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Show MINES AND MINING In tho Odin mlno at Pork City., Utah, a four-foot voln '.has been 'encountered 'en-countered 'that goes 1G per cent 'copper. 'cop-per. Up to this time no camp In "Nevada outside of Goldflold, with the exception excep-tion of Tonopali, hait been affected by tho local labor war. A big strike has been made In the Hamsey Comatock, at Itamsoy, Ne-vada. Ne-vada. Seven feet of sulphide oro has y "been cut that nvcrnges $50 to the ton. , Tho latest rush to take placo ln Nevada, In to Cedar Basin, Lincoln county, where a number of likely copper cop-per propositions have been staked out. A fierce flro Is burning In tho COO-foot COO-foot level In the Homestako mine at Lead, S. D., nnd It may become necessary neces-sary to flood that part of tho workings work-ings to put out tho (lames. Specimens of tho Dreamland oro, ' of Rosebud, Nevadn, aro on exhibi tion In Salt Lako City that fairly dazzles daz-zles one, being very rich In silver. Tho rock assays $1,500 In tho whlto metal. Tho Cavo mine, In Beaver county, 6cvcn miles cast of Mllford, Utah, is about the oldest producing mlno in Beaver county. It has produced over $1,000,000, and has millions yot to bo uncovered. A prominent mining man states that It Is almost lmposslblo to get "skunked" on tho Seven Troughs . Kcllpso ground; wherever a bit of quartz Is found there you can get good pannlngs. Dream Gulch, with a record of $300,000 produced In four short seasons, sea-sons, wns discovered directly as a result re-sult of a dream. It was ono of tho first placer clnlms discovered In tho Conor d'Alcnes district. News has boon received of an Important Im-portant gold strike In tho Golden Crest mlno at Murray, Ida. Murray Is one of tho pioneer camps of tho Coeur d'Alenes and lies about twelve miles north of Wallace, tho principal town of that district. During tho month of Mnrch a total of 1,129,175 shares of stock, with a selling valuo of $1,120,238.54, changed hands on the Snlt Lako mining stock exchange. Tho trading Saturday brought out 10,510 shares, with a selling sell-ing valuo of $25,224. Tho Honerlne West Mining company com-pany was In tho markot last week with a fifty-ton carload of oro that would not tho company $3,000. This is tho third carload of oro shipped from this company's Stockton prop-J prop-J erty within tho last sixty days. Tho Mountain Bell company has n fine, property In Muldoon gulch, In Idaho. A tunnel Is being run to tap an oro shoot nt a depth of 250 feet . This tunnel will havo to bo i"lveii about 100 feet farther to reach the ore. A mill has been ordered for tho mlno having a capacity of fifty tons n day. Salt Lako operators havo Just or-gnulzed or-gnulzed tho Sieptoo Lead and Copper Cop-per Mining company to operate a group of four claims In tho Duck Creok district, northwest of Ely and within a mile and a half of tho big Stcptoo smelting works of tho Nevada Ne-vada Consolidated and Cumberland-Ely Cumberland-Ely companies. Another rich striko wns mode on tho Novuda Wonder mlno Monday of last week, a largo ledge of vory rich ore being broken Into in tho wluzn il the Badger claim. Tho oro Is slm- MfiT to tho other rich oro which Is fund on tho big mine, but it is thought to lie rlchor than any which tins been encountered heretofore Y The crosscut on tho Eaglo's Nest i)f vein at Fnlrvlow, Nevada, has hit tho . hanging wall. Tho vein proves to bo twenty-six feet wide. A conservative pamplo lios been takon across tho en tire twenty-six feet, Including ledgo filling, low grado, medium grado. high grade and all, and the average values obtained aro $32 per ton. A largo amount of oro has been do- voloped In the Mutuul mlno In l- Muldoon district, In Idaho, and tho property Is ready to bo equipped with ' a 100-ton mill which Is to bo, put on this season. The company Is work-lug work-lug twenty men. It has constructed a road two miles long to connect with tho county road, this having cost $3,000. , When It comes to the production of copper, tho mines of Utnh aro In high regard, but It Is seldom taken Into consideration that Utah holds tho property whoso company makes tho most economical saving of cop. per of any organization In tho country coun-try ofslmllnr Importance. This company com-pany Is tho Utah Consolidated; It produces pro-duces copper at a cost of only 5 cents a pound. With tho present plnns of dovolop-ment dovolop-ment woll executed tho Fcdoral Ely company, of Kly, Nevada, bids fair to. becomo a great producer, and to bring resources available within Its l ,, lines for keeping a largo capacity V concentrating plant busy for years. Copper Is selling at 2(1 V4 cents for tho best grades, for delivery Into noxt July. Tho stock markot and tho tor-ulgn tor-ulgn cables would havo It that a sorl-" sorl-" ' ' oua break In tho prlco Is Imminent, ' s hut tho dealers In tho metal Itself say thoro Is not tho least sign or a broalt. f |