Show MINES AND MINING A great strlko has been made In the Nellie mluo at Horseshoe Bend Idaho Rosebud Nevada now has a mining exchange the membership being Urn ted to seventyfive The Zenalla company at Pallsado Is shipping oro that brings tho fortunate owners an average of 1500 a car Tho Montgomery Shoshono Consolidated Consoli-dated has been shipping at tho rate of ono carload of oro a day for tho past two weeks Tho past week has been ono of tho dullest periods that tho copper shares havo known since tho famous summer sum-mer dullness of 1905 Operators at Ely apparently aro agreed upon the present satisfactory condition of tho railroad service being be-ing granted by tho Nevada Northern company Tho Bingham mill of tho Utah Copper Cop-per company Is running almost at capacity ca-pacity and the company Is receiving copper ores at tho same from over tho high line It is staled that In tho states of SInaloa Sonora Coahuila Durango and Nueva Leon at least 00000000 of American capital has entered within with-in the last five years Directors of the Boston Montana Consolidated Copper C Silver Mining company has declared a quarterly divIdend di-vidend of 2 per share and an extra dividend of 10 per share The BambergerDo Lamar mill and mine at Do Lamar Nov after a shutdown shut-down of lIve weeks has resumed operations oper-ations The company Intends to work about 300 men this summer According to the best private authority I au-thority a conservative estimate of tho i American capital brought into Mexico Mexi-co since 1902 and Invested in mining and smelting ventures amounts to about 125000000 gold A large body of valuable milling oro has been struck In tho very town of Beatty Nevada and as a result tho railroad town Is on tho vergo of becoming be-coming a mining center second only to Rhyollto In southern Nevada A lot of the ore from the claims of the Golden Eagle property on Government Creek In Idaho from which It Is intended to take a supply for the plant will bo taken to Denver for treatment to determine tho kind of process needed The recent discoveries of are bodies on Dry Susie Maggie Creek Lono Mountain and other places In Elko county Nevada have set a horde of prospectors to seeking along the mineral belt that runs duo north and south through this country In anticipation of a strike a num her of large mines at Angels camp In California have closed down Thb mines aro the Utica tho Matson tho Stickles the Angels Quartz the Crystal Crys-tal and tho LIghtner employing bo tweeu 900 and 1000 miners Recent developments In the coal beds near Salmon Idaho show several sever-al measures tho upper ono being eight feet thick of good clean coal Tho present development Indicates an extensive coal deposit as the mine is looking better each year Tho local demand consumes about 2000 tons per annum Tho latest discovery in Nevada is on Jack creek a tributary of Maggie creek This creek pans coarse gold as far as prospected About ono mile and a half from the head of tho creek on the claim of A L Ranncy some sensational sen-sational pans are now being mado Bench claims pan equally as well as creek Tho Midnight Bell mine located near Alpine anti owned principally by Lchl parties has made a most Important Import-ant stilko Returns show 48 per cent lead 4 ounces of sliver and about 4 In gold per ton Tho oro Is 11 fine fluxing material and from present appearances thero seems to bo a good body of it A small lot of ore from the dump ol the Louise Consolidated near Wlllard Utah loaded Indiscriminately was sent to the Utah Smelting company recently recent-ly by President Fred Hlllman of the company The consignment sampled 18 per cent copper 4 in gold and 22 oz sliver Shipments of selected ores will follow and tho management will put in a fiftyton dally capacity concentrator Patrick Sheehan manager of tho Lost Packer companys properties in tho Loon Creek district Idaho ro ports the mine which has been under steady development nil winter to bo giving a good account of Itself and states that a now tunnel No 10 has Just been started to open tho mine nt a depth which under the highest polnl in tho property will approximate 1800 feet Most of tho discovery work on the claims In tho Mlzpah Nevada district Is now completed and many owners are making preparations to develop their own properties Several sales are reported as having been consum mated but are not as yet mado public The rapid growth of Nevada mining camps has been i subject matter for the writer ° f mining hIstory for years and there Is ocry day being added to the list now and stronger with a JV camps foundation of actual values un velopment questioned and In course of rapId dGo |