Show 1 I 1 II I I MINES AND MINING u An eastern financial paper contains con-tains the Information that tho August Au-gust output of the NowhoiiBo Mines and Smelters amounted to 600000 IKiundH of copper Excavations aro being completed nt Gold Circle for tiro ten sttunp mill lug plant which IH to bo Installed by Butte capital Tho mill bulldonl aro x expecting the arrival of tho oqul incnt any day t Daniel Guggenheim president of tho American Smelting and Refining company Is as optlmlotlo over tho outlook for hotter prices for silver M and lend aM ho Is over an Improved copper market Tho gold production of I ho United above Ito 10u000000 mark A few years ago the best Informed gold minors did not consider It within reason rea-son to predict an output of that l amount before 1016 A strike was recently made In tho Rod Elephant mine coven miles west i of Halley Idaho Throe foot ut high grade galena ore wan cut Into In the lower workings and regular shipments 4 n ship-ments are being made from the mine The Idea to have hanks make substantial sub-stantial loans on mining Blocks of merit an they do on railroad and other securities that are subject to market fluctuations Is worthy of careful consideration says tho Mining Min-ing World From a mine near Loadvtllo Colo tho Independent smelter of Ogden j last week received a carload of oro that will net tho shippers 33450 The values carried are 74 In gold 7347 ounces In silver and 123 percent per-cent copper Discovery of a zone of remarkable mineralization In the Gold Prlzo Kroup of claims west of tho Seven Troughs mine and directly south of the Cleghorn group Is one of the latest sensations In tho Seven Troughs district Tho Clifford mine fifty miles cast of Tonopah In Nye county Nevada has been sold by Edward Clifford and his sons who discovered and developed de-veloped the property to J 0 McCormack McCor-mack of Goldflold for 360000 n first payment of 25000 Tho Consolidated Mercur Gold Mines company last week shipped to r the mint at Denver Its August output of bullion which will bring tho company com-pany something over 79000 ThIs it a substantial Increase ovor tho output of any month for some time tho production having run from GG 000 to 76000 Reports from the camp at Buckskin Buck-skin Nevada are of tho host It Is certain that tho people thoro are BUrG r they have a camp New mines are being developed and old workings 1 ntartod up Tho oil excitement has alno reached that camp and they think they have as good a showing i yi aa any of them a 3p The Independence mine two miles t south of Ketchum and fourteen miles I from Halley has boon worked since 1881 by tiro owners taking out only 1 n first class or shipping are leaving tho second class or milling ore In tho mlno and dumps Ita record for shipping are sold up to Juno 1907 + < was over 100000 I Tho Iron Holds of Iron county Utah have long been known to bo among the best In lira United States In soiiio portions of tho field exists It Is said the very best product for making bessemer stool that has been discovered anywhere Thoro Is no a question about tho deposits being very largo nor that they will bo utilized some day upon an extensive scale Tho deal by which tho PltUburg Consolidated Mining company operating I oper-ating In tho Alta district takes over tho holdings of tho Pioneer Consolidated ra t Consoli-dated company has been closed Tho proporty Is taken under bond and lease with tho consideration of 62260 K Realizing 10000 from a 10foot assessment i as-sessment hole Is the romantic record kr established by George Norton minor of Mohawk Ariz who has been spending a week In Los Angeles Norton Nor-ton had decided to give up his ground OR worthless when time strike wan made Tho famous Engineers lease of Goldflold has in throe months produced pro-duced 050000 and has paid 300000 In dividends Tho lease has two + months yet to run at tho end ot which time It Is estimated that the gross output will have been bettor than 860000 The long looked for change of tort t matlon has appeared In the long tunnel tun-nel that Is being driven Into Scott hill by tho Scottish Chief Mining 1 company at Park City Tho tunnel IB past the 1200foot mark and the last 2CO feet has been run through a hard quartzlto t A strike of two feet of free milling oro that assays close to 600 In gold and pans big was made In the South 1 Fork Espoy mlno recently accordIng accord-Ing to tho Elk City Idaho Mining i News A year ago 2140 was taken out In fourteen days with a coffee t4 r mill equipment Two feet of firstclass ore accompanying accom-panying three and four feet of good milling rock have been opened In the long tunnel of tho Columbus Extension Ex-tension Mining company at Alta Utah The oro was encountered on the limo quartzlto contact whlclr is now being followed Tho Wood river section of Idaho Is famed for its high grade galena ores averaging CO per cent lead and 11i to 120 ounces of silver per ton worth over 100 per ton and has produced over 50100000 of ores Them are at present probably 500 mrt at worte r In the contiguous country r t |