Show t MINES AND MINING Ono day last week a bid ot flGQO was made far a sent upon tho Salt Lake Mining Stock exchange Most of tho Utah mines closed down on the On 4th niul nth for Uio usual Fourth I of July rest An unusual Interest In mining properties prop-erties In the mountains south of Bur toy Idaho has been noticed during the past three weeks About a dozen men aro being employed em-ployed at the Cumora mine near Albion Al-bion Idaho and a large quantity of highgrade ore Is being taken out A member of quart locations have been made recently In Boulder canyon can-yon on Lauld creek In Idaho and u number of tho locators believe they have fortunes in sight The Lunmn copper mine near Thor mopollB Fremont county Wyoming that was recently Bold to Senator W A Clark for 1500000 Is now being systematically developed Mineral paint will probably be one of the productions of Cassia county Idaho In the near future Two locations loca-tions wore made recently one of ICO and the other of 120 acres Officials of tho Butte Mining companies com-panies centering In the east estimate that the Juno production of the Dutto mines will show a falling off of 26 161131 pounds of copper as compared with Juno last year Fifteen hundred tons of oro a day are now being treated at tho now plant of the Utah Copper company at Garfield By the end of tho week tin other section of tIle great mill will be placed In commission The shaft house of the Strong mtna at Leslie fourteen miles east of Lam mle Wyo was totally destroyed by fire on the 2nd The shaft was nearly near-ly 400 feet deep and all tho hoisting machinery was destroyed or damaged Beginning early this fall the largest and most modern gold reduction plant In Nevada and probably In the world will be In operation nt Blair In thu Silver Peak district about twontyflvo miles northwest of Goldfield la Es meralda county In spite of fire and Its attending drawbacks tho Utah mine of Fish Springs continues to reward the efforts ef-forts of the management with so generous gen-erous a hand that no decrease in the usefulness of the organization has been experienced The Gold Mountain Consolidated company has placed the third shift at work in both mine and mill This organization or-ganization owns tho Annie Laurie the Kimberly and the Mammoth groups at Gold Mountain and moro men are in demand For the first half of the current year the dividend payments reported to the Mining World by eightyeight gold silver load copper zinc and quick Ivor mines in the United States Including in-cluding Alaska territory having an outstanding capitalization of 337 755727 amounted to the huge sum of 38560812 The rumor from New York that the Guggenheim interests are after the control of all of the Balaldala properties in California has called attention anew to the recently organized or-ganized Guggenheim company in tho cast with a capitalization sufficient to take in many of the great mines of the west The extensive plant nt the Hannd pah mine located about twentythroe miles from Tonopah Nov was entirely entire-ly destroyed by fire on July 2 The principal owners of the mine are Samuel Sam-uel Newhouse of Salt Lake and A J Settles the wellknown cyanide man The fire consumed all the buildIngs build-Ings and descended into tho shaft A private wire from Cobalt says that the Nlplsslng Mining company now under the Nowhouso management manage-ment has found another very rich vein four fhches wide on No 400 This is adjacent to the Tretheway Temls learnt Hudson bay and Orion properties proper-ties This makes tho second vein struck In two weeks The Skaggs property in the Dolly Vanlen district In Nevada which was sold about nine mouths ago to a Boa ton firm Is proving far richer than was first thought The mines are being be-ing worked and are paying their own way at the present time Tho price the property sold for was 150000 the last payment having just been made Word from the camp of Seven Troughs Nevada is to the effect that the Seven Troughs Mining company at last has caught the thieves who have been stealing highgrade gold oro from tho Fairview group of this Utah proposition A woman time wife of a miner ban been arrested along with her husband and they are now lu jail at Winnemucca The great 100000000 smelter trust head by Simon Guggenham senator elect from Colorado has fallen under the ban of the federal authorities and experts are conducting an Investigation Investiga-tion to determine whether U is a combination com-bination in violation of law upon which It is expected to base a suit for dissolution at the corporation and possibly criminal proceedings on the evidence being accumulated There are not a few problems in economic geology that areas yet unsolved un-solved and are open for speculation One of these is the occurrence of Impregnations Im-pregnations of copper In purely sedimentary sedi-mentary rocks unconnected with any visible or probable volcanic source or manifestation President and General Manager George L Hydo of the Eva Mining company has just returned from the Eva mine lu the Ml Nebo district and reports the property in very tin a condition They have run a tunnel i 350 feet connecting with their shaft at a depth of 300 feet |