Show MINES AND MINING I There Is more legitimate mining goIng go-Ing on In Nevada and more mineral lu Right than ever beforo In Die history his-tory of tho state Some high grade copper sulphides that camo from n copper property on Chuar creek near Kanab Utah MO being exhibited by the fortunate discoverers dis-coverers The collapse of a flue leading to tho great stuck of the Wushoo smeller In Anaconda caused n cessation of operations oper-ations except In the concentrator for three days GunuThompson company Is taking steps to connect Its mines In tho Rock Springs Wyo section with thu muln railroad line tho separating distance dis-tance being 3 Mi miles t The Tonabo mining district In Nevada Ne-vada 15 1 located about twentythree miles southwest of Beownwo in lan dor county connected with the latter point l by a goqd wngon road There has been a great deal of activity nativity tivity In the Bullion district of Nevada Ne-vada during the past few weeks At least a dozen deals of considerable Importance have been consummated Over 10000 sacks of are are lying at tho Kalamazoo mine near American Ameri-can Fork Utah awaiting shipment the roads being In such bad condition that It Is Impossible to bring It to tho market A rich strike Is reported In tht Golden Chest mine at Murray Ida Tho strike Is said to have been made on tho lower 2000foot crosscut tunnel to tho west and two veins are reported report-ed to havo been opened An account of a splendid find of copper ore In Box Elder county Utah Is becoming current and Just enough I detail Is known to cause property hunters to hike out to determine tho situation for themselves Incorporation papers havo boon filed at Augusta Maine for tho Dos tonIdaho Mining company with a capital cap-ital of 200000 All the promoters named are residents of South Berwick Ber-wick Maine and Dover Now Hampshire Hamp-shire From Elko Is being surveyed a rah road to Tuscarora This road Is to bo built presumably by tho Tuscarora Nevada Mines company tho organization organiza-tion that has gathered In all tho famous fa-mous old bonanzas of that portion 01 tho state of Nevada It is understood the negotiations are under way for a mining deal which will give F Augustus Holnzo Senator Thomas Kearns J B Kloth and other associates complete control of tho Silver King coalition mines ana the McGregor ground in Utah According to statistics compiled for the United States geological survey by Edward W Parker coal mining expert In charge tho total production of coal In the United States in 190G was 414039531 short tons of 2000 pounds valued at 51201074 A circular has been Issued by tho executive board of the Western Federation Fed-eration of Minors now In session ID Denver directing union minors and those In sympathy with them to remain re-main awuy from Blsbco Ariz as a strike has been ordered In that camp > The Yerington Copper company operating a splendid group In tho Ycrlngtou district has at last started start-ed upon the Interesting work of going go-ing to depths with Its now equipment upon tho rich ore chute recently encountered en-countered in tho main or new shaft There is considerable Interest In the Rankin mining district situated on tho cast side of Cuddy mountain eight miles northwest of Cambridge Idaho Development there I is1 > I but j slight but there appear to be outcropping out-cropping veins of quartz bearing gola and copper within a granite country lock One of the Interesting facts pre sented in the statistics of coal production pro-duction last year is that West Virginia Vir-ginia has supplanted Illinois as tho second coal producing state West Virginia showing a total output cti 43276185 abort tons while the production pro-duction of Illinois was 41197435 short tons Word comes from New York that the Meerschaum company of America has just finished an examination of 300 acres of its New Mexico meerschaum meer-schaum deposits with the result that two true fissure veins wero uncovered uncov-ered more than 1200 feet In length The meerschaum is stated to be of magnificent quality The Heath district in Idaho will be quite active this season Half a dozen properties there have been I opened to quite an extent by means i of adits and crosscuts tho slope of I the mountain being such as to enable en-able the miners to open tho veins of ore without the necessity of sinking shafts as a rule The Bald Butte Mining Co has resumed dividends and has declared a quarterly dividend of 3 per cent payable July 1 There aro C50 stockholders stock-holders tho large majority of whom aro New Englanders To date tho company has paid 1350000 in dividends divi-dends Tho Independence mine on Smith reek 35 mills southoast from Wai ren Idaho Is controlled by Topeka Kansas people J B Warner of that place being manager II H Potter who is In general charge of the property prop-erty states that work will be reaum vt next month |