Show MINES AND MINING the weber club of ogdon ogden has taken up the matter of establishing an independent pendent smelter near ogden preparations Preparation a are now in progress for an immediate resumption of operations at the western nevada according to the L lyon y on nevada times there are in mexico at the present time at least twelve good sized smelt ing plants in operation at various points in the northern noi thorn and central states the greater part of pounds of copper exported from the united states during the past four or five months has gone into the hands of cons consuming interests the speculators taking an amount much less than generally supposed those who are in a position to know claim that the bullfrog country Is getting ready for t or the biggest kind hind of a boom and now that the labor and financial situation has been cleared clear ed up to a great extent that it will not be long coming superintendent gearon of the gold hunter mine at mullan idalio idaho on january 25 received a telegram instructing him to resume operations again at the earliest possible moment and to run at full blast work was resumed the following day the mammoth asphalt company filed articles of incorporation last week this concern Is controlled by a number of salt lake greek business men the property pio perty owned Is located in argyle canyon wasatch county and dry canyon carbon county the nevada hills mining comp company iny of wonder nevada which ha has a paid dividends to the amount of while sinking a development shaft needs a railroad to get its ore to the smelter the present method Is as expensive tire the th e ore being taken out by teams it Is claimed the company will balki a railroad of its own work of sinking at the giroux at ely was resumed last week after a holiday of a week for all who were engaged in the strenuous labor of rescuing the three entombed men who came caine out on saturday jan 11 it Is expected that a month will elapse before the shaft la Is completely rehabilitated the star crescent oil company operating in the virgin river flold field has just finished its second well and got oil in the first producing strata achl was tapped in the first well at a depth ot of feet and the same strata wa was s cut in the second well about 1000 feet west of the first one at a depth of feet the utah mine aline company sold forty eight tons of ore from its fish springs property last week for aj the lot assayed ounces silver 50 per cent lead and 38 cents in gold per ton the ore brought a premium um under the terms of the com banys contract co with the th e smelter r ot 0 f a ton the communication of tho the utah mine aline association to tho the smelting smelling sm elting companies in which an effort was made to have conditions in favor of the smelters shelters sm elters stretched as much as possible that the mine operator might get a better mode of treatment than that at present in force la Is very likely to bear good fruit active work in tho the building of a railroad lino line into wonder and fairview nevada is expected to tart start at any time within the next sixty days the only question involved apparently Is one of route there are three possible entries to these two districts a branch from fallon fallen probably being the most logical route it now seems certain that a railroad will be built from armstead by way of junction and down the lehl valley to salmon city during the arese prese present nt year the road has been surveyed and rights of way are now being purchased the completion ot of the road will mean much to this portion in L idaho especially from a mi mining a standpoint the ore shipments at the montgomery shoshone at bullfrog nevada have been increased to from forty tc fifty tons a day and it Is probable that a still further increase will be made as development proceeds the value of the shipping product has never been stated positively but it la Is generally understood that it will average around to the ton utah will not be represented at the international mining congress to bo ba held at madison square garden new york city next summer this Is the determination reached by governor cutler after a conference with the leading mining operators of tho the state the last legislature appropriated 2000 for the proposed utah exhibit but this amount Is regarded as aa in sufficient the manager ot of the siegel consolidated mining company which has been operating in the silver canyon mining district at siegel forty miles north of tho steptoe smelter ton tho the past eight years and from tho the mines of which havo have yearly been produced many ma ny carloads of high grade ore is securing additional miners in order to start more vigorous development of that property |