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Show urcy mm mi mm , ' m EXCURSEON TO ELY one of the local directors and the man-agreed man-agreed of the property, who let a few, days ago for the Scene of activities. Mr. Orem states that twelve feet of ore have been found in the Double Ess tunnel, tun-nel, the general average of which is' 15 per cent copper. LAST WEES BECOBD-MAXEB. Last week was a record-maker in the amount of ore and bullion marketed in Salt Lake, there having been $956,500 paid to mine owners and smelters 'on this account by local banks. It will be seen therefore that the time when the weekly settlements running in favorof the miners whose properties are contiguous to this citv will reach at least $1.100.000 and $$2,000,000 per year. It will make Salt Lake's bank clearings- mount above those of any other city between Chicago nd San Francisco. " In fact to reach this point a comparatively compara-tively small increase is now required, when it is considered that the productive produc-tive districts are under the important and significant development by strongest strong-est kind of capital. and,that the American Ameri-can Smelting So Kefininfi company's big plant is started, and the mines that are to supply it from heretofore unproductive unproduc-tive districts are well on to the shipping stages. The enormous tonnages anticipated from Bullfrog and Nevada, Yerington, Goldfield. Greenwater. Tvnopah and also innumerable Idaho districts which are undoubtedly coming up rapidly, will be large, and yet small in comparison with the yields of Bingham as she will be two vears hence, and of Ely and sur-rouuding sur-rouuding camps, within the same period. Therefore Salt Lake commercial interests in-terests have reason to be looking forward, for-ward, as tbey are, to the circulation hero of much more money than ever in the past as a result of the development of interniountain mining interests. A survey of the outlook, from, the standpoint stand-point of the investor in business lines and especially in real estate, usually convinces the students of the growth of cjties in the United States that Salt Lake really has a very bright prospect for the very near future. ' DECLAKES DIVIDEND. A telegram from Ooidfield, Nev Saturday, announced that the Frances Mohawk Mining and Leasing company, wbtcb ha enjoyed one of the most extraordinary atrcaks of good fortune for-tune of any corporation In that district, has declared a dividend of 5 cents per share, ag. gregating $50,000. After paring tbis dividend the company will have 1 150.049 tn it treasury from the ore now unsettled for or in transit, besides the revenue from a production amounting to approximately ap-proximately $25,000 a day. Only four months have elapsed since ground was first broken for the cbaft. Since then the shaft has been put down 270 feet, and drifts extended on two levels fnr a distance of seventy-five feet in ore. The lease is equipped with a fine hoist, and the improvements and facilities for handling the ore would do credit to an old mine. On the 220-foot level Is one of the greatest bodies of high-grade gold ore ever found underground. un-derground. Samples across mi feet above tbis level, in a raise, assay $5:9. $680 and $M4. From a winre near by. taken be first three days of this week, were $2m $5034 and $7520 per ton. It is this class of ore that is being hoisted from seven shafts on Mohawk ground, operated by sub-lessees, from which the company com-pany derives in royalties in excess of $25,000 a day. .All people expecting tojoin the Salt fkke excursionists' to Ely on the occasion occa-sion of celebration of "Eailroai Day" " will confer a favor on the Commercial jr.tub by notifying -Fisher Harris 'not later, than next Friday morning. This Information is desired by the management manage-ment of the excursion in order that ample am-ple arrangements can. bo mado for ac-eomiEod&ting ac-eomiEod&ting everybody comfortably, lilready provision' has been made for ' , ' Mven sleepers, one day coach, one diner and one baggage car; but the indications indica-tions were today that additional sleepers sleep-ers would have to be added, and a second sec-ond section of the train will bo added If necessary. - i The awakening interest in the trip is source of ranch gratification to the Ooramereial club, and at the same time It" is desirable to send as great a crowd rom this citv over to see the new camp iwd its people as is possible; and it is altogether improbable that ' a railroad xate so low as that granted on this occasion oc-casion will ever again be enjoined by tbegeceral public of Salt Lake. - The rate is only $11.60 for the round trip, or about one-half the one-way fare that has been adopted bv the Nevada Sfo Northern and the Southern Pacific companies, which is $2.60. The public pub-lic therefore gets a chance-to get into - , "Ely now, see the camp, and come out gain after.a two days' fiesta, for a . . transportation charge which is a mere Bagatelle compared with the $43.20 . it will cost after Railroad Dav is" celebrated. cele-brated. - The sleeping cars will bo subjectfto ecupaney at Ely by whatever passengers passen-gers may choose to use them, for Bleep- The train will leave next Fridav even-; even-; Jng at 8 o'clock, arrive at Kly early the next morning; and returning will leave Ely Sunday evening and arrive in Salt Lake in time for business, so that the journey will not cost citizens any .absence from their avocations excep't Saturday. This arrangement is enabling many to. take advantage of the opportunity oppor-tunity for making the trip who might otherwise feel they could not spare the :time. The entire Slate of Utah is invited to join the excursion, and while all who can should, as a matter of convenience to the committee, make their reserva-' reserva-' tions ofberths through the Commercial Hub, the tickets can be secured at the Oregon Short Line offices, and every-body every-body intending to go ought to make arrangements ar-rangements as early as possible. . Fifty-six cases of champagne will be carried by the train', to be partaken of " by the excursionists immediately of the time the last spike is driven in the Nevada & Northern railroad. Tbis eham agne will be kept, under lock and key .nd a strong guard of armed men in t e baggage car while it is en route to i s destination. SACK OEE AT FEEBEE. Ore is being sacked by Leffler Palmer ' ind associates at