Show ff MINES I 1 N ES A AND b G the discovery of an immense body of coal has been mada near salina salana utah and a company Is being formed to exploit the fifty years ago united states stales miners i of copper produced 1 pe per r cent of the worlds copper now they produce almost 74 7 per cent ot of the worlds copper production of copper from mines controlled by domestic shareholders Is going on at a rate equivalent to the worlds production six years ago pounds the task of installing the big hoisting plant the compressor and powei drill equipment and all the accessories of the works of the cloche king coin chini pany has been practically finished news has been received of a new and very rich strike of gold at mud lake about miles northwest of winnemucca nevada the ore occurs in a dt decomposed composed granite and the samples are very rich avery A very fine looking prospect has recently been opened up in the mountains about seven miles west of at ephraim and the owners ha have ve i incorporated acor the utah central mining com pany with shares to operate it the second vein in tho the main tunnel annel of tho the utah gold copper cont company pany in washington district beaver county utah encountered about three weeks ugo ago la Is by far the biggest thing yet opened iti in the property it la is claimed speaking about mountains of ore the clifton district in the deep creek region cornea comes as near having them as any country I 1 have been in said a mining man in salt lake city who had been maling making a survey of western utah camps the state board of railroad commissioners held a public hearing at ue he ena last week on the question of lime rock rates applicable between all montana points the smelter interests have made protest against the existing rates as too high the cleanup clean up of the initial shipment of the harris lease at seven troughs nevada was made last week the result being esit estimated mated at approximately for litween between and tons the ore handled was of tho the lower grade of the harris and the run was in the nature of a test the conference of the western lead ore producers assoil association atlon composed of owners of 0 utah idaho nevada and colorado controlling 61 per cent of the lead production of the united states held in salt lake city resulted in a memorial to congress protesting against the reduction of the tariff on lead A movement Is on toot foot to start a mining exchange in provo utah A number of dealers and brokers are taking an active interest in the matter the exchange will be capitalized for or shares of each it is the purpose of the promoters to invest this money in divi bend paying mines from white bird ida comes word of a very rich gold strike stride made on the east bank of the snake river by the reed brothers bothers the ledge Is said to pan gold for a total distance of feet on the surface the ledge was opened about feet abo curby and china bars large producers in the early days an extra dividend of 10 per cent in addition to the regular quarterly dividend of 25 per cent was decla declared rei on march 25 by the directors of the ton opah mining company this puts the stock on a dividend basis of per cent per annum and restores tho the rate existing before the suspension of dividends in the tall fall of 1907 the lake superior mines are pr producing on the basis of pounds of copper a year which Is only less than the cotan coun arys total production twenty years ago measured by the development of mining in north america tho the increase in the yield beld of copper within a generation Is much greater than the degree of growth incident iron that the tunnel oil company which owris owns rt a producing well and a 1 refinery in the uintah field Is finding a market for its product is indic indicated abed by tho the report that seven carloads of empty whiskey barrels were recently shipped to the plant the company attempted to contract with one house in salt lake city for barrels a week D mackenzie and the frances mo alo hawk company filed a third suit against the mohawk consolidated fit at goldfield last week it being for an accounting for worth of 0 ore are alleged to have been kieen stolen from the fran frinces ces mohawk and hayes bonnotte leases and recovered by the consolidated but returns tor for which have never been mado made to the leasing company according to allegations it Is announced that a cave of rich ore has been opened up in the decker canyon property a few miles from charleston utah the discovery was made by an old minor miner who had bad gone into an abandoned tunnel ill 10 search for some tools investigation proved that the original owners had stopped work when within a foot oi of the cave |