Show AROUND THE RUNES NES duluth wires that high grade copper ore running 15 per cent has abeen found on the twelfth level of consolidated 1 the cresson consolidated gold mining ml milling company whisp whose drop erty ta Is in cripple crock colo has hai declared the regular monthly dividend of 10 16 cents a share directors of the alie greene cananda cananea copper last week declared ohp regular quarterly dividend 0 of f 2 a share it I 1 tre tills will bring tile the 1018 1918 dial deihls up to 8 9 a sharp D death e ta t h valley scotty Is now as for many years past ranching in the death vally valley region lie ile raises ahn cantaloupes ta watermelons water melons figs find and many alier abier things including peaches tind rind ne lre la Is said mild to have a big the independent coal Alit mining ting com coin auy chiy at Ro mont litiza installed a ne lie largo large tipple hippli built it a wash house N 4 feet and changed over t to electric afy tower lit in operating all parts or of tile the 1 iril nH about ro more men inen ill III be pin ein and the output of coal largely hinitch bcd mining operations in ili the district of park I 1 city jy these days aro up against if I 1 when it conies canies to paying the camp 4 isett when att 0 O it if it is ott on bustness n the town lias has licen been quarantined every hatry man mail from the gutride Is met at tl tle gates and politely but firmly told t to go buck beck captain 13 J llad dati president and general manager of the standard mining company tills lias made emphatic dental denial of a rumor that lias has been persistently circulated A 6 the effect that the stant standard lara company was negotiating for the control of tile the ureka lilly stock the agency or agencies of tile government erni nent to make effective the provisions of the so called war minerals bills carrying for far the expenditure pend iture of will be determined only when the president sees fit to make the designation which the i bill leaves to ills his discretion minority stockholders of the old baunta tire are considering ways of mak ing some sort or of a reasonable settlement of tiro the knotty rase case it Is under that overtures have been made to them irom from the 14 majority n ajo rity one of these Is said sat to have been a plan whereby it till ll 11 indebtedness would be cleared up tip and perhaps operations re fumed at tile alta mine raymond T baker director of mints who was in reno ileno for a short visit last week announced that a rile meeting etIng of assayers of the mints in ili tile west will be be hell heid in carson city na as soon as the influenza epidemic Is over at tile the meeting lie be expects to take up tip some soine matters of great importance to the mints and to the mine operators of tile west est but the gold situation will all not 19 touched upon lie said TI hie ae I 1 united states supreme court ins has before lievore it the petit petition loll of the Allne minerals rals separation north american corporation for foi awalt a wilt of certiorari lit in its case agit dinst the butte superior mining company before the end of tills this month a decision should be made as ag to whether the court will permit a reopening op enig of the case cae upon this decision will wili depend the operation of f flotation patents intents controlled by tw the minerals company some people talk about the apri pi ice ce for foi goldbring gold being fixed as though that were ere an arbitrary act of some government or governments hah which can abbl altai anital the fixation fl atlon the hie value of gold Is what it will buy there 1 Is 13 vo 10 price pi ice for gold find and no fixation sov so creiggs find dollars are aie li names allies coi eor responding corresponding to certain quantities s of gold the alteration of of those names would mould not affect allY an j thing says the Egine cring and mining journal the unav ida company lina hits seemed secured about a thousand acres of land along the old carson river in nevada ne idi it in tile the balmy days of alie old coin comstock stock mines there were ere many liue huge reduction mills strung ill up and flown domi tills this stream they nie 1110 declared led jec ired lared to halve hae treated enny hundreds of millions of collais dol lais of if ore fr filin ail va ta a p lieno ninal old co stocks in that da lay tile process used was crude and it heavy percentage of lie he gold and silver along alth tile passed off into tho th tal tailings lings town down the river it Is the purpose of the JT nevada company to scoop up tip and mill these old tailings tal linga at the property of the Al mining liling coin company pany which has large holdings fit at the once famous camp of un donville lon ville nev president Preside ift J A reports some sensational and highly encouraging developments in the pening opening up of a rich streak oi of high grada fiade gold ore big horn where utah people ire are managing the utah wyoming consolidated oil company of affairs fairs Is not the only gas field in that state displaying wonderful potentialities pat ell biall tips the utah wyoming has four gas wells each es eg 4 at cubic feet to many that amount of gas a lay day but over in ili thebie sand draw section they now have a whopper estimated at 1 although tin ore Is rare in the great western states yet pie the spectacular rise from crom 15 to 20 cents a pound in in pre wartimes up to 1 a pound now has haa stimulated the search for mines embracing tin values according to a boston journal there Is a a wide divergence of opinion among copper men inen as to the course of the red metal after the war the argument of those who favor rising prices and increased creased Ir demand Is no less convincing than that of those who predict de dining cliniak u q notations doni and it surplus of the |