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Show ' "t Sssbsbsbsbsbsb! l SSBSBSBSSS 'bsbsbsbsbI MINES A-ND MINING, H Well Informed mining men cohfl- fl dently predict a banner season for tho Star district ot Bcavor county, H Utah, beforo tho present year has H given way to 1008. A romaikabln rich strlko wns mnde last wcok on tho former Walkor Laka Indian fesorvntlon, Novada, In Urn, Wild Horso No. 2, oro being uncovered H that assays $290.80 to tho ton. H 'I no nows comes from Ely, Novada, J that tho shaft ot tho Salt taKo-Ely M company hns dropped Into a solid body I H ot high gnulo copper ore and that thoro Is no longer any question about tho futuro ot that proposition. Strikes of high grndo oro In tho H Daly-West ml no at Park City aro bo- H coming ot such frequent occurrence H thnt tho management declares it li H afraid to enumerate them, as to do so H would bo to Invito Incredulous crltl- H Word comes from Goldflctd that tin H machinery ordered somo tlmo ago foe H tho Goldflcld White Hock Leasing 1 company, tho corporation controlled by H Harry Joseph and J. U. Eldrcdgc, Jr, M sf Salt Lake, had arrived on thi M ground. BsssO Hound Mountain enmp Is located on ssBBBsl the oarit Bido ot tho Big Smoky val 1 loy, about half way between Tonopah H ind Austin, Nevada, nt nn altitude of M from COOO lo 0100 feet, tho total olo- B vatlon of tho mountnlii from which H tho camp 1b named being not mora H than 400 feet above thu adjacent val- M Favorable reports aro bolng re- H eclvod from tho Barney Bldgo and M Crooked Creek districts, which aro sit- M uatod about -10 miles north of Thun M dor Mountain. A largo number ot H prospectors aro encaged In developing 1 numorous pr6pcrtles in thoso sections', H and very gratifying results aro bolng H obtained. 'M Joo llrlnison Is doing huslnoss at bis coal mine, about fourteen miles oast of Idaho Falls, Idaho, and baa 'esBBBBsl lust Installed nn engine and a hoist H to tako euro ot the trado, as nearly H all tho farmers around Amnion and M lona ato UBlng thu coal, and rocotm M mend it. It Is selling for $3.00 at tha H Work on the Guggenheim properties M at Ely is progressing steadily along M tho lines originally laid down. Dovoh H opnient nt flio Veteran group Is par H tlctilarly satisfactory. Hero u great H blanket ot oro has been opened up . jH whoso dimensions so far disclosed am iBsssssl 80 feet In depth. 180 feel lu width and rBssl 70 feet In longth. BBBsl Tho United Stutcs Smelting com' H pany Is assembling at Chrome, N. J, jf tho largost metallurgical works in -rBJBBsi tho world. Investment In theso plant f M will exceed $3,000,000. It already hai M a copper refinery of n present capacity J H ot 14,000,000 pounds annually and In ' l H building u fully equipped smelting nui ' I H popper converting plant, H A leading interest in Utah Consoll. M dated says that whllo full figures for H the fiscal year or tho Utah Consoll- H datod havo not yet been received it 14 H known, bo far as can bu determined, H that tho company earned $2,700,000 H for the yeir nnd It Is estlmnted tha) H for 1007, tho company will earn bo- iH tweon $3,000,000 and $4,000,000. H A doal hns been consummated In fl Goldflcld which placed ono ot San H Francisco's most promlnont business H mon In tho local fluid. That man Is H no less a pcrsonugu than John D H Sprccliles, the sugar king, owner of H tho San Francisco Call and various JJJJBsbbI othor largo enterprises on tho l'a- fluBBBsi :lllo coast, nnd tho property Is the t fl Blue Jacket group. H Joseph K. Calno, of Salt take, a H uorman mining englneor and a Tono- M pah geologist, havo secured au option H an tho famous Ludwlg bonanza. The H Ludwlg has been ono ot thoso rich H and raro propositions that has earned M good money and gone along without -Jl making any nolsu In tho world. In H prosocutlng dovolopment work last H year $175,000 worth of rich oro was H shipped. H An assay sheet from tho Cactus H mlno discloses thu fact that tho samp- K ling ot oro covered by twenty-two sots H ot mlno timbers guvo returns ot 0.G H up to 2S.4 per cent copper. Sixteen H of tho twenty-two sets of ussnya i H suowod percentages ranging all thu tM way from 11.9 to tho highest, while H an average of tho lot attestod the H proscuco of better than 16 per cent H Whllo doing some development worlc I jH on hla mines lu tho Muson Pass sec- W, tlon In Novada recently, Pat Gal- HMj laghor openod up a flue led go of cop- Bifl per ore, varying In width from two to H four feet. Tho oro Is a mlxturo of H sulpbldo nnd carbonato and average 1 H samples taken from the lodgo show 6 M tho oro contains from fifteen to tweu- I M ty-flvo por cent copper, und from $0 """ to $8 In gold, M Ely Is designed to bu ono of the M crcatcct copper producing districts In H the United States. Up to date tho M Immonss tonnages of oro havo been H lovelopcd with u smnllor amouut ot H :apltal than any othor district lu tho H United Statos. M Tho Dowoy mill, Thunder Mountain, H Idaho, has started dropping Its ten JH stamps and dividend will bo the order H ot u.o day tor tho next year. Thoy H ire putting through tho mill nn avor- ( M ago ot 87 per ceut ot tho assay valua H on tho plates H - .BBBsl |