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Show AROUND THE MINES An oil discovery near Mosby, Mont, has caused a stampede in that section of prospectors seeking locations and leases. The Lone Mountain Divide company is planning a reduction plant, according accord-ing to news coming from Tonopah, Nevada. Advices from Carson City. Nevada, are to the effect that the Cowau-Za-briskie mine is to be thoroughly explored ex-plored at once for development. Kecords for shaft sinking at l'ioche, Xev., will undoubtedly be broken in the sinking of the three compartment shaft a.t the Friuee Consolidated property. prop-erty. High grade hematite iron ore is to be shipped from the Bessemer Consolidated Con-solidated Mining company property in Brunswick canyon, near Carson City, Nevada. The West Arrowhead is installing a twenty-five horsepower mill with complete com-plete equipment at ils property, is the news that comes from Tonopah, Nevada. The Nevada Silver Shield property in Jefferson canyon, says a Tonopah dispatch, has recently made a new strike of ore which runs between $800 and $1000 a ton. Mining 'men from several western states, Alaska and British Columbia, are expected to attending the sessions of the International Mining convention to be held at Seattle, April 7 to 10. The Midwest Refining company and the Ohio Oil company, the largest producers pro-ducers in .the Wyoming oil field, have announced increases in the price of oil ranging from 15 to 25 cents a barrel. Utah's coal fields are among the best equipped in the world, according to an opinion expressed by ('. Suzuki, engineer of Tokio, Japan, who has just completed an inspection of mines in Carbon county. Salt Lake mining men are to take an active part in development of a group of claims, the Iron Blossom, situated sit-uated In the Arrowhead district, which lies 130 miles west of Ely and seventy miles east of Tonopah. Despite the fact that its boarding house and store of supplies' were completely com-pletely destroyed by fire only a short time go, the Logger Mining company, operating in Big Cottonwood canyon, resumed operations last week. Between $10,000,000 and $13,000,000 in gold coin probably will be shipped this week to South America, principally to Argentina. Total gold coin exports to South .-Mneriea since the first of the year is approximately $05,000,000. Ore valued at $47 a ton lias been recently encountered on the 2150 level of the Con Virginia, one of the old-time old-time mines of the Virginia City. Nevada, Ne-vada, district, which would indicate that the mine is still a valuable proposition. pro-position. With the return of a parly of Salt Lake people from an inspection of the Jib Mining company's properly at Basin, Mont., it was announced lhat plans and specifications are under way for the construction of a 000-ton milling mill-ing plant. There has been quite a rush into the Winnet, Mont., section of seekers for oil locations, and it is said lhat the supply of lumber in lhat section has been depleled as a result of the demand for building material, shacks being built on all the leases. The Minnie Moore, once the greatest great-est of all lead-silver mines in the state, has once more achieved a standing stand-ing :n the mining world by the discovery discov-ery of a high-value vein in the Lark claims, near I'ellevue. in the Wood river district in southern Idaho. l.'enewed netlvitv aloio' the Com stoolr and Brunswick lodes at Virginia City will involve the exploration of important import-ant areas that have remained unpros-pected unpros-pected at depth during the long period J of the district's productive life, according accord-ing to the Nevada Mining I'ress. The manager of the Tintic Paymaster Paymas-ter Mines company, with extensive holdings in North Tintic, announces that the last report showed the mi n- ers to have crossed through ten feet I of well mineralized vein matter at a distance of 050 feet east of the shaft, j Several sulphur claims are being lo- j , cated on the Aleutian Islands, a vol- j canlc string that stretches westward I from Alaska towards Asia, according j to word received at Juneau. One sul- ' phur claim is in the eraler of Mount : Makusliin, a volcanic peak wliich rises O.OOO feet on I'nala.-ka island and which is entirely capped by perpetual snow and ice. A large deposit of alunite ore, situated sit-uated but a few- miles from Marys-vale. Marys-vale. I'lah. will within Hie near future yield alumina, potash and potash alum. ti tne plans oi u e .iunne Kenueiion company prosper. This company, consisting- of I'tah men. plans to start construction of a mill to treat the In r u" I amount of ores already expos,. i upon the company's property, eotisisiiti of 1M1 acres. 1 Inereasitii: mineralization is ehnrae-tirizins ehnrae-tirizins the fonaatlon in the east and west drifts of : ,,. North Stand;':- I mine. Tltitir di';-et. 1.o;i:l.' driven ah. tie; a rr-:wk to cm at r : - j . : 7 1 Its in:-': :i..n w::!i iinrh-.;i:!i fis.-n.-os. Y ' eat a ead-si!v,.r ore l.orly npenor to a v. I'l-'i of r I f - n fo.-: l,y ireaehr.-op ireaehr.-op r...:..: s ;le f..,.f .,.-,v the . f SI"" illl'l d-Velop.ll to -rej-er -..'is v..-:-.- l-e-ai.e. !: w l,y t!. ; l a-en i-..:..,.!;.!,,-,., s;:-,or )l n.-. ,-o;n-; I :' "!l i' )T"p.-rty iii the Sin, on dls-v dls-v I ! One Solution of the Servant Problem. Mrs. Brogan The people tieii door are very fortunate with their coo. : Mrs. Crogan Have ihey had her a lotiL' time? Mrs. Brogan No; but she's a golf fiend and the master eoes our i-i i-i v morning and plays golf with her. thus getting an early breakfast.- Houston l'ost. |