Show MINES AND MINING tile the mine in tile lie blackhorse district of nevada has been purchased by the amalgamated nevada alne i company for the engineers in charge of tile the mason valley valey smelter plans are now designing the two blast furnaces tho the plans assuming very satisfactory shape rumors humors has it that the interests b behind L the proposed 61 merger in the little cottonwood Colt onwood or alta mining district of utah are none other than hayden stone co of doston boston and now new york tile the contractors driving the snake creek drainage anil and operating tunnel into the park city mountains report that during tho the past month they have sent tho the bore boio nearly feet ahead shipments of oro ore tire are being madeko made to tho the county custom copper Ani smelter elter of tho the international company hy by tile iron blossom Ulos som the ore baing ft a very sili siliceous clous rock in III demand for copper ore on one of the most important pieces lleces of work now beng done by the united stats sincle afi Rell refining nIng and mining company I 1 Is the trying out at kennet cal of 0 the bighouse system of filtering gases in co copper tiller ore smelting smelling sm elting A A sti enious ious effort Is being made by a committee of stockholders of thena the national exploration company headed by frank 11 I 1 knight of boston to redeem tho the proposition for shareholders sharen from the depths of bankruptcy into which tile the concern co ngern has been thrown lately the churn drill operations on the territory in III arizona of the inspiration company are reported to have demonstrated the existence of the ore deposit for feet in III length or east cast and west and for a width of 1200 fert feet plenty of untouched ground yet to IP heard from eastern capital has been interested in id the brinson coal mines 14 miles from idaho falls and machinery has lias been purchased and Is now en route there which when installed will give a capacity of tons per day the coal Is said to be of superior quality for cooking purposes the old sam mine in the skelton district of idaho was discovered and located in 1902 by sam bass who was grubstaked grub staked by W J turner bob burns and the howeth brot brothers ners of oboy bonded the property to a lincoln neb company has developed it to its present stage the mines of the world are now producing agthe at the rate of pounds of copper annually between five million and six million pounds dally daily that this amount can be approximately doubled in ane coming ten years Is far and away avay beyond the realm of possibility says george jl L walker the copper expert that we management of the south utah mines and smelters shelters Sm elters corporation expects to have the mill up to its logical capacity by the time october passes into history is vouched couched for by superintendent erin orn E 11 lundquist who camo came up from the mine at newhouse so to confer with samuel newhouse at salt lake a few days ago Sen senator alor W A dark clark says anere have been mines opened in recent years whose sponsors claim that they can produce copper cheaper than in butte autte at its is easy to skim cream from milk lie he says but when some of these there low cost producers get gel deeper they will find that tile the copper costs them as much as it does the dutte butte mines A P F holden president of tile the united states coal and oil company has issued a statement to the stockholders to the effect that the island creek coal company has been organ iced aed for the purpose of absorbing the united states coal and oil company which latter organization lias been one of the active and attractive propositions ions on the eastern markets for some time past john dern of salt lake city who was vas ejected president of tile american mining congress Is one of the foremost mining men in III the west and his standing in the mining regions of utah and the intermountain country in general la is of the very best ile he is president of the consolidated mercur mines company of utah and has been for many years an ardent worker in the councils of the american mining congress from figures on the worlds coal supply in III a recent british publication the bureau of manufactures of tho the department of commerce and labor has complied compiled statistics showing that the united states with persons employed in mining coal in 1908 produced tons of coal more than were produced by persons similarly employed in ahe he united kingdom for the month of august it Is understood der stood that olito ohio copper mined its copper at a cost of 27 L cents a ton and milled it a cost of cents which would indicate profits of approximately on the tons of ore treated s |