Show Mining Notes and Personals All of the banks of the city will be closed today A cyanide mill will soon be inooeration at the Comas No 2 mine at Halley Ida Don Maguire the well known Ogden metallurgist and mining operator is In I the city taking in the Oubllee I The Herald is informed that the ore I bins at the South Swansea ae full to overflowing and that immediately after the Jubilee shipments will be resumed j The HelenaFrisco company of Montana Mon-tana which Is the owner of one of the I greatest silver producing mines In the r trator world has s are up its COOton concen I I The Petro mine of Bingham has six I carloads of high grade sIlv < Tl a < 1 TP on 1 the market This is the first shipment that the company has made since the i first of the year There was another decline in silver I quotations yesterday and The Herald Is informed that this Is within of a cent of the lowe at which the white metal has ever been Quoted Times Hale Ida L U Colbath the mining man who come up three days ago to lolt after the Triumph patents left today for Salt Lake He said he would remonetlzed come up again in 1900 wen silver was I Tomiri Croxall the treasurer of the i South Swansea Mining company has I hnef eahl flf hJ returned from his rp f He states that he had a ueasant time but he Is glad to get back to Utah which he says suits him better than any place he has seen on his travels He was accompanied ac-companied on his trip by his wife and Mrs C Y Wheeler I The Scientific Publishing company has just issued volume 5 of the Mineral Industry In-dustry giving the metal outtut j of this country for the year 189C as well as the new achievements In metallurgy ore j dressing etc The publication embraces j 1 S30 pages copies of which can be secured at the otllce of the company room 230 i I Atlas block this city J Major A V Bohn who for 1 years has had the management of the Leadville Leadvie I Drum corps is feeling justly proud of I I the compliments that are being showered j on the boys in this city The major is r r I interested in mining enterprises tan Floyd district and he states that n hopes to resume active development on I his Cedar valley properties sometime during dur-ing the oming summer I Mr Hbarce W Sloan owner ofx the Susanvllle or Elk creek gravel mines save the Democrat of Baker City Ida I Is in the city with a partial cleanup from his diggings The cleanup consists of I beautiful nuggets that have always char acterzed Cne product of thtse mines and they can be seen at the First National bank Mr Sloan says the outlook for tflie camp of Susanville Is very promising recent good finds In quartz giving great encouragement to the prospects of the camp I Democrat Baker City Ore The smelter just built in the camp of Quartz burg Grant county by Messrs Isam I Lawrence and B H Miller Lwrelc ier made a trial run a few days ago and the result was very satisfactory The experiment aside from being a success fully demonstrates the fact tat all the properties necessary I neesr to successful operating of the Quartzburg ores by a smelter exists In the Quartz burg mines The only article brougtit from the outside being lime stone of Watch an abundanc can be obtained in a few miles The tact of tills being the first smelter ever run in eastern Oregon speaks well for the grit and enterprise of the above named gentlemen earc gentfmen The floats representing mining from J fahf Park City Mercur Ceuar gcI Utah and VIcto Colo which took part In the I parade yesterday were the observed of all observers and were distinctive I features of the parade The Park City wagon made a tine display of gold and I silver bullion and gavedue prominence to I the Ontario Daly DalyAVest and Uver I King mines The Mercur float was a fair repiescalation of the modus operandi i of the reduction of ore by the tiyanlde process while the Cedar iloxt was emblematic I em-blematic of the Iron Industry of Iron i county The Victor float was unique and I 1St especially deserving as It gave It out to the world that gthS great god i camp had already enriched the world to the extent or jwCOjfw me noat representing rep-resenting the first smeitcr In J Utah rtl also very attractive As oducatord the i floats rel a success as they gave force I i to the statement that fie bacicbone and I sinew of this country Is its mining In j I dustry j i I I |