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Show MINES AND IHNlM Park Cllty ore shipments In tiQurH for the week ending December woro as follow!,: Daly Judge, 474,OH Silver King, 1,945,720; Daly Wet,TM r00,000; total. 3,919.720 rounds. 1 Tho men In chnrgo of the boring work on the big tunnel at tho Santa Maria mine, north of Ogden, last week made one of tho biggest cop-por cop-por strikes yet found at the mine. From the dally treatment of 600 tons of oro by tho now reduction works of tho tloldflold Consolidated company, monthly earnings Are look id forward to at tho rate of $500,000, t-qual to $6,000,000 per year. Senator Nixon has secured the establishment es-tablishment of n postofflco nt Helena Nyo county. Nov., which wilt servo tho new mining camp, Clifford, forty miles from Tonopah. Wane Smith has been appointed postmaster. Tho Colo Creek Coal company, which for years has operated a mlno at Dig Muddy, Convorso cotinty, Wyomtng, Is opening up a new mlno near Lander, Lan-der, nnd will move Its entire Illg Muddy plnnt to tho now property. Now York unions hnvo received qn official communication from ox-l'rcs Ident John Mitchell ot tho United Mlno Workers of Amorlca, declining the nomination for president ot tho United Mlno Workers of America. At a special stockholders' meeting last week of tho I'loche Nevada Mln; Ing company, it wns decided to ratify tho denl inado by the directors recent ly, by which Frank 11. Cook and as soclates purchased this property at a cost o( $60,000. Tito Grutt mining lease on block 9 of tho Wild West claim of the Coalition Coa-lition nt Hawhldo, Nevada, mado a shipment of ten tons Inst wcok, which hnmplcd $120 a ton. Tbls product pro-duct camo from tho south drift on tho forty-foot level. During tho first threo months of Cliafoy, Nevada's, history ono property, prop-erty, tho famous lllack Hole, produced $100,000 worth ot shipping oro, while p. great deal of milling oro was extracted ex-tracted and placed on tho dump pending pend-ing mill Installation. Judge Hourquln has rendered a decision de-cision In favor of tho South Butte Mining company against tho East Ilutte Mining company, granting $19.-353 $19.-353 for oro Illegally taken from the South Duttc workings by the Easti Butte poople or leasers. It Is freely reported that the first' o tho year will seo a big Increase in tho working forces at tho mines lero; another shift at the Daly Judgo, 75 or 100 moro men at tho King nnd ti gcnoral increase all around, says tho Park City Itccord. That tho Lodl Minos company Is developing tho old Illinois mine at Lodl Into ono of tho bonanza mines ef Nevada, and that as a result much new activity Is botng startod In tho camp. Is tho word which comes from a trustworthy source. The now reduction works of tho Ooldncld Contolldnted Is practically lu readiness for tho treatment ot ore. Tho dally capacity of tho now plant Is 600 tons, and this will bo supplied by tiro lied Top, Mohawk, Jumbo nnd Combination. On tho Mazumn Hills torrltory, In tho Soven Troughs district, an Important Im-portant strlko has been mado 200 feet below tho lowor tunnel level. Tho management has ruu lntu tho samo rich black sulphides that hnvo mado tbo Wlhuja least) fumou. Tho Silver King Mining company and tho Sllvor King Coalition Mlnlnt company has, up to tho prosont time, paid $11,228,485 In dividends. Tho Silver King mlno Is located at Park City, Utah, and for years has been the leading mlno 'of tho district. During tho first eleven months ot this year 272,056 tons of copper woro exported, comparing with 191,151 tons In tire corresponding period last '.yiar. a gain of 42 por cent, it Is probable that domestic consumption will show n falling off of about 30 per cent this year, compared wltb last. A gold strike hns been mado in ,tho property of tho N6vada-HumboIdl 'Mining company, operating four mlle eouth of Htimboldt, Nov. It Is a sup 1 luce strlko In cntlroly new ground, 1 and thero U a showing of from 18 , Inches to t.o feet of orn that runs . all tho way from $10 to $3,000 (on in cold. Tho superintendent of tho Prlnca mine, who has been mining In Piocho camp over since tho days of the old-time old-time bonanzas, says that neither tho Meadow Valley nor tho Itaymond V'v nfS-k?jj nn oro showing which compared In richness wmi ih-uir-ttr-bo seen now on the 400 lovel of ho Prlnco mine. Bon Tweed of Hod Canyon has on exhlblton at Lander, Wyo., $6 worth of gold taken from a nlnglo pan tit i,'rnvel from 11 small gulch near hi" ranch. From this pan a $2.50 and a $1,60 nugget wero taken. Several thousand dollars' worth of gold has been wnhhed from tho same gulch vlth the crudest apparatus. A special to tho Salt Uke Trlbuno from Washington announces thnt Senators Sen-ators Sutherland and Btnoot hnvo Joined In recommending the appointment appoint-ment of J. U. Eldredgo, Jr., as chief sesayor in charge of the now mint at Salt Lnke City. The mint will opon January ) An example of tho varying fortunes for-tunes of mining operators was donv tnstroted at Golddcld last week, when a big gold strlko was mado on tbe Klorenro lease after a Chicago company had spont $15p.000 and quit within six Inches ot a substantial and vell defined vein. An examination will be held by tbe civil service commissioners on Janu-n Janu-n in fiait Lake City, for the pur pose of lecuringiHltnTrtfirts-Wi"TTW position of cleik typewriter in tbe asray office to opened on the first of the year. Tho position carries a salary of $1,400 a yer. P. J. Quealy, the Wyoming coal rnlnes, and his associates, have rtcent-ly rtcent-ly secured control ot the Hilltop) property, seventeen miles from tho town of Battle Mountain. Nevada. Iho Hilltop Is rated as a likely proposition, prop-osition, nnd ovldontly looked eood enough to the new owners. l"a - tmlf mi mi 111 11 VmHI |