Show MINES AND minina the july production of the uncle sam company was approximately 25 the mill of the silver peak al calda mining company at blair ne vada is now in commission it is asserted that leasers in the seven d strict are making a big thing out ot their leases and the entire d strict is on the eve of a boom the sum of has recently been raised with which to continue the development of the oil lands boned hy the standard reserve corn pany in ustah county wyoming it is announced that a deal has been practically closed and terms agreed upon that will soon result in the consolidation of the west quincy and thompson mining companies prop artles at paik city st george is at fever heat over ahe oil boom people aie coming and go ing continually capital ests clerks miners and laborers ol 01 all kinds have dropped everything and made a rush to the oil regions last week a force of men was put to work on the water system tor ma zuma nevada engineer mills has made a preliminary survey and finds that the distance from the springs near the head of burnt canyon to ma zuma Is fie miles pearl district in idaho Is becoming a very active camp six alons aie now working upon ores while at least twenty more are dill gently operating their possessions with every confidence of the cov eted chutes in good time oil has been struck in the mcleod well two miles west of reno nevada on the trual river every vacant spot on five sections has been filed on and several derricks have been contracted tor the oil is of a light specific fic gravity with a paraffin base the virgen oil company of st george washington county filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state last week the concern is to engage in the oil busi nead in the newly discovered fields in southern utah and is the first ancor potation since the discover of the field all trouble in the seven troughs mining district has been settled by the mine owners agreeing to pay union miners 5 instead of 4 for eight hours wort the miners have been on foi more than a month and in that time nearly every mine in the seven troughs district has been closed down it does not often happen that a min ing organization is so fortunate as to begin operations upon a property sim with shipping ore from the same to the market that how ever Is the initial record of the utah indian peak mining company located about thirty miles west of lund in the needle range of mountains chaotic conditions still ize the market tor copper there Is absolutely no sign of any large buying movement for future delivery and the consumers large and small alike are detill feeling their way along cautious ly and buying only from day to day in sufficient quantities to keep their plants employed on such orders as are received the average petroleum of the world gives off about 3 per cent of gaso line some of the ohio colorado pennsyl ania and kentucky petroleum give off much more than that but the of california texas sas louisiana illinois indiana okia homa indian territory west vir ginia tennessee and kentucky do not materially help the illuminating oil world the new methods employed at the consolidated mercur company s big worl s at mercur are turning out and meeting every expectation and prom ise of the management As the mer cur ores contain a little gold that it is impossible to recover by any process it Is thought that the present method of handling the rock will prove as nearly perfect as it Is pos sible to devise there is still a golden harvest to be a there 1 from the gravels of the klon dike valleys the government has just completed an examination and sun ey of gold bearing gravels of both high and low grades it is estimated that in the neighborhood where gold is known to exist and from which gold to the value of 94 has been taken by crude placer methods there remains wl arti may ie re covered at a by hydraulic min ang dredging and other advanced methods of gold recovery the famous litigation over the property of the mining corn pany was settled last week at mexico city when the supreme court decided in favor of the eltigre mining corn pany as against F graham and the En sanada mining company the lit ignation began in july 1905 when the graham interests secured the property by force and has since run through all the courts of sonora several times and been before the supreme court of mexico five times the property pio perty is valued at 5 the blair press expresses the op n ion that the great gold milling plant of the pittsburg silver gold mining milling company chich is to treat the mountain of gold ore developed in alie famous old blair mines will be ready to begin grinding out bullion birly 1 september the golden cycle mining company s million dollar on plant located in the foothills south of colorado city colo was practically destroyed by alre on th ath the fire originated in the roas ing rooms and rapidly spread to other buildings which cover an area of ten acre standard oil stock at one time on the ath reached the lowest point touched in many years A little latec took as offered at with no leeral years ago standard oil sold above per share and friday s price indicates a shrinkage in value ot more than there is much excitement in the pah district over recent finds of rich old rock 11 at in mentioning th fact the eb expos tor last stated the ore assayed 3 to the ton that was a mistake it as 23 and of chirse atiat would arhe any imp 7 as it ha done at M zeab |