Show MINES iff I 1 NEI 8 AND MINING MINIM the bullfrog Bulli rog pioneer company of rhyolite nevada Is shipping ore from an eight foot ledge that goes eoe to to allo ho ton without sorting the building of the leichl amel smelter ter in idaho has added great stimulus to mining in the district the opening of spring will witness a large influx inal UX of miners and prospectors the consolidated Conoll dated mercur mine Is ie producing a larger tonnage of oro ore than it did last year the december output was tons which Is about normal under present conditions of eight welts wells put down to the first sand in III the virgin oil field four are known to have oil in lood quantity and the others have light th owings of oil and natural gas according to the virgin valley enterprise i that the ifera nevada mines company operating near farrell seven troughs district will start production as soon as the now custom mill at mazuma Is 18 ready to receive ore developed at the companas comp anys annual meeting held la III salt lake city last week at ro no period in the bistor history y of this his a develop camp haz haa so much practical development work been carried on as Is being done this winter says the silver city idaho nugget N numerous i numerous tunnels are bein being driven to open velna veins it at cooj good depth and the opportunity for investment of capital was neve better one of the ahe important events of the tha week relative to the operation of the prince consolidated mine alno was ti li cutting oi of a station on the foot level and the starting of a crosscut towards the rich fla klisures flis ures says the record the progress of this work will be watched with keen interest mrs R AT E mccarty a boise woman has three claims in the pearl district which she Is developing the ore vein being about five feet in width and tho the assays essays averaging 1564 per ton she also has six other claims on shaw mountain assaying 6 per ton the ore body being feet wide and a cyanide proposition eight inches of ore carking high values in gold and copper has just juat been encountered in AV J holmes big mitt property in the foothills between big and little batton cottonwood canyons fourteen miles or so southeasterly from salt mice lake city some of 0 the richest streaks going to the ton gas is still vater out be tween ahe at the theon ontario on i tarlo well at ai ontario oregon and a small flow of oil has been encountered that is ig the oil 11 arises arase with the water and the fluid Is visible the dr illers are still sanguine of striking a gusher and do not expect to b bore ore more than 2700 feet to obtain the same it Is announced that the third shipment of copper ore fim the salt lake coma yany prop pro erity in del norte county california has haa just been settled for lie ore la Is shipped by wafer to the smelters shelters sm elters at tecoma Te coina and the grade of the ore Is ia such that after paying itil all transportation and smelting smelling sm elting ch charges aiges the company gets geta about 29 a ton the middleton ore reduction company of middleton idaho has recently F completed its plant for the testing and working of ores this process la Is something new in this state but has haa been la in successful ope operation in california for several years the process employed Is by amalgamation concentration tra tion cyan cyaniding iding chlorination chlorin atlon and by the eureka ore reduction system all kinds oc base ores can be treated in connection with the consolidated mines annual meeting at goldfield on january 12 the entire stamps of 0 the new mill started at full capacity crushing ore at the rate of tons a day the gross value of the ore will be about a day or A month the dally daily production will be greater than the stamps of the famous alaska treadwell and the homestead combined the three links gold mining milling company limited owners of 0 the buffalo group of claims in the black hornet district in idao idaho have recently purchased a five stamp miu which is to be installed on their property so soon as the weather will permit with no further material delay in n receiving material and equipment construction work of the boston sunshine companas comp anys mill at mercur should be completed by the first of february according to george H dern manager of the consolidated mercur company the total production of primary refined lead and soft from domestic and foreign ores in 1908 was approximately short tons worth vo rth at the average price 32 as compared to a production of tons in 1907 and tons in n 1906 that none of the new smelting smelling sm elting companies recently formed will over build a sni smelter elter using the processes process esnow now in vo vogue gue in the larga plants of the country was the prediction made last week by samuel newhouse he thinks the fink process will revolutionize smelting smelling sm elting |