Show 1 J MINES AND MINING Fiftysix dollar oro has boon encountered en-countered In n COfoot shaft on tho Pal ncoGoldflold < property at Goldfield Nevada Ne-vada C E Wod of Denver was In Salt ° Lake City last week working up Interest Inter-est In tho approaching annual convention conven-tion of the Mining Congress Tho manager of tho Stray Dog mlno at Manhattan Nevada reports 300 000 worth of ore blocked out by the miners during the past two weeks Tho directors of the mint on tho 19th purchased 200000 ounces of fine silver half for the Denver nnd half for tho New Oilcans mint at C880 cent per ounce The Irvine boys who own the Good i Enough property In the Wnrren ills trlct In Idaho have their lo stump mill In operation again nnd ore enough insight In-sight to supply It Indefinitely A recent trial shipment from the Granite group of claims In Alta district dis-trict was moat gratifying the returns being 640 In gold 4204 ounces silver und GO per cent copper per ton The Pettit mine at Atlanta Idaho has been purchased by tho Bagdad Chase Mining company of Rochester N Y who will erect a GOton mill on the property The price paid for this i property was 100000 The American Smelting Refining C company has consummated a deal whereby It comes Into posBeasIbn a limestone quarry a mile and a halt s long 700 or 800 ft thick and a quarter of a mile wide located at Topliff inRush in-Rush valley In the Good Luck mine In Stanley Basin the entire bottom of tho shaft is in ore that carries one and onehalt ounces of gold per ton In addition to six ounces of silver while In the Lit tlo Pete are values as high as 104 ounces In cold per ton In tho old tunnel of the Valcalda mine In the Sltor peak district of Nevada the ri i hoot has been penetrated pene-trated for a distance of 230 feet whllo tho first crosscut shows a width of forty for-ty feet of ore that average sampling gives a value of 60 a ton At present Furnace Creek and Green water are reached by stage from Johnnie John-nie Nevada but will soon have railroad rail-road facilities within six miles as the railroad owned by Borax Smith of California Is being extended from the borax lakes to the Bullfrog district The plan Is to put In an entirely new mill next year at the Sunnysldat mine at Roosevelt Idaho with a capari I Ity of from 200 to 300 tons The plant now on the mine Is In a very unsatisfactory unsatis-factory condition and cannot be putt In good shape for permanent work There Is twelve feet of solid galena In the Callahan property ten miles north of Wallace Idaho Tho first car was shipped last week and regular shipments will be made from now on The property was located twentytwo years ago by James and John Callahan The force of miners at the West To nopah was Increased last week to three shifts and the management announces an-nounces that it will push development work more vigorously than ever according ac-cording to the Tonopah Miner Tho shaft Is down 820 feet and crosscuts are being run north and south at this depth The mine owners of TlUrs jrojusu to for a permanent organization that will have for Its object tnc mutual benefit ben-efit of all companies operating In the district The value of such an organization organ-ization was made apparent in tho recent re-cent negotiations with tho railroad companies for a readjustment the freight schedule A district of Utah which Is attracting attract-ing considerable attention at this thuD owlug to the magnificent developments on scores of properties is that of Deavor county the home of the Cactus Cac-tus mine and other hell properties decides de-cides numerous mines of which JilUo is heard but have the earmarks of tu tire dtvh and producTS George Wilson siip9rlntondcnt of the NevadaSuperior and Antelope companies adjoining properties in the Antelope district Humboldt county Nevada states that a boom has been started In tho country to tho north from the properties mentioned Prospectors Pros-pectors are swarming in and some fine discoveries of gold are being made On Tuesday of last week was commenced com-menced the work of laying the Montezuma Monte-zuma Water companys pipe line from t Curtes springs at LIdo to Goldfield a Tho problem of supplying this rapidly growing town with water Is one which has taken considerable time and involved In-volved the expenditure of much money the sum being expended by thd company being about 300000 September 10 while the men wero t timbering the sides of tho Eagle turn noi an Idaho property the whole taco caved oft disclosing six feet of high grade silver ore The tunnel Is being run to the side of what was known to bo oro running from 64 to 188 per ton There are on exhibition in Salt Lake City como fine specimens of molybdenum molybde-num ore from the Southern Pacific mine in the Sierra Madre district near Ogden This Is one of the few properties proper-ties of tile West that has shown any quantities of molybdenum In the workings work-ings |