Show MINES AND MINING the smelter nt at needles cal will be started in thirty days it to la reported the demijohn mining company has made application for listing on the salt like lake stock exchange silver king Consolidate ds annual meeting at park city of stockholders resulted in tho the election reelection re of the old board and officers the rich strike near winnemucca nevada continues to improve and the original discoverers are preparing to make a shipment of ore the new ore body ot of the south utah which was encountered a few aw months ago in the french drift has been developed for feet in length and averages better than tour four per cent copper rumors aro are rife again that an effort Is being made to build a line from a point on the salt lake route into deep creek and dugway and that it sufficient inducement Is offered it will bo be extended into ely Is now being fought to a finish by men who claim ho has wrongfully invested davis daly stock in the porcupine district ont in placing his assets assorts Ilein zas attorneys place them at and liabilities at salt lake people interested in tho the maricola maricopa Mari copa queen oil company of the midway ffield in california recently received word of the striking ot of a strong flow of oil and gas at a depth of 1690 1 feet on the companas comp anys property near the lake view and obispo gushers bushers gu directors of the copper ranch I 1 mining lining company of beaver county utah met tuesday or of last week and levied an assessment of two mills on each share of outstanding stock the object was to liquidate certain debts outstanding against the company and to have hae a fund in the treasury Jar harbidge jarbidge bidge is in the line to secure water power according to W D reynolds of mountain home idaho who has been in the camp investigating with the view ot of furnishing power tor for mill and mine on account ot of limited fuel and high cost of transportation it is thought that this power must come from without the worldwide world wide heralded cobalt looks sort of like a pigmy when compared with tintic when the real test of a camp Is laid down viz the ore tonnage says tho the salt lake herald cobalis Co balts is of course richer however Cob cobalis Co balts alVs average weekly tonna tonnage g 0 is about tons chiel that of 0 TI antle is nearly tons more than that each week at the annual meeting of the vlorence goldfield mining alining company at goldfield on march 1 former officers and directors were reelected elected re and a dividend of 10 cents per share was declared involving the payment of 0 payable april 2 the manager reports the important discovery of an excellent grade of ore twelve feet wide in the northern extremity of th property writing from the camp of national in northern nevada an experienced mining man from salt lake declares declarer that halt half the men working in the national mines property go armed and shift bosses carry six shooters instead of spiels ile he says over men are employed and he has been told oy men working in the mine that they have taken out pounds of ore in one shift which went 70 to the pound or lor for one mans eight hours of labor within the next timur weeks it la Is the intention to inc increaser reasel shipments from the property of the scranton mining alining smelting smelling Sm elting company in north tintic from to at least it 1000 tons a month oklahoma capital la is taking hold of several beveral properties in contact nov end extensive developments are planned for this year work having been already commenced on two of the groups of claims the guggenheim Gugg exploration company which his has always been closely held and has had bad a limited market on ID n the ille curb will shortly announce an all increase of its capital from 20 to maurice it M bacon of butte general western manager for F A Ile inze who controls coa trola the stewart mine near kellogg idaho confirms the report of an important as well as surprising ore strike on that property tho the deepest shift shaft in contact nevada Is about feet it started in the malac malic hites then went into borrillo and finally at water level reached the sulphide one that was sunk about three years ago the principal out cropping vein at the alax ajax property at contact nevada is nearly thirty feet cross across a and can be traced for three miles through the tha property this outcrop shows two to ten per cent in copp r values the stewart mine near kellogg idaho is now shipping more than tons of ore ora to the mill at wallace dally daily and as aa soon ns as the new ore dins bills which are under construction are completed the property will be ship ping at the rate of tons a day tho ho vanguard of the expected rush into valdez alaska has arrived all the late boats have hava had haa a full ger list and they report an immense crowd headed that way some of the th late arrivals state that from 1509 to people are preparing tc t camp in valdez the coming sr sf ann i valdez alaska will bo be wo i 4 alt of tents this summer than oil hat been tor for the last decade and the wet wel known scenes of the new einink camp will be repeated but very few if any of the late comers have gon aon in it on oil what Is s termed short abort |