Show eo MINKS I I AND MINING I I I rOil I ran nf oro wjilch nVfrn fell fel-l 1505 15 1 11OS and tGIti per cent coi pir psppctlvoly Is the record hut the Svovndn Uoiiglim Copper company Is letting for November Tile shaft of the Casting Copper at Yurlnglon Is down 110 feet Roil the iivcingo of the whole iltatanro Is 15 per cent copper The highest assay secured was 188 per cent copper Advlces honor the Virgin river Hold are to the fleet that twentyfour rigs lire now at work drilling wells nod an era of activity mien ns him never before be-fore been known In southern Utah is now iimnlfeKt Leasers working In the Eclipse property in the Seven Troughs dU trlct are sacking ore as fast as possl We This ore will run about 100 to the ton on the average hut some of it Is of very high made The inlnciH of Park City have voted to go back to work The properties affected by this action of tho miners arc what ate known us the Hamberger properties comprising the famous Ontario On-tario Daly West and the Dilly Three oil wells have been sunk with satisfactory results In the Virgin oil Held of southern Utah during the pest sixty days and there are at least a dozen more rigs In commission and new strikes are expected every clay That tho district of Rosebud Nev Is waking up to Its opportunities and that work is now started or ready to be started upon several groups Idle for many months is the good word received re-ceived from that district last week Considerable interest has been aroused throughout the west over Congressman Con-gressman Bartletts plan to have tho coming session of congress pass an net by which nil assessment work on mining min-ing claims for 1907 shall be done away withAt At last tho old reliable mining camp of Plocho Nov has a railroad The advent of the railroad was accepted by tho peoplo of Ploche In a very quiet manner but it Is determined to celebrate cele-brate the event In n proper way when the opportune time arrives Tho production of the Butte mines in October was but 8376000 pounds or 2953600 pounds less than the estimated esti-mated output for September and 16 787600 pounds less than the monthly average for the first six months ot 1907 The October output was tht smallest in tho history of tho big mines One of tho really spectacular discoveries dis-coveries during the present resurrection resurrec-tion period of mining In Nevada Is tho property onco known as the Catlin group CO miles cast of Tonopnh Tho rock contains values of f 200 to the ton and so far the now company han blocked out 180000 worth of such rock Tho Degolla and Atkins tungsteh mines on the Mojave desert recognized recog-nized as tho best paying mining properties prop-erties in the west were closed down Saturday of last week and almost a hundred miners handed their checks when they reported for work The cause Is said to be trouble with tho miners Excellent progress attends the sinking sink-ing of tho largo new working shaft at tho Cumberland Ely on Its Veteran mine TJils shaft contains four compartments com-partments and Is live feet six inches by twentysix feet inside timbers Sinking Sink-ing and raising Is in progress ant it will be completed In about two months V L Butler manager of tho ButlerS Butler-S McKInnon Diamond Drill company ot Butte Mont has been in Pioche looking over tho district with a view of determining tho possibilities of work in this section with a diamond drill with the result that tho Nevada Des Moines property will Install a drill at once The Utah Copper company according accord-ing to Boston officials is now the largest producer of copper In Uthi wresting that honor from Utah Consolidated Con-solidated During October It produced liOOOOOO pounds Of this 2100000 pounds woro obtained from its now concentrating plant which produced 1000 tons from concentrates averaging averag-ing 30 per cent copper II N Day the Centerviile Idaho mining man Is handling a large body of black sand from tho old placer dig Kings employing quite a number of men It Is run over YIlfley tables I saving tho monazite which sells for 200 per ton Monazite Is one of the rare metals that has become quite valuable val-uable during late years on account o Its use In tho manufacture of metals for gas lamps Another oil well has been tapped In tho Virgin river Held Tho strike was made In ground owned by a CJoldfleld company headed by McKenzie the wealthy mining operator of that camp on section 11 which begins about 2000 feet west of tho original well of the Virgin City company A sent on the Now York stock exchange ex-change was sold last week for JGO 000 tho lowest price recorded since 1904 when a seat was disposed of for 57 000 The high record price was reached late In 1905 when a scat brought 95 000 and a sale for a like sum was recorded re-corded early In 190C The mysterious mission of well known San Francisco capitalists on the floor of Death Valley of late has been explained by Clarence 13 Kddy who states that tho valley Is full of gold Eddy declares that dirt taken from the valley and panned averaged 20 cents to a handful The quantity of coal used In the manufacture of coko in 190G was 55 716374 short tons valued at 02232 524 Tho value of the coko produced from this coal was 91608034 leaving n difference of 2937GG10 to cover the expenses of manufacture and administration adminis-tration and tho profits |