Show AROUND THE MINES great activity continue continues in pig iron especially in the eastern territory where contracts were placed last week aggregating 60 tons the east and nor h ends of the tin tic district are at present in a very prosperous condition and new pros pacts are being developed weekly tintic district Is at present employ ing more men than was ever before employed in the camp and the same can be said of the adjoining camps of I 1 silver city mammoth and robinson for the first time in a year all of the butte mining companies are again operating to full capacity the dis triet Is producing copper at the rate of 28 00 to 30 pounds per month another attempt at saving gold from the black sand of the beaches Is to be made in califor california ia this t time rn the a et lort Is to be made on the beach sands of the big lagoon on the ocean shore in humboldt county the butte coalition mining corn com pany will almost double its production of ore this year over last minnie healy ground has proved very rich and the tramway has developed some veins of a valuable character with copper at 13 cents with the present dividend rate of afi 2 per shade with possible earnings on present cop per market of 3 35 per share amalga mated at 85 or thereabouts Is an abom aly says the boston news bureau an ore body which has all the ear marks of developing into one of the biggest things discovered in beaver county in recent years la Is now being fathomed on the floraot toot level of the cedar talisman company s properties the net profits of the montgomery shoshone mining company for the first six months of the year 1909 were representing about 50 per cent of the grose gross receipts of the mill ing operations says the rhyolite her aid while drilling tor for oil one and a halt miles south of florence colo em of the union oil company last week struck a gusher of sufficient power to throw mud to the top of a derrick seventy five feet high the well la is now 2 feet and Is flowing treely freely the cole ryan people are organizing a company to take over several prom ising gold and silver properties in the ocampo chihuahua district of mexico the new now company will be known as the sierra consolidated mines corn coin pany it will be capitalized for shares par 10 hugh cole enjoys the distinction of being the only shipper from the hamilton nevada district during the summer prom from practically virgin ground on the north side of white pine mountain mr coyle has been sending a fine quality of ore to the smelters at salt lake the famous wild bill property ten miles northwest of milford lg Is to be opened up by matt cullen of salt lake who has owned it since some time in the A force of men is 1 at work preparing tor for the installing of a hoist and compressor plant and the mine Is 1 to be worked at depth A well known mining man who 1 Is critical and cold blooded in his judg ment of mine showings was admitted to the iron blossom Blo soni workings a few days ago says the sail gal lake herald his report is that while the ore in III the so ith end of the north workings Is low grade there Is a great quantity of it the advance of 1 cent a pound of the tariff on zinc contained in ores made by the new tariff law should operate to increase not a little the production of zinc mines of good springs district according to H hardy former sheriff of salt lake county who is now operating at good springs senator kearns and his associates have hane the inmost confidence in the north end of the district t as shown by the action of the officials ot of the company authorizing manager J C sullivan to install diamond drills and to proceed to explore ane ground a distance ot of 10 1 00 feet below the hot torn tom of the shaft something distinctly new n tho form of a six inch streak of ore which gives assay returns of 16 22 per cent copper in addition to 32 4 per cent lead and 14 64 ounces in silver and 1 60 in gold nas been encountered in the bottom of the from the toot foot level of the pioche metals c corn OM pany a point mine the old morgan mill at empire ne vada Is being demolished and soon nothing but the old foundations will marl the spot of the forty stamp mill that ground out the major portion of wealth of mackay tair kair cirod 1 wod and 0 brien for years the mill ground upon the richest ores of the comstock and tons per day was the average crushing the shaft in the rancher faucher and smith lease on the stimler ground at george georges s canyon has been sunk through a barren streak and Is again in excellent ore according to late arrivals from the camp the whole shaft is now in quartz that pans well ettfer espos expos exposing ing five feet of rich copper ore the new shaft on the keane wonder property at tonopah nevada has again brol en into tree free milling gold quartz the copper aul sul ph ides having been en entirely tirel displaced by the same character of quartz on which the balt was started the second strike has been made in the atlanta group in goldfield in which something like had been expended by owners and leasers teasers without result until a body of pay ore was encountered a few weeks ago in one ot of the leases |