Show AROUND THE MINES production of the mines of tono mah for the past week totaled tons estimated at miami copper produced pounds po linds coppella copper cop perla Jn march against in february and in january news newa comes from the leonora of beaver county utah that both calcite and manganese are showing in the north drift which Is approaching the east west dike advance of approximately 4 cents a pound in price of silver will increase revenues of copper mining companies who produce bulk of stiver silver obtained in the united states stales what appears to be a commercial body of silver lead ore has been struck on the leamington leavington Lea mining companas comp anys property located in the foothills LL a fow few miles east of leavington leamington Lea station in utah it Is reported from chloride ariz that utah men in the keystone consolidated soli coli dated have a fair chance of making good in this property there Is a shaft down feet and 1200 tons of codi commercial mercial ore on the stock pile directors of tho the mammoth mining fl ning company met last week and declared ta a dividend of this amounts to tb 5 cents a share this distribution YUI will bring the old mine company dividends up to a total of directors of the united states smelting smelling Sm elting refining mining company last week posted a dividend of 1 a share or 1 per cent on the common stock this is an advance of 75 cents a quarter but Is not quite what was expected j it Is expected that the new suli sul i plant which the garfield cheal cal manufacturing company Is con strutting ting near garfield will have a ton dally daily capacity the plant will probable be in operation some time la in august gintic tintic mines during the month of march produced a total of carloads of ore 01 e shipped to the neighboring sin shelters smelters sm elters this output is estimated i at tons and valued at I 1 at this rate the camps production for 1916 should amount to approximately from beaver county utah cornea comes the report that the sum of was recently paid to william pearson as final payment on the fortuna gold queen this property was taken over by R H strickland B F caffey and salt lake associates on a bond and lease according to theP the foche record the consolidated nevada utah mill is nearing completion and probably the initial tryout try out will be made sometime next week the transmission machinery Is sall all in place but some delay has bene experienced in the of the belting tobe to be used in the plant the croft croff at beaver utah now lias has its lucky boy shaft down to the level it is probable that a drift wll wilbe be sent into the vein at this additional dit ional depth the gasoline engine will be used until the electricity is hooked up which will be directly then it is expected to push the work recent tests testa of the estimated tons in the old tailings dumps of the prince consolidated gave the following average assay lead 67 per cent gold 11 ounces sliver silver ounces it Is the expectation of the management to havethe have the old mill building remodeled andade and the new machinery treating the dumps by july ore shipments from the mines of park city last week totaled 1193 3 tons estimated at ai 45 ODO this Is compared with 1184 tons the previous week the tha production of the camp for the smon imon march totaled tons es sti estimated mated at this Is compared with tons in february and afons in january sales on the salt lake mining exchange the past week showed an increase of nearly per cent compared with the previous six days trading which of itself was considered excellent the increase Is in roun round d numbers or from to more than two of the days were the heaviest in seven years stock of the logger mining company was vw listed on the salt lake exchange e last week the statement shows NO shares of I 1 cent per value oj or capitalization the treasury contains shares and lu in cash the property consists of eleven claims loc located abed in big cot it onwood district fifteen miles from a railroad rall road two oil wells are being drilled at tG tyrants rants on the western pacific and tools and machinery for the drilling of tour four more wells are arc on the ground the work of boring for oil at grants js ils being conducted as secretly ak as possible and those in charge of the operations will give out in no information concerning who Is behind the operations br what Is being adne the west tintic section seems to be coming to the front and mining men are anticipating considerable activity during the coming summer on ground which has been for many years idle judging from the results of dividends declared in the first three months of 1916 by utah mining corn com danles ip anies the total distributions tor for the while it reached a record last year ot of than during the first tor ter of the present year the utah mines have distributed a total of prom from provo came word last week of the preliminary steps that have been taken toward the consolidation cf oft tho fco colorado sand and beek bebb tunnel min laag properties in this will give ro a north norih south belt ot of mineral ground of more than a mile L |