Show HAS A GEEAT FUTURE John Hays Hammonds View of tho Independence Mine Victor Colo Nov 21John Hays Hammond after an examination of the Independence mine cabled to London advising a reduction of dividends and extensive development He is having assays made on thousands of samples and will soon make a full report He la confident that the mine still has a great future Ore and Bullion Settlements The ore and bullion settlements yesterday yes-terday aggregated 5127135 divided as follows McCornick Co Mlngo bullion 53GOOJ silver an1 lead ores 533500 cyanides cya-nides 6000 T R Jones CoOre 22500 bullion bul-lion 518200 Bamhergcr McMillan Silver and lead ore 42135 In the metal market sliver ruled at C3 cents an ounce casting copper at 151 cents a pound and lead at 1 per hundred pounds Sadtler Process Smelter The Denver Republican Is authority for the statement that negotiations are under way In Denver for the building of a Sadtler process smelter for the Horn Silver mines of Utah at or near Salt Lake The smeller will have it says a capacity of from 25 to 50 tons a day James M Patrick who in half owner in Prof Sadllers Invention Is conducting the enterprise This smelter smel-ter if built will be the first commercial commer-cial smelter using the Sadller process the only other one being an experimental experi-mental plant In Denver Mining Notes The May Day was among yesterdays shlppcra and contributed a car of ore Six cars of ore were yesterday un loaded on the market by the Swansea The Highland Boy will ship a ear of copper ore to the Eastern market to dayThe The Carlssa yesterday reported with another shipment of three cars of cop per ore Milan Packard of Springvlllc manager man-ager of the Star Consolidated spent yesterday In Salt Lake The Centennial Eureka yesterday responded re-sponded with a liberal consignment of I nine cars of silver and gold ores j A consignment of three earn from the i Neptune van yesterday received by the i Taylor Brunton Sampling company John T llodson and David Evans re turned from Park City last night where i they have been examining the nev strike In the California group I Thaynes canyonS I canyon-S M Smith R S Hall and W B Lcaeh of the West Argent will return to their homes at ChllHcollnj Mo to day Mr Smith who In president and treasurer of the company will soon es tablish a residence in Salt Lake Dr F h A H Franklin slated yester day that he would send a surveyor to the Yankee Consolidated grounds in a day or two for the purpose of making a survey of the property There have been three surveys made already but Dr Franklin being a heavy stockholder desires still another survey for his own use and satisfaction I A car of ore wan yesterday received by the Taylor Brunton Sampling company from the Hayes mine ofKc vada I P J Donohue the mining man ban returned from a trip to Montana whereIn where-In addition to other business he was interested in the recent sale of the Polaris In Beaverliead county Joseph Dcderlchs the mining contractor con-tractor yesterday returned from a short business trip to Spokane Mr Dedcrlchs reports a heavy snowfall In the Northwest and states that the telephone tele-phone line on that account Is broken down between Spokane and the Columbus Colum-bus mine 150 miles distant which prevented pre-vented him from talking with Manager Jackling thus defeating the principal object of his trip From Neighboring States It is i reported that an English syndicate syndi-cate has bonded the Lome and Woodchuck Wood-chuck group of mines In the Bridge Creek district B C for 225900 A new ledge of copper ore six feet thick is reported to have been discovered discov-ered in the Copper World mines In the Ivanpah district San Bernardino county Downicvillc Cal Messenger Another An-other large nugget worth about 51500 was taken from the gravel In Ladles canyon a few days ago It was found by one of the workmen who was digging dig-ging a trench This Js the second large nugget taken from that mine since they began fitting It up this season Mountalnhome Ida Republican Ed McLaughlin an oldtime prospector of Rocky Bar and the Basin came in Thursday for a short visit with F P Ake and family For years Mr McLaughlin Mc-Laughlin lived at the Bar but a few years since he fell heir to property at Park City Utah and has been making his home there of late Mountalnhome Ida Republican j Dan Reber left for Salt Lake Friday evening to meet some gentlemen Inter c ii h 1 1 AJ I IILL 4 b also to purchase machinery for the Crown Point mine at Dixie Mr Reber informs us the work of sinking the shaft Is progressing favorably and greater headway would be made could competent miners be engaged to prosecute prose-cute the work Eureka Nov Sentinel Victor Barnd I returned to Eureka on Tuesday from I Boston accompanied by A G Campbell Camp-bell a mining engineer from San Francisco Fran-cisco and together they left the following follow-ing day for Tybo where the latter wjll expert the TwoG mining proper tics In the interest of the Boston capitalists capi-talists who now hold them under bond and lease Mr Barnd expects return to Boston at once Laramie Boomerang There was a I scene of unusual Interest at the Kuster hotel last night when A T Holmes came In hotfoot from the Rambler mine fortyfive miles west of Laramle and exhibited samples of 5200 copper ore struck at a depth of eighty feet last Thursday It was metallic copper of such exceeding richness that the unaided un-aided eye could discern Us value The guests In the office nearly all men familiar fa-miliar with mines and ore values crowded up to see the rock and as the news spread others came in from the outside gazed and admired until it was like the fioor of a mining exchange Reno Net Journal With every foot of depth the Reno Star mine grows In richness The ore Is being sorted Into three grades and only the poorest class Is being shipped This Is being sent out at the rate of two carloads a week It returns from 762 to 51C40 a carload The second grade is being sacked and piled up In the orehouse It samples 5375 a ton There Is In the neighborhood of S90CO worth of this ore on hand George Wedekind Ihinks so much of the first ore that he carries It home with him His old buckboard has a capacity for only two sacks on the trip which he makes dally The boys are six sacks ahead of the old man This stuff Is pretty near pure metal It runs from 5150 to 250 a pound |