their mine in the Fer- ler district of Nevada, immediately nvest of the Clifton district of Utah, and shipments will soon begin. Values of thi Feroer ore ere about 60 per cent lead and 56 ounces silver per ton, tmi-formly tmi-formly distributed throughout th voin, nm king it 'Hie of the m-rt protitabli MAKES FAVORABLE START. Clifton district, Utah, otherwise known to Salt Lakers as the heart of the. Deep Creek country, is starting into in-to the winter under most favorable circumstances, cir-cumstances, suggesting that - it will heneeforth make a remarkable record of production. Twenty-five men, aerording to the last reports received here, are working on Capt. Duncan MacVichie 's group on Gold Hill, where a shaft is already down 450 feet from the surface. Many thousands of tons of ore are available from the upper levels from this shaft, but it is to be sent down much further before stoping nill be undertaken. Water Wa-ter for this mine has to be piped 1700 feet, and this work is also being done. The same company, of which Capt. MaeViehie is at the head, is developing develop-ing the Calaveras group, two miles northwest of (told Hill, where a tunnel is being e.xteuded to cut a largo vein of Hipper. At the north end of the district the MonFter Mining and Milling company has lei a contract, for 300 feet of tunnel tun-nel work to crosscut the Uncle Sam icdee. Matt A. Uaughertv. who has a bond and le:-e on the Pole tar group of cliiinis, was here recently and let a contract con-tract to drive a tunnel L".l feet. J. P. Gardner und Paul Rodenhouse are prosecuting work on their mining claims southeast of Gold Hill. The Western Pacific. Mining and Development De-velopment company is preparing to start work on its group of tlaims ad-ioining ad-ioining the" Gold flill and intends to develop steadily through the coming winter. This property is owned by J. H. McCrystal, K. J. Yard II. 11. Green, Austin Tiernan and W. J. Richards. Tho latter will have charge of devclopmenf work. nines to work that any prospector might desire. There are many other good prospects ' In the Ferber region also, that .re be ing worked and which can soont.hip. Heretofore" Ferber has been purely a "prospective" camp, because th'ere were not railroad facilities, and capital ronld not be induced to go in there for development purposes. Now, however, with the Nevada & ?forthern tailroad close by. rendering the wagon hauls comparatively short, all the prospects, upon which' owners have done merely annual assessment - work for years, are passing under development de-velopment "with splendid success. Salt Lake people are in evidence, long with btner mine operators of Utah, throughout the Ferber region. They have recognized its value all along, but waited for the railroad to come in and render the district the, transportation service that was required before it could prove a big moneymaker money-maker for investors. W. M. Bradley and . associates are heavily interested -in the district and parties were looking over their ground recently with a view of bonding it. Wilh'am Ball of tb Lower Mammoth had some mining men in that district tauipling ground owned by Oweu Sheri-dnn, Sheri-dnn, nlso a group of claims owned b$' (.'. li. Johnson aud W. N. Carman. Report Re-port says the assays were favorable uml that abond'has been' taken on the properties. A syndicate is also after th Bradley-FitzUugh interests. The Nevada & Northern railroad is . ,. .not the only reliance furthermore for ' trnsportKtioE, inasmuch as the Western West-ern Pacific will cut through the heart vi this district, although as yet the exfcet route is not definitely known to tho public. Also it is now quite certain that the branch of tho Clark Short Line, projected to tap the camps of the eastern nart of Nevada from New- - liouse, will afford Ferber mines another outlet. Surveying parties for this lin avs now ia the field. ' BUYS GOLDFIELD SUN.V Announcement is made today that Jtnes A. Burnell has purchased the Goldfield Sun, on which the Industrial - Workers of the World, a few weeks ago placed a boycott that caused all the organized labor row in the Goldfield dis- ' tnct. Change of management of the paper is expected to effectually and forever qaiet the unrest that has prevailed tliroughout the region 6ince the trouble started. Mr. Burnell was formerly one of the owners of the Bockr Mountain News of Denver, and has been generally gener-ally considered conservatively favorable favor-able to organized labor.' He is also an experienced miuing operator, having holdings in South America as vfell as at Goldfield. i ROY BIDGE HEBE. Boy Ridge, formerly a lucky leaser on the Jombo at Goldfield, and now interested in-terested in the Dromedary Hump company com-pany of Fairview, is in the city. He s brings most excellent, reports of all the .properties of the Fairview district. ; ' BICH COPPEB FIND. '. A big fiod"of extremely-rich copper ere on the property of the Nevada Douglas Copper company at Yerington was reported, Saturday from W. C. Orem, INVEST AT ELY. B. F. Woodward and Brigham Gay of Spanish Fork have secured two groups 01 claims in the Elv, New, district, three and one-half miles from the railroad rail-road tracks, which they regard as future big producing mines, 8iid will immedi-ale'y immedi-ale'y prepare for developing the s:ime. Th-j values of the ores at tho surfaeo rang-.' nround $25 per ton. in gold, silver, sil-ver, copper and lead. The company which Mr. Woodward will organize to take over this property is said to have been almost all subscribed by personal friends and ticquaintauces in advance of incorporation. Mr. Gay is at the mines, getting things in readiness for the big work. He expects to have ore, ready to ship soon after the surface prospecting starts, and in that way the property will be made to partially develop de-velop i Ise If. 1 NEW MINING COMPANY. The Utah and Michigan Mining and Milling company vwas incorporated in the County Clerk's office Saturday. The comptny is lapitalized at $150,000, divided di-vided iiito shares of a par valu; of 1 -aeh. The company officers rr; J. R 0'eiM, president ;EdwArd Wills, vice-president; vice-president; J. K. Parsons, secretary and treasurer. The officers with J. M. Reynolds Rey-nolds and Charles M. Lang form the.. directorate. di-rectorate. Tho company is the owner jtf a number of mining claims in the Beaver Bea-ver Lake mining district, Beaver coun- t ' t |