitcd near the lleuver Iron coutiMc line, seventeen null", southeast of Milfonl, I'tah Oro running as high as 4 per cent lend, carrying good vslurs In sliver, Ii now being mined In the Cliff property at Ophir. I ' t ii Ii. The output of toe ruins Is one lilt) Ion car a day. which niakei Ihe monthly production well over l.nuC Ions. The director of the national mini la quoted as stating oMWinlly In 1910 ihal Ihn total production of American gold from the time It was flrwt mined heis to the end of l'.mu had beeen f:t. I ;.. ii4.4hi, that o( lVu'j aloon being ftiy, 67.1.400. The world's output of petroleum In llm'.i wns J'.'.i,:Hll.'iT:i barrels nml In 1.0 :i27,t72.2.MI, a gain of nearly 10 per cent. At Ihe same rate of Incn-nM the output of lull niust have been about 260.uo0,uou. and of 11)12 It will be about 396.000,000 barrels Director of tha Utah ArUons Hold and Cupper Mining company met to Halt I.sko last week and talked over mutters pertnlnlng to future opera Hons of Ihe big l.onoacre property In Mojave county. ArUona, where they have some very encouraging disclosures. The production of apelter In tha fulled rltntcs In ItHI from domcstla ores waa 271.K2I alore tuna, nod from foreign ores M.'.mj lotw. a Imul of 2";, '2H Ions, compared to 2 -2.4 ,'u Ions, 1'i. io.'i Ions and 2l'.i,IHt Ions, respectively, In 1UI0, a gain of 17.J4-' tuns, or v 4 ;nr cent. Tunnel operations at the T.ir llnby Mining tumpuiiy's proprty In Houih Fork of 111 sc I'littonwiK'd liave progressed pro-gressed until now the luce in :I2. leel from tho portal. The permanent juartlto formation tin rea. bed thirty thir-ty five (eel hack. It still shows u III-io III-io copper statu. Tho report of the chief limpcctor of mines shows that l.o7s.ua permits per-mits were employed lu the mines of the I'nlled Kingdom and the Isle of Man. and S.37 In thu quarries during dur-ing into, an Increaon over the prnced-i prnced-i not year of J.'i.HH lit the mines and l.tioo at the quarries The world's output of spelter In IHU was U74..ir,5 tons, compared with :!,-ll'J :!,-ll'J Ions In I'-Mo, a gain of 'M).9M tons. r 103 per cent, showing thai the I'nlled Htates did not uiuke Its quota if the world's gain. Thla country's Oi n re of the world production lu I'.'U won 29 4 per cent. Shipments of ore from tho Tlntlc llstrlet during the week ending March I amounted to 1K7 carloads. This It lust thirteen cars tern than Inst week's manner shipment, when between O.ouo md lo.oiit) lolls of oro valued at close to quarter of a million doll.iis wna th ariiductlon of thu camp. Tennessee Copper'a report for IHU ihons gross receipts of l.i77.l27, or approximately ap-proximately $.111,000 less than for the rreiedlng yenr. In I'JIO the copper irodueilon of Ihra coinpntiy m 12. '.iiii.ouo pounds, and In that year the ivernge selling price of the metal was lliout 12 cents a pound. Last year tho mines of Ihe Culled idhiidoin und Ihe Isle of Mutt, Dii.i.4xr, persons worn engaged In work un Jetground utid 2 1 2. Mm above ground. it which latter number 6.4o4 were fe-ninles. fe-ninles. There were 1.20 fatal cct-1enis. cct-1enis. Involving 1.K1H lives, at the .nines, and so, causing Ihe loss of M Ives, at the quarries. A few days ugo there were placed n commission the third lead smeller ill the stutn of I'tah, thla being the new plant of tho liitornuttiinal Holding Holdi-ng ti Helloing company ul Tooele. I'luh. Two blast furnaces liuve been In'talleil with power and sintering 'iil'iuity and room for additional lulls lis the lead business of the company com-pany demands them. There wns g sharp fulling off In the production of tuutsien ores In 1011. 3ing to the decrease In the market 'or tool steels In which the hulk of th iitiKsleu Is used. According to pro-Iiiiliiury pro-Iiiiliiury tlguns collected by the l'nlt-d l'nlt-d Stales geological survey, about 1.12", iluni lotis of conceut rates currying tin per cent tungsten Irloxldo were pro lined and shipped during the year, lilt-Ii m less than Iwothlrds of tha nil i' nt tor 1 ! 1 H. The K.ittcnharm brothers a aliort time ngo dron a tunnel In their prop- rty In tho llitlllon, Nevada, district, nto et,;iiteen Inches of silver oro which assayed t2.ono u Ion. This untiel was In only seventy Bvo feet. Tho oro Is being sucked now. Th (roup consists of Ihtoe claims. Tho little llonana asphalt nilnsj mar Venial, I'tah, Is pulling out about 2'i.uun pounds of asphalt dally. Tho present shipping Is noimul, und sill be kept up throughout the your, (t Is possible that uuother mlun will ue opened near the llonunxu In tho very near future. Iteports from Ohio Copper, at llltig-ham, llltig-ham, are lo the effect that the month .if February bus proven to be the most prchiublo In the history of the company. com-pany. In fait, that 20 per cr ntlncreass sill be sIiovmi In returns. The or -ontlnues to improve. |