| Show i MINES AND MINING The dump at Stratlons Independence Indepen-dence mine at Cripple Creek Is said to contain 000000 tons of ore that will average 370 per ton Ploche Nov parties uro looking up properties at Statollne mill it Is ox rooted they will cast their anchors In that awakening camp na boon as surface sur-face examination Is possible The Boston News Bureau says that tho Utah Apex company has closed a contract with tho Utnh Smelting company com-pany with smellor at Ogden Utah toP to-P treat 1GOOO ton of ore at a minimum of 2000 tons per month About 1000 pounds of samples of copper ore from tho mines of tho Yore Ington district wore placed on display In a window In Salt Lake last week The collection embraces samples from all of tho principal properties In that + Bcetlou which have been developed Earnings of 2750000 by tho Utab Consolidated company this year would Indicate a profit of 11V4 cents per pound on 10000000 pounds produced crediting gold and silver values against coper costs This would ho oqual to earnings of 910 per share C C Parsons president of tho Han ttapah Mining company stated last t week that the unwntorlng of tho mine t at Iliiniiapnh Nov was progressing satisfactorily and that It would be poHHlblu to got to work on tho 300foot luvol again within a couple of weeks The now hoard of governors of thee the-e Salt Lake Stock Mining exchange aavo organized by electing James A Pollack president l H J Evans first vlco president W J Browning second sec-ond vice president Fred 11 Davis hlrd vlco president O P Norton t treasurer and James a Shorten soc rotary In a ledge four feet wide tho Wheeler Wheel-er Gold Mining company operating i In tho Yerington Nevada region has just encountered a body of ore that averages hotter than 100 In gold per ton Sixteen Inches of tho material runs 10lCD two foot assays 120412 and an glght inch streak of It carries 270236 A strike In the Jumbo Extension at doldileld has just been made public The shaft Is down 220 feet and tho bottom la entirely In shipping ore none of which runs less than 200 i give from 2500 to ItOO per ton Acm Ac-m while returns from somo of tho oro I cording to Indications 10000 oro will I soon encountered Manager Walter James of tho Black I 4 lock propo ties In Beaver county statos that a now shaft has been started start-ed on tho ground to prospect the big Iron blowout that occurs In tho ground The new shaft Is now down t sixty foot and a contract has just been l awarded for another 100 feet of work in tho same hole 1 Several samples of are taken from a hedge discovered northwest of Paris Z Utah have been assayed and showed i f214C25 In gold and 15123 In silver sil-ver per ton As a result thero Is + considerable excitement In and about Paris Tho stilko was made by A E Plyor an old prospector who had been grubstaked by throe locomotive engineers t en-gineers Salt Lake mining and smelting circles do not take seriously to tho claim recently made that several of tho copper refiners in tho nortt Houth and oast were piling up copper cop-per In order to create an artificial shortage The report to this effect emanated from tho cast and aver since it has been ono prominent Kourco of conversation With tho first days transactions aggregating Mfr ag-gregating 204350 shares tho Qoldtleld stock exchange board Inaugurated business on tho 21st under tho most favorable and encouraging auspices + Tho great volume of business which iii the members accounted for was nol no-l sururlso > to the people of Qoldflold for Its success was u foregone conclusion r conclu-sion Western Nevada Is casting eyes toward to-ward tho new Mlzpah mining district and it is considered that this region will make a banner camp Mlzpah is described as being only n few moments mo-ments walk from tho track of the Nova No-va a Northern railroad and when tho Western Pacific road Is completed the camp will bo within fifteen miles of this steel highway A phonomenal strike has been made on the Major Harrison mine In Death Valley Values assaying as high as 2000 to the ton In gold and silver have been found In the cropplngs ot tho ledges of which thero are several A shaft has been mink on tho main lodgo and at thirtyfive feet in depth the ore assayed over 200 In gold and silver with 2 to 0 per cent In coppor A smaller is to be built on Resurrection Resur-rection bay near Seward tho ocean terminus of tho Alaska Central railway rail-way and be ready for business by tho time tho Alaska Central roaches tho Matanuska coal fields where the fuel supply for tho smelter will bo obtained ob-tained Placer gold was first discovered In Wyoming at South Pass Fremont county In 1807 by returning miners from tho 1819 California gold excitement excite-ment Some wonderfully rich finds wore made there and it Is believed those finds will bo duplicated or surpassed sur-passed next season A big consolidation of properties In Humboldt county Nevada has beet perfected and within tho next tow y lays the papers will ho filled i The it Li Nevada Union and other proportions In which Salt Lake talent Is inter fated In tho vicinity of Mill Oily will figure lu the proposlt t |
