Show I i MINES AND MINING The production gold In Utah in I 1006 amounted to E2J83SG an increase In-crease of 974GC over that of 100C I Desplto tho stringency In too money market tho mono required for the cyanide plant to ho erected at I Boise Idaho has been raised There are six set of leasers workIng work-Ing on flu Honcrlno properties at Stockton and oro Is being forwarded to the valley smelters each week In the Virgin river oil section thero are sixteen rigs now set up ready for action many of which are hard at work drilling Such as aro Idlo aro < awaiting the arrival of broken parts A suit Is to ho brought to test the validity of tho corporation license tax law passed by tho last session ol tho Utah legislature Over 100 cor poratlons have joined In the expense of conducting the fight Tho production of zinc oxide ot zinc white In this country In 1006 was 164676188 pounds or 74680 short tons an increase of 6977 tons or 87 per cent over tho production OM 1U JJVU Baker City and 1ayotto have organIzed organ-ized an oil company They have secured se-cured land near the well of tho Oregon Ore-gon company at Payette Idaho and propose to begin drilling with as little delay us possible Novembers copper exports woro 33787 tons establishing a now record and bringing the total of 1907 to dato hack to a figure only 1448 tons below last years exports The Increase over October was 6001 tons over November Novem-ber last year 15330 The cleanup of the Sunnysldo mill for tho month of November was nearly near-ly 20000 says tho Round Mountain Nevada Nugget This was gathered In three retorts which had a temporary j tempo-rary resting place In the company safa I until Its removal last week The old Ketchum smelter between Kotchum and the Guyer hot springs Is being demolished Most of the timbers tim-bers and other wood work has been shipped much of It to Nampa where It will be used to build sheds and a warehouse for tho sugar factory One of the largeut Independent smelters In the wost will probably be built at Leadville Colorado within tho next year by the owners of the famous Greenback mine at Bingham Utah This syndicate owns the smelter at Blngham which has been closed down by Injunction proceedIngs proceed-ings Before action was taken to closedown close-down the Wnshoe smelter and Butte mines the situation was carefully canvassed by tho officials of the various vari-ous Amalgamated subsidiary companies com-panies There were present at tho conference which lasted three days H II Rogers James Stlllman and William Rockefeller P C Cooley representing tho Mine Smelter Supply company In Salt Lake has been making an Investigation Investiga-tion of the southern Utah oil fields and has returned so Impressed with their future and present needs that no has recommended to his house that a full lino of oil drilling rigs tools machinery I ma-chinery casing and supplies be put In at once I A letter from tho superintendent of I the Yerington Copper Mountain com i panys properties to a prominent Salt Laker advises that the shaft on the I companys Lydia claim has attained a depth of flftyonu feet and that there has been eighteen inches of fine copper ore In evidence for every foot from the surface down with tho best showing In the bottom Tho mine owners of Fallview Wonder Won-der Yerington and considerable other mineralproducing territory In that region re-gion have got to get relief from some sources one of these days and tho Impression Is that some of tho big companies will get together during the winter and decide to put in mills and smelters and invade the metal mar huts on their own accounts during the coming year A general improvement la sentiment senti-ment Is noticeable In tho Iron world Every one seems to be awaiting tho time when Increased activity will be Justified It seems to be the general Impression of the fumace managers from all the different districts that long depression need not be looked for and that In the early part of next year considerable Inquiry for pig Iron may be expected One mining section of Idaho that Is I not feeling the present slumpy ten dency throughout tho country is the Spring Mountain district of Lemhl county There are eight producing mines In tho district the ores carry lug lead and copper One mine alone has contracted to deliver fifty tons of 1 oro a day to tho smelter there being 20000 tons of ore In sight ut the I ent time pres I Recently two men offered eighteen sacks of gold oro to the Tacoma smelter Assays showed Its value to bo 25000 The smelters refused to buy becauso the men could not dell nitely account for themselves Later a boy appeared at the smelter with a sack containing similar ore This also was refused When questioned the boy hastily departed The smelter officials are Inclined to believe the oro is a portion of large amounts recently stolen at Goldfield Nevada Mining men in the Boise basin are making loud complaints about people taking timber claims upon mineral land and the state filing on tho same class In order to take such land an affidavit must be made showing that the land does not contain minerals valuable I The past week marked the starting of oro shipments from the big liar phyry deposit of the Boston Coirsoll dated for the treatment of which thero has been expended no less than 600000 3 2 But a limited tonnage Ins forwarded to the Garfield conco Is be trator however |