Show MINES AND MINING george wingfield and associates hive secured an option on the big nevada hills at fairview nevada under the block wallop law passed b the last re the famous coal camp at hanna wyoming will soon be a dry town as no new liquor license will be issued except in in corp orated towns of the state in the black horse mining district of nevada the ohana company is sink ing a shaft and at a depth of feet a six foot ledge Is exposed over two feet ol 01 which gives average assays of 84 4 muncs silver and 5 91 ounces gold per ton the jack pot mining company whose property Is situated at her cules in the wonder mining district of nevada is to commence active vork the next thirty days and a number of improvements will be made goldfeld has gone cripple creek colo one better on gold production io i an official report of the april prodoc tion of the mines of the cripple creek section grves t e total at 1 goldfield prod iced during the same period about U ryan president of the in ter national smelting and refining company in an v shed in a denver newspaper emphatically de nies that any rate agreement has been entered nto between the inter national and american companies the great coal merger in the east has been completed five big companies having been merged into one the coin panics have a combined capital stock of ua and own and control acres of coal land in mary land west virginia and pennsylvania the old highland High lani boy smelter at murray Is being vapidly razed to the aroun 1 by the b g force of steel work ers who are now on the job all the steel is being shipped to thoele tooele as last as torn down where the internal smelting plant is being erected A mill of tons a day capacity is nearl eady to be placed in opera alon at the aust n manhattan consoli dated mines at austin nevada ex hau stive tests show that the ore be milled tor 1 40 a ton the new company has expended abo it COO 00 getting the minas ready for alon indicative of the present copper sit bation some figures on tl e recent copper sales in the east will be of in terest since may 1 there have been pounds of the red metal sold one firm alone selling about 80 pounds the average price re ceilea tor which was 13 cents per pound lorenzo D cunningham a negro employed of the united states mint at new orleans was anesta as he wab exhibiting a leal gold brick cun bingham confessed that he had stolen the gold in granulated form from the separating division of the mint and then it into the oval shape in which it was found the golden reef mining stock wasi listed last weel on the salt lake ex change the company is capital zed tor shares of staci par value 20 cents of the original 51 shades of treasury stock 26 boo shades havel been sold there the sum of 9 1001 in the treasure and the debts of the comi any amount to 1 because of the demand of the west and southwest for precious stones the prices of diamonds and pearls are to be increased soon prosperity in those sections is credited by the maiden I 1 ane dealers with causing them to do more than per cent more business in precious stones last apr 1 than during the same month last year according to assayers and others of a mathematical turn of mind the at mo sphere in the building used at mexico one night last week as a theater was woith nearly 10 1 A traveling italian opera conn pany was billed tor a performance 1 ana an old ore house the largest building in town was fitted up tor the show before the performance was over the stamping of feet by peo 1 ie in the a had set the go d dust flying from the cracks ard crevices of the old ore ho se th i gold laden dust was so thick it mado people sneeze the monthly statement of the cop per producers association for abill shows the stock of marketable coppet of all kinds on hand in the united state april 1 pounds tha stool of surplus copper was increased during the past menth by pounds what has turned out to be one ot the most severe accidents in the hah tory of the consol dated mei cur gold mines company at mercur was that ot last week when eight leaching tanks settled to ch an extent that their valuable conceits con cents were lost to the company mining companies operating in will not have to file or send to stockholders the r first re ort as re quiren by tl e new wildcat bill un t 1 J me 1910 accord ng to an opinion just written by R stoddard actor ney general of nevada in response to ana ly requests for the first tin e since the severe winter season interfered with active ore transportation the leasers on the ruby pioneer prop pity in nevada have found the roads in such sl ape that shipments can begin again two ship ments from leasers arrived in salt lake last week the american n eiter at murray Is gradually getting back to its old form again the employed emp loyes an almost all back in their old posit ons ind the n imber of men working at the plant on may 17 was placed at the striking element however Is still active the seven troughs monarch mines company incorporated tor 1000 beares at 10 cents has been formed to take over the property of the hero nevada mines company Share hold ers of the nevada company will rece ve share for share of stock of the new company the united states geological sur ley acta completed the statistics 0 coal production in 1908 in all of the rock mountain states colorado idaho montana new mexico north pal ota utah and wyoming the out put in amo eted to tons valued at 33 |