Show MINES AND MINING Tho organization of a Block company at Welfer Idaho Is In progress it IIP Ing thc Intention to bore for oil In that vicinity The rumor from Park City to tho of feet that time Only Judge company would close Its mine down within a few days has no foundation In fact The Nevada Dredgn companys dredge and property at Orovllle Gal wan burned last week causing a loss of f 1000000 The fire Btnited In the transformer I I If tho United States Is to produce enough nickel cobalt and tin for its I own consumption now deposits must ho discovered for those now known wlillo Individually rich cannot supply tho entire demand During the past month the two mills I of tho Utah Copper company reduced approximately 100000 tons of oro to n lilghgrado concentrate and there Is overy probability that that figure will bo eclipsed during the present month Tho output of the mines and leases of the Ooldflold district for tho weekending week-ending October 12 was 38774 tons having an estimated value of 382350 This Is something like 100 tons more than the output for tho preceding week Vanadium one of the rare metals Is used principally for hardening steel especially In connection with chromium chrom-ium This rare metal Is to be found In small quantities In Utah and Colorado Colo-rado as well as in some ot tho southwestern south-western states Four Utah mines posted dividends last week that will call for tho chockIng chock-Ing out of 94500 They were Colorado Colo-rado 60000 Beck Tunnel Con 20 000 Grand Central 12500 and Utah of Fish Springs 2000 Rich returns wero received last week from assays of rock sent from tho Keystone mine a property almost within tho city limits of Welser Idaho A Baker City assayer found that the rock carried 174 to tho ton and tho Boise assayer found 108 Tho average cost of copper production produc-tion from Butte mines under the restricted re-stricted output Is today not less than 12 cents per pound At Lake Superior tho cost will probably average close to 10 cents The cost of Calumet ft Arizona Is only 571 cents Considerable excitement was developed devel-oped In Logan Utah mining circles last week by reports concerning n recent re-cent find in Blacksmith Fork canyon by Captain Sllvoy and H J Smith two Ogden prospectors The discovery is said to bo an extremely rich ono Two of the largest up to data and modern quartz mills In tho state with a dally capacity of reducing 250 tons of ore are now In course of completion com-pletion for tho big mines of the Monarch Mon-arch and Bagdad Chase Mining companies com-panies in the Atlanta district of Idaho Tho Record of Helena Mont publishes pub-lishes a story to tho effect that numerous numer-ous Montana and Washington investors In-vestors have been mulcted to the extent ex-tent of more than a third of a mllllou dollars through tho discovery that certain cer-tain placer mines near Landers Wyo had been salted and that the property In question Is worthless It is learned that during the next few days there will bo a number 01 experts In Utah who represent great London operators who tackle tho fields of tho world In competition with the Standard Oil company but who havo not become very aggressive In American Ameri-can as yet Their coming looks good for the Utah oil Holds George W Boggs ono of the lessees and general manager of tho Old Peacock Pea-cock mine In the Seven Devils district dis-trict states ho has twentyono men employed at the mine is taking oru from the now strike and has a number of teams hauling ore from the dump to Council where it is shipped to tho Sumpter smelter r N Barnsdalo of Plttsburg tho owner of tho Monarch group of mines at Atlanta Idaho has expended nearly a million dollars in developing and blocking out the ore bodies of the Monarch Mon-arch mine alone before even placing a mill on the property This alone us Htires us of his confidence of tho great possibilities of the camp There are millions of tons of ore of commercial value blocked out in the mines of the Atlanta district Idaho and the future of tho camp has always been dependent on the successful working of these ores which In tlm past has been a falluru on account of the great loss caused by not having the proper process to treat the ores Through a compromise reached out of court civil actions Involving 500 000 ponding in the courts of Los Angeles An-geles Boston Duluth Tucson ana Tombstone Aria have been ended the actions Involved largo amounts 01 stock in rich copper properties notably nota-bly tho Caiianea Central Mines company com-pany and tho Greene Cananea Copper company The Minerva mine In tho Atlanta district Idaho for the past two years has been producing steadily and hai inexhaustlvo bodies of ore In reserve It Is stated tho company will enlarge the present 10 stamp mill which Is not of sufllclent size to reduce the vast bodies of ore In sight From 15000 to 20000 has been pounded oiu monthly by the present 10 stamp mill The stockholders of the Bluo Hock Mining company at a meeting held In Nampa Idaho last week decided to Increase tho capital stock of that corporation cor-poration from 300000 to 2000000 And made arrangements for pushing tho work at tho mlno stronger than ever A day nnd night shift aro now employed em-ployed at tho Mint mine In tho Pearl district of Idaho and the tunnel Is now In 1050 feet According to measurements measure-ments tho vein should be reached at 1088 fuel Tho vein Is twenty feet wIde on the cufuce and Is a true Qi ire |