Show MINES AND MINING Well Informed mining mon confidently confi-dently predict a banner season for tho Star district of Denver county Utah before tho present year has given way to 1008 A remarkable rlcfi strike was made last week on the former Walker Lake Indian fesorvatlon Nevada In the Wild Horse No2 ore being uncovered that assays 29080 to the ton rue nova comes from Ely Nevada that the shaft of the Salt lnse Ely company has dropped Into a solid body of high grade copper oro and that there Is no longer any question about tho future of that proposition Strikes of high grade oro In tho DalyWest mine at Park City aro becoming be-coming of such frequent occurrence that tho management declares It is afraid to enumerate them as to do BO would bo to Invito Incredulous criticism criti-cism Word comes from Goldlleld that the machinery ordered some time ago for tho Galdflold Will Hock Leasing company tho corporation controlled by tarry Joseph and J U Kldrodgo Jrj of Salt Lake had arrived on tho ground Round Mountain camp Is located on tho east sldo of tho DIg Smoky valley val-ley about half way between Tonopah and Austin Nevada at an altitude of from GOOD to 0100 feet tho total elo vatlon of tho mountain from which tho camp Is named being not moro than 400 feet above the adjacent valley val-ley Favorable reports are being received re-ceived from the Ramoy Ridge and Crooked Creek districts which are situated sit-uated about 40 miles north of Thunder Thun-der Mountain A large number of prospectors are engaged In developing numerous properties In these sections and very gratifying results aro being obtained Joo Brlmson is doing business at hIs coal mine about fourteen miles east of Idaho Falls Idahoand has lust installed an engine and a hoist to take care of tho trade as nearly all tho farmers around Amnion and ana are using tho coal and recommend recom-mend it It is selling for 300 at tho mine Work on the Guggenheim properties at Ely Is progressing steadily along the lines drlglnnlly laid down J3ovol opment at tho Veteran group Is particularly par-ticularly satisfactory Hero a great blanket of oro has been opened up whoso dimensions so far disclosed aro 80 feet In depth ISO feet In width and 70 feet In length Tho United States Smelting company com-pany is assembling at Chrome N J tho largest metallurgical works in the world Investment in these plants will exceed 3000000 It already has a copper refinery of a present capacity of 14000000 pounds annually and is building a fully equipped smelting and popper converting plant A leading Interest In Utah Consolidated Consoli-dated Bays that while full figures for the fiscal year of the Utah Consolidated Consoli-dated havo not yet been received it is known sp far as can be determined that the company earned 2750000 for the year and It is estimated that ror 1907 the company will earn between be-tween 3000000 and 4000000 A deal has been consummated in Goldfield which places ono of San Francisco most prominent busInessmen busIness-men in tho local field That man Is no less a personage than John D Spreckles the sugar king owner of tho San Francisco Call and various other large enterprises on tho Pacific Pa-cific coast and tho property Is the Blue Jacket group Joseph B CaIne of Salt Lake a Uorman mining engineer and a Tono pah geologist have secured an option on the famous Ludwig bonanza Tho LudwIg has been one of those rich and rare propositions that has earned good money and gone along without making any noise In the world In prosecuting development work last year 176000 worth of rich oro was shipped An assay sheet from the Cactus mine discloses the fact that tho sampling samp-ling of oro covered twentytwo sets ot mine timbers gave returns of CG up to 254 per cent copper Sixteen of tho twentytwo sets of assays s owed percentages ranging all the way from 119 to the highest while an average of tho lot attested tho presence of bettor than 16 per cent copper While doing some development work on his mines in tho Mason Pass section sec-tion la Nevada recently Pat Gallagher Gal-lagher opened up a fine lodge of copper cop-per ore varying In width from two to four feet Tho ore is a mixture of sulphide and carbonate and average samples taken from the ledge show tho oro contains from fifteen to twen tyflvo per cent copper and from 6 to 8 in gold Ely la designed to bo ono of the greatest copper producing districts in the United States Up to date th immense tonnages of oro have beet developed with a smaller amount ol capital than any other district in the United States The Dewey mill Thunder Mountain Idaho has started dropping its tel stamps and dividends will bo tho ordo of e day for tho next year The are putting through the mill an ave ago of 87 per cent of the assay value on tho plates |