Show G I nINES AND MINING1 According to a dispatch from Mul + Ian Idaho a strike of considerable Ira jmrtanco Is reported to have boon mado In the Carney Copper group Directors of tho Utah mine of Fish Springs last week declared tho regular regu-lar dividend of three cents a share or 3000 Tho famed Coour dAlono district of Idaho has produced gold silver1 lead and copper mineral to tho gross t value ot approximately J 176000000 to data slnco 1884 From a perfectly reliable source It In learned that an oro body has been uncovered In tho Bradburn property at Marysvalo for a distance or over j 100 foot and tho values run from 20 to 1000 per ton A report has reached Sumpter Oro that a most wonderful rich strike has just been made In tho Hcd Boy mine Tho strike was mado on tho 700 level and Is said to bo tho richest vein ot oro ever uncovered In tho district Tho old Colconda mine near Baker City Ore has Jus1 been sold at sheriffs sher-iffs sale for claims amounting to 20 000 which claims woro hold by hardware hard-ware fIrms nUll supply houses Tho property was at ono tlmo a groat producer pro-ducer Montana men havo secured a workIng work-Ing bond on tho Hay Fork quarts claims owned by Loo and Anlono Un tornahror says tho Idaho City World A payment of 1000 has been made The bond was given for two years and a half From Beaver county comes tho news that tho Stalwart lease on tho Talisman property Is working In from eight to fourteen Inches of ore that runs 1000 ounces In silver with high lead values Tho find Is on the 200 < foot level Not In twenty years has tho mlnlnn outlook In the vicinity of Halley Idaho boon so bright All tho mines are working as large forces as possl bio and tho oro bodies scorn to Improve Im-prove In richness with every foot of development A now compressor will bo Installed soon at tho UtahBlngham mine In Bingham Oro shipments are also to bo Inaugurated and It Is said application applica-tion will shortly bo mado to list tho stock on the SnIt Lake stock and mining min-ing exchange Fifty thousand dollars Is tho valuo of tho first live days production on tho Mohawk Jumbo lease on tho Gold Wedgo at Ooldflcld Sloping was started on Monday and ovary available avail-able man was used for whom a placo could bo found in the mine A prominent and conservative mining min-ing man declares that thoro Is now beginning at Halloy Idaho tho biggest big-gest mining boom that tho west has ever seen that It will bo on merit t strictly wlldcattR barred and that It will last two or three years President George M Nix of tho Dolly Vardon Mining company operating oper-ating In tho Dolly Vardon district announces an-nounces that ho has financed n deal In Chicago by which tho company receives re-ceives a largo amount of money for carrying on Its development work Constant rapid Improvement of a proposition which was moat promising promis-ing at tho start Is the word brought from tiro Alta companys mine out I from Mackay Idaho Tho tunnel has been driven 1C5 feet on oro giving nssa7 values of 20 In gold 170G ounces In silver and 2 per cent copper cop-per A mill run of fifteen tons of oro from tho Wlhuja Gold Mining com panys lease on the estate of the Seven Troughs Thorlen Mines company com-pany mado tho other day In two eighthour shifts at tho Kindergarten mill turned out n bar of hulllon weighing 224 ounces and valued at 2600 I Representatives of a majority ol tho stockholders In tho Hogan momma at a meeting recently hold at Kill City Idaho voted to double the capacity of tho present plant which Is now handling 125 tons of are pet day at a net profit of 200 Tho stockholders stock-holders also voted 50000 for Improve I I meets Tho Potosi mill at Silver City Idaho is nearIng completion but is now awaiting tho arrival of the balance bal-ance of tho machinery In tho meantime mean-time the cement floor Is being laid about tho battery trade from amine to ore bin Is also being laid and It will now bo only a short tlmo until the mill Is completed More than CO names Including thoso of tho most prominent mining men of Utah and all of them thoroughly thor-oughly representative have been signed to tho roster of membership In tho new Utah Branch of tho American Ameri-can Mining congress and a meeting 4 for permanent organization Is to behold be-hold during the week By unanimous vote tho Salt Lake Stock and Mining Exchange has approved ap-proved the action of Its governing board jn accepting the proposition of Samuel Newhouso to give to tho exchange ex-change magnificent slto for a stock exchange building providing only that the recipient of the gift will erect thereon a suitable building Robert Francis superintendent ot tiN Lost Packer mine In the Ioon Creek Idaho district says that tho mlno will make a handsome production produc-tion this season the smelter Is treating treat-ing an average of 100 tons of bre a day and tho values aro highly satisfactory satis-factory Whether the Utalr Consolidated company will start work In tho near future upon Its proposed now smeltIng smelt-Ing plantin Tooele county depends upon tho outcome of negotiations now under consideration for a fiveyears contract for the treatment of Its ores it tho Garfield smoltnr S 9 4 r |