| Show n IS ANNUAL UL I 1 MEETING the annual meeting of the stockholders of 0 sphinx mining company will be held at the principal office of the company 1 in the blythe and fargo store etore evanston wyoming next monday may 1930 at 12 noon when else election ot of officers will take place and other business transacted co COPPER prEll AND THE production and ana consumption of copper aro are almost perfectly equalized in the united states says tho the manufacturer when foreign mines can produce copper and lay it down in our market tor for about e six ix cents a pound a tariff adequate to e equalize domestic and foreign production t costs seems essential it if the industry Is to continue to progress and pay fair dividends high wages to thousands of workers and a a large share ot of the taxes ol of in many a ny w western e 5 t e r n states r tate 8 in 1929 the united states produced tons ot of copper and consumed approximately tons a nice balance but we imported tons from countries where production costs are very low because ot of cheap labor which lives live e under conditions that would not be tolerated in the united states high wages and living standards tor for all workers have become integral parts ot of our modern modem industrial structure such conditions cannot be maintained if home industries are unable to profitably sell their output because ot of insufficient protection from foreign competition WRITER GIVES DETAILS OF conditions AT PARK CITY the following was clipped from saturdays salt lake tribune and mr mcgivern commended tor for facts con concerning berning park city editor tribune newspaper accounts ot of Eu census contain thinly veiled boasts of her small foreign population let us compare working conditions there with those of park city both camps pay the same scale of wages in eureka the single miner pays about per day for or board 40 to 60 cents room rent and 25 cents bus tare fare at park city the silver king and other large mines maintain hoarding boarding houses there you get board for 1 per day sleeping accommodations are furnishes without additional charge thereby eliminating transportation por tation charges to and from work at these park city mines the miner gets for 91 1 the accommodations he pays from 91 SO 90 to 2 tor for in eureka or tho the equivalent of nearly 91 1 more in wages the eureka miner pays 2 while the tha park city miner pays 91 1 per month tor for ine medical cical fees in park paris city they have a hospital for miners while in eureka they in bygone days when about 2000 were steadily on mining company payrolls paying upward of a man month th they maintain a hospital in the district A man badly hurt was br brough 0 ugh to salt lake presumably he was hoisted upon the state compensation fund for medical attention though ho he and its coworkers were paying enough to cover the reasonable medical require ments ot of every man woman and child in the district it if miners are assessed at that rate some of it should bo be paid to the state compensation fund most of the eureka miners hospital cases may be unloaded on that account anyhow considerable credit Is due park city mine owners tor for their fairer dealing with their employees yet tet the miners there must have so conducted themselves as to induce this greater measure of justice LAWRENCE mcgivern A MINE STILL STIL L PRODUCING THAT FURNI SITED COPPER FOR SOLOMONS TEMPLE sale of a block ot of rio tinto stock on the new york curb exchange recently at a share chare proves that even mines may enjoy long life for the rio tinto mine in southern spain has been productive productive since the dawn of civilization the rio tinto mine says a new york press report in commenting on the activity in rio tinto shares Is believed to have been the source from which the COP copper per and silver of king solomons temple at jerusalem was derived tradition relates that king solomons son came to this great deposit of 0 silver and copper lying in fix the southwest part of spain near huelva to supervise the production and shipment ot of metal to his lather father in far remote israel dumps contani ning millions ot of tons ot of slag were left by the ancient miners proving conclusively that operations were on a vast scale and thousands of men employed in mining the oxidized ore analysis ot of the slag proves that smelting smelling sm elting methods were highly efficient tor for the mater material lal Is deemed clean slag even as present standards go the ovo dozed ores were undoubtedly smelted smelter with charcoal and the metals exported to all parts ot of the ancient world with the ebb and flow ot of conquest the mines have changed ownership numerous erous times after romans came the spaniards and the moors and then the spaniards again in recent years since 1670 the mine has been owned by the english branch of the rothschild family during the century the ore was piled up on heaps of wood and sulphur burned out leaching and precipitation followed this method after it had destroyed all of the vegetation for miles around was abandoned when it was as found that roasting was not needed to oxidize the ore now a large percentage of 0 the mineral Is piled up in heaps having as is high no as tons of ore in a heap the ore Is irrigated by running water over it the copper sulphate solution Is then led into launders and precipitated on iron scrap oro ore exceeding 25 per cent copper Is shipped directly to huelva the same port from which columbus embarked on bis first voyage of discovery and marketed 1 both in america and europe raving having a high content of sulphur and iron BB as well as its copper values the ore Is in demand in the sulp sulphuric hurie acid and other byproduct by product industries the present general manager when he took charge of the mine about 25 years ago conceived the idea or of reforest ing the denuded country millions of cork oak pine acacia and other trees were set out so well has this project thris thrived ved that the revenue from this forest in 16 years more will be very large because of the great depth of