| Show MINES AND MINING george wingfield mid and associates have secured an option on the th bis big nevada hills property at fairview nevada I 1 under the adlock wallop law passed by tho the last legislature tho the famous coal camp at hanna wyoming wilf soon boon be it a dry town as aa no new liquor license will be issued except in incorporated corp orated towns of tibe state in the black horsa mining district of at nevada tho the ohana company la Is sint sink ing a shaft and at a depth of 0 feet a six toot foot ledge edge Is exposed over two feet of which gives average essays assays of ounces silver and 5 91 ounces gold per ton the hie jack pot mining compan coul fAlly whose property Is situated at hercules in the wonder mining district dist brict of if nevada to Is to commence work within the he next thirty days arill anil a number of improvements will be made goldfield has gone cripple creek colo one better on gold production an official repot t of the aarli pro production due at 0 the mines of the cripple creek section gives tile total at goldfield produced during the same period about john U D ryan president of the international ter national smelting smelling Sm elting and refining company in an interview published in a denver deliver newspaper emphatically denies that any rate agree agreement has been entered into between the international and american Amei ican coal companies a riles the great coal merger in tho the east has been completed five big companies having baving been merged into one the companies have hae a combined capital stock of and own ind control acres of coal lands in mary alary kind and west went virginia and pennsylvania the old highland boy smelter at murray Is being rapidly razed to the ground by the ho big force of steel workers who lire are now on the job all the steel Is being shipped to tooele thoele as last as torn down where the international smelting smelling sm elting plant la Is being erected A mill of abo tons it a day capacity Is nearly ready to be placed in operation at the austin manhattan consolidated mines fes at austin nevada ax hau haust stive lve tests show that the ore can be sullied milled tor for a ton tile the new ew company has expended about getting the mines ready for production indicative of the present copper situation some figures on the recent copper sales lit in the he aut will be of in terest bibee may alay 1 there have been pounds of the rk red metal bold one firm alone selling about SO 80 pounds the average price re calved tor for which was 13 cents per pound lorenzo D cunningham a negro employed of the united states mint at it new orleans was arrested as ho he was iwas exhibiting a real gold brick cunningham confessed that he had stolen the gald in it granulated form from the separating division of the mint and then it into the oval bral shapo shape in which tt it wits was found tie the golden reef mining inkling stock was lasted last week on oil the salt lake ex change the rho company la is capitalized for shares at 0 stock stocky par value 20 cents of the original shares of at trea treasury sary stock 2600 shares have been old there Is tho the suni bum of 2100 lit in the tm abury and the debts of the company amount to 1400 because of 0 the demand of at the west and southwest for precious stones blanes the prices of diamonds and are to be increased soon noon prosperity in those sections la Is credited by the maiden lane dealers with causing them to do more than por per cent more business in precious stones last april than during the sanie same month last year according to assayers ass ayera and others of P a mathematical turn of mind tile the atmosphere mo sphere in the building used at cananea cananda Ca mexico one night last week as a theater was worth nearly 10 A traveling italian opera company was billed tor for a performance and an old ore house the largest building in town was fitted up tor for the show before the performance was over the stamping of feet by people in the aud audience lence had set eel tile the gold dust flying from the cracks and cre crevices vIdes of 0 the old ore house the gold laden dust wad waa so it made people ineeze bleeze the monthly statement 0 of the copper capper producers association for or april shows the stock or of marketable copper of all kinds on hand band in the U united 1 cited state april 1 pounds the stock of surplus copper wits was during the past month by pounds what pas has turned out to be one of the most severe accidents in the history of c the mines company at 11 terear was that ot of last week when eight leaching tanks settled to such an extent that their valuable contents were lost to the company mining alining companies operating in nevada will not have to lie file or send to stockholders their first report as i re q quiren alred by the now new wildcat bill until june 1910 according to an opinion just writ written teil by it II C stoddard attorney general ot nevada in response to many requests for the first time since the so severe vere winter season interfered with active ore transport transportation atlon tho the on the ruby pioneer property in nevada lite found the roads in such rib shape apt that shipments hIp ments can bee been in again two ship ments menta from beason leasers arrived in salt lake last week the american at murray Is gradually getting back to Us lt old form again the american employee emp loyes ara ar almost all back in their old Koai and trie of mer working at the plant afi on na may 17 was placed at 15 the striking pleasant elemont however it Is active |