Show t r MINES AND MINING The discovery of nn Immonso body of coal tint boon made near Salina Itnli and mm conipuny Is being formed in Ijnl it < ho discovery Pifiy years ago United States mine min-e s of copper produced 1V4 per cent ot time worlds co Iper Now they pro dnco almost 71 per cent ot tho r tin ti-n copper Production of copper from mines controlled by domestic shareholders I IH going on at a rate equivalent to n tho worlds production six years ago 1287417000 pounds a Tho task of Installing the big hoisting hoist-ing plant tho compressor and power drill equipment and all tho accessories of the works ot the Ilocho King com any > has been practically finished News has been received of a now and very rich strike of gold at Mud Lake about 240 miles northwest ot iVInnomucca Nevada Tho oro occurs oc-curs In a decomposed granite and the samples arc very rich A very fine looking prospect has recently re-cently been opened up In the moun R lamas about seven miles west of Iphralm and tho owners havo Incorporated Incor-porated the Utah Central Mining com any > with 1000000 shares to oper uto It Tho second vein In the main tunnel of the Utah Gold Copper company In Washington district Deaver county coun-ty Utah encountered about three weeks ago Is by fur tho biggest thing yet opened In the property It Is claimed Speaking about mountains of ore time Clifton district In tho Deep Creek region comes as near having them as any country I have been In said a mining man In Salt Lake City who had been making a survey of western Utah camps Tim stale board ot railroad commissioners commis-sioners held a public hearing at Helena Hel-ena last week on tho question ot limo rock rates applicable between all Montana points Tho smelter interests In-terests havo made protest against tho existing rates as too high The cleanup of the Initial shipment ship-ment of the Harris lease at Seven Troughs Nevada was made last week the result being estimated at approximately 7000 for botwfcen 100 and 150 tons The ore handled was of time lower grade of tho Harris and tho run was In tho nature of a testTho The conference of tho Western Lead Ore Producers association composed com-posed of owners of Utah Idaho Nevada Ne-vada and Colorado controlling Cl percent per-cent of tho lead production of the United States held In Salt Lako City resulted In a memorial to congress protesting against the reduction of tho tariff on lead A movement Is on foot to start a mining exchange In Provo Utah A number of dealers and brokers are taking an active Interest la the mattel mat-tel The exchange will bo capitalized t for 20000 or 200 shakos of J100 each It Is the purpose of the promoters pro-moters to Invest this money In divi dend paying mines From White Bird Ida comes word of a very rich gold strike made on the east bank qf the Snako river by tho Reed brothers The ledge Is said to pan gold for a total distance of 900 feet on the surface The ledge was opened about 300 feet above the Curby and China bars largo producers produc-ers In the early days An extra dividend of 10 per cent In addition to the regular quarterly dividend div-idend of 25 per cent was declared on March 26 by the directors of the Ton opah Mining company This puts the stock on a dividend basis of 140 percent per-cent per annum and restores the rate existing before the suspension of dividends div-idends In the fall of 1907 The Lake Superior mines are producIng pro-ducing on the basis of 220000000 pounds of copper a year which Is only 11000000 less than tho coun trys total production twenty years ago Measured by the development of mining In North America the Increase In-crease In the yield of copper within a generation Is much greater than the degree of growth Incident to pig IronThat That tho Tunnel Oil company which owns a producing well and a refinery In tho Ulntah field Is finding a market for Its product Is Indicated by the report that seven carloads of empty whiskey barrels were recently shipped to tho plant Tho company attempted to contract with one house In Salt Lake City for 150 barrels a week D Mackenzie and the Frances Mohawk Mo-hawk company filed a third suit against the Mohawk Consolidated at Goldfleld last week It being for an accounting for 800000 worth of ore alleged to have been stolen from tho Frances Mohawir and HayesMonnotto Y r leases and recovered by the ConsolIdated Consoli-dated but returns for which have never been made to tho leasing company com-pany according to allegations PIt P-It Is I announced that a cave ot rich ore has boon opened up In the Decker Canyon property a few miles from Charleston Utah The discovery t was made by an old minor who had gone Into an abandoned tunnel In fti search for some tools Investigation proved that the original owners had stopped work when within a foot of k t the cave To exploit a promising gold property prop-erty ten miles west of Valmy Hum boldt county Nevada Salt Lake mining min-ing men have formed the Hawes Combination Mining filMllllng com = t Tho phonollto s pany holdings cover a Im quartz vein from three to six feet wide The Huntington mill at Soven Troughs Is making a now record for Itself oVery day Not content wtjth having paid its entire cost from purchase pur-chase to Installation and operation twentyeight days with 1000 leftover left-over the mill has just mado another rich clean up |