Show MINES AND MINING During the month of November on tho Salt Lake mining exchange 1031 COS shares of stock with a soiling val Mo of 9fifi5f > 3577 changed hands Fire in the Shattuck Arizona mine nt Blsbep Arizona has already caused SO000 damage and nil of tho openIng open-Ing of tho shaft have been bulk headed In an endeavor to smother the Ham us After many vexatious delays tho manager nt tho Boston Nevada company com-pany has the old Whitney mill at Oscclou Nov In running order and IB now grinding out fifteen tons of firstclass gold ore dally Recent Salt Lake advices nro to tho effect that for tho current month the Utah Copper company will report a refined output of approximately 3000 000 pounds secured from the dally i treatment of 3700 tons of ore IOn I-On direct orders from Samuel Now house tho Cactus mines and milling plant of tho Newliouso Mines Smelters Smel-ters corporation uro to bo operated at capacity again and Superintendent A D Moffut is now marshaling his forces Out of three wells In the Virgin field that have reached the first stratum all three lave struck oil Several other wells should have been to this Initial strautn long ago had It not been for misfortune In handling tho equipment Tho production of both gold and silver In Arlona In 1900 was In excess ex-cess of that In 1005 according to tho statistics collected by the United States Geological survey The gold production amounted to 29G4C83 an increase of 1G54C9 Ono mining section of Idaho that Is not feeling tho present clumpy tendency ten-dency throughout tho country Is the Spring Mountain district of Lemhl county There are eight producing mines In tho district the ores carryIng carry-Ing lead and copper Tho directors of tho Goldfield Consolidated Con-solidated Mines company after extended ex-tended discussion of conditions both local and general voted to pass tho dividend for tho current month This I conclusion was the result mainly of local labor conditions I That tho now concentrating plant of tho Ohio Copper company when ready for commission will Illustrate perfection In tho modern metallurgists metallur-gists art is tho opinion of David Keith president of the Silver King Coalition Mines company I The value of tho coal used In tho manufacture of echo in 190U was G2 232024 compared with 50C14C74 in 1905 a considerable difference in valuo ns compared with quantity In 1905 tho average value per ton was 102 and in 190C it was 112 In recent months there has been quite a falling off in too imports of diamonds produced originally in South Africa Brazil and elsewhere and sold largely through dealers in Great i Britain Holland Belgium an i France Reason tor tho smaller demand maybe may-be found In tho reaction in buslnfas generally The Hatmapan Mining co m ny which has been developing its property prop-erty at Hannapnn about eighteen miles east of Tonopah for tho past five years practically without interruption inter-ruption Ivan closed down for lack of funds and tho enUro force of workmen work-men were discharged with three months wages due The Iron Trade Review says With improvement in financial conditions there is a more hopeful feeling in the II Iron trade nnd tlvero Is also increasing increas-ing confidence that when bottom prices have boon struck there will boa bo-a buying movement of considerable volume but in actual transactions there is little Improvement Tho curtailment of raw iron production produc-tion which is the first step toward reducing the output of finished iron and steel has started in a sharp and decisive way It began in the last week of October and up to date over fifty furnaces havo been blown out reducing tho weekly productive capacity ca-pacity for pig iron 10 per cent Oro and bullion settlements in the Salt Lake open market for tho past month as reported by McCormick Co amounted to 1929000 us compared com-pared with 301200Q for the month lYovlous The falling off is due entirely I en-tirely to tho tight money situation und the refusal of smelting companies to accept the usual tonnago of ore Statistics collected by the United I States Geological survey show that I Colorado still outranks any other state or territory in tho Union Including In-cluding Alaska In the production of tho precious motnls despite the fact that tho gold production oC tho state In 1 JOG fell short nearly 2000000 of that of 1905 tho precise figures bo tag output 23210029 decrease 1 813344 A report is current that tho oil strike In tho Cedar City companys well in the Virgin river field is fully as important as that made in the Kliy ollto No 1 well from which ns much ns 100 barrels havo been pumped In one day without learning its real capacity ca-pacity Tim suspension of construction by the Balaklala Copper company at Coram Co-ram Cal which was reported recently recent-ly appears to bo duo chiefly to lack of funds it being stated in a circular letter to its stockholders that tho estimates es-timates of the engineers have been exceeded J D Hawkins general manager ot Limo United States Reduction and Refining Re-fining company says that during the past six weeks the gold are output ot the Cripple Creek district had more than doubled and that tho district has not shown such activity for sov era years |