Show LOWER MAMMOTH OTH FEATURE ON MINING I. I f TO MINING MEN Give your delinquent and assessment notices to The Telegram Careful attention and reasonable rates assured Call up both phones for a Telegram man to call on you I Only one cue bright spot appeared in tho the mining raining stock market this morning and that was tho tendency of Lower Mammoth Mammoth Mam Main moth t to got improved prices The stock gained 5 cents a share in the tho effort of some of the manipulators to get a largo large block of this stock which refused to bo drawn out at t the prevailing low figures i iSomo Somo Some In intimation of a strike in jn th lower levels leVel of or this tills property wn wa was spread around I but the tho report lacked confirmation Other OthOl re lOrt m mining propositions hit the tho to toboggan toboggan to- to boggan hard liard and nearl nearly everything C that figured In the sales list was on a sliding scale stocks as a n rule rub rec received I ClI the worst drubbing an and which have c shown hown In Improved form o of nf lato are now receiving the most attention from tho the shorts Nothing Is being spared and rind It matters I little whether a a mine has bus large C Core ore bodies bolles blocked out The tu future tur otters offers little Inducement for those who want to hold the Ule stocks fora when prices s will viII 1 a assuredly lI lx lp Improved Tho metal situation lInes does not Improve and iid tho dally daily foreign dispatches indicate indicate- that there will l bo be no Immediate improvement improvement improvement improve improve- ment In tho metal market for some ome timeto time to come como All of oC these unfavorable unta reports a 1 tendency to discourage traders In iii mining stocks and tho the professionals ional take advantage ad of ot these unfavorable conditions 10 lo let the tho stocks Blocks out whenever er a favorable favorable favor or able ahlo opportunity I Is presented Jm sentell No Nl Improvement Is looked for until the years Jars made mac throughout tho the country and the show tho the conditions condi condi- tJ lions ns of or the various financial institutions as as well weB as the pO possibilities for metals In Inthe tho the meantime tho the volume of or business continues continues con eon small and unsatisfactory even to the brokers broken themselves I Did Bid 45 2 18 s 20 Beck 85 35 Carlta 9 2 Creole Creolo 2 Consolidated Mercur 26 33 Pai nl DaJ Daly ludge I Daly Vest cst Eagles Eagle's Nest 20 25 Baglo and Blue Bell Grand Crand Central 27 Horn Little Bell I Lower Mammoth 39 I Lou Iou Dillon II 10 I Mammoth 00 Ma Ia Da 23 2 24 Nevada Nc Nevada le 10 Ontario Sacramento 06 Sliver Shield oo o 07 stray Stra DoS Dog 06 Hi 15 Svan Swansea a 23 Swansea ea Or Utah L Undo Uncle Sani 36 6 37 Victoria 50 1 Hi I Columbus Consolidated Indian 10 Butler Liberal n. n 02 Be Bek k 4 n IS 48 Jack 18 20 Bullock 10 Century I. I 10 Mining 12 10 io Ingot t 02 02 J loe oe Bo VoC rs 05 0 LeAd King 10 10 1 12 Little Chief 03 Lake 25 25 26 York ui 04 Rl Anaconda 15 Chief 01 South Columbus HI CiO 50 evon 33 31 nl 01 03 Ut h and Michigan l GO Victor o 11 I oi 04 V bash ol 01 1 is Yankee 20 O 30 Crown Point 1 15 11 Iron Blossom Z 22 20 20 o 17 Sioux liouX Consolidated 14 14 Hi 15 FORENOON SALES KALES Ajax V ja at Lower Mammoth 1000 at Ce at 17 STe at nt ac c at at 10 1000 10 at at May Day OO at 1000 at c a at at at 1000 at CO G Gat at Nevada Ne Hills Hula 50 SO at al at 85 seller sixty days Sam Sara at at 1000 at seller sixty days 2500 at UCC Tunnel 1000 at at ne at t k Colora Colorado o. o at OO at seller thirty days nys Crown Point 1000 at l c COO jt at Iron Blossom OO at nt c. c South o us Con OO at 1100 itt pt 4 St V Seven een Troughs 00 at al at V OPEN BOARD DOARD fie fleck Beck k Tunnel at ISe bU buyer er thirty cIa Colorado at 2121 1200 at 10 I Lower Mammoth 1100 at BOO at at 00 at 40 c. c Sev Seven n Troughs Troug 1500 at Uncle Sam 1000 at al t lOT TOTAL AL ALl n Regular shares for 2 S Open shares for Total shares shares' for GOLDFIELD ELY RAILROAD Advices from tram Ely Bly are arf to the err effect ct that the railroad route from Ely to h had about been decided upon und that within a a. few rew surveyors u will bo ho t sent Kent nt out to l locate the ground on which the thc C easiest grade ralle