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Show MINES AND MINING j After remaining Idlo a quarter of a ( century, tho old Oriental mine, now , known as tho Monarch, In Gold ( Mountains, Nov., Is tho scone of activity. ac-tivity. Tho latest from the Clifton district, Deep Creek, Is that oro Is bolng mined In tho Lucy L, property that carries no to 70 -per cent bismuth and close to $300 In gold per ton. Tho Judas Leasing company, nt Pearl, Idaho, has struck somo very rich freo milling gold oro and are hauling about fifty tons to the Easter mill to mako n mill run. Tho Itmny smelter at tho Itmny mlno, at Grand Encampment, Wyo., will bo blown In nbout September 10. This plant, the second ot Us kind In tho stato, Is owned by Wisconsin capitalists. cap-italists. Thu Parker Mountain Mining company, com-pany, whoso property Is near Mnckay, Idaho, last week received and Installed In-stalled a now crusher. A lot of high grado oro Is In sight, nnd tho property prop-erty looks hotter with every foot oi work. The report cornea from Chafcy, Nevada, Ne-vada, that capital Is beginning to "tnko notlco" of tho opportunities thereabouts; whllo strikes of new pay shoots In tho older and pay veins In tho youngor prospects occur with ro-markablo ro-markablo regularity. At tho new gold-silver camp of National, Na-tional, near tho Idaho lino In Humboldt Hum-boldt county, Novnda, n ledgo has been opened In which nt thlrty-flvo fcot depth Is an eight-Inch streak which gives values, It Is claimed, as high as $87,000 n ton. That tho equipment for tho Lodl Minos compnny's smelter, which Is bolng built In Denver, Is almost com-pteto com-pteto nnd will be shipped soon, Is tho word which comos from Dr. C. I. Burt, who Is directing the company's operations from Reno. Pig lead holds Arm around l.COc. It Is tho opinion of both producers and consumers that no decided change will tako placo for about a month. Then an advanco to something llko 4.75c Is looked for, says a Now York metal market authority. That tho Mendha mlno, which contributed con-tributed nearly $1,000,000 to tho Plocho district's production In tho old days, will produce a great deal more than that In future, Is tho opinion opin-ion of exports who have lately been Investigating tho property. For tho purposo of making a study of the conditions In tho coal regions of Wyoming, W. H. Bancroft, vlco-president vlco-president and general manager, and J. M. Davis, general superintendent, of tho Oregon Short Line, last week went to tho scene of tho strike. It is understood that Qoldflold Consolidated Con-solidated interests havo secured a foothold In tho Seven Troughs district dis-trict and tho foundation is laid for ono ot tho biggest leasing enterprises In tho history of tho country by tho acquirement of tho Black, Campboll and Swlcnppor leaso on tho Wild Bull. Advices from the Marshall Lnko district ot Idaho show much activity thcro, Tho Qoodcnough company Is working on tho 150-foot level and running run-ning on a four-foot vein of ore that averages $$0 a ton, nnd will soon In-stnll In-stnll n flftocn-stamp mill, whllo the Mount Marshall Is woiklng about forty for-ty men. For tho purposo of receiving tho final payment of $16,600 for tho rnnch ho sold tho Federal Ely Copper Cop-per company several mouths since. Albert Housscr of Ely was In Salt Lake last week. Tho payment completes com-pletes tho sum of $50,000 which the ranch with its flno water rights brought him. A deal has Just beon closed whereby where-by Qeorgo Havorcamp of Provo has transferred 30,000 shnres of stock In tho Lilly Mining company and nil of his Interests In the Silver King, Golden Horseshoe, nnd other claims In the East Tintic district, to the Eureka Lilly Mining company. Tho consideration Is $50,000. News of a big strike in the Holo Card claim In Black Horso district, has beon received. Tho whole bottom of tho shaft at tho depth of fifteen feot Is In ore, It Is said, which pans moro gold than anything ovor before oponcd In camp, which means a great deal. Tho Mobcow, In Beaver county, Utah, has twenty feet of high-grade copper oro nt tho bottom ot Its wlnzo from tho 400 level. The winze Is down thirty feot and tho oro body haB boon widening rapidly. A drift Is being run on tho 600 level to catch It Preparations havo been mado for tho resumption of tho active work of development on tho Jefferson Bxton-Blon Bxton-Blon properties, adjoining tho ground nt tho Consolidated JeSorson Mining company, at tho mouth of LIttIo Cottonwood, Cot-tonwood, nbout sixteen miles from Salt Lako. Seven feet ot oro that breaks $70 a ton 1b what tho present managor has opened up In the old Bustor mine at Llda, Nevada, a mlno that tho former for-mer management spent $00,000 in developing de-veloping and equipping with a mill, nnd yot woro unablo to mako it pay (uviuonua. In tho Oreat Western mlno )n Horn-silver, Horn-silver, Nov., has beon opened twenty-eight twenty-eight feet from tho shaft, on tho lowest low-est lovol, a body ot oro eight: feet wldo which Is said to give nveroso values of $70 a ton. A streak, ot high grado eighteen lnchos wide runs up to $931 a ton. That the Buffalo Hump Is the greatest great-est rolnorallzod district In Idaho, If not In tho entire west, has always been tho contention of tho great mass of mining men who havo visited that Bectlon from tlmo to tlmo. A recent strike In tho Dol Rln still furthor strengthens this belief. A Beaver county consolidation which means now activity was effected effect-ed last week when tho Utah United Copper company was formod to tako ovor the properties ot the Skylark Copper Mining and Milling company and tho Wasatch Mining and Milling company, in Boavor Luko district Tho Engineers' lease on the Florence Flor-ence Is raising from tho 400-foot levol, seeking a possible continuation, with depth, of the phenomenal oro shoot whlrh w-g .-;ic..iriHi-. fory feof above the mo mis, t, aoldflold U'S'.1' v ,"ur,h dividend f $90,000 I promised withtn it waok. |