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Show VINES AND MINING Tho Swansea Mining company has paid $324,500 In dividends to dato, Tho Red Elephant at Bullion, Idaho, 1b working 20 men nnd It has sent ft good lot of mineral to market. Active development work on tho Red Coppor mines, at Irish mountain, moun-tain, a few miles dlstnnt from Hlko, Nev., will bo commenced at once. An old producer of rich oro In Beaver county now showing signs of being ono of the liveliest kinds of producing pro-ducing mines, is tho Atlas group. An artesian well Is being sunk In the flat about a mllo and n halt north ot tho old town of Grecnwntcr, and they aro down to tho 200-foot mark In the BOlld. A syndicate of Ivogan mining mon has purchased a controlling interest in tho Mnbol Gold Mining company with properties In the lllack llorso mining district. Tho Dollarhldo company's operations opera-tions at tho head of Warm Springs creek, In Idaho, havo closed for tho winter, pending tho Installation of additional ad-ditional milling facilities, The Idaho Consolidated Mining company com-pany Is building u now shaft houso and hoist on tho "Relief," which adjoins ad-joins the Minnlo Moore, ut Halley, Idaho, and will sink 1,000 feet. Tho Ycrlngton Central Copper company, com-pany, adjoining tho great Ludwlg and tho Nevada-Douglas properties nt Yer-ington, Yer-ington, will soon bo In tho limelight as a producur of the ,rcd metal. During tho year there havo been shipped about 200 cars of mineral from tho mines of Wood river district in Idaho, and several more will bo slilppo before tho close of tho year. Indications are that Utah Consolidated Consoli-dated Mining company will abandon its Highland Roy smelter near Murray, Mur-ray, building an entirely now plant at some point where thcro will bo no damage from smelter sraoko. Old Montezuma, famed for years aa a sliver camp, producing oro as rich as tho Comstock In the early days, promises to develop Into n copper bonanza, bo-nanza, thus adding another producer ot tho red metal to Nevada's list. A deal Is now In progress which may result In making Ely a. great gold camp, Mark L. Requa having bo-gun bo-gun negotiations for tho Peacock group of gold claims and adjoining properties, proper-ties, six miles from Ely ncroBS tho Steptoo valley. A mining engineer who Inspected the properties of tho Dfcck Tunnel and Colorado companies at Tlntlc laat week Bays thnt these are destined to lead tho camp and Impart greater confidence con-fidence In the development of tho Go-diva Go-diva lime belt. Tho Croesus mine, three and a half miles west of Halley, Idaho In tho dlo-rlto dlo-rlto formation, was started up a couple of months ago with a force of 25 men, nnd Its 10-stamp mill hat) been in steady operation over a month with good results. Tho Laroso mlno, whoso stock Is soiling at a price which gives It a valuation of seven and a half millions, mil-lions, has the only shaft of any depth In the Cobalt district, and It is down only 300 feet. It shows that the values continue to that depth at least. A rich strlko has been made on tho St. Ives at Goldfleld, Nevada. It Is owned by a company of tho samo name, nnd It .Joins the Jumbo on the east. It Ib over a mile Bouth and cast ot tho only Mohawk. It has been a shipper for tho laat three years. At tho Nay Aug mine on Deep creek, in Idnho, a crew of 25 men la at work developing and stoplng ore. Several carloads of high grade ore has been shipped tho past soason. Since August n second new oro shoot has been discovered that Is entirely Independent of tho other resources of tho mlno. Tho Utah mlno of Fish Springs last week emphasized Its right to bo considered ono of Utah's most generous mining organizations by declaring de-claring tho rogular dividend of three cents per sharo, and a Christmas dividend di-vidend of flvo cdnts a sharo. This makes a total for tho present month of $8,000. Some llttlo excltomont was caused In Utah mining circles last wcok by tho report that tho La Plata Mlnlnj, company had struck It at last. Tho company has done nearly 2,000 feet ot tunneling und tho report Is that It hns recently encountered a big oro body. One can hnidly concelvo of n silver mlno valued at thirty millions of dollars dol-lars which has neither shaft nor tunnel, tun-nel, but that Is truo of the Niplsslnp.. Tho veins so for hove till been exposed ex-posed by open cuts Olio of these, however, Is 400 feet long and from 18 to 25 feet deep. Charles Kuudhorg, muitagor of tho Imperial Mining company's mines at Cherry Creek, Nov., ono of tho Cannon Can-non Mines association, was In Salt Lake City lost week to purchase an olghty-horso power engine, n flvo drill air compressor nnd a forty-five horse power hoist. Seven Troughs, Nov., hns entered an era of activity unprecedented In tho annnls of Nevada mining s the ro-suit ro-suit of u series of strikes and disclosures dis-closures near the grass roots and do-I'vclopmcnts do-I'vclopmcnts In a score of claims thnt have aroused the vicle neighboring country out of Its Ion? sleep |