the pits steam shovel mining has hag had to be a abandoned bando ned tunnels now tap the various lenses of ore mined by the caving system notwithstanding the mines dous production ore reserves are still enormous rinal FINAL EFFORT TO BE MADE ON TI tire IE 30 CENTS TARIFF ON SILVER ILVER A group of congressmen with Sena senator pittman are planning to make a strenuous effort to retain the 30 cent tar tariff fr 0 on arn silver the mining west in general are praying they will succeed the chances ore are not very favorable but while there la is life there Is hope and we are all hoping STOCK SALES FOR FOP WEE WEEK K FRIDAY park city con 41 and park king 1000 ac park premier 1100 a east utah 1600 1500 new quincy 2500 a a 44 and SATURDAY new quincy 42 and park city con 1000 park utah pi and 2 75 silver king coalition 3 90 and MONDAY east utah 1800 0 15 1514 A and ift new quincy a 40 and 39 c park city con 1150 0 S 40 and park konold 1100 16 and ise park premier 27 and fcc silver king coalition park kins king 0 ac TUESDAY new quincy is a 39 find and park city con 1106 1100 park premier 2800 26 and aso park utah 2 05 65 and silver king coalition 1400 and east utah 1800 16 15 and park king 1000 0 ac WEDNESDAY new quincy 41 up to 46 c park city con 1500 35 md and park konold 1000 park premier 1000 silver king coalition 0 8 65 and east utah litah park king 1000 0 ac THURSDAY new quincy 0 45 46 down to park city con 1500 38 and park konold 1000 lac park premier 1000 a ac silver liver king coalition 9 00 east utah 15 c BACK ON THE JOB J J beeson general manager of the park city consolidated mines company lg is back from his els three weeks trip in california colorado and arizona he was use in park city last sunday to visit his property find and was wag much pleased with conditions generally to newspaper men mr beeson said a new hoist Is being installed on the level and preparations pa rations lons made to operate a skip in the 01 where ore developments are most a t encouraging CONTRACT FOR RAILROAD SPUR AWARDED the contract tor for building a spur from t the he turn of the U P and rio grande grandc high line in deer valley to the park continued on page four j mining matters T t 1 ar I ich 1 j 4 M 1 4 4 t continued from pago page one city ity consolidated property was awarded the first of 0 the week to the utah construction st company of salt lake city the work to be completed by july this year practically fill all the material Is on the ground and with settled weather work will be pushed ahead to completion encouraging NEWS FROM THE nowell HOWELL superintendent J W buck wail down from the howell property the first ot of tho the week the gentleman gave the information that the compressor at the tar baby property which has been tux fur dishing air for the howell Is now being moved to the mouth of the howell tu tunnel nel which will greatly facilitate development work mr buck k feels feela certain that the howell iiii will yet yet be be put in the producing does class end and that too in his bis opinion before the end of the year ho he reports conditions in the workings have improved very materially teri ally of late and ho he and his fellow workmen are enthused at present prospects I 1 NEW EW attracting considerable ATTENTION general manager andy hurley burley was in the park and inspected the N new ew quincy saturday last it the gentleman reported conditions as very favor favorable a ble and he be Is confident of a big productive future for the property the new quincy stock has been quite so active tivo on the salt lake exchange the past week at slightly increased prices slid and keen interest la Is manifested over present ore showings AT THE LOMER word from the mayflower tunnel this morning Is to the effect that the turn in tho the tunnel to the northwest Is about halt half done while the lace face la Is still belll in diot its ite tho the ground Is getting softer with heavy heavy iron coming in and conditions generally satisfactory to foreman gay AT THE PARK GALENA reports from the park galena this morning gives tho the information that conditions continue about the same as in last t week two cars or ore were marketed the past week with development going forward on the level and also on the lower levels regarding the report that tractors were going to be put in opera operation tiola from th the mine to keetley instead of teams mr pearce mcarce says teams will continue eta BS usual several propositions have been received from tractor people to haul the ore but for the present at least no change will be made TITE TIIE STAR OF UTAH superintendent fisher informed the record this morning that there was absolutely nothing now new to report from the property development Is going forward in the big tunnel with ell all possible speed and good footage being made SILVER EIB PLANNED press dispatches this morning me dg a bays ey a western senators and ci congressmen who bo had been hopeful of getting a tariff on silver notwithstanding the action of the house rejecting g the pittman amendment have abandoned hope they find that the senate cannot now amend the pittman amendment by imposing a compensatory tariff on manufactures of silver and without such modification the house would not agree to the 30 cent tariff on silver saver A counter suggestion has been made however that the united states follow the example of mexico and impose an embargo in bargo on silver until the period of depression has passed senator pittman of nevada suggested that suc such h an embargo would bo be effective but he maintains that the ene aliouse bouse should take the initial action in passing a resolution imposing the em cm bargo tor for in effect it Is a supplement to the tariff bill senator smoot in discus vy sing the embargo with senator Pitt mau V declared his approval ot of the I 1 idea dea ahlm ana an a offered to introduce the resolution I 1 0 bul buta pittman asked that the initiative be lett left 9 to the house fc a SHIPMENTS 1 park utah consolidated 51 sea tf silver king coalition new quincy park galena Z 0 00 00 0 total y |
