Show AROUND THE MINES machine drills have been started la in th the eface face of the marl earl eagle tunnel in american fork district and progress ta is being made atthe at the rate of seven feet A day the new ro asters tor for the mill ing company at silver city utah are ara being lp installed stalled these will I 1 increase crease the capacity of the plant to 30 0 tons ot of are ore a day A process procesa for I 1 treating s smelter metter fumes for the elimination of sulfur dioxide and the reco recovery very of volatile metallic values es has keen been patented by salt lake lake ma man n in the american fork district in utah the boley la Is pushing down its new shaft with considerable an and d the work Is being pushed w with ith the expectation ot of getting results before ther the snow flies files i I 1 r the new power drills enable the big cottonwood consolidated tunnel to progress at the rate of eight feet a day with jo J o shafts working as com coin pared with eight inches a day when the work was by hand it la Is reported from McGl ll nev that the oe P plant larit ot of the nevada consolidated I 1 Is being repaired rep alred with a view to increasing coeds eg 7 oth its and afif pacay during july the mill treated on win an average t tons dally daily ingord word from the Arrowhead property in western iron ron county utah mail Is that thorf thirty five tons of ore Is out and ready sor for shipment half of it samples up to 40 per cent lead and the other half 20 per cent lead tho the ore carries GL a little littie silver according to a boston authority the technical position ot of the copper metal could not well ie stronger in any other line of industry so small a surplus of material in the hands of producers as now exists would cause causa alarming anxieties with the dividend checks fo tor r the extra dividend of 10 cents a share paid on august 10 16 the general mali manager of the yellow pine mining company at good springs nev says that during june the company made mada a net profit of nf it Is understood that during the past month the wilbert mining com banys mill wai was obe operated rated only fifteen days this due to the shortage of ore this idaho property has paid out three or four cent dividends in the past year or so ar or about fave Five carloads of test ore are reports report ed out from the walker mining com banys pit property perty in plumas co county tinty cal all forwarded to the international smelter at tooele thoele the new mill is now operating and is expected to handle all this ore the larger producers of copper have compiled figures showing that on august 1 there was only pounds bounds of deliverable copper in hands of refinery refiners re finers or less than a weeks sup ply at the current rate of refinery output pounds a month it is announced that the manager of the pittsburg idaho has been east having the stock listed on both the new york and boston curbs he la 16 expected home soon and it Is undy under stood strod that a dividend may be bb expected shortly it Is said that the company ha has 1 s more than cash on hand three properties are now active in one section of north gintic tintic the lehl lehi delmar and the eureka re ka king this Is a little north of wh where i re the chief consolidated has begun il a systematic development of its large new possessions running well up U and surrounding some ot of toe named properties between forty five and fifty feet per dayis day Is th the rate rafe at which the dla dia biond drilling Is being jone done jointly by bi tie the emma copper mining company and the old emma leasing company on th the properties in the little cottonwood district in search of the ore bodies lost when the montezuma fault was encountered based on the preliminary periods from the mines of utah tor for the first six months of the year the total out put p ut for 1916 will break all former r rw there will be a decided increase in the production of 0 silver lead copper and zinc it is not believed that the tha production ot of gold will be increased to any great extent an eastern statistician has figured it out that the fundamental reason why silver must advance Is because europe it Is today toda on a paper basis germany hash has commanded the gold from the peoples pockets to the banks vaults russia has done practically the same france has requested it and england has relied upon patriotism to accomplish its purpose word received from the fortuna i gold queen Is that the shaft work ork has attained the toot foot level it will be carried down to the level leel before cross cutting for the vein the shaft started down on a large vein where the values were spotty aprils high record of pounds of copper sold bids fair to be eclipsed in august according to ad vices ices from new york and boston where it is predicted that the august figures will be nearer pounds than the april amount the american need for a substance commonly known as mineral wax has heretofore been largely met by imports from the mines ta la galicia Gall cla austria but as the war in europe has seriously affected ocean ti interest in the domestic supply of this material has been stimulated 0 the total quantity ot of crude petroleum entering the worlds markets in 1915 which amounted to barrels I 1 exceeds the former r record ec rd e established sta bit shed in 1814 1914 by 2119 bar barrale rals or aper 7 per cent |