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Show MINES AND MINING According to a dispatch from Mul; Inn, Idah6, a strike of considerable lm-jKirtanco lm-jKirtanco is roported to have been mado In tho Carney Copper group. Directors of tho Utah mlno of Fish Springs last wcok declared Oio regu-lnr regu-lnr dividend of three cents a shnro, or $s,ooo. , The famed Cocur d'Alene district of Idaho has produced gold, silver, lend and copper mineral to the gross value of approximately $17C,000,000 to ilrttn slnco 1884. From n perfectly rcllnblo Bourco It M learned that an ore body has been uncovered In tho Bradburn property nt Mnrysvalo for a distance or over 200 fcot and tho values run from $20 to $1,000 per ton. . . A report has reached Sumptor, Ore, thnt a most wonderful rich strtko has Just been mndo In tho lied Boy mine. Tho striko was mado on tho 700 level, and Is Bald to bo tho richest vein of oro ever uncovered in tho district. The old Colcohda mlno near Baker City, Ore,, has Jus' been sold at sheriff's sher-iff's snlo for claims amounting to $20.-000, $20.-000, which clnlms wero held by hardware hard-ware firms and supply houses. Tho property wns nt ono tlmo a great producer. pro-ducer. Montana men havo secured a working work-ing bond on tho liny Fork quartz claims owned by Leo nnd Anlono Un-ternnhror, Un-ternnhror, says the Idaho City World, A payment of $1,000 has been mnde. The bond was given for two years nnd a half. From Beaver county conies tho news that the Stnlwnrt lenso on tho Talisman property Is working In from eight to fourteen Inches of oro thn runs 1,000 ounces In Bllvor with high lend values. Tho find Is on tho 200-foot 200-foot bvel. Not In twenty years hns tho mlnlna. outlook In tho vicinity of Hnlloy, Idaho, been bo bright. All tho mines aro working ns large forces as possible, possi-ble, and tho oro bodies seem to Improve Im-prove In rlchncsB with ovory foot ot development. A now compressor will bo Installed soon nt tho Utiih-Blnghnm mlno In Bingham. Ore shipments nro also to bo Inaugurated and It Is said application applica-tion will shortly bo mado to list tho stock on tho Salt I.ako stock nud mining min-ing exchange. Fifty thousand dollars Is tho valuo of tho first five days' production on tho Mohawk Jumbo leaao on tho Gold Wcdgo nt Goldflcld. Stoplng was started on Monday, nnd every nvnll-ablo nvnll-ablo man was used for whom a placo could bo found in tho mine. A prominent nnd copBorvntlvo mining min-ing man declnres thnt thero is now beginning nt Hnlloy, Idaho, tho biggest big-gest mining boom that tho west has over seen; that It will bo on merit, strictly, wlldcatt'uB barred, nnd that it will last two or three years. President Gcorgo M. Nix of tho Dolly Vardcn Mining company, opcr-ntlng opcr-ntlng In tho Dolly Vnrden district, announces an-nounces that ht has financed a deal In Chicago by which tho company receives re-ceives a largo amount of money for carrying on Its development work. Constant rnild improvement of a proposition which was most promising promis-ing nt tho start is tho word brought from the Alta company's mlio out from Mackay, Idaho. Tho tunnel has been driven 105 feet on oro giving nssay values of $20 In gold, 175.C ounces In silver and 2 per cent copper. cop-per. A mill run of fifteen tons of oro from the Wlhuja Gold Mining company's com-pany's leaso on tho estate ot tho Seven Troughs Thorlcn Mines company, com-pany, mado tho other day In two eight-hour Bhlfts nt the Kindergarten mill, turned out a bar of bullion weighing 224 ounces and valued at $2,600. Representatives of a majority of tho stockholders In tho Hogan mlno nt a meeting recently held at Elk City, Idaho, voted to doublo tho capacity of tho present plant, which Is now handling 126 tons of oro por day at a net profit of $200. Tho stockholders stock-holders also voted $60,000 for Improvements, Improve-ments, Tho PoIobI mill nt Sllvor City, Idaho, Is nearlng completion, but Is now awaiting tho arrival of the balance bal-ance of tho machinery. In tho meantime mean-time tho cement floor Is being laid about tho battery, track from mine to oro bin Is alsb being laid, and it will now be only n short tlmo until tho mill Is completed, Moro than 60 nnmos, Including thoso of tho most prominent mining mon of Utnh, nnd nil of them thoroughly thor-oughly represontntlvo, have been signed to tho rostor of membership In tho now Utah Branch of tho Amorl-can Amorl-can Mining congress, nnd a meotlng for pormanent organization is to bo hold during the week. By unanimous voto tho Salt Lako Stock nnd Mining Exchange has approved ap-proved thq action of Its governing board In accepting tho proposition of Samuel Ncwhouso to glvo to tho exchange ex-change a magnificent Bite for n stock oxchnngo building, providing only that the recipient of tho gift will orect thereon a' suitable building. Ilobort Francis, superintendent of tho Lost Packer mlno, in tho Loon Crook, Idaho, district, Bays that tho ' mlno will make a handsomo .produc-, .produc-, lion this senson. Tho smelter la treating treat-ing nn average of 100 tons of ore a day and tho values aro highly satis-I satis-I factory. , I Whcthor( tho Utah Consolidated company will start work In tho near futuro upon its proposed new umelt-ing umelt-ing plant In Tooele county, depends upon tho outcjmo of negotiations now under consldujatlon for a five-years contract for t ie treatment of its ores at tho GarflcM smolter. LTlioro Is jo question that the Cffaey camp Nevadaa latest camp, will lrxike pood, Thoro Is sufficient hlgh-graoWoi-o to attract tho mlnr and tho loWrrado that mill ovH I a ton Is thBUn unlimited qu:H An abunda water Is obtrH sinking weigulch, H In Boulbls "JHi nparcn t I.HbJH |