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Show I MINES AND MINING! Tho ne' stamp mill for the Old Abo mine nt Silver City, Idaho, Is being Installed. A rich Btiiko hns been mnde by tho Gold, B.u company of Hullfrog, ten InchoH of oio running $4,000 to tho ton having been encountered It Is announced that by Jan. I con structlou work will bo under way on Senator V A Chirk' railroad Into t'iO Deep Creek mining district. Tho Nelson Queen Consolidated company of Paik Cllj Is getting out a large shipment of copper, silver, lead and gold ore for the Salt Luke market. mar-ket. The new ore bodies in tho Tiillsmsu mine, near .Mllford, t'lah, urn growing In Impoitnnre, new iimrhliiery Is be-Ipg be-Ipg Installed, about $:t00,OUO worth of ore Is blocked out, and shipments will begin soon Prospector nnd others In Kly wero paid $67,000 In raHh lu one day Inst week by G. I,, llickard In closing somo mining deals for the United Kly Copper Cop-per company, the mining corporation recently orgutilzud by Mr. Illcknrd nnd associates During the lust thltty ilnvs forty carloads, or approximately ",200 tons, of concentrates from the Cactus property prop-erty In Heaver county, have boon dumped Into the bins tit the (lurilold plnnt or the American Smelling & Ho-lining Ho-lining conipnnj The I'lnli Development company, operating the lied Wing property, 1ms ttnrtod several outfits hauling ores to the Bingham custom mill, and from 700 to 1000 tons, taken out during the past thirty dujs. aro now moving towurds the mniket. A new ore body I as been opened up on the .'Kill foot level below the tunnel TW-tle Columbus Consolidated of Alta, Utah H Is locnted about IIOO feel In a northwesterly direction from the copper ore bodies and tho values me principally lu sliver und lend. J. It. Van Fleet, the civil nnd nn chnnlcnl engineer who luld tut and plntted the new smeltei town of Garfield, Gar-field, has boon employed bj tho Hook-Ildgn Hook-Ildgn sjndlcate to go to the llosebud district, Nevada, und '.ay out nnd survey sur-vey the new towiihltt) of Povvhntnn. The owners of the Silver Flat mlno In Deer Creek, Utah, hnvo lnudo an Importaut strlko In their property, hnvlng encountered u good sized vein which runs nearly eight per cent molybdenum. They are endeavoring to got an order for u shipment of It at present, and feel that they hnvo a big tiling. t nho Mammoth Copper company, vp-c'lMtiR vp-c'lMtiR forgo poHsesbluus in the Buttle Ijiko district of Wyoming, Is opening up ono of tho coming properties ol that State, and with tho coming of spring tho company will mako renewed re-newed efforts to disclose Its resources at greater depths than any herctoforo attained. Hhyollto, Novada, has the happy faculty fac-ulty of leaving a Rood Impression upon all visitors. It Is a busy and fortune-making fortune-making community, lyplcallj lllustrat Ivo of. how a much-exploited mining region re-gion rises to tint emergency slid pro-duces pro-duces results far beyond tho dreams of tho most optimistic, In the format-lvo format-lvo period. 1-M Hoffman, tho expert miner who has brought tho Carlsn tip to lis present pres-ent stato of development, and who hns mndo a record ns superintendent of thai properly and the Silver Shield, nt Bingham, of which ho limy well feel proud, has resigned to go to Nevada to miinago tho Sullivan propeiiles In Munhuttun district. Former Governor W. J. Mcl'oiiuell of Idaho bus secured koiuit valuable mlnos on Champagne creek, a tributary tribu-tary of Lost river. He lm somo properties prop-erties belonging to what U known as tho Kiln group and litis largo bodies of oro developed. A mill Is lu operation and shipments of concentrates am b i lug mndo. Tho oro curries silver, lead I nnd zinc. I After two weeks of a battle iwtweeii I would-bo purclmiers to secure the t property and complications that for o tlmo threatened to tie the ground up In lltlgutlon nnd prevent operation by anybody, Salt I-nko and Hl panlo havo finally gotten together mid tuken tuk-en over the Hnvuge and Steele group of claims In Nevada's booming camp ot copper. Two Idaho men are In charge of the great Nlplsilng mine lu the Cobalt dls trlct In Ontario. W. I Llnnitj, at ono time connected with the Checkmate at Pearl, is superintendent and Dick Hlchardsou, who fortnerlj operated In the Black Warrior district. Is chief foreman. That propert). at the prlco of the stock, has a vuluutlon ot $4 0,000,000, During tho past week tho f'arlsa company has sent Into tho smelter ot tho United States company approxl mutely 400 tons of ore, the grade of which will compare favorably with tho best that has been shipped from that property In quantity for many u long year. Whllo a number of mining men still claim to experience great dltliculty In tecurlng adequate labor for both Utah and Nevada mines, It U stated by a largo employer of mm that tho labor shortage will be a thing of tho past lu Utah before tho end of tho present ruottth |