Show MINES AND MINING I II II I I Junior of halley Idaho I The QuIncy has ix record for producing 1750000 I worth of ore and at depths not excelling I ex-celling 300 feet on any part of tho group Tho ores carry silver and lead word from tho Bullfrog district of Nevada Is to the effect that the Bullfrog Bull-frog Gold Bar company will have IW now milling plant nil ready for operation opera-tion by the middle of the current month A couple of Denver men have invented In-vented a machine that will perhaps become very valuable to placer miners I min-ers It Is an arrangement by which they say all of the gold In sand gravel IB saved The treasury department on Doc Do-c mbcr 4th purchased 300000 ounces if silver at 5S329 cents per line gunco Of tsls 100000 ounces Is to 00 delivered In San Francisco 100000 Ui Denver and 100000 In Philadelphia It Is being talked around that mlno owners of Utah will have to get together to-gether and build works that will make them Independent of tho present smelting concerns or accept longtime long-time contracts at greatly Increased rates The Quincy Junior Mining Milling Mill-ing company at Halley Idaho has closed down the mill for the winter but development work In the mIne Itself It-self will not be allowed to pauso during dur-ing the coming months of mill Inactivity Inac-tivity Tho reports of a combination of smelting Interests In Utah and Colorado Colo-rado for tho purpose of advancing smelting charges and especially on ores from Goldfleld Mr Solomon Guggenheim avers are without foundation foun-dation About 500 men are now on tho payrolls pay-rolls of the Con Mercur at Mercur Utah and they aro producing such results that local circles expect a resumption re-sumption of dividends before tho year 1908 The new slimes plant Is treating treat-ing 400 tons of ore per day Thero aro several properties neat Boise where an abundance of ore may Ibo I-bo had that carries gold values ranging rang-ing from 6 to 8 per ton thut can bo treated at a good profit by tho cyanide cyan-ide l process and a cyanide plant is to be erected In tho near luture Tho production of quicksilver In the United States In 1906 was 26238 flasks of soventyflvo pounds each valued at 958031 as compared with 30451 flasks valued at 1103120 in 1905 a decrease in quantity of 4213 I flasks and in value of 144486 Without waiting for action on the part of tho Nevada Conolldated company com-pany the powers In tho Cumberland Ely company have decided that there shall bo no further delays In hurry ing to completion tho great milling and smelting works at McGlIl NovA Nov-A definite plan of reorganization of the Balakalala Copper company has not been decided upon although the New York management of the company com-pany has submitted a tentative plan to some of the larger Boston Interests Inter-ests whereby a third will be organized organ-ized and through this vehicle an assessment as-sessment of 2 per share is proposed Three mining companies operating In tho Coeur dAleno district In northern Idaho east of Spokane distributed dis-tributed among their stockholder during November dividends to tho amount of 570000 making the total disbursement to date in 1907 4967 500 and 31635807 since the discovery discov-ery of the mines With demand for the metal at a standstill prices for copper have eased off from last weeks figures The domestic consumers refuse to nibble oven though such tempting prices as 13 18 cents are quoted with the result that the foreigners are pick Ing up copper here and there at ad vantageous prices As a producer of the precious metals met-als Nevada Occupies a high place ninong the states and territories of the Union In value of gold product I tho state is outranked only by Colorado Colo-rado Alaska and California while its silver output gives It fifth place Col orado Montana Utah and Idaho tak ing precedence All of tho mines of tho Anaconda company the Butte Boston company com-pany and the Washoe Parrot and Trenton companies will bo closed and the operations of tho Amalgamated copper company confined to the prop cities of tho Boston Montana com pany which embraces tho largest mines In tho Butte district me directors of the Amalgamated Copper company have voted to con tlnuo curtailing tho output of copper from the mines of the company as near as possible on a parity with the present basis of consumption It was also decided to authorize the operat lug officers to close or continue In operation such mines and smelters as they deem best Three mills In tho Bullfrog dis trict of Nevada produced during No vornber the handsome total of 181 000 worth of bullion the leader being tho famous MontgomeryShoshono company The other two mills were the del Bonnlo Clare and tho Keano Won The Goldfield Mlno Owners nasa elation baa given notice to tho miners union declaring that by reason of tho strike all former agreements aro can celed < 21 Is eaixlei1 ns evidence of if htto the eml that the mines wlll only be opened on an basis openshe The directors of uo Nowhoiiso Mines Smelter company have do forred action on tho quarterly dlvl dead Last July the Initial quarterly I dividend of 50 cents per hare declared Tho full forco ww ot 6QQ la expected won to bo Put back shortly to Work |