Show MINES HINES A AND MINING three of lintins s bis big mines ported dividends last week the colorado and the bed tunnel pacing paying to the stock holders 40 baci bac i while the grand central distributed 10 george wingfield of goldfield has received a telegram from his foreman at the three queens mine cal fornia saying that a single shot had bad broken down woith of ore A statement of the profits of the hercules mine for 1906 has been filed with the county assessor showing the profits to have been 87 19 as compared with 90 for 1905 the discovery of important alif phate deposits over a considerable area in southeastern idaho south western wyoming and northeastern utah has opened up a new industry indu str in the west A canvass of the leading copper pro dubers reveals the tact fact that the de mand is running ahead of the visible supply and that they are stronger tr in their belief that there will be no price concessions in the french gulch section ol 01 montana where the gold was first discovered and washed out in that state extensive placer operations are still in pro progress ress and is paying big money mone to atle the operators A prominent californian who haa haq drilled oil wells in five states de dares clares the virgin river oil region to possess jae the greatest oil indications he ever witnessed in any field from call cali tornia fornia to iv west est virginia good reports are still coming in from the swan hilda extension mine m the lee district nevada the di oll rectors of the company met here a day or so ago and raised the price of treasury stock to 10 scents A good copper mine in the lisbon valley san juan county utah is to begin shipping at once up to the present time not a pound of ore has been shipped the amount extracted about 1000 1 tons being piled on the dump in well informed copper cliches en cles it is generally conceded t bat amalgamate Amalga mat ed copper will earn 28 this year on its product of 2 pounds of copper on the basis of 24 cents metal which would be a trifle over 18 per cent on the stock the california correspondent of a boston financial agency wires that the balabala Ba lakala lahala company now has 35 men at work there on smelter construes con construe 4 tion and 1 at the mine work at a both places placed has been retarded owing to weather conditions owing to inability to arrive at a sat is factory and an amicable settlement of the wage controversy between the strikers and the company the amen can call smelting and refining company has announced that the plant at mur ray will be closed down indefinitely the bunker hill sullivan mining concentrating company operating a silver lead mine at wardner idaho has declared a dividend no am amounting outing to this is the corn pany s regular monthly dividend and brings the total amount of dividends paid since january 1 to and the total to date 8 ac 66 A wonderful strike has been made in willow creek mines about fhe miles southwest of greenwater Green water the first discovery of importance was in ili the baltic the shaft had been sunk but eighteen feet when the miners pene grated the iron capping and a rich copper sulphide running high in both gold and liver |