can call be had for fOl connecting up lip tho the two camps campI It Is said eald that this thin work will bo be completed before spring und and alj arrangements completed d for tor grading and laying 11 the rails dining tim th coming summer months This piece of work Is Iscon con considered the thu most Important railroad building that has taken place since sinco the tho carl early when the Central Pacific line was as built for fOI or the tho new hue lino will gill m open up an Immense mineral mineraI belt in central Nevada Ne Ne- c- c vada and give such old time mining camps a as Hamilton an nn outlet for their ores Further Importance of or the tho now line lino Is 18 given cn for It Is shown that tho the Nevada camps J will bo ho several hundred miles closer cloRer to the markets of or this thin city and that thal tho the ores that mako inako such splendid fluxing propositions can cnn be he had to work with the ores So 80 far rat as can be learned It seems that thal the Nevada miners are arc willing that tho the smelting business should be c carried on at this point but unless suitable arrangements can bo ho made for the lie treating of the ores In Salt Lake valley plan plants tN the mine owners owner of or Ely and Goldfield have decided that they will embark embark em orn- bark In III tho the smelting smelting-of of at al least their theil own ores The Tho leading spirit in this movement for fora a new hew railroad d Is said ald to be he V. B. B Thompson Thomp Thomp- son soil gon manager of the brokerage ra c house houpo of or Hayden Harden Stone Co of Borton Do ton and andew New ew York These p people have t Invested In heavily it ill ily in the mining propositions of No- No Nevada vada and more especially those of the Robinson mining district The rIte proposed road Is 15 to ronn connect ct with the tho Ne Nevada Northern North orth em ern a few miles mlle above Ely Eh and anel It Is IR claimed that the shippers of or will vill to send their then have o an opportunity ores direct to tho the mammoth m smelting plant at McGill No place will be benefited more mora than EI Ely and with the completion o of this line lino the camp will be given a splendid outlet and should be bo the tho means by which that city will be built up to one of or the tho most Important cities in Nevada UTAH FOURTH IN COPPER The government has just Jest sent flent out an Interesting In Interesting In- In report relative to the minerals produced In Utah luring during the tho past year rear the compiling of ot which has been done under un under under un- un der the skilled eye oyo of or some of 01 the government government govern govern- o ern ment geologists In part the report Is as I fot 0 A Utah stood fourth In rank among the tho producing copper states In 1906 Blister Blis mis- mister ter copper to the tho amount of or pounds was produced mainly from three Important districts Bingham Tintic and Frisco This output was le less 5 b by i 81 pounds than that of or I 1905 05 which I amounted to pounds pounds- The rhe mine production for the thc year exceeded tho smelter smeller production by hy over pounds of ot blister copper for the reason resson that a U great amount of material re received received re- re from the tho mines mineR was not worked up during the year ear and at the end of ot the year car there thero were stored at al tho the smelters smelt smelt- orS ers ores and concentrates containing moro more than pounds pound of or copper The chief cau causo o of or the decrease in smelter production was the of or the now new Garfield smelter to handle handlo as ai much material material ma ma- tonal during the year car as had been ex ox- The Bingham district In Salt Lake county count is sixth In Importance In the country The Thuc buster blister production of or the district In 1906 f fell somewhat below that thai of or 1 1903 1905 I 0 which was pounds the tho decrease decrease- being caused by D lack 01 of fuel foci and storage of or oro ore at reduction works The Tho smelters south of or Salt Lako Lake City havo have lon long been the thc subject of or heavy claims for alleged Injury Injun to agriculture agriculture ture and as a result much mane money has I been spent by opera operating tinE companies In Inthe Inthe inthe I the effort to