Show MINES AND MINING IN ING I astern papers ate are predicting that the american smelting smelling Sm elting and stenning company tn in june will eith either tr cut down or do away with the he dividend on tho the common idock on account of findall profits from comes the report that the hie utah copper company Is in now mrk malt ing ng copper at the late of pounds per month at it rout cost of 0 84 cents per pound after deducting the expense from the mine to the market mark et oil la Is advancing lit all the time aim de deflates clates aies one lu in a 9 position to know that tho the demand this year Is going to bo be 16 barrels in excess it if the extensive nf new W Is apply unless some coma fields are discovered and developed an ali air compressor la Is now busy at the hub flub mine near billfold AIll tord while bile development work nork is being alp prosecuted I 1 here la is now over eighty tons of ore on the dump at the hub flub which la is valued at between 1 00 and 1300 per ton the activity tor for the current season with the lost packer mining corn com pany of idaho has already commenced during the seabon of 1907 the lout lost packer company clealen a total of 1100 from not over a thirty days run of 0 sta its new smelter since the of the ontario drain tunnel there has been an un in usual demand for the stock of th that at celebrated park city property but it jepma that there la is little stock to be found in the open market the holders evidently looking for better resul results tsin in the tha way of production than in the past work Is progressing rapidly in cleaning out the caved of tho the drift between nos 2 and 3 shafts on the 1500 1 foot level of the ontario at palk paik city and it will be only a short time until the draining of the mine Is 15 complete and work resumed to la uio the ground that has haa been flooded for so long the annual report of the anaconda copper mining company for the year 1907 submitted to the stockholders niec meeting ting at anaconda mont ilont last week shows that oft ing to the restriction of the output and the close down of the mine the profits mere less leas than the sear before being 3 samuel Ne hoube who recently made a trip of inspection to his properties arties I 1 lithe district de declares clates lie he never had bad the least conception as aa to the value of the properties he be had acquired upon the recommendation ot of others until thin liall sit and that ho he was simply bewildered with ahat had seen the camp of gold circle naiada la unique for a neada region by virtue ot of the presence of an abundance ot ol water for mining and milling pur poses posea usually the lack of water P 1 one of the most serious obstacles to overcome in putting a nevada camp cami on its feet so BO that it may become a dividend payer A new smelting smelling sm elting combination was as or last week for the purpose ol 01 0 operating in the utah field the nevi nev company which will be known as aa tilt the independent smelting smelling Sm elting company it 1 hacked backed by utah capital ci pital and has so cured a lease on the plant at ogden which h already proven to be s great success riu Flu erine la Is a new section about fourteen miles from Wiy rhyolite olite on the east cost side of the oare bare mountain range mil end almost directly south or of beatty this particular section has been known BS as a mineralized country fol foi about three years but it la Is only recently that there has haa been any excite ment ever the discovery E V chopin gard card a mining promoted prom pro motet otei with offices in denver has been in dieter dieted by the federal grand jur on the charge of using the ma mails I 1 Is in a fur therance of schemes to defraud lie ile Is alleged to have sent out alluring literature utera ture about in south rn irn utah which government inspect ors ore claim did not justly his advertis ng claims Licit ement over the oil fields dla die covered near mail bluff city utah contla ties ne to run high in that set section flon of the bouttry latest news from tho the scene scena rif nf operations tells of a gusher just discovered the output of which Is es ea limited at between COO and bar bap i els aels a day california oil roen men are beginning to investigate the virgin oil field a num br ber of prospective investors Invest ot ois a having recently made a visit to the district and are now looking into the matter rt of transportation in case big wells are ara discovered the virgin district Js a on the eve eva 0 of a boom the th prop pLop city of the cliff mining Mini till c company at ophar Is shoving up tip in a most encouraging manner tha average width of the vein Is said tua tie twenty ilya five I 1 feet e et 0 of f 0 ore r 0 of shipping grade several cars of which are to be forwarded to the valley smelters shelters sm elters during the present week the nevada douglas at Ter derington Ington has by encountering the same tsuy of rich sulphides sulp hides on the foot level added another hundred feet of beneks to the generous available resources developed de V eloped and the owners are feeling ver very Y good over the present appear ance of the property on the dull bull run property pio porty in the newly discovered bull valley d strict ot of utah all of thy ore being aacken aa ked la Is high grade running from 00 ti lc 30 rf gold tt ti te t e ton there loes does not seem it i be any low grade grada dibov erlea eries in the di ill dl of the rork rock found baing phenomenally rich the paly daly judge maeng company of park city far according cording cc tri to the te re rort submit cd to tho the stockholders meeting held recently distributed in dividends during the past year the company I li ii i at present lin allro lung the output of the mines 0 owing ing 1 0 o the low law arica 01 1 lead and silver 1 V |