Show MINES AND MINING at la a dir directors actors meeting of the opo hongo mining comi company lany held in provo last week a divide dividend tid of I 1 cent it sharo was declared amounting in all to about it Is stinia ted by eastern authorities that during the past part ten days there have been sales bales for about 75 pounds of copper nt at prices ranging from 1214 4 to 1258 8 cents per pound good miners are making as high as per month in leasing in alio mines about valdez alaska living expenses are about the same as tho the nevada camps with the advantages of a seaport town and a delightful summer climates cli climata matey every month to improvements improve and development of the mine the seven troughs coalition company of nevada is rapidly bringing to the front one of tho the big mines of the state of nevada according to all accounts the Ina manager nager of the utah abines coalition made the last week that the mine Is looking as aa well as ever the channel is being run to the right of the ore now and within the next few days he expects to begin up raising on the ore ta A strong eastern syndicate has purchased acres near the la sal mountains in grand county utah and it Is announced a plant costing 15 will bo be installed immediately and hydraulic handling of the vast ton nago nage will be in actual operation inside of sixty days it Is rumored that the knight people are intending to do considerable work on their various properties in the american fork utah district this season if the they y do it is thought that some very important discoveries may be made especially Is this true ot of the mineral flat property copper ore carrying eight tenths of one per cent of the metal Is being mined by the nevada nevada consolidated at copper plat flat transported twenty two miles from the pit to the concentrator at mcgall and there tf treated at such a low cost that a profit Is made by the tha company says the ely expositor it la is reported that at the mammoth claim in the humboldt range south of mill city nevada there is a considerable sid erable tonnage of ore blocked out and on the dumps and a 1 shipment la Is to be made in a abort time the ore that will be sent out assays essays ounces in silver 20 in gold abd about 40 per cent lead the most of the travel into telluride nevada Is at present by way 0 of battle mountain but a road is to be ba built into the camp from valmy on the southern pacific and only fourteen miles distant the valmy route will be much shorter than the other and will get the bulk of the travel when the road Is completed word v was as brought to salt lako lake from northern nevada last week that in a recent conversation superintendent stimpson of the buckhorn buchhorn mines alnea company the famous old property located seven miles east of cortez la in eureka county made the statement that he thought work would be resumed on the property in the near future an interesting situation is arese prese presented tn by the release on thursday of last week of the april copper product production lott of the utah copper coppe r and nevada consolidated soli dated companies utah copper produced pounds against 7 in march and the nevada consolidated produced pounds against in march mining men who in the rush and turmoil of new mining camps campa springing up in nevada have forgotten tho the good work of the comstock as a producer in the old days and who rushed oft off to flirt with fortune in goldfield Man manhattan battan tonopah and rawhide aro are now swarming back to the old corn com stock to tell her that they find her as charming as ever and that they love her still says the carson city appeal A mining engineer writes from val d dez ez alaska ai as follows valdez la Is overcrowded with men waiting dortho for tho snow to leave the hills I 1 should suggest that you advertise for good minors miners there are too many men of the tha city type here bore they know nothing about raining mining and make pour poor attempts to work the mine operators complain of the lack of miners ani and they have now new crows crews every tow few weeks information comes from beaver county utah that the last work on the busy bee property was encouraging and that in a crosscut from the level twenty feet 0 ol 01 L oro ore was waa struck which averaged 2 in gold sampled all the way across in this vein above five feet went 2 that was forty feet from the surface there were carloads of 0 ore ora shipped from the district last week the iron blossom heading tiia tho list |