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Show r HOES AND MINING Tho Ttosedals Mining company is considering soveral propositions look. Ing to '.the erection ot .a concentrating plant for tho property in Nevada. lit Is nnnouncod that some strong financial talent 1b preparing to Btart work on tho oil fields .that aro said to oxlst a short dtstanco from Fillmore, Utah. Dick Colbum, who mado tho lied Top mine in Qoldfleld, has bought tho interest of Secretary J. P. Kano In tho Red Top mlno nt Manhattan, and now owns control. That no smoking ho allowed bcWnd tho rail )f tho local exchango during tho regular call, is a tlmo-honored custom cus-tom religiously adhered to by ,tho brokers of Salt Lako. A prospectar frcm Rosebud says that an eight-foot lodge of average $100 ore has been tapped on tho Whlto Alps group, recently purchased by Gobs brothers of Suit Lake. From tho first of February to tho first t)f Juno tho Goldftold Consolidated Consolidat-ed accomplished 3871 linear feet ot drifts, cross-cuts, upraises and. shafts and 61,008 cubic feet of. stoplng. Thoro is greater mining activity In the' eastern end of Heaver county, at this time, than ever before known, and tho properties being developed are showing up most encouragingly. John Hays Hammond, tho mining engineer of New York, rccolves a salary sal-ary aggregating $800,000 a year, which Is more money than any other man over received for his personal services. Tho treasury department on tue 14th purchased 100,000 ounces of silver sil-ver for delivery at San Francisco, at C7.1C cents per ounce, and also 100.00U ounces for delivery at Philadelphia, at G7.27. Tho tunnel that is cro&scutting the country on tho property of tho Old Glory company In tho Silver Island district ot Utah, has encountered an eighteen-foot streak of very rich silver sil-ver and lead ore. Tho Salt Lalio valley smelters aro making every effort to do away with the umoko nuisance, and aro spending spend-ing fortunes in the Installation of new devices which i are expected to solve tho problem. The balance of tho machinery for the Montgimcry Shoshono mill has at last been shipped, says tho Rhyollto Herald. Much of tills was promised in ninety days after the order was put In, six months ago. A station is being cut on the S00-foot S00-foot level of tho Shoshono, ut Rhyo-lite, Rhyo-lite, Nevada, nnd about 150 tons of ore per week aro being taken from tho dump, louded directly on tho cars and shipped to tho smelters. At tho Wld Irish, In Gold Springs district, tho development work being done goes to hIiow that tho mlno Is about one of the biggest things In Utah. Gold iu its free stato is liter-nlly liter-nlly plastered over somo of tho rock being mined. The Ontario group of mines, sltu ated on Iioylo mountain, fourteen miles west of Ketcuum, have bcon Bold to n company ot eastern capitalists, capital-ists, which will organlzo a corporation corpora-tion to ho known as tho Doston-Idaho Mining company. L. Laudie, secretary of the Electric Traction company of Mercur, Utah, visited tho Clipper mines near Halley, Idaho, In which ho Is Interested, recently. re-cently. Ho was so well pleased with tho appearance of tho property that ho secured an option upon nil tho outstanding stock, about 7G.000 out of the 100,000 shares. Cathodo copper Ib exceedingly puro, usually about 09.03 per cent copper, with hydrogen us tho chief Impurity, say thu Engineering nnd Mining Journal. Objectionable cathodo Impurities Im-purities nro two classes thoso which doprehs tho electrical conductivity and thoso which make the metal brittle. A mining euglnoer who haB Just returned re-turned from tho Cobalt camp is authority au-thority for tho statement that thu work now going on In thnt district is being carried out along scientific nnd practical lines, with tho result that moro Is being accomplished in the way of developing the ore bodies than over before. Tho old Dyer copper, mine, in Ulntahcounty, Utah, which hnB produced pro-duced a great deal of copper bullion from a small amelter that was built yours ago to treat ttio oro on tho ground, nnd which haB slnco had muny lips' nnd downs, has, for the second sec-ond tltuo In its history, again passed into tho hands of Jnineu C. Gates ot Milwaukee Thu Hlgglnsan leuso on tho Jumbo Extension has opened up another body of hlgh-grado oro, tho ussny running its high us C,1 C( a ton, miyt tho Goldfleld Nows. Tho vein was first encountered twelvo feet from tho shaft lu the south drift, Tho Utuh Sulphur company, near Covo Fort, on Pino creek, eighteen mlk's north of Heaver, Utah, has n largo force of men at work and regular regu-lar shipments of sulphur nro being made. These are Bald to b'u. among t,bo. largest sulphur .bD;ls In ,tho co'uu- . |