Show f C 11 4 MINES AND MINING A 100stamp mill Is to be Installed at tho IIluo Jay mine in 1ho Buffalo Hump section of Idaho A consignment of oro from tho Creole on the Suit Lake jnarkot last week carried about 40 per cent lend nnd sixteen ounces silver per ton Prlnglo Smith one of tho pioneer miners of the Thunder Mountain dls trlct and tho discoverer and locator of tho copper camp on Big Creek has gono to Novadn whore ho will prospect pros-pect for the winter I lolo of the ten roastluJr furnaces at the Consolidated Morcur mines at t Mercur Utah arc Iii commission and as tho coal situation Is bong relieved It Is hoped to have nil the furnaces In full blast In a short time Tho California mine on Nine Mllot two miles from Wallace has struck it I rich In tho No 4 level and thus practically prac-tically demonstrated that thero Is no such thli g as a failure among the mines In tho Coour dAlenoa Leo Hunch has taken a working bond on the Gold Bug group of claims in tho Hay Fork section which Is on More creek twelve miles from fdaho City Idaho The bond Is to run two years limo price of tho property being fixed at J2GOOOO Thoro Is limitless money In Now York and other great financial centers for Investment In any mining enterprise enter-prise that bears tho stamp of legitimacy legiti-macy and It Is no longer necessary to have a developed mine In order to l secure the coin Tho recent developments upon tho properties of the Chicago Nevada company have demonstrated In no uncertain un-certain manner that tho organizers of this company havo discovered ono of tho big finds of tho year In tho state of Nevada A new strike Is reported from tho Stewart mine In Door Creek American Ameri-can Fork canyon A nice ledge of galena with a vein of chloride ore la reported to have been uncovered right at tho graBS roots Assays show It to bo jvorth unout 125 per tonI ton-I A deal has Just been closed whereby Senator Macbeth of Mackay and his Salt Lake associates become tho owners own-ers of seven chlce claims practically surrounding tho now famous Sunbeam mine In tho Yankee Fork district near Custer Idaho tho price paid being 75000 The annual report of tho Greona Consolidated Copper company submitted submit-ted at time meeting held In Now York last week for tho year ended July 31 shows net profits of 3967818 compared com-pared with 2805386 In 1905 The surplus for tho year Is 1785418 an Increase of 021632 over the previous t year Good nows continues from tho operations oper-ations of tho Nevada Falrvlow company com-pany at Falrvlow Nevada This company com-pany Is doing some most earnest work upon Its possessions and tho latest report re-port was to tho effect that In tho shaft the management had encountered Oft that ran as high as 212 silver and 18 gold Almost pure graphite has been discovered dis-covered In tho Silver Queen group at Sheep Mountain In Idaho If It Is graphite of a quality which It is believed be-lieved to bo It Is worth about 14 cents a pound or 280 a ton As there Is apparently a vast body of it the owners own-ers feel pretty good over tho discovery dis-covery Rich rock Is being hoisted every minute of the day and every day ot tho week from six shafts on the Mohawk Mo-hawk at Goldfield Nevada just as fast as lessees who have now but a limited time can get It out and tho company with 2000000 in tho treasury treas-ury Is drawing royalties at the rato of 50000 a day Telegraph orders havo boon received re-ceived from T G Lockhart general manager of tho FlorcnceGoldfield mine to start work on time companys mill Lockhart Is now In Denver where ho has been conducting tests on ore from tho mine but It is expected ex-pected ho will return and give tho work his personal attention The mill I will havo a capacity of ely hty tons a dayA A F McCune the prominent Salt i Laker operating In South American mining fields Is back home from South America Mr McCune nnd as soclatcs have spent many millions In developing tho Corro dPasco mines and In adding complete smelting and railroad facilities This mine Is extremely ex-tremely rich In copper nnd bids fair to continue during many years of usefulness use-fulness In splto of the fact that It has been worked In a rather desultory way for 300 years At a distance of 1400 tact from tho portal tho tunnel on tho Nellie mlno I I at Horseshoe Bend has come Into a I series of strata of very fine ore Theso strata are quartz carrying largo amountsof Iron BUlpltltjoof the kind designated aICiici clt lion SHBBMi Jjlr > < W Ajfj erceJ V k presIdent of tho Tidal WovQ Mlnlng company whoso ground Is located between Sprlngvlllo and Provo says that an Important strike has been made In tho Overdraft claim whero the company has been j carrying on development work for tho I past year and a half |