Show MINES AND MINING The United States Smelting company com-pany is now producing copper from its own properties at tho rate of about 0000000 pounds per annum With a primitive orrastra stationed In tho backyard of his ranch home In tho Blackhorso district Thomas Watkins Wat-kins father of tho district is treating BOO and 900 pounds of ore a day from which ho takes 40 and 50 11 gold Streaks of talc panning gold freely have como into the shaft of the Seven Troughs Humboldt company at the depth of 86 feet At the depth of 100 feet another crosscut will be run and from present Indications a good bod of oro should be encountered The well of the Mt Nebo Oil company com-pany in the Juab oil field has nt tamed tho depth of 580 feet will work continuing In favorable forma lion Tho artesian well which Is beIng be-Ing sunk for the state In Dog valley the drilling rig of the Juab 011 company com-pany being used In tho work Is down 230 feet Latest report from Seven Troughs Is that a six days run of tho Huntington Hunting-ton mill recently Installed on the lease yielded 300 ounces of amalgam twothirds of which would bo metal about equally divided In weight between be-tween gold and silver This means that tho cleanup would bo worth at least 2000 A district two and a half mllos wide by six miles long iwhlch is virtual one vast deposit of copper has been discovered near Kamloops B C about 250 miles east of Vancouver and 200 miles north of tho boundary lne The discoverers are claiming It to bo tho greatest copper discovery In tho world Preparations arb being rtiada to blow In the smelter at Lemhi Idaho within the next sixty days The mines of that region have been piling up their ores In dumps and bins In anticipation of the opening of tho smelter so that there Is no doubt of there being sufllclcnt tonnage at hand to assure a long run Tho Vulcan Shipbuilding Works of Stettin Germany adulated with the Krupp Steel Works placed an order In the domestic market last week for a large tonnage of electrolytic copper to bo shipped In February Four other orders from German copper consumers con-sumers and factors are reported by local copper producers Tho coal industry in the United States has grown with amazing rapidity rap-idity Since 1890 when this country wrested the supremacy from the United Unit-ed Kingdom Its coal output has increased In-creased so that at present we are producing pro-ducing upward of 200000000 tons more each year than the United Kingdom King-dom our nearest competitor Tho gold discovery made a few months ago by Charles Rives Is developing devel-oping In a way which gives promise of adding an Important secelton to the Pioche belt At the depth of 140 feet Mr Rives has exposed a well defined de-fined quartz ledge twenty and twenty five feet wide which yields for Its entire en-tire width gold values of 7 and 8 a ton The William B Thompson interests largely centered In Ely have decld ed upon building a railroad from Ely to Goldfield according to tho Boston News bureau and a surveying party will Immediately enter the field to Im prove upon tho present survey Tho new road will be 207 miles in length and will cost between 3500000 and 4000000 Tho Copper River railroad Jointly owned by J P Morgan Co and the Guggenheims has been completed from Cordova Alaska to a point above Abercromblo Rapids on the Copper river a distance of about fifty four miles The road will aid la the early development of tho great mining I min-ing region of tho upper Copper and Chltlna rivers As tho result of a decision by Judgo Hunt of Helena tho farmers lose their case against tho Anaconda smelter smel-ter and the smelter will not be compelled com-pelled to close down Tho case has cost more than half a million dollars since the farmers decided their crops wero being destroyed by the fumes from the smelter and brought suit to put It out of business Thomas McFarlane a mining man of San Bernardino Cal claims he has at last made tho longexpected discovery discov-ery of a diamond mine in that county His find Is on the high mountains which fringe Death valley at a point whore ho can look upon Mt Whitney probably tho highest mountain In the country and down to tho lowest point on tho continent tho pit of Death valley According to a report which seems to be well based Senator Guggenheim has ny do the statement that should thbro bo any legislation in Colorado which affected his company adversely ho would shut down all tho smelters in tho state says tho Mining Science of Denver The Combination Fraction mine controlled by Georgo WIngfield and Senator George S Nixon has taken over the mill of the Nevada Goldfleld Reduction company on a long lease and will use the mill for the reduction reduc-tion and sampling of all ores taken from tho mine Frank Irwin who has been In Alaska for somo time writes to his family In Boise Idaho that ho has struck It rich In his search for gold Ho has forwarded to his family about forty small nuggets which aggregate a considerable value and also a chain of nuggets A twofoot body of solid oro averag ing it is said C5 per cent lead running run-ning high In sliver and carrying some gold has been opened In tho property of the Lehl Tintlc Mining company In tho North Tintlc district about three and ono half miles nearly lime north of time Colorado mine |