Show e9 t I JI i i MINES AND MINING A greater number of dividend payers nro to bo found In tho mines of Tin tic district than Iti any other district of tho Btnto of Utah A report from Klk City states that will bo employed a crow of forty men at the Duster mine during tho winter In extensive development work There has been found to exist In Utah possibly as great a variety of commercially valuable minerals us Is to bo found In any like area on tho face of tho earth A report has been received of an Important Im-portant strike In tho Bluejacket mlno on Crooked creek near tho Salmon river In the southerly end of tho Buffalo Buf-falo Hump camp A tunnel la being driven on the vein In tho Black Warrior mlno III tho Black Warrior district of Idaho assays as-says of tho ore encountered showing values of 6282 per ton Fire at the Consolidated Morcur mines at Mercur Utah last week destroyed de-stroyed a number of buildings but It is not believed It will be necessary to closo down any part of the workings work-ings With the increased output of tho mines of Utah has arisen the need for Increased smelting facilities and every smelter In the Salt Lake valley has either Increased or Is Increasing Its capacity until today the valley Is avery a-very Important smelting center A most striking feature of copper mining In tho BIngham district In tho last two or three years Is tho complete com-plete success of experiments made In the treatment by concentration of the socaled disseminated ores In which small particles of copper sulphide occur oc-cur disseminating through altered porphyry por-phyry Utah is putting on tho market over a million and a half tons of coal per year This supply comes principally from Sevior Emery Carbon and Grand counties in the east central part of the state Three other coalfields coal-fields of less Importance are the Weber We-ber river the Sanpete and the Iron county fields Park City which has long held the reputation of being one of the leading lead-ing silverlead camps In this country holds its own in tho advancement of mining in Utah The out jut for the past year amounted to upwards of 1000000 tons The Silver Klug the DalyWest DalyJudge and Little Bell are the heaviest producers Professor F E Fielding for thirty years chief consulting engineer and expert on the staff of tho Comstock magnates Mackay and Fair has been making an examination of tho Chicago Nevada companys properties In tho Dietrich district eighteen miles out of Virginia City and has nothing but words of praise for that district Tho Utah Eastern Copper company com-pany operating the Dixie mines below be-low St George Utah nowlms Its copper cop-per smelter at Sliem a few miles from I the mine in full operation From tho treatment of about forty tons of oro ft day approximately 7000 pounds or threo and a half tons of copper Is being produced every twentyfour hours Alta tho once famous little Cottonwood Cotton-wood camp has recently come again Into prominence The production of lead silver and gold from the old Emma Em-ma and 1lagstaff properties during tho 70s and early SOs amounted to millions After a period of less activity ac-tivity recent developments In this district dis-trict are disclosing enormous oro bodies Utah has Immense deposits of rock gypsum within her borders The most Important deposits occur In the central cen-tral and southern portions of the state In Juab county east of Nephl In San pete and Sevler counties near Salina lu Mlllard county at White mountain near Fillinoro and In Wayne county In south Washington Tho great Sierra Madro mountain north of Ogden seem to carry jyjt only many of the rare metals such as tungstate molybdenum and other such metals but It has a ledge of tho rare stone the garnet which Is used so extensively as a polisher for the metals met-als and the supply of which In tho United States Is not equal to the de nand As a result of meetings of the directors di-rectors of the Nevada Consolidated and Cumberland Ely Mining companies compa-nies in Now York the latter part of last week it has been agreed that thin Cumberland Ely company will have a half Interest In the 0000000 reduction works to be built by the Ne vada Consolidated company and tho C umberland Ely company also secures a half ownership in the Nevada North crn railroad which wan built by tho Nevada Consolidated company This is t considered n find step in tho ultimate ulti-mate consolidation of these two prop crtles both of which are controlled by tho Guggenhelms At present the main workings of the Crackerjack mine in the Buffalo IIl1mp I district of Idaho are being car ried on In ore that assays more than 100 to the ton and this IB being stored ready to bo milled Just as soon ns tho now plant Is completed which will bo In less than threo weeks I Joseph T Jenkins for many years mining editor of the Salt Lake crib mine and for the past year editor of Iho > mining department of the Inter moimta Uopnbllcan has tendered his resignation In order to Join forces with a big brokerage anti promotion 111111 in Now Yorl |