Show AROUND UE THE MIES production of the mines ofTon of tonopah opah the past week totaled tons valued at now new machinery for tho the reeds peak will be installed in about ten days the adit Is now in feet t with a fissure 80 feet ahead with the intention of inspecting emma copper charles S herzig consulting engineer of new york city author of mine aline sample values was wai in alta last week directors of the sells mining company hold held a special meeting at salt lake last week a reorganization took place and ana the number of directors was increased from five to seven the strike made recently on the now new quincy property located in tho the park park city utah district continues to improve both in values and in extent as the development work progresses the manager of the Lake lakeview view mining alining company reports three now new ore disclosures in the promontory prop erty A new foot tunnel to be 2000 feet ultimately ultimate ly Is being pushed to secure 1200 feet of depth officials of the hope mines development company which Is operating the mine at sonora cal have issued a report from march 1 1916 1915 to december 31 1915 showing total receipts of 0 and cash on hand 14 64 54 Pro probably bally not less than fourt fourteen een different properties are now active in the american fork district in utah with to men in the camp while in the next thirty to sixty days the number of active groups will be increased to about twenty five utah prospectors claim to have discovered a real mine in the grand can yon they claim that the ore carries values of per ton in gold silver and copper and that they can get it carried out of 0 the gorge for a cent and a halt half a pound work has been resumed in the blacksmith fork subsidiary property of the Lake lakeview view volunteer mining company according to frank jardine Jard lne manager who has returned from th tho cache county property the holding in that canyon adjoin the old nielson Nl elson work has just gotten a good start on the king david property in deaver beaver county utah the king david force of 0 men had preliminary trouble as some miscreants had dropped both cakes to the bottom of the foot shaft however the shaft Is now in excellent operating order it is reported that peter miller the hief chief factor in the personal work on which the fissures development company which has a ten years lease on the pacific property in american fork canyon has sold out his interests to mr dilloway and associates of boston for reports that the gold chain of tintie may resume dividend payments in june are moving about again and it is said that the treasury now contains approximately it Is reported that the ore forwarded these days carries about an average of 25 a ton but ranges between 15 and 40 a ton A prominent mining man of salt lake who has just returned from nevada says that everything is looking good out there and that high metals have stimulated nevada mining men to a high pitch not experienced in many years the whole state Is as active as a beehive on the first real warm spring day an ore testing plant consisting ot of a crusher set of rolls wilfley table and an engine has been installed by the nevada scheelite company on its property at minerva nevada to enable it to keep in close touch with the average values of the ore that are be boing in worked on according to director dilloway ot of the utah 1 metal tunnel company who was in salt lake last wee week k after having made an inspection of the bingham bangham mine the company now has od on hand upwards of and is earning more anan a month dividends are expected to start in july representing very largely the increased operations of the copper corporation shipments of copper from alaska to the united states in the eight months to the end of february amounted to pounds this wasa was a gain of more than per cent over the corresponding period of the preceding year united states smelting smelling Sm elting earned for the first four months of this year close to april showing well over partially estimating may and june net profits for the first halt year are expected to touch the production of silver in the central states Is always relatively unimportant por tant the output in 1915 amounted to ounces valued at of which ounces was derived from copper mines in Alic michigan bIgan A report from park city is that the ore in the new strike at the quincy tested out carried 35 to 40 a ton mainly in silver and lead one report Is that the ore shows ten feet and no wall another that it has been opened eighteen feet coal mines in the alawa hiawatha that morland and black hawk districts in utah ha have ve been operating at least three days each week to enable coati coal miners to earn a livelihood report sJ E pettit state coal mine inspector who has returned from a tour of carbon and emery counties laie late reports from the old day dris tol mine near be nev which Is now being operated by the uvada cop per company are that the prod production action Is being maintained and that it wl will be increased just ai as soon as more miners can be hired |