Show I MINES AND MINING The Wihuja hi Seven Troughs 1 district Nevada linn just completed a run of slxtyllvo tons through the I Klndergniten mill which brought 1 them 17500 making an average or over flOO to the ton There Is considerable Interest being manifested In the range of mountains moun-tains Immediately cast of Mazuma Nevada where there are a number of properties where sliver and lead prospects pros-pects are said to exist Ten years ago the rank of the copper cop-per producing districts of the country I and their yields In pounds were as follows Montana 210979334 Michigan Mich-igan 150 09098 Arizona 110823 I 8C4 California 21453229 Colorado I 10870809 Utah 5385240 Utah Consolidated has declared the usual quarterly dividend of 50 cents a share payable April 15 to stock of record March 30 transfer books to > I close March 30 3 p m and reopen I April 21 The annual meeting of the I company will bo held April 15 I We have three feet of ore which pans 400 per ton In gold was the message received In Salt Lake last week by M D Dudley and H C Christiansen the principal owners of I the Philudelphta Western mining property I prop-erty of the Hilltop Nevada district I The February statement of the Copper Producers association show that the stock of marketable copper of all kinds on hand at all points In the United States March 1 amounted i to 173284248 pounds an Increase of 29000000 as compared with February Febru-ary 1 A strike of native bismuth Is tho latest for Deep Creek Driving a shaft which was expected to cut out a body of lead ore the miners employed em-ployed by the Clifton Copper Belt Mining company made a strike or what Is said to beSO per cent bismuth bis-muth Following closely on the news that the Lost Packer management was developing de-veloping a banner amount of rich ores on the 700foot level of this Idaho property comes the word that the ore has now been encountered In the 800foot level and It la richer than ever Tho copper production In Arizona last month was 20500000 pounds The Copper Queen led with 9150000 f pounds the Calumet and Arizona and Superior of Plttsburg made 40tiu000 pounds and Senator Clarks United Verde mines gave forth almost 3000 OOii pounds The recent strength and activity In Hay Consolidated Is based upon the steady Increase In the companys oro reserves and tho fact that the Hay denStone syndicate has taken up the 1800000 of bonds upon which it had an option and tho company Is now welt financed J It Weimer ot Salt Lake City who took a bond for the Laurel HilL group in the Elk City Ida district last summer haststartcd a crew at work The claims wore located by aJke Prlchard one otSthe few survivors sur-vivors of the early placer miners and at one time were worked un a comparatively com-paratively large scale 4 Lack of water has compelled a suspension sus-pension of operations at the Daly West Mining companys milling plant I at Park City The lakes on and above Bonanza Flat from which a supply of water Is obtained are said to bo so filled with snow and Ice that there Is nothing of a fluid nature left to run through the pipes The output of copper from tho mines of Utah for the month of Ft b ruary amounted to 7380000 pounds This is a reduction of 800UOO pounds compared with January but compares with about 5500000 pounds In February Feb-ruary a year ago The greater proportion pro-portion ef the output was the product from the Garfield smelter The annual report of the Pittsburg Silver Peak Gold Mining company operating at Blair Nov announces that during the past year 105070 tons of ore were treated In the companys mill The bullion receipts amounted to f84S71344 while tho operating expenses h ex-penses were 49978982 making mho net earnings 34893202 The Boston Sunshine milling plant at Mercur Is about ready for operation opera-tion and Is probably In commission by this time the last piece of machinery arriving the later part of last week The mill wilt have a dally capacity of 200 tons and is said to be modern In every particular There are more men at work lit the Seven Troughs district of Neyada than at any tlmo in tho camps history his-tory No sooner does work ceaso on one property than several others startup start-up There aro seven active properties proper-ties In the Vernon end working their full quota of men A fiftyton carload of oro that will run better than 100 a ton In gold has just been shipped from the Buzzard Buz-zard mine twelve miles south of Battle Mountain Nevadn The Buzzard Buz-zard Is a prospect that was picked up a few months ago by a syndicate of Salt Lake mining men Years ago Mark Twain lived In Humboldt county Nov near time point where several capitalists aru bringing to life a now town In honor of the famous humorist they ham named tho new mining town Twain and they expect It to bo as successful as was Mark Twain It Is reported on good authority that a deal hns practically been consummated consum-mated whereby Matt Hoveck and alt soclates leading Goldfield and Sic > doo operators will shortly operate the Pompeii and Ld Roy mines located three miles north of Searchlight says the nhyollto Dally Bulletin That the final trying out of the Utah Karns Tunneling Machine com panys eightfoot machine was eminently emi-nently satisfactory and that It would soon be started upon the first commercial com-mercial work ever attempted with a rotary tunneling machine Is the word received from Boulder Colo 0 it |