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Show MINES "AND MINING A seat on the New York stock ex-ttrango ex-ttrango on November 10 sold for 75,-000. 75,-000. A week previous a sent brought $70,000. Tonopah merchants aro selling many outfits for Clifford. Bcllehclcn tnd various other places In the Ka-wlch Ka-wlch country. The Utah mine of Fish Springs last week marketed a carload of ore which brought tho company tiro net sum ot $.1,300. .Tho assay sheets showed values val-ues ot 1BC onuces In sliver and t7 por cent lead. In order that the men employed in tho mills nnd smelters of Qurllold mny bo adequately housed, with tliclr families, fam-ilies, It proposed to have fifty good tour-room cottages creeled, to be leady by December 16. Tho big strike on tho Miller leaso on Hawhldo Coalition Is exciting a Great deal of new Interest In the Haw-lrlde Haw-lrlde camp. From a faro of six and eight feet of ore tho lessees aro breaking break-ing nnd sacking rock that averages' $100 a ton In volue. With 100 tour, of ore In tho new bins and a continual stream of oro coming Irom the north and south- drifts on tho 100-foot level, tho Iluckhorn management man-agement has arranged for a big mill tun at tho Mnzuma Hills mill, says tho Seven Troughs Miner. The men engaged In prospecting for oil In Juab county aro Jubilant over tho outlook. Though It Is expected that oil will be struck between tho depth of J,000 nnd 1,600 feet, preparations prepara-tions havo been mado to go as deep as 3,000 foet If necessary After going through oro much of which Is of n shipping grade for more than sixty feet, with only a single break In tho continuity of the .vuIuxm, tho foot wall side of the ledge on the 700-foot level of tho Heaver Carbonato company's property has been reached. II. 8. Hoylo, n conductor on tho Wcstsrn Pacific, who with a number of associates coustltuto tho member-thlp member-thlp of a little mining company owning own-ing nlno claims In tho Silver Islet district, dis-trict, Is rejoicing over tho uucovorlng of rich oro during tho past few dnys. Concerning thn report that Nat Goodwin had sold his Intorest In tho Rawhide Coalition and Keano Woudor mines at Hawhldy to John W. Gates, who will orect a smelter nud build a railroad at Walker Lako, It was Btnted at tho Goudwln hrokerago oftlceo In Hono, Nevada, last week, that such a e'eal was pending. With at least! two practical minors as members of tho next stato legislature legisla-ture It Is believed, says tho Salt Lako Inter-Mountain Republican, that somo of tho much-needed mining laws will bo enacted. T. J. Pnrmaleo ot Carbon county and William Archibald of Summit Sum-mit county nro tho two' men who know, tho business thoroughly. Tiro January Mining company has filed tho Dunker Hill and Sullivan Mining company for tho recovery ot $7,300,000, nlleged to bo tho value ot ere taken from u disputed vein In tho last three years, and' for tho control of; tho famous Wnrdner voln, from which tens of millions of dollars' worth of ore has been extracted. Four or live months nro likely to bo occuptod In doing development work en an extended scale before uu attempt vlll bo made at production from tho Silver Peak Vulcalda mlno, Mr. Now-house's Now-house's latest acquisition, according to Knslneer M. M. Johnson, who has Just etiirned to Salt Lako City, after having hav-ing mado a careful Inspection ot tho. property. Utah mining men nro particularly interested In tho next meeting of tho American Mining congress, to bo hold in Pittsburg, December 2 to C, lnclu-rive, lnclu-rive, for tho reason that, if tho Utah branch ot tho congress makes tho proper effort, It Is likely nt that meeting meet-ing to secure for Salt Ijike City tho permanent headquarters ot the congress, con-gress, which Denver carried off four years ago. The Victor Consolidated Mining rompuny Is to rcsunio operations In Its Tlntlo mlno. Tho Victor has a good lody of H per cent copper oro In draw upon, but when copper last jeur sustained Its grand drop In price J tho management closed Its mlno In disgust. A dispatch from Mexico City an- nounceH that after an outlay of between be-tween $400,000 and $600,000, In a vain endeavor to control tho burning of Dos Hocus oil wells, Pearson & Sons havo decided to abandon tho attempt. Tho nil Is Hawing nt tho rata of 4,000,000 callous a day. An ore dlscovory was mado last week on the famous Wildcat property near Farrell, Nevada, on a new voln that Is bollovcd by those who havo viewed tho find, to bo equal, If not, greater, than tho original strlko that was the sensation ot tho district moro than a year ago. million aproxlmatlng $26,000 in valuo was brought In from tho Homo-btnko Homo-btnko mlno and deposited in the First National bank at Rhyollte. It rcpre-tents rcpre-tents a month's clcunup at tho mlno, which promises to 'do oven bettor than that each month for many years', says the Ilullfrog Miner. Of all the motals, silver is the only one to show a steady decline In prlco In the last six months. Last May silver sil-ver sold in Now York around 62 3-4 tents, Today it Is quoted at 49 6-8 cents. Menutlmo copper has advanced iiom 121-2 to 14 cents, and tho other metals In proportion, Connections between tho deep workings work-ings of the Daly-West and tho Little Hell property, at Park City, wore mado last weok, so the Llttlo Ilcll workings aro now being rapidly drained of water. Mining will soon bo resumed In tho Llttlo Hell and shipments -will follow. A body of oro fully 80 feet wide, as-i-ays from which give a general aver-ege aver-ege of $1C a ton, lins beon opened up by the north cross-cut on the 60-foot level of th Black Hole mine at Chafey, according to tho Chafey News. Yho cross-cut has been run altogether . upproxlmatcly 90 feet. Eleven sections of the Utah Ccpper company's great mill nt (larficld aro m operation, although it has not yet toon attempted to bring them to full capacity. Tho twelfth section la to bo placed In commission In a few days, pnd after that tho plant will be gradually grad-ually worked up to ciipaclty. |