Show MINES AND MINING For the first six mouths this yea tlio Exports or domestic gold from tho United Status amounted to 45285799 aa against 20000208 In 1907 During the monh of July 1907 tho coal mints at Clear Crock were worked twentysix days This year they have been waked only I thirteen daysA A new mining camp has been brought to light half way between Kawlcli and Sliver How on tho cast slopo of tho Kivwlch range and at tho foot of tho range that separates the Hovelllo range from tho Kawich Tho report cornea from Park City that John J Daly and John McSorley have taken an option on the Uouldcr Basin group of claims In tho Bonanza Flat section and that they have until un-til January first to pay 00000 for tho mime Tho continued activity that Is being taken In American Fork canyon and tho prevailing spirit at every claim I where men arc developing properties proper-ties shows tho confidence which experienced ex-perienced men and minors have In the district While the management Is having mighty little to say about conditions It comes from a good source that tho Cactus property of tho Kowhouso Mines Smelters corporation In Denver county Is developing In a manner that Is altogether gratifying For tho quarter ending Juno 30 the Utah Copper companys gross production pro-duction of copper amounted to 11 EG8390 pounds The average cost for tho quarter was 816 cents per pound on the net copper resulting after allowing smelter deductions James Hague of New York a well known mining engineer and president of tho North Star Gold Mining company com-pany of Grass Valley Cal died at his summer residence at Stockbrldgo Mass aged seventytwo years Mr Hague was consulting engineer for tho state of California for several years Eighteen Inches of shipping oro was encountered on the faco of tho tunnel on the Martin Qourdlor lease at a depth of eighty feet all tho Mazuma Hills at Seven Troughs last week The strike occurs In a big parallel vein GOO feet west of the famous fa-mous Mazuma Hills vein In entirely new ground Speaking of tho Elk mining district of Idaho tho Elk City News says A wild boom Is not necessary In central Idaho The districts havo everything that Is required for legitimate mining min-ing Tho country Is ripe for tho railroad t rail-road and its builders will got their share of tho money that goes with tho prosperity Good progress continues to be mado In the erection and equipment of tho new GO0 ton mill of tho Goldfield Consolidated Con-solidated company All tho retaining walls and heavy foundations aro completed com-pleted and tho water storage tanks aro erected and in commission A locomotive and Six cars havo arrived and are satisfactory Tho Bingham Butte Mining company com-pany of Bingham Utah has started a campaign of development work that will begin giving results at an early date It Is tho intention of tho management to send the shaft on down another 100 feet then to upraise up-raise on the oro body now developed at tho deepest level While not desiring to give any dato on which the Daly Judge company of Park City will cut loose with three shifts both in the oro bodies of tho mlno and in the mill General Manager Man-ager George W Lambourno stated last week that the force of miners employed on development work was being added to right along Tho now hoisting equipment of the PlochePoclBc Mining company at Ploche Nevada has been Installed and is now doing splendid work Tho hoist was set abovo tho new shaft which was over 80 feet In depth at that time and tho shaft is now down at least 100 feet By the time tho 150 foot level Is gained it is expected that tho Zero vein will havo been encountered encoun-tered The entire hoisting plant of tho Copper King company has been purchased pur-chased for tho Red Warrior mine in Beaver county Tho plant consists of a largo gasoline engine a compressor and other machinery and is of sufficient suffi-cient capacity to handle a largo amount of ore Another shipper has been added to tho list of Phoebe producers In tho Old Timor The property is ono of tho noted old producers of tho Ploche district dis-trict although it has not been counted count-ed on as a shipper for many years The value of tho are shipped runs from 80 on up A deposit of asbestos in tho form sometimes called mountain cork has been discovered near Henryvillo It Is in a vein about four feet wide lying between sand and spar In appearance ap-pearance tho stuff is not unlike gypsum gyp-sum o and In weight it is probably no heavier than cork The total production of coal in Idaho In 1907 was 6508 short tons i having a spot value of 26491 says tho bulletin of tho United States geological geo-logical survey Lignite beds occur In several areas In Idaho but little mining min-ing has been done until within tho last five or six years Tho now stamp mill of tho Stuart Gold Mines Holding company at its Cocomongo property five miles from Cherry Creek Nevada was started a few days ago under auspicious circumstances cir-cumstances The new plant consists of four NIssen stamps with a capacity of forty tons a day Tho PIttsburg Consolidated Mining ft Milling company now controlled by tho Aatlonal Development company IB about to start a campaign of activity ac-tivity tho object of which Is to mlno tho oro bodies which aro known to exist In tho companys property la tho American Fork district |