MINES A AND NJ MINING there aie five so called gibat gold mines in the transvaal N aich are earning from 38 to ga per cent in profits on ore that aNe averages rages from 8 to 14 1410 10 per ton the ogden Ba chhorn people who have encountered high grade copper tores bres in good quantities in coldwater canyon a tributary of ogden canyon iare are bull building ding a good wagon road up to the mine the rabbit foot group of tour four claims at nevada changed bands last week this group has al ways been held at 90 but the price it sold for has not been given to the public it has been a popular belief that iron was little known to the ancients but lessius believes that the egyptians used it for hand instruments and that it was prepared in smelting furnaces B C the lecht telephone company is now building a line from salmon city down ahr through ugh the gilmore and the birch creek country past the welmer weimer mines and on to medicine lodge nine miles west of dubols dubois idaho the eureka mine at bullion above halley idaho is sholing shoN sing from six inches to two feet of solid galena on t the e fifth or lowest level this Is at a vertical depth of feet besides the galena there Is some concentrate concen trat ing ore in nevada twenty years ago there was but one method employed in providing funds for operating a mine that was not individually owned or held in simple co partnership and that was by assessing the holders of interests last year the transvaal contrib buted nearly one third of the world worlds s gold supply that is 5 fine ounces valued at second place being held by the united states with approximately 4 ounces 96 the gibraltar mines syndicate has sent another car of ore to the salt lake ore market this is the second shipment of ore from the gibraltar since the railroad has reached the camp of rhyolite the first going to the ton the washoe smelter of the amal copper company turned out in excess of 17 pounds of copper in april the output of the great falls smelter of the amalgamated Is between seven and eight million pounds montha united states senator george S nixon and george wingfield have chased the pittsburg liberty mine at masonic nevada tor for the deal was closed after two days de liberation masonic Is eighty miles south of carson city urn um rus rua the ancient gold mine in egypt that was reopened by an eng lish company has been closed doan do and the company has gone into diqui dation the first ore produced aver aged an ounce of gold but deeper de has proved disappointing it is stated on good authority that a strike of great importance has been made in the long tunnel being run by the gold coin mining company on their property in the black lae mm min ing district ie fr the se seven en devils dis brict idaho a vein of ore that will run GO 60 to 70 per ton having been uncovered A third vein has been cut in the main tunnel of the revenue mine in beaver county utah the discovery was wholly unexpected but a wel come surprise the new vein is three feet wide and was encountered at a depth of 15 feet assays on the rock show it to be an excellent grade of milling stuff every evey mine in rock springs is clo closed ed and business is paralyzed as a result of the labor troubles union meetings are being held every after noon and evening nearly every miner in the camp Is now a member of the union and the majority of the other laborers the organization about 1400 1 strong rosebud nev ney Is all wrought up over an oil discovery within sight of camp three men while prospecting about eight miles southeast of camp stumbled upon a strip of territory approximately eight miles wide and annel uele ve long which has every appear ance of being the cover or lid of a great reservoir of petroleum the report of the anaconda copper company tor for the year ended decem ber 31 1906 bears out the contention 0 of f amalgamated copper interests that the he production of their mines last year showed little it if any de crease notwithstanding the binary demand tor for the metal in thia this c country try as a well as abroad harry S joseph secretary of the mine owners association an bounced last week that the assoria tion had decided to make a volun taif raise in the wages of all muck era ers car runners and tr ammers em aloyed la in the district announcement was officially made last week that helena men have tak fait an over the monitor mine in the coeur d alene dalene district and propose ts operation on a large scale new machinery has been ordered to aug meat both development ad and output aca asa