Show 1 = n MINES ANPfMlNIMft The Wober club of Ogdon has taken ap the matter of establishing an Independent Inde-pendent smelter near Ogden Preparations are now in progress tor nn Immediate resumption of operations oper-ations at tho Western Nevada according ac-cording to tho Lyon Nevada Times There arc In Mexico at the present time at least twelve goodsized smeltIng smelt-ing plants In operation at Various points In tho northern and central states Tho greater part of 270000000 pounds of copper exported from tho United States during the past four or five months haa gone Into tho hands of consuming Interests tho speculators speculat-ors taking an amount much less than generally supposed Those who are In a position to know claim that tho Bullfrog country Is getting ready for the biggest kind of a boom and now that tho labor and financial situation has been cleared up to a great extent that It will not bo long coming Superintendent Georon of the Gold Hunter mine at Mullan Idaho on January Jan-uary 25 received a telegram Instructing Instruct-ing him to resumo operations again at the earliest possible moment and to run at full blast Work was resumed re-sumed tho following dayTime day-Time Manmioth Asphalt company filed articles of Incorporation last week This concern Is controlled by a number of Salt Lake Greek businessmen business-men The property owned Is located In Argylo canyon Wasatch county and Dry canyon Carbon county The Nevada Hills mining company of Wonder Nevada which has paid dividends to tho amount of 400000 while sinking a development shaft needs a railroad to got Its ore to the smelter Tho present method Is expensive ex-pensive the ore being taken out by teams It Is claimed tho company will build a railroad of Its own Work of sinking at the Giroux at Ely was resumed last week after a aollday of a week for all who wero ngaged In tho strenuous labor of esculng the three entombed men who same out on Saturday Jan 11 It Is expected that a month will elapse before be-fore tho shaft Is completely rehablll tated The Star Crescent Oil company operating In time Virgin river field has just finished Its second well and got oil In the first producing strata Oil was tapped In tho first well at a depth of 590 feet and the same strata was cut In the second well about 1000 feet west of tho first one at a depth of 015 feet Tho Utah Mine company sold forty eight tons of ore from Its Fish Springs property last week for 4 C2127 Tho lot assayed 134 ounces silver 50 per cent lead and 38 cents In gold per ton The ore brought a premium tinder the terms of tho com panys contract with the smelter of 150 a ton The communication of tho Utah Mine Owners association to the smelting companies In which an effort ef-fort was made to have conditions In favor of the smelters stretched as much as possible that tho mine operator oper-ator might get a better mode of treatment treat-ment than that at present In force Is Very likely to bear good fruit Active work In the building of a railroad line Into Wonder and Fairview Fair-view Nevada Is expected to start at any time within the next sixty days The only question Involved apparently apparent-ly Is one of route There are three possible entries to these two districts dis-tricts a branch from Fallon probably being tho 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 y present year Tho road has been surveyed and rights of way are now being purchased pur-chased Tho completion of the road will mean much to this portion 01 Idaho especially from a mining standpoint J The ore shipments at the Montgomery Montgom-ery Shoshono at Bullfrog Nevada have been Increased to from forty to fifty tons a day and It Is probable that a still further Increase will be made as development proceeds Tho value of tho shipping product has never been stated positively but It Is generally understood that It will average aver-age around 200 to the ton Utah will not be represented at tho International Mining congress to beheld be-held at Madison Square Garden New York City next summer This Is tho determination reached by Governor Cutler after a conference with the leading mining operators of tho state Tho last legislature appropriated 2000 for tho proposed Utah exhibit but this amount Is regarded as Insufficient In-sufficient The manager of tho Siegel Consolidated Consol-idated Mining company which has been operating In tho Silver Canyon mining district at Siegel forty miles north of tho Steptoo smelter fon tho past eight years and from the mines of which have yearly been produced many carloads of high grade ore Is securing additional miners In order I to start morn vlgoroua development of that property Tho OJuela mine at Mnpltnl In Durango Du-rango Is 3000 foot deep and has boon operated for 300 years It Is a noticeable notice-able fact that the majority of the present great silver and gold mines of Mexico aro those having records extending Into tho past for a century or further A largo Independent smelter will probably bo erected on tho silo of tho Utah plant nt Ogden as tho result of a meeting of Independent mlno owners own-ers of Salt Lake and representative Ogden men at tho Weber club in Og den last week when ways and meant wero discussed |