Show MINES AND MINING The total consumption of lend in 1907 as reported In The Mineral Industry In-dustry was 130738 tons Plocho Nevada has been a great producer of precious metals and varl < OUR estimates of the production of ho I district have been all the way from 40000000 to 80000000 German metal workers are fast driving British and French workers in i copper and brass goods from a number num-ber of channels of trade In Africa China and South America Tho Broken Hills companys mine at Clifford about fifty miles east of Tonopah Is being heralded as an epoch maker such as was tho Mlz palm of Tonopah and time Mohawk of Goldfield In tho bottom of Ole shaft in tho property of the Wild Irish Mining company at Gold Springs has been found two feet of ore from which an average sample returned values of 80 a ton nearly all In gold A strike of rich gray coppersilver lead ore has been made in the Midas mine at Garfield bay says a dispatch from Sandpolnt Samples of tho ores have been sent to Spokane and assayed as-sayed and show values of 315 to the ton That section of Utah containing the mines of Alta and tho south fork of Dig Cottonwood is described by Superintendent Su-perintendent William Magna of the Rexall Mining company as being one of tho busiest and happiest parts of mining Utah Two careful samplings of tho two feet pf rich ore In the north drift from the wlnzo In the Seven Troughs Signal Peak mine show overage values of 7G and79 a ton Aside from tho two feet of high grade aro ten feet of milling rock In the vein Solid silver ore so pure lV can be whittled with a penknife has been struck on the Dromlack lease of tho Queen ground at Rawhide Nevada Tim ledge BO far encountered Is three feet wide and has every Indication Indi-cation of making a largo oro body Germany has made greater strides during this year In the construction o1 copper awl brass working plants than any other nation Her export trade In copper wire rolled spun and cast copper cop-per and brass products also will exceed ex-ceed the tonnage of tho previous year On account of the blocking of the Ogden gateway tho coal market has been extremely heavy in Utah but with tho opening of the gateway Ole first of the month coal produced In this state and parts of Colorado was nffordded an outlet and Is now moving mov-ing rapidly westward northward and eastward Tho BambergcrDe Lamar mine in Nevada is running at full blast turnIng turn-Ing out 400 tons daily of ore that averages aver-ages from 3 to 350 a ton In gold In the mill an adaptation of the usual process Is being worked successfully tills consisting of the full strength of tho cyanide solution being applied at the crusher Nat C Goodwin Company says the InterMountain Republican aro evidently preparing to bring Into the limelight the new camp of Bovard where was made last year tho big surface sur-face strike which was picked up by a crowd of Utah operators who incorporated incorpor-ated upon It tho Bovard Strike Mining Min-ing company The Engineers lease corporation of Goldfield last week paid a dividend of 30 cents a share on 00000 shares of stock amounting to 180000 This Is tho fifth dividend from this remarkable re-markable lease and brings the total together with 15000 repaid to Salt Lake purchasers of tho treasury stock up to 550000 f f I From the camp of Chafey Nov comes the news that within the next week tho new steam hoist over tho I Black hole mine will be In operation I after which the company will be In a I position to ship In a more generous I tonnage of gold oro than has been Uio rule for the past month This is ono I of the big propositions of tho Chafoy I camp G C RIchards the Western Mill and Machine company of Oakland Cal and Inventor of the famous combined com-bined stamp and arastra milling process pro-cess is the latest mill man who has decided to Install a custom mill in the Seven Troughs district The plant which is to have an initial capacity of twenty tons per day will be erected near Vornon There Is a good profit in marketing on commission tho product of mines says the Mining World On October I 15 the United Metals Selling com pany which handles the copper produced pro-duced by the Amalgamated constituents constitu-ents besides other large mines paid a quarterly dividend of 5 f per share or 5 i per cent 250000 at the rate ot 20 per cent per annum on the 5000 f 000 capitalization I look for a revival in mining development de-velopment on a far more conservative conserva-tive basis than obtained In the time of ho boom said John Hays Hammond during an Interview in Now York the other day A large part of the money that will go into mining in the future will bo raised by the small Investors who realize that when mining Is conducted con-ducted on a conservative basis by responsible re-sponsible men it Involves few risks and offers probabilities of large profits Tho Bunker Hill S Sullivan mlno i at Wardner Ida east of Spokane I which has produced 12 per cent of tho total lead output of the United States the last few years will double Its capacity thus putting out 2000 tons of ore every eight hours or 6000 tons aday A mining engineer who has recently recent-ly Investigated the reputed big gold find at Callente Nevada finds that the free gold showing is limited to about eight luchcti of the eight feet ol rock On account of tho strike at Cal iento the country has been staked for wiles |