Show AROUND THE MINES machine drills have hav e b been cen started in the face of the earl eagle tunnel in american fork district and progress la Is being made at the rate of seven feet a day the now new ro asters for the milling company at silver city utah are helps installed these will increase the capacity of the plant to toza of ore a day A process tor for treating smelter fumes for the elimination of sulfur dioxide and the recovery of volatile metallic values has bas been patented by a salt lake man in the american fork district in utah the boley is pushing down its new shaft with considerable speed and the work is being pushed with the expectation of getting results before the snow flies files the new power drills enable the big cottonwood cons consolidated olid atea tunnel to progress at the rate of 0 eight feet a day w with ith two shifts nor working king as compared with eight inches a day when the work was waa by hand band it is reported from mcgill nev that the plant of the nevada consolidated is being repaired with a view to increasing both its efficiency and its capacity during july the mill treated on an average of tons daily word from the arrowhead property in western iron county utah is that thirty five tons of ore is out and ready for shipment lulf of it samples up to 40 per cent lead and the other halt 20 per cent lead the ore carries a little silver according to a boston authority the technical position ot of the copper metal could not well be stronger in any other line of industry so small a surplus of material in the hands of producers as aa now exists would cause alarming anxieties with the dividend checks for the extra dividend of 0 10 cents a shabe share paid on august 10 the general manager of the yellow pine mining company at good springs nev says that during june the company made a not net profit of it Is understood that during the past month the wilbert mining com banys mill was operated only fifteen days due to the shortage of ore this idaho property has paid out three or four cent dividends in the past year or so or about five carloads of test ore are reported out from the walker mining com banys property in plumas county 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 of deliverable copper in hands of re finers or less than a weeks supply at the current rate of refinery output pounds a month it is announced avat th at the manazer manager of the pittsburg idaho has been east having the stock listed on both the new york and boston curbs he is expected home soon and it is understood that a dividend may be expected shortly it is said that the company jias has more than cash on hand three properties are now active in one section of north tintic the lehi gintic tintic tintic gintic delmar and tile the eureka king this Is a little north of 0 where the chief consolidated has begun a systematic development of its large new possessions running well up and surrounding some of the named properties between airty five and fifty feet per day Is the rate at which the diamond drilling is being done jointly by the emma copper mining alining company and the old emma leasing company on the properties in the little cottonwood district in search of the ore bodies lost when the montezuma Moate zuma fault was encountered based on the preliminary periods from the mines of utah for the first six months of the year the total output for 1916 will break all former records there will be a decided increase in the production of silver lead copper and zinc it is not believed that the production 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 is today on a paper basis germany has commanded the gold from the peoples pockets to the banks vaults russia has done practically the same jamef france has haa requested it and england has relied upon patriotism to accomplish its purpose word received from the fortuna gold queen is that the shaft work has attained the foot level it will b be e carried domn dawn to the level before cross cutting tor for the vein the shaft started down on a large vein the values were spotty aprils high record of oo pounds of copper sold bids fair to be eclipsed in m august according to ad vices from new york and boston where it la is predicted that the august figures will be nearer than the april amounts amount the american need tor for a hibst substance ance commonly known as rain eral was w has heretofore been largely met by imports from the mines in gallela Gall cla austria but ag as the war in europe has seriously affected ocean transportation interest in the dome domestic supply ot at this material has been stimulated the total quantity of crude petre te leum entering the worlds markets in 1915 which amounted to barrels exceeds the former record established in 1914 by 07 barbala bar rala or der cant |