| Show MINES AND MINING it Is expected that the smelter at ogden will be in operation in the near future two new veins have just been opened in the talisman Talis min company s beaver county mines there Is a report in circulation to the effect that the big fissure for which the tunnel on the mcdonald ely property at ely is headed has been reached during the week a total of shares of stock with a selling value 01 changed hinds on the floor of the salt lake mining stock exchange three new strikes of importance were made at vernon nevada last week in one mine assays show val aes ues of from to 1776 in gold per ton the aleal bleal pearl mill in boise coun ty idaho has arranged tor the inseal of electric power from the balse payette power plant and is ex pecked to be again in operation any day the tunnel oil company of vernal which owns oil placer claims in gar field county colo and proposes to de celop them filed articles of In corpora alon with the secretary of state ol 01 utah last week at a meeting of the directors of the united states smelting refining mining company held in boston re bently it was decided to place the corn moa stock of the company on a 7 per cent dividend earning basis for 1906 the united states prodoc alon of copper will aggregate pounds an increase of only about 4 per cent over 1905 which compares with an increase of 10 per cent in 1905 over 1904 sas daniel guggenheim senator dark of montana makes the prediction that the figures for 1908 will show an increase in copper production of probably less than 4 per cent the average price will probably be in the neighborhood of 19 cents there is a disposition on the part of the seven devils miners who have heretofore done all their railroad bust ass at council to wait for the corn ing of the huntington road down the snake river and cut cuncill cold as this road will be much nearer to them leahl county idaho has suffered much through mining inexperience there are today about stamps in the county of which only about are in operation the others have been put up on mines where the ore proved to be too base for stamp mill treatment leahi lemhi county is one of the most favored counties in idaho or in the whole west in its coal deposits it 1 claimed the deposits are known to be very expensive probably they will prove even far larger than now anticipated when the country is prop ariy dev eloped by virtue of a compromise effected last week in salt lake city between james mcgregor and the directors of the silver king mining company all former differences texi sting between these interests are burled and a new era dawns for all park city within the very first week of the newly born year blast furnace slag Is piling up in vast quantities at all of the smelt ing in the western mining states it cannot be said to have become a nuisance as yet tor the dumps cover only a very small area and they are not the menace to agriculture and other industries that tailings piles are their worst feature is that they represent a byproduct for which as yet no use has been found says the mining reporter thirteen cars loaded with goldfield ore valued at 7 arrived in vallejo junction cal on the alth where it will be treated in the deduc tion works and turned into shining bars of gold and silver bach car con tabled pounds of ore carefully sacked A mine opened in an absolute wild erness that in about two years pro duces approximately 2 worth of ore from less than 10 per cent of its whole area at an expenditure of only must merit the conal dence of investors such a mine is the the mining district the little old town of lida nev is corn ing to the front with rapid stride and in spite of the former days of greatness at lida when the camp was one of the most active in the west the future bids fair to hold still greater things quartz shot full of free gold rock picked samples of which would un douht edly assay up into the thousands of dollars per ton has been in an entirely new vein on the foot level of the cedar company s mine in the north star district beaver county utah A great amount of underground work is going on at the fairview eagle says the miner three shifts are working levels A timbering crew has recently completed the 75 toot sta tion and are well along the the sec ond in the meantime the sinking has reached a depth of feet will J dooley a salt lake man who Is developing a group of claims at reveille nev has just received word that the men employed in sinking a new shaft hae encountered alne ore at a depth of sixty five feet the first samples went 68 ounces silver and 2 50 per ton in gold after being abandoned 12 years a tunnel within a few miles of man tou colo has been found to contain pay gold ore As a result Is now in the grasp of the gold fever the strike was made in the camp creek tunnel at the head of williams canyon two miles from A group of six claims in the dugway district have been made the basis of the alice consolidated mining corn pany with 1000 shares of a par value of 1 I each the property ad joins the belcher patented ground and carries a well defined lime quartz ite contact ledge tor over 2000 feet |
