Show MINES AND MINING Tho Utah Consolidated Gypsum company at Lovan Juab county Utah has recently erected a gypsum mill on their property The Marysvnle or cast section of the Gold Mountain country In Utah U looking more encouraging and hopeful right now than It has for twelve or fifteen years A twelveInch vein of Men galena ore was uncovered fifty feet below the sum face In the IJaslu properly nt Wallace Idaho last week Senator Heyburn Is one of the owners of this mine A strike of gold In the grass roots In the Left Flank claim on Michigan hill near Centennial Wyo hua made excitement At thirty feet a three foot ledge showing 10 to tho ton was uncovered Tho largest and richest natural slulco box in tho world and perhaps the greatest deposit of gold on earth is to be found in tho combined gold of the black sand concentrates of the Snake river Idaho Tho Washington Mining Milling company operating rich gold properties proper-ties on Bear creek In tho Marshall lake district Is running a night and day shift the stamp mill being kept In operation sixteen hours out of 24 There Is a great deal of metal mining min-ing going on In the region radiating from Pocatello and tho opening of good coal measures in that section will do more to build up southeastern Idaho Ida-ho than anything that has ever happened hap-pened Tho Nqrth Star mine on tho cast fork of Wood river will soon Join tho ranks of producing mines Two years and a half ago the Hatiey mining bureau bu-reau secured a lease upon it with an option to purchase at riiy time within five years for 500000 A man named La Point has been at work on the Snake rive below Parma Idaho Installing a small plant for Bav Ing tho values from tho river sands This plant has been worked for somfl time and tho results are so satlsfao tory that a large one is to be installed Work at the Petit mine at Atlanta Idaho Is being rushed The powef plant is being put In and It will bone b-one of the fine ones of this part ot the state The plant will be supplied through a flume 1800 feet In length from which a fall of 58 feet la secured Tho manager of the Rainbow com panys properties In Little Cottonwood district reports having tapped high grade silverlend ores In that property proper-ty and ho Is now certain that ho U going to make a mine of It Tho oro shows 189 ounces of silver 25 percent per-cent lead and 40c in gold with some opper A Spokane dispatch pays that Thos L Greenough millionaire mining man and former partner of Peter Larson has announced tho purchase of 22000 acres of placer ground in Fremont county 22 miles from Lander the nearest railway point and will spend 1000000 In Improvements on the property 011 locations arc being made nlno miles south of Lovan in Juab county coun-ty Utah and the locators believe they will develop some phenomenally rich oil properties 011 Will shipped from this section In small quantities several sever-al years ago but lack of capital and proper facilities resulted In a cessation cessa-tion of development The Mink Creek coal mines near Pocatello Idaho have been opened to a depth of 300 feet on the dip of the vein which Is twelve feet thick between be-tween walls and which has a pitch ot between 30 and 35 per cent from the horizontal The quality of the coal la i I Improving with depth and the mine will undoubtedly mako fortunes for its owners Tho antimony district of Utah Is In tho northeast corner of Garfield county coun-ty about 200 miles from Salt Lake City A rancher discovered the antimony anti-mony properties some twentysix years ago and but Itttlo work has been hal done nut now Montana capital taken hold of the proposition and E 100ton concentrating mill to handle I the lower grades 01 ore IB nearing corn plctlon Sheridan county Wyoming coalmines coal-mines have practically doubled theh capacity since last season and the coming winter will witness by far the greatest business ever handled from tho field Anticipating tho tremendous tremen-dous tonnage the Burlington has purchased pur-chased 100 new engines of the heav and lest typo ot freight locomotives added 3000 cars to Its equipment Sheridan operators say if sufficient miners can be secured tho output will practically double that of any previous pre-vious year According to producers of copper tho supplies In consumers hands are lower than they have been In years in Ono producer says even tho copper the form of scrap has been practically consumed and that manufacturers cannot can-not stay out of the market two weeks longer It Is stated that the Big Giant property prop-erty near Boise as It stands would keep a 1000ton plant running It is tho plan of the company however after af-ter making a working test to determine deter-mine finally what process Is adapted to the ores to put In a mill of 300 tons I capacity The Mocha mining company of the Coeur dAleno district of Idaho lust week paid a regular monthly dividend divi-dend of 20000 on Tuesday This Is at tho rate ot 2 cents a share and to total paid for tho year Is 132000 and the grand total of all dividends paid IS > 1320000 At tho Cougar mine In the Pierce district Idaho they have a 75 foot dump In front ot tho tunnel and this will bo roofed over so the work can bo carried on this winter without Interference In-terference from the snow They aro I also making preparations to cork the mine all winter |