Show MINES AND MINING II I I A 160 ton reduction plant is to bo Installed I Installed at tha Monarch mlno at Atlanta I At-lanta in Idaho The Thunder MountainPearl MIn1 I Ing l compaii Is taking out a patent on Its claims nineteen In number 1 I A force of forty miners is now cm played blocking out ore In the Sunny I side mine In the Thunder Mountain district I The directors of the mint on the 22nd purchased 100000 ounces of sll I I vcr at 07 cents an ounce to bo delivered de-livered at New Orleans The price paid the previous week was CC 02 cents Success of the most generous proportions pro-portions Is attending tho efforts of tho Gray Wutrlor company upon the Idaho I placer possessions on the Holso river about seventyflvu miles northwest of I Boise It Is reported that an Important strike has been made in a property belonging to Charles Neff Mr McBride Mc-Bride and others near the Dowoy mlno at Roosevelt The claim is south and west of tho Dewey s Because of the recent heavy storms all the ore trofllc from American Fork canyon has been suspended The road Is washed out in such a bad condition that it will icquiro some time to repair It for the resumption of are freight inc Tho directors of the Consolidated Mercur company have declared a dividend div-idend of 25000 With this payment tho Consolidated Mercur company will I have distributed to tho fortunate stockholders of the company the sum of 3360il297 It is claimed that tho antimony mines of Utah are greater than any in the entire country and this phase of tho mineral Industry of Utah is assuming as-suming proportions equal to the Importance Im-portance of tho valuable mineral contained con-tained within Utah hills Fire of unknown origin started In the plant of tho National Smelting company at Rapid City S D and owing to the lack of water spread to adjoining property Loss about 150 000 partly covered by insurance The total value of the plant Is 250000 Dr Oscar Eckstein professor of 1 chemistry ut the University of Chicago Chica-go and Dr Wilfred G Frallck of New York City two noted scientists and mining experts are on a prospecting trip in the hills near Doles and it Is reported that they are prosecuting their work In the Interest of big eastern east-ern capitalists A carload of very rich copper ore carrying a little better than 41 percent per-cent was sent out recently by F J Brlnton one of tho leasers at tho Eureka Eu-reka Hill Thin Is no doubt tho best copper oro that has been sent out from Tintlc In years and the carload of oro will bring In tho neighborhood of 4000 The actual mining and sacking of oro has begun at the rich Seven II I I Troughs strike says tho Lovelock Nevada Tribune Tho seam of extremely ex-tremely rich oro is widening with every foot gained In depth while surrounding sur-rounding this 100000 streak Is several sev-eral Inches of ore that will go from 1000 to 5000 D P Rohlllng tho well known mining min-ing engineer nnd manager of the Frisco Fris-co Contact and Lulu companies properties erties at Beaver In Deaver county Utah returned from his three months trip abroad last week During his abs ab-s < nce Mr Hohlflng attended tho international Inter-national gathering of mining engl nears at London A mining suit that promises Interesting Inter-esting developments has been lllod at Carson City Nevada by tho Combination I Combina-tion Mining company against the Mohawk I Mo-hawk Mining ompany alleging that the latter company is working on the I I ore within four feet of tho Combination Combina-tion line which are apexes on the I I Combination claims President Don Magulro of the Napoleon Napo-leon Sr Mnghera Copper Mining com i I i pany whoso mines ale located at the foot of Mt Monte CrIsto about five I miles north of Ogden has just succeeded I suc-ceeded In getting sufllclont miners to double Clew tile work Ho Is driving driv-ing a deep tunnel and tho work has I been delayed owing to a scarcity of suitable labor I Among tho moro recent excitements I excite-ments In Nevada Is that over tho discoveries II I I I cot crles said tov have been mado of I placer gold In a dry lake near tho l I Stonewall mountain For years this dry lake has been traveled by prospectors pros-pectors and investors especially during dur-ing the past two rears and their oat I thought upon minding the dry lake beneath be-neath their feet was to got away from I it as fast as possible A 100 ton milling iHint Is to be erected on the South Africa property i about a mile from Idaho City Tho I a5erago grade ore In this property is put conservatively at 3 a ton and I of this kind of ore It Is estimated there is 1500000 In sight Work is being vigorously prosecuted In getting tho water out of tho Potosi mlno at Sliver City Idaho Considerable Consider-able old junk Including two ore buck I ate an oro car the fly wheel of an engine and an old boiler oup hard been taken out ot th shaft |