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Show MINING NOTES. . By the first of the month Manager R. II. Channing of the Utah Consolidated expects to have the experimental smoke and fume consumer in operation. Ore and bullion settlements yesterday yester-day amounted to $49,300, distributed as. follows: Gold, "silver, lead and copper, ores, $25,100; bullion. .123,200. Morris M. Johnson will depart for the properties of the Montreal and Boston company at . Greenwood. B. C, next week, to exercise a general supervision over the mine and smelters. Walter S. Kelly has resigned the management of the Tlntic Mining and Tampa Smelting companies, and will devote his time to personal Interests. John Hays Hammond is scheduled to visit Bullfrog- within a couple of weeks, and it Is said that he will Inspect the Montgomery-Shoshone mines - for the Guggenheims. . Some talk relative to a deal whereby tl)e Bingham Consolidated company will take over the Balaklala mines In California is again going the rounds since ' the - death of the late Peter L. Kimberly. v Manager C. L. Rood of the Ontario has arrived from Denver, whither he left Mrs. Rood under the care of an oculist, and will run out to the mine and take a peep Into the drain tunnel. Manager N. H. Clark of the "White Knob copper mines at Mackay, Ida., has received word from the East that the. mfne Is to be abandoned, the great smelting plant dismantled and the equipment disposed of. It is estimated that $3,000,000 has been expended in developing de-veloping and equipping the property, and that nothing has come of the reputed re-puted big producer of the red metal. Superintendent William Ball has returned re-turned to the Lower Mammoth mine to prosecute development work In the extension ex-tension of the sliaft. a |