Show MINES AINES AND MINING filings on oil claims in the vicinity of green river were wera made with ahe the county dork clark at castlo castle dale september 10 the land aggras biting acres eight rIgl lt miles from ephraem a vein 0 of coal three feet in thickness Is being de eloped the coal Is said to bp be en entirely free from rock and other foreign elg matter based on the records of his the state bullion tax collector james F haley says that esmeralda county I 1 nov nev has produced a total of arrangements have been completed for tho the driving of a big tunnel from thie county road west of eureka to tho foot level of the centennial eureka mine stockholders eis in tho the round mountain mining company company of goldfield nov havo have received elved notice to the effect tha eliat t a dividend of 4 cents per share atts been declared on the company stock about forty teams are now engaged in hauling ore from alta and the cottonwood distri district cL mines to sandy at which point the product Is loaded into the cars and shipped to the various s shelters smelters sm m elters in the valley the officials of the united states smelting smelling Sm elting company are spending a great deal ot of time and money these days in experimental work with a view to perfecting to a greater degree tho the processes cusses employed in their plants recently there theio rave been some very encouraging reports received from death canyon cannon in the erickson mining district they claim tb have opened up one ond of the largest and richest veins of lead silver ores in this country countr Y statistics collected by forest service and the united states geological survey show that the annual consumption of round mine timbers exceeds cubic feet and that hardwoods constitute more than halt the total total the mammoth mining company must pay tho the grand central mining company 34 damages for tho the ore it took from the grand centrals properties the state supreme court baysin in an opinion handed banded down september 13 1 harry harrys S josephs who with jesse jessa cannon cannons Can nonIs Is looking otter after the mineral exhibit end odthe of the annual state fair reports that thai this feature of the exposition this year will be made a most interesting and instructive one says the salt lake tribune the montgomery shoshone mill of Rh olite nov nev is to receive another lift in the tonnage line in the near future A gyratory crusher is to be installed above the present crushers that will materially raise the capacity oathir of this thir department and thereby that ot of the entire mill the first gold brick to be made at a bullfrog district custom mill was sent from rhyolite the first of the w week eek to the united states mint says the tonopah bonanza the brick represented the first cleanup clean up of the plates at the crystal bullfrog mill at mill junction operations on the rabbit foot mine 40 miles milea west of salmon idaho are being rapidly pushed forward A jarge force of men Is employed d a hoisting plant with pumps la Is being installed stalled and the mill and ground equi equipment P are everywhere being enlarged and nd improved that the pay roll rob of the mines ot of goldfield Is steadily ily increasing Is tor for clely bibly demonstrated by the th e fact that the goldfield ld consolidated mines company campany Is disbursing over to its employed emp loyes for the mo month n th of august as compared with tor for the month of july after Aft erthree three months of labor on tho t part of a large force of steel workers who have been engaged in tearing down the old highland boy smelter r very very little now remains of that plant large shipments of the steel work taken from the structure have been shipped to tooele thoele work on the mines in the bellevue idaho district has continued unabated throughout the summer several operating on a more extensive scale than previously the minnie moore mine alone has expended upwards pr of on the property and in equipping tho the mill the last tow few years have witnessed a revolution in the copper mining business in the united states the low grade manga porphyry deposits d epos of Bing bangham harn utah and ely nevada which ten years ago were dis bained as worthless today feed the most gigantic concentrators and smelters shelters sm elters in the world there is considerable activity in I 1 tho the mining campus campa ui OL county idaho notably at boulder and mint flint operations ape rations aro are al also so contin continued tied at south mount mountain ddn although on a limited scale and production s right along at delamar some very important strikes have been made in the boulder district the diro directors cors of the united states smelting smelling Sm elting refining mining company have declared a quarterly dayt dividend of I 1 per cent 60 50 cen cents ts par CO 60 a shaie shardon on the common stock three and a year ago 1 per cent 0 chare vas W s declared |