reduce the amount of sulphur sul sul- plume phUl In their smoke The local market for or sulphuric acid 1 is however howe r. r extremely extreme extreme- I ly small an and as the smelters are not within profitable reach ch of or markets to the thc cast east sand south they have ha found It Itc c cheaper to p py pay y the time damage claims than to lo make mako sulphuric acid for practically c II nothing A decision given b by tho the fed fed- oral court late lato In the tho year enjoined four smelting smelling plants near Murray and Bingham fling Bing ham Junction from operating on an ore are or combination of ot or ores s contain containing Ins an any arsenic or more than 10 per cent of ot suit sul This decision if sustained su may ma force torce the thc companies to move elsewhere but th the threatened removal of the tho smelters smelters te has aroused property owners and business men In the vicinity and as 85 asIn asin In California the dependence of or the tho communities communities communities com com- on the smelters has been re re- re The Tintic Tintie district at aL Eureka Juab count county IE lIS tho the second copper camp In Inthe Inthe Inthe the state an and the tenth In the country coun coun- try try- The camp Is c essentially Il u a precious precious- metal camp with copper and lead as accompanying ln metals metah of or Importance but butIn butIn butIn In InarI arI The copper production pro pro- luction of ol the tho district In 1906 was derived In Iii largo large part from tho the Centennial Eureka Eureka Eu Eu- rr reka ka Eureka Hill Hili and Mammoth companies com corn panics but nearl nearly e every producing mine in the lime camp added more moro or 01 lest less cop- cop copP P pur pL I to th the th output of tho the district The average yield of or all the ores of tho the TIn Thiu- tic tlc district Is II about 2 per pr cent of or coppel copper cop cop- per pel but hut c certain or ores s yield much more There Is 18 no sm smelter In the Immediate vicinity of or the Tintic camp although It was reported near tho the close of 1906 that one ono was vas to be bo erected there In Inthe Inthe the time near future The old mills of or tho the district which depended largely on amalgamation amal amal- have hl bc been n abandoned because of their failure to tu save C tho thue baser baer metal metals met met- al als The now naw mills make a concentrate for fOI shipment but th the tho greater part of or orthe the oro ore Is shipped direct to the thc ten lers The Frisco co district In Beaver er county count mado a a. dt d gain In Its copper output output out out- put for 1906 but a considerable portion I of tho tile production did not reach the form of ot blister copper during the year The Tho hull hulk of the output was derived from the Cactus mine FI Figures given cn in th the published reports of or the company Mho sho time the Cactus mine yields a lower percentage of it i than an any other r largo larso rnino outside tho the Lake Lako Superior Su Superior Su- Su region Low Lay gold and r silver lIver values however somewhat reduce the cost of or production per pound and high grade oro ore has been found In some places pisces The Theore ore oro Is 15 concentrated about 10 Into 1 1 and th the tho product is It to Salt Lake smelter ter term Tho mill was enlarged In 1906 from tons to OO tons tans dall dally daily capac- capac Ity Time The Little Cottonwood district In Salt Lake Lako count county the Park CIt City In mines n s. s the district in county count and the district In Wash Washington ington county county coun coun- ty were Oro tho the principal contributors to the time states state's stat c copper production outside of or ortho tho time three principal districts In all but the taut named o of these smaller districts the copper Is recovered Incidentally to the time production of other metals In th thA Tut t dl district however a small smelter was erected luring during the year and the output of or copper which t It turned out omit was whipped shipped cl cast enst for refining Small quantities of copp copper r were produced In Innumerous Innumerous numerous other districts of the tho state An n Important N at Copper Mountain In Box Dox Elder county was reopened In 1906 and be- be ben began n shipments In 1907 |