Show MINES AND MINING the january cleanup clean up of bullion train from the doston boston sunshine plant at mercur utah will amount to despite the bad weather and other ad verse conditions condi tlona the great rich ledge discovered in the lode at bannock nevada last september has haa been struck by tho mayer rober reber leasing casing In company in a drift off a tunnel feet underground di diving fifteen feet from tho the bottom of an old incline shaft in the Alin mineral cral Aloun mountain tain mine at tecoma nevada has resulted in taking out a half carload of ore much of which runs runs as high as a ton A decrease of pounds in copper stocks on hand blind february 1 as compared with january 1 Is shown by the monthly report of tho the copper producers association made publio public in III now ow york on thursday owners of the smelter at lodl no ne vada have taken over the germany mine a lead producer only four fallen from the smelter and arrangements arc being made to start the furnaces furn acea full blast not later than juno june 1 in a crosscut on the foot level 0 of the comet mine manei two miles front hatley halley idaho has been opened four feet of solid galena oro which Is said to run better ahan han a ton only one wall of the ore body had been ox ex tic posed sed the utah aline at fish springs a few days ago marketed a carload of ore and another like consign f ment Is in on the way from theiline the ielne nine that the company will soon resume paying dividends Is confidently expected after a deadlock at the chorenna Cho yenna meeting lasting three days tho the faction headed by thomas keeley secured a clear majority of the stock represented at the annual meeting ot at the isabella gold cold mines company and elected their stockholders the commercial club at buhl idaho r la is still boosting that town as the logical supply point for the now new gold country and announces that th tha quickest and most economical wity way into the camp Is via buhl three creek and the kitty wilkins ranch the mason valley alanes company has been financed for for building a smelter and construction work Is to be commenced just as an soon as ae the plans can je be executed the tha plant will be of sufficient capacity to handle the production of other mines of the yerington district A lease on the brooklyn mine for eighteen months was waa granted to hiram strain at the meeting of directors of the knight companies held heid thursday in provo utah the brooklyn la Is an old time producer of rich ore and it Is liell believed eyed that well weli directed effort will result in further profitable output in III an interview at goldfield J R findlay manager of the goldfield consolidated soli dated mines company denies em prati practically cally widely circulated reports that copper Is replacing gold values or increasing in quantity at depth la in the mane mine and says there Is no more moio copper at the 1000 toot foot level than at the surface or elsewhere construction work has been started on tho the buildings which arc to the machine blac blacksmith asmith anti and other shops at the goldfield consolidated property which were recently do de strayed by fire it Is planned accord 1 ing to advices advises from camp to maker make the now new buildings much more substantial than the ones which were destroyed st the report of the montgomery shoshone consolidated mining iII hind company for the year ending december 31 1900 shows proceeds of bullion and concentrates cost of mining anti and milli milling ng including depreciation and all other nevada expenses ex capt legal interest administration expenses all corn com banies total profit for year circulars are being sent by the state board of equalization to mining companies of the state calling attention lo lf to the section of the state 1 law aw which requires that the owner or owners of all mines or mining claims in utah must ou on or before the second monday of february in each year furnish a statement in detail showing the net proceeds of such mines or mining claims for the year at noon on the first day of january next preceding in january of 1865 jacob hess oc at manti mand found placer gold in the glacier wave formed bench to the south of 0 and adjoining the hamlet of marys vale utah hess traced the gold up to the mouth of pine canyon canyo it at that point the gold ceased cased the creek waa wa too rapid for bars and jacob hess went up tho the canyon cannon some five miles further and found the great ledge ledga hn known as the bully billy boy and webster ste r and upon that famous Is I 1 lode ad a Marys valo had its begin beginning nin g aaa iain mining camp from eight in utah mines in 1908 the mortality list grew to sixteen in 1909 leaving nine widows and ana twenty two children father fatherless lesh a majority of these living abroad tho the miners themselves are blamed for far most of the accidents |