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Show alines And mining Tho production of coal In1 Utah In 1907 was 1,759,000 tons, valued at $3,' 000,000. ' Gold Is mined In nineteen counties' of Idaho, nnd silver Is found In ttlmost nit tho counties that yield gold. Tho sales on tho Salt Lnko stock exchange for 1907 nro plnced at 17, 725,850 shares, valued nt $13,997,J iec.es. Tho total dividends for 1907 and 1908 paid by tho mines of Utah thus far nro placed at tho enormous sum of $100,000,000. Goldficld Is making a strong bid tor tho next meeting of tho .American Mining congress, nnd It Is believed Hint the enterprising camp will land It. .Gold production from tho Snnko river deposits In Idaho 1s gaining. In that section n number ot ambitious hydro-elcctrlo povVct1 and railroad building projects oxert a powerful uplift up-lift on tho mineral Industries, Tho now Goldficld Consolidated mill Is practically completed nnd hns been running for sovorni days trying out tho machinery. Parties who havo Been tho mill pronounco It a model nnd declnro It to bo working perfectly. Dcsptto tho drop In prices of nearly all metals, duo In lnrgc measuro to tho financial unrest of tho Inst three months ot tho year, 100T was tho host ycai' In tho history of mining In tho stnto of Utah, both as to production nnd profit. Tho Muff City, Utah, oil region Is roportcd to be ono ot tho liveliest Bpots on tho petroleum map at present. pres-ent. Twclvo drilling rigs nro on tho ground, pounding awny dny and night, nnd flvo producing oil wells have been struck. At tiro depth of 300 foot In Uio LU' cero shaft of tho Orlraba Mining com pony, operating ln tlio Indian PeaV district, streaks of gray copper nnd thalcopyrlto aro coming Into n massive mas-sive body of oro on which tho shaft Is being sunk. Tho first shipment of oro from tho now strlko In tho ground of the Lion Hill Consolidated company at Ophlr was settled for at tho smelter Inst week upon controls showing values of 255 ounces In sliver, 7 per cent lead-and lead-and $1.20 In gold. Tho principal copper producing area ot Idaho Is In tho Coour d'Alcno country. coun-try. Tho copper production for this year will reach a valuo of $1,500,000. This industry is now In a condition to bo considerably Increased, if tho prlco of copper goes a llttlo higher. , In gold nnd sllvor production la Idnho thero aro 207 producors, Including Includ-ing eighteen placors. In oro valuation tho ylold for tho current year wilt nverago'42 cents In gold nnd $3.31 for silver per ton. Tho ton valuo for gold silver, copper, lead nnd zinc wll aver- ago $12.95. Ono ot tho busiest mining camps In Nevada tt.day Is Lodl, whero tho I-odl Mines company Is not only develop! Ing a mlno which Is proving n wonder, but Is building a 100-ton Blnolter tn treat Its own ores. Tho company has laid out a townslto near tho mlno and smoltor. Tho bottom of tho winze, flftoen feet below tho 150 level ln tho Novada Hills mlno at Falrvlow, Novada, shows a magtilflcent body of high-grado high-grado shipping oro, while thrco to four inches of sensatlonnlly rich sulphldos carry cold and silver contents of $2,000 to tho ton. R, A. Mllllck, ono of ho largest operators op-erators of tho OBceola district In Novada, No-vada, announces that ho Is nbout to launch tho Kohlnoor Mlnlna, Milling & P6wcr company, backed by Portland, Port-land, Ore., capitalists, to tako ovor tho Kohlnoor group ot mining claims In Spring valley. Tho matter of petitioning tho legislature legis-lature at its coming seslon to establish estab-lish a Btato mining or Industrial bureau, bu-reau, with an appropriation largo enough to make Its work effective, will bo taken up nt an early meeting ol tho Utnh branch of tho American Mining congresB. Tho richest discovery on Goldficld Florcnco ground since that of tho famous fa-mous Engineers' leaso has been uncovered un-covered In tho adjoining block ot ground to the cast, formerly known as tho Daisy Florenco, nnd now tho property of the Mltcliell-Falrfleld Development De-velopment company. The Independent Salt company has Just completed construction of a dlkn on Its property about three miles south of Saltalr, on tho lake Bhoro, and H Is announced thnt plans for a refinery will be soon gotten out. It Is expected to build the refinery dur Ing tho coming summer. Orcater activity In copper mining Ib being manifested now than over bo- r,ft-lrn imTtTj m cratr A- total of 141.2S9.610 pounds of lend wa produced In 1907, and It may bo ex pected that the lead mlncB of Utah will show a larger production for the current your than for 1907. Cuprite, Nov., whero aro large sulphur sul-phur doposlts which have been found to carry gold, apparentl.-ln paying quantities, now lays claim to tho further fur-ther distinction of having ores which carry a high percentage of titanium, a valuable metal which occurs In conjunction con-junction with oxide of ron. Directors ot tho Utah Consolidated Mining compnny. In New York on December De-cember 16, posted the company's regular regu-lar quarterly dlvldonu of 60 cents a share, aggregating $160,000. Thli makes $000,000 paid by tho company this year and swells the total of prof Its distributed to $8,050,000. With tho Invitation for bids foriur veylng work ln San Juan county by Thomas Hull, United Stntos survoyoi general for Utah, the first stoji toward tho survey ot tho Utah oil lands was begun. The oil fields to lie survoyed lie In Kano, Washington, Iron. San Juan and Garfield counties In lend production Idaho Is one ol the world's greatest factors. Nearly nil of tho lead comes from SlicBhono coun- ducod tho metal to tbo valuo of $1C. 000.000 In a twelve month. This year's shipment of zinc concentrates will make 2,000.000 pounds of spelter. Idaho's gold output for 1908 Is cstl mated m $l,fnHWi0U. The gald produr tlon from copper ores Is increasing, a is that from lead ores. In parte of th state In which the mineralized seo tions are hardly touched by miners returns from the lead concentrates ex hlbit gold values ot-25 cents a too |