Show MINES AND MINING l Water has been touched In the Zel shaft of time lay Con nt Ely 1 Nevada at a depth of 405 foot The mining outlook for Halley and vicinity Is brighter Limit spring than It has been before In fifteen years A momboiflhlp on the Salt Lake Mining exchange sold last week for ROn the highest price for several years The average idea of electrolytic copper an figured by tlio Engineering and Mining Journal for 100C was 19 278 whllo Lake averaged IJCIC cents Regular shipments are being made from the Croesus at llalloy Idaho and It Is estimated that there Is over I 1000000 of highgrade ore In sight A hid of 255 cents was made and refused In Hasten one day last week tor several million pounds of copper deliveries extending over two or three months Ileltre the Montana plunger recently re-cently paid 200000 for the Gold Hill mine In Deep Creek and is preparing to erect an Immense reduction plant for tho property There is quite n boom In the location loca-tion of mining claims along the litrch creek and Lost HIvor ranges In Idaho Ida-ho and soma very promising discoveries discov-eries are belnu made The closing down of the mill nt tho Honorlne of Stockton as a result of tho accident to the bis engine will not affect operations at the mine That will ho kept running full handed The Montgomery Shoshonc long heralded as the best mine In the Bullfrog Bull-frog district has again struck rich ore this time In the bottom of the trlpplo compartment woking shaft at a depth of 410 feet By purchasing an extended line of powerful and uptodate equipment the Yeilngton Malachite Copper company com-pany has taken the Unit step towards turning daylight Into the depth of its I Yotlngton possessions At the Hortshoo creek coal Hold twentylive mile cast of St Anthony In Fremont county Idaho important developments are now In progress and the past winters work has produced EOmo flattering results A big copper stilko has boon made on the Joe Moore shaft at Dolly Var don at a 1 depth of 11C feet The assays as-says have not been returned but It Is believed that the values nro the highest yet found In tho camp of Ely During March there were 32000000 pounds of copper exported from tho United States nt an average price of 21C cents per pound or exactly one cent more than obtained for tho 22 000000 pounds exported In February Tho Moscow Mining and Milling company has boon organized by prominent prom-inent Utah mining men and capitalists capit-alists to take over tho Burning Moscow Mos-cow and additional territory In tho noted Star District of Beaver county Utah Tho copper metal market Is rising in strength both as respects the metal and copper stocks All the big producers produ-cers are holding firmly at highest asking ask-ing prices and rill bids of oven a fraction frac-tion under these prices are turned down Tho PotosI mine at Silver City Idaho Ida-ho is showing up well Extensive development work is being done on this property which is one of live olflest mines in the camp but which has been idle for many years until recently The best news that has come from tho Carrie Mack property of Dugwny for many a day was received by tho Salt Lake otllclals of tho company last wool and It brought tho word that a strike of very line proportions hail ben made Recently the Tonopah company of Tonopah Nevada paid its lugulnr quarterly dividend of 85 conts u share aggregating 350000 It was officially announced that the next quarterly dividend di-vidend will bo 30 cents a share or 500000 in the aggregate Fire manager of tho PittsbuigSlI rut Peak companys properties at Dlalr Nevada retorts that the mine Is opening tip In a manner that already al-ready assures its uelng ranked us tho biggest gold mine in the United i States Work on the new 100staiup mill is being pushed as rapidly as day I and night shifts can do the work The constant draft on the economic force of thy geological survey made by the large mining organizations which offer the government experts much larger salaries than they get from tho government Is tKriuusly Impairing Im-pairing tho efllclency of that branch of the service says a report on the in vstlllIlIol1 of metalliferous ores In UHJIJ Tho recent washouts upon the Salt Lake road and the foci that tho road through from Qoldfleld has only Jimt been completed has caused San Francisco Fran-Cisco Salt Lake situ Denver to lone to Los Angeles much of tho mining machinery nude of southern Nevada Tho Mohawk mine of Goldflehl on tho first made its first shipment of oro since the reopening of the mines The coiulgnment U of 100 tons and worth 30000 Tim Consolidated company will soon be mining the rich reserves on the Mohawk HOlt Top Comjiuatlou Utd Jumbo I |