The Citizen. [volume] (American Fork, Utah) 1903-1912, 1912-08-17
AROUND THE MINES

ords.
Barry-Coxe on Scott hill, Park City,
Utah, is now mining eight to ten tons
OF ore day. or about Ave carloads
every thirty days.
Ore shipments from the Park City
district for the week just ended
amounted to total OF 2,500.6
pounds. valued at approximately
$4,000.
A new shoot OF very fine ore opened
up on the thirteenth level of the Bel
mont mine at Tonopah. The Shaft
vein on the eleventh level also show.
, Ing a good body of fine ore
Gold Circle. in northern Nevada, Is
, right now in very critical stage OF
Its existence, with number Of i'm
portant deals pending which may
prove of inestimable benefit to the
, camp.
, Ore shipments from the Tintic dis
trict for the past week again came
close to the record week In the fore
part OF March, when 205 carloads
were shipped. The last weeks total
was 1877 cars.
1Ut UTuuuCtlOu VI DOFtN III lSll wan
the largest In the history of the
United States, except that for 1906.
when the output was 6S,173 short
tons. but the value of the production
In 1911 was greater.
Recent discovery of large bodies OF
tungsten and bismuth ores In the
western part of Utah il one of tho
most convincing evidences of the won
derful mineral possibilities of that
section of the state.
| A most excellent report is to hand
this week from both the Belmont mill
| and mine the latter developing mos,
| satisfactorily on all levels and espec.
| tally in the deepest workings of the
| property, says the Tonopah Miner.
| II is reported that some OF the old
| Stag dumps In the vicinity OF Stock-
| ton have been carefully sampled this
| summer and that several OF them nave
| been found TO contain sufficient values
| to make them profitable TO ship to tho
| nearby shelters.
Whether the interests of Utah mine
| owners and operators can best be
| served through the American Mining
| congress or through new organiza-
| ton OF mining men was discussed ut
meeting at the Salt Lake CONNER
| cial club last week.
| The superintendent OF the Yankee
Consolidated reports that several car
loads OF zinc ore have been extracted
| and that more Is in sight. The new
rate OF 81 80 n ton from camp to tho
/ II. L.. .t.sl.
the search for this metal
Since paying the first dividend OF
25 cents share. amounting TO $751;
500. In 1893, the yearly amount dis
tributed by the Silver King at ParK
City was steadily increased until In
1901 Il reached 81 100000. which was
maintained for four years.
! Indications once more are favorable
Y for a road to Contact. judging from
The personnel OF a crowd OF Western
Pacific officials who recently made q
trip by automobile from Wells up
through that big copper district and
on into the Twin Falls country.
II Is given out that since July n
the Rico Wellington has shipped $685.
500 In ore. This totals $50 tons, which
nets the company about $50 ton.
The company Is said 10 have recently
= entered into "A contract for market
o. Ing 1000 tons of Its $50 zinc ore at
no Hlende, Colo.
~ According to the United States geo.
N, logical survey there was considerable
% Increase In the production OF borax
iy In the United States In 1911 over that
AT 1910, the output for last year being
no ,f So $3.50 short tons, valued at 1863.
10 l5i, as compared with i2.3b7 tons In
1910. valued at $l,2Ol ,Si2.
- The operations OF the Bingham n
I Garfield railway during the past quar-
ter were very satisfactory In every
respect An average of lO,2O3 tons
Of ore per day were hauled. all from
the mines to the mills. for the period
As compared with 1910 tons per day
for the previous quarter.
Chino is making remarkable prog
ress and July marks another great
stride In its production OF copper, the
output for this month aggregating 3,
100000 pounds Of copper, approximate
II ly double that OF the preceding
Il month, June, when $4,000 pounds OF
"A the mental were outputted
N twenty-five thousand dollars In one
~ chunk was juggled around and han
II died at the Boise assay office last
"a week. The chunk was one or the
IN biggest bars OF gold received at the
VA local office In some time, and II came
III from an Idaho placer mine, The bricl
was reasonably pure and assayet
around 81 to the ounce
:. During the first seven months OF the
a o present year i2i American mines ant
W metallurgical works, according to fig
-" ures compiled by Mining and Engi
1, neering World. participated in divi
-. dend disbursements totaling S53
~, 1877, 6S5, which with the slO.s2l,O25
o., dIsbursed by securities holding cor
w. porations brings the total for the pc
nc rlod to s63.7i7.5ll
Showing a production OF 2s,372.03'
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