Show AROUND THE ME T MINES green cananea cananda mines in mexico havo have been shut down A director of the inspiration copper company says it is now producing tit at the rate of pounds copper annually granby consolidated has declared its quarterly dividend of 2 payable august 1 to stock of july 14 an in crease of 50 cents a share production Product iod of coal in wyoming in 1916 1915 was short tons an increase of tons or more than 1 per cent as compared with 1914 two prospectors a few days ago located located an enormous body of tung sten ore three and one half miles southwest of mount montgomery nevada and only one mile from the igou southern thern pacific tracks the anaconda Anft An conda standard says that men are now employed at the rocher do de boule mine in Ca canada canadas the production Is about 1600 1500 tons a month the bic ore will bo be shipped to the smelter at tacoma work lito Is to be resumed by the bull valley gold mines imenes company in washington county utah it was on this property where about five years ago 1600 gold ore was dlce vered on the surface in the camp now called gold strike atalka oro ore running 2440 24 40 in gold and 2938 in silver a total value of figuring silver at 65 cents an ounce was waa discovered last week on sunflower hill the property of the Ro rochester rochette cheate r merger mines company at rochester nevada nevada consolidated is said to b be producing now atthe at the rate of pounds pound of copper a year this is less than halt half that of th the utah eUtah copper it I 1 Is figured that the company in 1916 will earn near a shara on the outstanding aock abe 11 he united states will within the coming year be pro producing du cl ng more than tons of zinc annually shelters smelters Sm elters which depend on the f foreign ores are sending mining engineers throughout the western fields field in the quest ot zinc ores and concentrates tom buell the successful mining man of round mountain clo sedia deal last week whereby he with tonopah associates take ovet over the property of the antimony king mines alne company located eight miles south of austin 8 says ays the ree reese be river reveille judging from his first inspection of the new sawtooth mining district in malla millard d county forty five miles southwest from oasis on the salt lake route L t Hol holbrook holbrooks brooka a well known salt lake mining man declares that it is his als opinion that it will make good gold sliver silver copper and tungsten de through throughout olt humboldt county continues strong in a quiet way the work of making mines progresses and results are proving the worth ot of the great northern nevada mine area and be speaking a prosperous ermis mine era while the production ot of ore from the wedge fissure at the south Gouth hecla Is being maintained at the daily rate of fifty to sixty tons yet inter interest est is centered keenly on the new strike recently made in the heart of the mine the ore is said to average 75 a ton arbetter or better rians plans are being perfected by bs engineers in salt lake and san francisco to generate electricity from the slack beds in the coal fields of utah within six weeks an experimental plant will wili be established at some point in carbon county where tests will ivill be conducted under all conditions managing director jackling last week sp spent ent some time in an inspection 10 of f the big porphyry mountain at af blag bing liani ham where about twenty steam shovels are now tearing down tons of ore dally daily besides the waste wasie and the company trains over the high line are traiN transporting porting most of the ore to the two mills near garfield reports just brought down from the albion are that the work from the quincy level is now prospecting what Is thought to be the greely fissure A force of gf men is both raising and drift ing at favorable points the ground is heavily mineralized while tile the drift is a following a streak of two to four inches of good commercial grades bupt supt S P F snyder of the C P tungsten company has come in from the idaho property with thirty two to sacks sacka of ore says the ahe salt lake her ald republican this makes in abbs sacks extracted so tar far this monah month A second veins vein of ore has been opened and a third is is anticipated A small amali mill in salt lake la is turning out a 60 per cent product wining mining companies throughout ut utah ah with the exception of the utah cop per company and the silver mines at park city and eureka were last week notified that shelters smelters sm elters ot of the intermountain country had more than they could do to smelt the ores which are being offered and that in the future not less than tons of ore a mo month nth would be accepted from the tha low grade mines work on the second unit of the potash as h plant at Marys valo utah Is progressing and it will begin operations within a short time development work has hag been rapidly pushed forward and the mines are being extended in im ill all directions the plant has been running to cipa capacity city since it was built following the recent strikes ot of high grade ore in the dugway mining district which is situated about severt seven ty miles west ot of faust utah a station on the salt lake route this district Is i ati lometing lm eting a great deal anal of attention I 1 |