| Show MINES AND MINING qa the r recently announced discovery of large gold deposits in the east humboldt range in levadi and ot which tiptop Is in tho the center Is attract ing a big crowd of 0 prospectors and in vestol a leasers leaders on the diamond queen corn com pany a property at beatty in the bull frog district are marketing mai ore in salt lake city that la is running high A carload sold a few fe days ago cairned 1217 in bold per ton toil in 1907 alone the production of iron ore in the united states was 53 tons or more than 1201 1200 pounds for each man woman noman and child olour of our I 1 es 8 population and the prodie tion la Is steadily increasing the initial discovery in the lip top tog district of 0 nevada was waa made last laet au all gust by mrs donald mccarthy McCart bi formerly a dancing teacher of Coloia colliado do who aho a year ago turned to prospecting she however kept her find a close bechet until about two months ago dr L A crandall Granda grandall fl the noted oil f expert x pert declares that around jual juaha oil will be encountered at the shallow depth of feet in to barrel quantities while working to a depth Z of f 2 feet no less than six oil bear ing strata will be encountered word from pioche brings tidings ot of a afine fine strike of lead and silver ore on the property of the mines company at a depth of feet the management has haa encountered seventeen apet of the ore and it Is one ona of 0 f the real excitement broaders breeders bre bro eders oders of the season there pleading guilty to the charge of promoting fraudulent mining schemed by the use ot of the malls john 0 hare hara was sentenced in the united stated district court at denver to serve on one day in the county jail and to pay a 8 one of the prosecuting actor ney recommended a light 13 sentence another splendid mining property in deaver beaver county that has haa been en a rip van sleep for sev eral era sears will be in active operation again before the end of the present month according to the salt lake herald it Is the old washington companas compi comp nys anYS property in loeber gulch not before the th alist at of july will ue lie united states smelting smelling Sm elting kenning mining company campen resume operations at its lead smelter in utah in the moan mean time the company Is expending in the neighborhood of in in stating staling apparatus which will permit operations pe rations under the decree of the utah courts A most moat important bit of news a to silver miners is the decision of tle german government to resume the coinage of silver on oil a scale that will call tor for 40 ounces ot of silver an dually for the next five years this will absorb 10 per tent cent of the total amount ot 0 silver that comes upon the open market tip top in the east humboldt range in nevada Is said to be an ideal poor man s camp just what the well informed of the w m abt have been looking for during the last ten en years prospects show at twenty to thirty feet depth paying flea a of ore corti to per ton in gold probably the most important strike of the winter in the deep creek coun try has been made in the clifton cop per belt company a ground A flie five foot ledge has haa been opened up the mass averaging 15 in gold 6 5 69 per cent copper 12 23 per cent bla bl arouth muth 3 1 69 59 p er cent tin and 62 per cent nickel per ton toil on Wede ot of last week the management of the utah mines re calved a check for 2105 71 lit in pay merit ment for the last car of ore received in the local market tb the e ore as bayed boli ounces silver and 47 per cent lead calling tor for 40 per ton there Y vere ere 62 pounds dry weight in the consignment it Is stated in doston that there le Is n no 0 longer a Laws LaiNs onlan connection with nevada utah there are be tween 12 and 13 s la this corporation and the leading in teresta believe that the company la is now prepared to stand 0 on n its it Is shipping front from forty to sixty car loads of ore per month from lla its pro properties when the republic was founded there were vere according to recent expert stamates sti mates approximately tons of cold coil in the tei aitor tori now forming the united states none of this supply was used for over a of a century but during the seventy live five years from 1 to 1895 nearly 4 tons were nere mined coal consumption Is increasing inert Inc asang rasIng at an astonishing rate during the pe for which statistics have been gathered it has doubled during each decade of lal it has more than doubled in 1907 jibe ho production about OUO tons cons at the present rate of increase the production in 1917 will be tons the richest ore ever seen in the bullfrog district was broken la into to laai iasi week at a lease on the national danli bank ground the shaft bhatt at a depth of it ter feet shows a three 1 veto of ore which is spotted and learned E d witt free gold twenty five thousand nd dol lars is a conservative estimate for foi the richer portion of the vein the total production pro ducton of ct iron ore ire ir the united states up tip to 1891 1890 was some tons in the next ten years it was nearly and in the seea years from 1901 to more than tons were produced or nearly irs 03 much as the total for the fist first fi st century of our his tory within a few daay the juab oil company will have ono one of the finest drill ng rigs that was ever turned out by the Keye KeY tope company arring for oil within 12 1200 0 0 fet fe t 01 the railroad hajn ot of jual juab P b re |
