Show a rrarra WINES AND MINING From nil the present Indications tho Rosa Bud mining district of Htimboldt a county Nev will bo the scene of the ext wild excitement In that state It Is stated that the Xllllg and John Eon properties in Stntcllno district Utah have changed hands hut who ho purchasers are and the consideration considera-tion are not known Negotiations are under way In Slt Lake City through which a regular t auto lino from Hiimbohlt to the Host pUll mining district Is to be cstab tlshod without delay The directors of the Utah Mimic company met last week and ported t the usual dividend of 3 cents a share and ns they did last month also ordered or-dered the payment of 2 cents as an extra f The producing mines of tho Coctlr dAlenes will make a mineral yield his year of something like 20000000 In gross value and will probably pay between 5000000 and 0000000 In dividends All of the largo mining corporation of Butt at noon November 10 posted notices at their properties that beginning be-ginning November 1C the wages ot nIl underground men would ho Increased from 3GO to 375 a day The first ore shipment from the Dull frog distrlcf over the new Las Vegas Tonopah railroad recently completed com-pleted In tho camp has Just been made It consisted ot 42 tons of high grade ore from tho Tramp Consolidated Consolidat-ed on Bonanza mountain A Utah copper district which ls y bound to be heard from as soon ns the main company operating there hall completed the Improvements now hoj t lag rushed Is tho Copper Mountain camp In tho Lucln district sevoni miles southeast ot Tncoma station Upon tho completion of the Iranc1u railroad from Callente to Ploche ant undertakIng now well under way there will bo added to the shippers ot ore to the Salt Lake market the Linden r Lin-den group of properties recently purchased > A pur-chased by Tony Jacobson of Salt Lake City J P Olymplus the experienced mining t min-ing man and operator roturned last week from a ten days trip to Beaver county Utah where he reports having secured a group of eighteen claims In tho Indian Peak range about two I miles from Indian Peak Ho says It is an enormously mineralized section sec-tion The Snowstorm copper mine three miles east of Mullan Idaho has made fully a score of people Independently rich within the past two years When the Greenouglj brothers became interested Inter-ested In the property about three years ago It was looked upon rim a joke and Its shares were changing hands at from ono to five cents The Revenue company operating In Beaver county Utah will soon send out a few carloads of 200 ore Just to make tholr statements concerning the values which the ores contain good a At the mouth of tho tunnel workings from which the rich shipments are to bo made there aro now over thirty tons of ore sacked that samplos 41 per cent lead 198 ounces silver and 1750 In gold per ton The Coeur dAleno district ot Idaho Is beat known as a leadsilver district and In fact as such It Is without a peer In the mining world Its lead ores are noted for their purity and freedom from objectionable sulphides Its resources however are by no means confined to lead and silver but comprise an Important variety of ores including copper deposits that Indicate t a resource of the red metal equal of ° Importance with the lead One of tho most Interesting pursuits In America today Is the search of platinum Heretofore Jts production has been limited chiefly to Russia and I some South American countries Russia Rus-sia furnishing 95 per cent of tho worlds supply but there are many indications in-dications that quantities of it will bo mined In the United States In a few years at most Several American firms have sent out their own prospectors prospec-tors to search for It Silver Is going to reach a price of 70 or better within two years and it a Is going to hold that price said George W Roberts director ot Tie United States mints at Denver In an Interview last week I believe that hundreds of silver mines throughout tho west which have been shut down F for more than ten years because of the fall In price will bo opening up agaIn the within a year simply because price of tho metal will make It worthwhile worth-while Tho American Smelting Refining company which has practical control of the silver market has supplied allot all-ot the C000000 ounces of silver already al-ready bought by the treasury except a few thousand ounces The treasury will buy nearly 3000000 more ounces An assay was had In Salt Luke last week on a chunk of ore from the now I Powhattan strike that had no suspicion suspi-cion of ruby silver or other motalllcs t In It and the returns showed 21 ounces gold and 1218 ounces silver giving the rock a valuation of overt A 900 per ton 4 u |