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Show I' MINES ANDlnjaNQ" The Nevada" Superior mine. In Humboldt Hum-boldt county, Novndn, has In tho last tlx months Improved fully 100 per cent In Its oro snowing and general cutlook, according to lire management. manage-ment. The Demijohn Mining company has encountered tho ore on the 200 level of Its mine In tho Plocho district Tho values run about 200 ounces In sllvor, 30 to 40 per cent lead nnd $3 nnd $4 In gold. Fifteen cents for copper 'before tho end of this year Is confidently predicted pre-dicted among the metal brokors. Most of thu large producers hnvo disposed -of their output up to January, and even Inlo February. Tho new comcB from Ely, Nevada, that another big smelting work- Is to bo erected In the Steptno valley, op ljsitc the Ely Townslto rompany's I'Oldtngs, for tho treatment of custom ores of tho Ely district. Tho recent discoveries of oil 111 tho now Bluff, , Utah, fields, are attracting tho attention of oil experts and prospectors pros-pectors nil over the United States and they are arriving on tho ground from all parts of tho country. Word has been received nt Centeiv r.lnl, Wyo., of n snowBlldo In tho mountains moun-tains above Albion mlno nt Cooper Hill. Tho Albion properly was dam' aged and the mountainside was Khaved clean of tlmbor. No one wus Injured. Tho great Seven Troughs lode has been encountered In tho cross-cut from tho 7E0foot level and conditions nro being revealed thnt constitute tho grenlcst work or demonstration In tho history of the district, says tho Seven troughs Miner. The report comes from Coldfleld that a few day ngo a fnur-tliousnntVpound frilling nppurntua being used by parlies par-lies senrchltitt for oil twenty miles lrom Coldfleld, wns blown twenty feet Into tho air by tho forco of a natural gas explosion. Ono of tho richest sttlkes reported lrom Beaver county In many years had been In tho Sllvor Horn group of claims In the Star mining district, about eight miles southwest of Mil-ford. Mil-ford. Tho vnlues run from COO to ,400 ounces In silver. Tho Kindergarten mill completed Its run of thirty shifts Wednesday nnd mndo one of tho greatest clean-ups In the history of the plant, snyB tho Seven Troughs Miner. Tho run will result in u total output of 118,000, coming com-ing from less than 200 tons of oro. Operations have been resumed by tho Swcetland Mining company In tho Narrow Qaugo mine. In tho Wood Plver, Idnho, country, with every prospect pros-pect of success. Tho mlno workings nnd mnchlnery hnvo been placed In good condition and pumping nnd hoisting has begun from tho lowest level, Tho ten-stamp mill nt tho Cracker-jack Cracker-jack mine. In tho Buffnlo Hump district dis-trict of Idaho, Is running Rtendy. Tho plant has been In operation for about two weeks andjtjnyjncn .are employed em-ployed at the mlno. Tlio mill will nut throughout the winter and dovolop-ment dovolop-ment work will "also-bo carried forward. for-ward. At (he Tructt least), on tho Happy Hooligan claim of tho Coalition, tho vlnzo, which Is now down Boyenty-flvo' lent below the 70-foot . -level, has cut a streak of high-grade oro than pans frco gold In large quantities, Indicating Indicat-ing values ot $300 u ton for a width of eight to ten Inches, says a special from Hawhlde. Tho Hecla Mining company nt Burke, Idaho, has begun sinking from tiro 900 to tho 1,200-foot level to tap tho oro body nt greater depth. Tho Hecla Is one of tho best equipped equip-ped properties In tho Coeur d'Alono district, and Its oro bodies aro becoming becom-ing larger and richer ns further depth Is obtained. The Ooldfleld Consolidated, lu running run-ning a cross-cut from the Clarcmunt shaft to tho Mohawk, ran Into n now vein, which gives promise to bo a very valuable addition to their present oro reserves. Tho vein Is about six feet wide, and for the whole six feet will avcrngo better than $30, exclusive ot a high grade streak. John Dcrn of 8alt Lake, director of tho American Mining congress, has received a letter from Secretary J, F. Callbreath of tho association, now at Pittsburg, In which he says the coming com-ing session of tho congress promises to bo a notable one, and that tho Pittsburg peoplo are giving very sat-ttfactory sat-ttfactory cooperation. At a meeting of all mining operators opera-tors of Coeur d'Me'nes held lu Wallace, Wal-lace, a committee was selected to go In Washington nnd cntor protest against any action which tho oongres-bloual oongres-bloual committee may take towards reducing tho present tariff on lead and zinc ores, wlien that matter comes up for discussion November 25. Three feet of solid gray 'copper oro carrying vnlues In silver all tho way lioni 1,000 to 2,000 ounces to tho ton, In addition to a largo quantity ot concentrating con-centrating ore, li-as been opened up In the property of tho Butte fe Coeur d'AIene Mining company nt Wallace, Idaho, The Golden Treauro Mining company, com-pany, operating In tho Gold Mountain district, has let tire contract for cx lending Its tunnel another 100 foot. This1 extension. It Is bojleved, will tako It to tho-contact, upon whleh the main ore bodle are likely to bo' found. i Itecent discoveries of mft.'ybderium( in thu or o of th camp of Alta aro just now oxcltng a good deal of Interest Inter-est among mining men of Utah. The motal Is similar to sllvor, but harder end fluxe at u considerably higher temperature. Up to now It has never been found at that llgure. Many persons are leaving El I'ano, Texas, for Gold. Pass, N. M., a short dlstanco east Of Sylvanlte, whoro gold discoveries have be on roported. fi townslto ha been laid out and promises qulcklv to equal Sylvanlte, which had over 1.000 inhabitants In one month after It was located. A strike or eight Inched of solid galena ga-lena oro and of between "seven nnd uglit fcot of goad concentrating oro liin been made on the property of the Alice Mining company, located on Ruddy gulch, bait wny between Wallace Wal-lace and Mullan 'and about half a mllo !rom the Northern Pacllle railroad. |