Show MINES xina S AND MINING horace J stevens of Ti houghton mich a copper expert predicts a higher price for copper and bellovia bel lovea that tile tho metal will go to 16 or 17 cents several of the utah mining companies havo have 1 been en notified that on account of th alib moving of tile the boot beet crop anil and requirements for handling coal their allowance of cars for carrying ores orca bo be curtailed A power plant for alta district Is about to bo be built by a syndicate of 0 alta operators it Is IB to be built on oil little cottonwood creek about two miles below alta and will dove develop lol from to horsepower it 11 II thomas president of tho the now new york stock exchange has appointed ft i committee of live five members of tho the exchange to investigate tile the heavy sales of sack on oil august 22 when it Is nl lebed snatched match pd sales wore made the board of governors of the salt lako stock and mining exchange has formally lor mally launched tho the campaign for a new liew building on oil tho the lot presented by sanuel samiel to the exchange by naming aliling li a ivanco and building committee there are aio somo valuable placer claims being worked in ili the caribou country near idaho falls idaho tho the carribon Carrl Carri boo country lias has in its day been ono one of tho the great gold producing sections of tile west some bamo being taken out treasury stock of the mining company tile latest proposition in which tho the knights are interested toi te L sted was thrown upon tho the market last week shares at 15 cents being snapped up ill by tin an eager public in fit short order Diamond flold jack davis was the list goldfield man to reach tho the now new gold find near indian creek davis uny a that the big ledge in which the values tire aro found cuts tho the formation of a quartz mountain and resembles Dela delamar nov the local mining outlook has bus never been so good in twenty years says tile tho halley alley II idaho times many of the mines alnea that were then closed are reopened and the others will doubtless soon be unless some unforeseen cause intervenes the uncle sam consolidated mining company has recently cleared at no lie united states smelter a shipment 0 or three small carloads of ore which will not net tile the company approximately XO the ore bringing a little better than a ton A discovery has recently been nado tn elk creek 14 miles northeast northe abt or idaho city idaho that gives promise of becoming a very valuable mane 1 che ledge Is three or four feet wide about 10 inches of it being hard quartz that hat will mill at least 70 a ton the alpha shaft of the giroux con at ely novada nevada has reached the 1200 foot point and the work ot of cutting a largo I 1 station thero there has been begun the expected flow of water has not yet been encountered tho mhd miners are still digging in the big body of ore than contains 17 por per cent copper k dispatch from idaho city idaho bays ys it Is reported that lon leo has made ti valuable quartz quaita discovery on the south sido side of mores creek creak opposite twelve mlle creek lie ho Is tho the disco discoverer of the famous hay fora mines and the new debco discovery vory Is about two miles southwest of these mines mims tile grutt hill mint lease icaco at rawhide nov nev Is receiving returns from tho ahr rich ore sent to mill and smelter ono oni shipment putting the lease on velvet for 80 tons of ore the leaders leasers received a draft for and from two bars of bullion the result of a mill run at tho the gates plant 1 l GOO a total of twelve miners will put to work SOUA in the tunnel of tho the goldbug one of the group of quartz claims on hay fork bonded to montana und and ada county men by leo and antono says the idaho city world this tunnel will be driven to tho switzerland which Is belic vedi to bo be on the same game vein the gold development company of utah Is just inaugurating in the Marys valo district the greatest campaign of development ever undertaken in southern utah it expects to expend inside of the next eighteen mouths months from to in power plant lines and in opening its extensive gold properties A conference dealing with mining conditions existing in tho the united states stales and the great number of fatalities tali ties resulting from mine accidents Is IF being he held id in pittsburg A thui ough investigation of recent recent mine disasters at mo alo W va jacobs creek pa and fayette city pa will be made the abandoned abandon sd mine at hanna wyo where seventy miners elnera met death will also be visited and about eight weeks will bo be spent in the investigation in this country the sliver silver king gold and copper mining company which has been working several men for over a 4 year on their group of claims four miles from mackay idaho are at present sacking ore from their no 3 claim which will net them a handsome hand somo crofit |