Show MINES AND MINING During IflOS thirteen Utah mines paid dividends aggregating 5537716 and this will be eclipsed by the Utah rirducors In 1909 During 1907 and 190S the coal mines of Utah produced 3812000 tons of coal the retail price of this product exceeding 21000000 Tho International Smelting Kenning Kenn-ing company Is building In Tooele county Utah thirty miles from Salt Lake City a plant that will cost 8 000000 James Karl superintendent of the Golden Hunter Mining company of Boise Idaho died at hiD homo In Salt Lake City July 5 following a slego of Brlghts disease Iron county Utah has the greatest Iron deposits In the world A Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania expert estimates the body of Iron ore In one section of this county at four hundred billion tons Martial law prevails In the southern Capo Breton coal fields Troops are guarding the collieries of tho Dominion Domin-ion company and an attempt will bo made to operate tho mines under military mil-itary protection To pay dividends aggregating the large total of 25009057 In live months of 1909 despite continued low metal prices is tho record achievement achieve-ment of eighty American mines and metallurgical 1 works Near Kanab In Southern Utah deposits de-posits of cannel coal have been traced for several miles One man has bared a deposit twelve feet in thickness on the surface and local capital Is taking tak-ing up this valuable land The Ouggenhelms have no hesitation hesita-tion in saying that the earnings of the Yukon Gold Minos company the present pres-ent year will reach a total of 1500 000 while these will be undoubtedly Increased to 2500000 next year Stockholders of the MontanaTono pah Mining company are much encouraged encour-aged to learn an additional payment i of 15000 has been made on the mill debt leaving a balance of only 20000 unpaid says a Philadelphia dispatch It Is proposed by those In control of tho Yukon Gold Mines company to Increase the Imr value of Its shares from 5 to 25 holders of the present shares to receive one share of the now for each five shares of the present pres-ent With Its Jumbo plaster works and Kceno cement plant the little town of Sigurd In Sevier county Utah has suddenly Jumped Into first Importance is a shipping point and the Richfield Reaper says that Its resources have not yet been half exploited A mining engineer who has been investigating in-vestigating the mineral resources of the region about Callcntc Nevada ays some of tho largest bodies of Ipw I grade gold ore In the state arc I at tho I very door of Caliente awaiting development devel-opment Cobalt carrying nickel Is j I abundant Nickel Is lounjr In gen thlto gannlerlte and iiocmltc I Charles Hofstetter of Spokane and I his associates have secured a lease on 200 acres of state land near Kamlah Idaho containing valuable asbestos I rock deposits From tests already I made ILIII found that sawing machinery I machin-ery can be advantageously employed In cutting brick and other products I I from the largo blocks The announcement made on reliable I authority that the Cole Ityan Interests arc Identified with the proposed Ely I Goldflold road means that the Ely dls trlct is about to realize another of its I I hopes says the Ely Expositor The 1 reputation for doing things which tho i ColoR an people so firmly established I must be token into consideration with I the announcement of this fact In spite of the fact that tho election held In Idaho for the Issuance of bonds for the construction of a new road j f 1 0111 the vicinity of the Lost Packer Mining properties and smelter to i I Challis was unsuccessful the road I I will be built The Lost Packer company I com-pany In behind the project and thai tha-i road will be completed within ninety I days I It Is announced that there is to boa bo-a new smelter in the Salt Lake Valley Val-ley the smelter to have n capacity of 1000 tons dally and to be confined exclusively to Iron ore In addlUon to I the smelter there will be a rolling mill The company which will erect the big plant Is tho American Steel Fuel < company and tho oro Is to coma from properties In Wnsatch and Utah counties In the property of the Gold Nugget Mining company at White Rock Nevada Ne-vada on one of the ledges a tunnel will attain the depth nf 1500 feet by running In on a body of oro which at the surface Is eight feet wide and averages 20CO a ton From several other ledges a large tonnage of ore has been taken by surface work much of tho ore running from 52 to 100 a tonA A forecast of the repot for June by the Copper Producers association sets the surplus of copper In this country at a figure showing a decrease of about 20000000 pounds although va rlous unofficial estimates have sot ore figures at 12000000 to 22000000 pounds Nothing could Illustrate the future possibilities of the Western Utah Lopper property In Deep Creek better limn the fact that au entirely pew Dody of copper oro has beAi 1 found on the 300 foot level and this copper proposition Is only In tho development stage at present The owners of the Ilex mine at Gold Circle Nevada have purchased n mill for their property It la the intention to put in a plant capable of treating I not less than fifty tons a day at tho I start and It Is believed that It will be the means of bringing In ft handsomely hand-somely paying proposition |