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Show MINES AND MINING Over $10,000 worth of crude ore nn concentrates from tho Columbus Con solldatud company's Altn mines ha. been sold tho first three weeks of the present month. At Sydenham, Ontnrlo, 1C miles from Kingston, Is located the lnrgest mien mine In tho world. Tho product Is mostly nmbcr mica with some silver amber, thu highest quality mined. Tho annual report of tho Consolidated Consolidat-ed Mercur Gold Mines company does not make tho showing that previous reports havo dono, though it holds out u gooil deal of promise for the year to come. It Is reported that somo of thu rock now being encountered In the Cntlln mines at Sliver Bow, Nevada, la literally liter-ally plastered with leaf silver und the rock la ull being broken nnd sacked for shipment Just ns It comes. Thu BiKlden drop In tho price of copper, cop-per, nnd tho present uncertain level of tho red metal, have undoubtedly had a depressing effect upon many producers pro-ducers of the metnl whoso properties aro still in the development stage. J. 11. liurker, ot Bancroft, Idaho, has closed a deal by which his splendid lend-sllver-gold property, tho I.ad Ccn-tor, Ccn-tor, located In thu Caribou forest reserve, re-serve, bIx miles south of Soda Springs, will pans Into the hands ot a $100,000 close corporation. v Tho most sensational strike of copper cop-per oro ever made In tho camp of Yorlngton, Nevada, has Just been recorded re-corded In the property of thu Mason Valley company. A winze Is now being be-ing aunl: on a body of blnclc oxide ore that averages DG per cent copper. Another oil strike tins been tnndo In the Utah fleliln, this tlmo nt Flllmoro. In the Flllmoro field the oil is largely mixed with gas. At Cedar City, wells nro being bored, but only gas has been obtained, although theru nru largo qunntlttes ot It nnd strong pressure. While prospecting In thu wilds ot tho Pnunmlnt, near Windy Gap, Nevada, Neva-da, ("Scotty'8" country), Ralph IJeamc, a half-brother of tho poet-prospector, ICddy, recently found a blowout which proves to be probnbly one of the richest rich-est stillics made this past summer. Duilng tho recent strike ot machinists machin-ists lu Butte- every man employed by tho Butto &. Now York remained at his post. This wna due to thu fnct that nil the men employed nre stockholders la the company, having mado their purchases with parts of their wages. An Amalgamated director says: "Practically no copper Is being sold and If the' tlrst icducllon to about half our normal capacity la not cuoug'.i wo will order a further reduction. Vo are hopeful of a change lu thu nulta-lion. nulta-lion. Tho case of Utah, Colorado mines curtailment has been forced for lack of fuel." , Tho Kiindiclon "smelter, In Sonora, Mexico, will bo ready for business by October 1. With thu first unit of this smelter In operation tho company will treat 2S0 tons of oro a dny nt tho maximum cost ot $12 a ton, or $900,-000 $900,-000 for 70,000 tons n year. Tho oro Is valued at $37.40 per ton In copper, gold nnd silver. Work wns started recently on tho new building of tho Hnnson Consolidated Consoli-dated Silver mines at Port Arthur, Canada, which la to contain 30 additional addi-tional stamps, bringing the total to-tal of tho mill up to 00 stamps. It la the announced purpose of tho management manage-ment to keep adding Btnmpi until ISO nro In operation. In tho property of tho Urah-Yerlng-ton company, which Is located cast ot the Mason Valley mines, tho workmen are now opening up a five-foot ledgu that Is different from those being developed de-veloped by most of. the Yerlngton conii panics in the character of Its ore, as It carries well lu lead and silver, In addition to copper nnd gold. Official repoils filed In thu offlco of Nixon & Wlngfleld. nt Goldflold, fully substantiate, It Is claimed, the Importance Import-ance of thu sllvur-gold strike on tho Kaglo at Fnlrvluw. Georgo Wlngfteld says permanency with depth Ib proved by the fnct that tho oro Is straight sulphldo with no symptoms of oxidation, oxida-tion, not to mention other signs, Beyond ull doubt thu Yerlngton Copper shaft lias penetrated Into tho real sulphldo zone, thus demonstrating thu uxtcuca of the same at somewhat more shallow depth than was anticipated antici-pated by tho management. Thu work-lug work-lug first struck ore on thu 10th, nnd now at a vertical depth of 200 foot thu entire bottom Is in the sulphides of thu red metal. Thu nru production ot Uutte has been cut from 2,000 tons to 800 tons. Thu Berkuley, Diamond, Boll, Belmont nnd Clear Grit of tho Amalgamated aro down. Superintendent Gillies states that tho Boston nnd Montana mny be further reducod. Tho amount of tonnage under tho reduced force has not been estimated. Thu fulling oft will bo largo, Thu Copper Mountain mine, owned by the Guggenholms, and located six miles south ot Tccoma stntlon on tho Southern Pacific, and In Nevada, Is connected with the main lino with a road four and a hnlf miles long and ot standard gauge, and producing llvo cars of copper oro n day, A quartz mlno claim lu tho Transvaal Trans-vaal Is 150 feet long on tho lino of stiikp of the ledge and 400 feet wide. The government claim license, to be paid continuously, la $1 per claim per month. In addition to this tho government govern-ment takes 10 per cent ot tho net profit pro-fit on tho gold produced. A fifty-foot business location In tho town of Yerlngton, Nevada, that could have been purchaoed n few months ago for $000 Is now worth $1,000. Before Be-fore another year Is over tho camp will have Its railroad and a smelter will have to bo constructed to meet the Jeniands of the mines. |