Show MINES AND MINING the american smelting smelling Sm elting company reports ne nel carnies of 7 for or the year ended april 30 a decrease of OG compared with the preceding year the american smelters shelters Sm elters securities company for the year ended april 30 0 shows net earnings of an increase of over the preceding year a gain of about ag 45 per cent on returning from abroad monday y morn morning lug F I 1 augustus heinze inze the controlling coil trolling factor of tho the ohio copper company unreservedly pronounced ills his trip to finance the company a success from tho the scene of operations of the comet gold mining company which recently took over the indian ike and an adjoining group of claims in black i canyon cornea colnes the news that the face of the tunnel Is in highly mineralized vein material which show avows occasional spots of free gold in the new york bonanza mine at park city a drift la Is now being run in a southwesterly direction on the als sure encountered some time tim ago the work thus wing in entirely now new territory tho the fissure shows three and a half feet of vein material which la 13 highly mineralized more work Is being done in the old districts of the vernal or uintah region than has been generally supposed at this distance front from the scene of action in the rangeley district sixty miles southeast of vernal according to enos bennion Denn lon merchant of 0 vernal thirty live fivA wells have been sunk gunk with not more than four or five dry wells ten feet per shift and two shifts per day Is the speed being main talked by the standard earn corn pany of utah which la Is using the diamond drill for prospecting its big vein from the station of the 1000 level general manager E J rad datz has returned from tho the mine and announced that the drill work was progressing smoothly the and hardscrabble claims situated near the pittsburg idaho in the gilmore district of idaho began shipments this week by wagon route to the lecht smelter at hahn the ore which is lead silver Is good fur for about 60 per ton the distance from mines to smelter Is nine miles gradual Improver improvement neit has been sho shown w n in to te ire re oodles as the work progressed r alluding to the gratuitous advertis advert ts ing of chino copper ly by thomas thomaa law son G george eorge 1 L walker says saya that it 11 naturally naturally la Is having a tendency tc prevent event the public from buying chino Is causing general selling by spec lahive holders and la Is keeping the price of the stock much lower than it 11 la Is entitled to sell on the merits ol of the property and the standing of tho the corn corm panya management the tunnel at the lost josephine joseph ine mine in the former uintah reserva lion in which work was recently resumed by the provo owners has encountered a cave the opening at last account had not been explored but tram from the strong current of air which comes from it the miners believe that they have penetrated old world workings rigs ol of the mine from which according to ta traditions the spaniards took much golden wealth tit in early days ill the yellow jacket on yellow jacket creek sixteen miles from forney which has lain dormant tor for the th past fifteen years Is again in corn com mission A now new bunkhouse and jthn buildings hive been completed and the mine has been the mill la is being put in a thorough state of repair the yellow jacket Is a gold producer of ores grading from 3 to 15 per ton and has hitherto been considered a low grade propose tion the skidoo alne company operating a group of twenty three claims in fit the panamint range inyo county california huts has recently entered the list of dividend paying gold mines the rho property lies on oil the southwest ern slope of buckl mountain at an elevation elet val t on of about feet above sea level the country hereabouts consists of a series of rolling hills hill anti n nd gentle elopes separated from death valey by a range ot of paleozoic ilma stone atone hills hill 9 experiments in making from utah mineral wax V product to take the place of the ilie rubber of commerce conducted by dr clarence barrett general manager of the oil company of utah have apparently beer by oa complete com success as al could be desired dr darrett has mado made a rubber which applied to cloth la Is firm pliable elastic waterproof water proof impervious to the action of heat and it 1 it la Is not in every way n serviceable as aa the rubber produced from trees it to Is a case or of appearances deceiving in line with the understanding said to have been arrived at among the big copper producers to curtail t the it e output of the red metal one of I 1 tace our units of the plant of the steptoe valley smelling smelting Sm elting and mining company at mcgill has been closed ciesel down work is being started by the man of the daly west company n tho the main tunnel or 2100 level towards the pont point where the main ore shoot la Is thought to be now thit thi all stence of this resource has been demonstrated beyond a doubt on the 1900 lovel level the southwest drift of the now york bonanza property of utah la reported tc bo be following one of the anest fissures ever had n this park city roup some galena ai pearin in sufficient quantity to urge orward arward the manag management elmet |