The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1913-10-14
decrease of 631 tons.

| Copper metal authorities are all
agreed that the producers report for
September will show further de-
crease in stocks in this country. Es-
Inmates place the decrease at from
0,O00,0O to 100000 pounds says
New York dispatch.
Production from the camp OF Park
City for the month of September ag-
gregated nearly 1000 tons of ore Of
an estimated aggregate valuation Of
s2SO,0O0. This compares favorable
with any month of the past nine
months of the present year.
From the east comes the regular
announcement Of 81 so dividend a
share to the stockholders Of the Cen.
tennial Eureka, the biggest mine in
| Tintic. This will make a distribution
of 100000 so far in 1918, and gives
the company a total dividend record
Of s3.9O0,OOO.
II is reported that prospects are
| good for the beginning of shipments
of ore from a district about twenty
miles east of Downey, Idaho. Min
ing has been carried on in the vicin-
ity for a dozen years with fair sue
cess. The Leaa Bell Is one OF the
principal properties.
The price of radium has been ad.
vanced $4,000 a gram because Of an
unprecedented demand for the prec-
| ious substance. Radum now is quo
ted at $4,000 gram, which means
pound of It would be valued at over
$52,0O0,OO0 II such quantity could
be amassed.
Productin Of gypsum in 1912 was
the greatest in the history Of the in
dustry, according to the United States
geological survey, the amount of gyp-
sum consumed being 2,5OO,757 short
tons. The value Of gypsum and gyp.
sum products was $6563, sos, an in
crease of $1O1,S73 over 1911.
Utah Consolidated directors are ex-
pected to meet some time within
the near future and declare a quar-
terly dividend of so cents share.
says George L. Walker in his week
ly letter. During the first six months
of this year the company earned
81. 25 and paid 81 in dividends on its
stock.
or the ten sets of leasers on the
Rochester Mines company at Roch-
ester, Nevada, four are shipping and
four others are sacking ore. The
camps present production is about
1000 tons daily and 1t should aver
age $50 up to $3.50 ton The poDu.
alton of the camp has settled down
to about 700 people.
While no anthony was produced
in the United States last year from
domestic ore, considerable quantity
was saved in the form of antimon.
ial lead, which is obtained at the
smelters OF precious metals in the
course of their operations, and large
quantities of antimonial alloys are re-
covered from secondary sources.
The Silver King Is the most noted
mine in the vicinity of Superior, Ari.
zona. II was opened in 1876 and for
many years produced high grade sill
yer ore from a deposit of the form
commonly called by miners a chin.
ney.' The mine is now idle. The
production of the Silver King is var
iously reported as between $4,000 900
and $l5,000,OOO.
mining man who has just come
In from Rochester, Nevada, says that
values are growing richer with depth
on the Rochester Mines company. In
No. lease, the Big Four, he says
that there is now three feet of ore
in one place which has sampled as
high as 5000 a ton. The shipping
product from here has been running
about $50 to the ton in carload lots.
according to reports.
The numerous coal beds OF what Is
known as the Barber coal field, in
johnson county. Wyoming near Crazy
Woman and Powder creeks, are de-
scribed in short report Just issued
by the United States geological sur
vey. In the report an idea OF the i'm.
mense quantity Of coal underlying
this field may be gained from the es.
innate given that the area, which con.
sists Of seven townships, contains j.