Show MINES AND MINE I I Tho Bullfrog Pioneer company of nhyollte Nevada Is shipping ore h I from an eightfoot ledge that gee f 200 to 300 to the ton without sorting sort-ing Tho building of the Lcmhl smelter In Idaho has added great stimulus to mining in tho district The opening of spring will witness a large Influx of miners nnd prospectors Tho Consolidated Mercer mlno Is producing a larger tonnage of oro than It did last year The December output was 26000 tons which Is about normal under present conditions Of eight wells put down to tho first sand In tho Virgin oil field four arc known to have oil In good oj quantity and tho others havo light bowings of oil and natural gas according ac-cording to the Virgin Valley Enterprise < Enter-prise rlsThat That the Hero Nevada Mines company com-pany operating near Farrell Seven Troughs district will start production ao soon as the now custom mill at Ma zuma Is ready to receive ore developed devel-oped at tho companys annual meeting held In Salt Lake City last week At no period In tho history of this camp has so much practical development develop-ment work been carried on as Is being be-ing done this winter says tho Silver City Idaho Nugget Numwms tunnels tun-nels are being driven to open veins 1 at good depth and the opportunity I for Investment of capital was never better Ono of the Important events of tho week relative to the operation of tho Prince Consolidated mine was cutting of a station on tho 550foot level and the starting of a crosscut towards to-wards Ute rich fissures says tho r AI Piocho Record The progress of this N worJc will be watched with keen interest In-terest Mrs M B McCwty m a Bolso woman has threo claims In the Pearl district which she Is developing tho ore vein being about five feet In width and tho assays averaging 1504 per ton Sho also has six other claims on Shaw mountain assaying G per ton the oro body being 250 feet wide and ai cyanide cya-nide proposition Eight Inches of ore carylng high values In gold and copper has Just 1 1 teen I encountered In W1 Wolstcn tJ holmes Big Mitt property In the foothills foot-hills between Big and Little Cotton vood canyons fourteen miles or so I southeasterly from Salt Lake City come of tho richest streaks going 3000 to the ton Gas Is still forcing water out between be-tween the casing at the Ontario well at Ontario Oregon and a small flow of oil has been encountered that Is tho oil arises with the water and tho fluid Is visible The drillers are still sanguine of striking a gusher and do not expect to bore more than 2700 V < feet to obtain the same It Is announced that the third shipment ship-ment of copper oro from the Salt LakeCallforn comj > anys property In Del Norte county California has Just been settled for Tho ore Is shipped by water to the smelters at t Tecoina and the grade of the ore Is r such that after paying ull transportation transpor-tation and smelting charges the company com-pany gets about 29 a ton The Middleton Ore Reduction company com-pany of Mlddleton Idaho has recently recent-ly completed Its plant for tho testing and working of ores This process Is something new In this state but has been In successful operation In California Cali-fornia for several years The process employed Is by amalgamation concentration concen-tration cyaniding chlorInation and f by the Eureka ore reduction system All kinds of base ores can lie treated In connection with the Consolidated Mines annual meeting at Goldfleld on January 12 the entire 100 stanips ot tho new mill started at full capacity crushing ore at the rate of GOO tons II day The gross value of the ore will be about 24000 a day or 720000 a month The dally production will bo greater than tho SSO stamps of the famous fa-mous Alaska Trcadwell and tho Homestead Home-stead combined Tho Three Links Gold Mining Milling company limited owners of tho Buffalo group of claims In the Black Hornet district In Idaho havo recently purchased a fivestamp mill which Is to bo Installed on their prop erty so soon as the weather will permit per-mit With no further material delay In receiving material and equipment construction work of tho Boston Sunshine Sun-shine companys mill at Mercur should bo completed by tho first of February according to George H Dern man ager of the Consolidated Mercur company com-pany The total production of primary re fined lead I desilverized and soft from domestic and foreign ores In 1908 was nproxlmatoly 301000 short tons worth at the average price 3844 000 as compared to a production of 414189 tons In 1907 and 404740 tons In 190C That nono of the new smelting com panics recently formed will ever build 1 a smelter using the processes now In vogue In tho large plants of tho coun try was tho prediction made last week by Samuel Newhouse Ho thinks the Fink process will rovolu Ionize smelting The record of tho Cobalt silver r camp reads like n tale from Arabian Nights In four years tho mines of that district working down only 300 feet from tho surface have produced over 20000000 worth of ore or to 1e e exact 20791374 says tho nos ton News Bureau Reports received by the statistician of tho United States geological sur vey from state ofllclals and others In touch with tho coal mining Industry ndlcnto that the output of tho hi i luminous coal mines of the country In 1908 was between aVnnn n 11I O 000000 and 330000000 short ton |