Show at the annual meeting of the sheba gold silver mining company held in salt lake last week a new directorate was elected as follows W S cleaves of hancock mich W M mclaughlin william bath john S harris an and d mathew M van orden of houghton mich J M burdick new britain conn con n and S P armstrong of salt lake the lost packer mining company operating in loon creek district custer co county anty idaho has met with misfortune in the initial run of its new smelting smelling sm elting plant and yet misfortune is mingled with a seam of pleasing satisfaction as the short run demonstrated that the enterprise would eventually prove a great success for the three hours that the smelter was in operation something like nine tons of copper matte was produced and it was shown that instead of fifty the plant had a capacity of tons of ore daily while the smelter was making its trail run one of the workmen in en bungled and caused a breakage that will require some time to repair and as the company cannot operate the smelter in the winter time it will not be blown in again until next spring in all probability the heavy owners in the lost packer are mostly salt lake men and they are highly pleased with conditions at both mine and I 1 I 1 smelter the columbus consolidated mine ai at alta utah made a great record for the month of august during which period it shipped tons of concentrates of a valuation of and 1394 tons of crude ore valued at total the columbus con should soon take rank as a regular dividend payer |