Show MINING the price of copper has receded one ent per pound and electrolytic can now be obtained at 14 cents nevada s great mineral fields carry ing gold silver copper and lead have within the past six years produced over at the present the utah cop per company in its garfield and ding hain concentrating plants Is treating approximately 4 tons of ore per day fire which Is supposed to have start ed from a defective flue in the garret destroyed the main building of mon mouth college causing a loss ea timatea at nearly 40 the american mining congress was called to order at joplin mo on the alth in eleventh annual session sev era hundred delegates were in attend ance representing all parts of the auntry the cumberland ely company has decided to allow its options on six claims adjoining the jupiter group to lapse and the owners were In farmed of the company s intentions this morn ing says the ely mining expositor the iron industry broke all records in 1906 in the output of oie pig iron and steel and the increase in prodoc alon was accompanied by an increase in prices the quantity of ore pro deuced was 44 long tons valued at leading interests in tha united states smelting company have pre pared some figures as to prospective earnings of the company for 1908 after the klo del monte gets into full operation which predicts a total earn ing of fa for utah mines the present outlook Is not halt so dark as it would appear at first glance but for nevada mines the winter does not hold quite as hope but improvements may be looked for in the sagebrush state in the near future work on the noble group of mines in the district of idaho has been suspended for the winter on ac count of the cold weather and snow the ore Is of a fairly rich character cha and work will be resumed as soon the weather permits belgium produces about 24 tons of coal per annum valued at 58 the safety of the workers has been brought to a high pitch or excellence and the average death rate from all causes during was only 1010 per at thirty miles east of idaho the old collett property has been purchased by a new corporation and they have opened up a fine body of ore and al ready have more than tons on the dump for shipment the areas in the united states producing petroleum and natural gas in commercial quantities are comprised within five great fields known as tho appalachian field the lima indiana illinois field the mid continent held he gulf field and the california field the products of the clay working in dust rles of the united states in 1906 were valued at as against in 1905 a gain of 11 35 or 7 57 per cent the brick and lie products the materials that enter most largely in the structural and en gi arts were valued at 91 A couple ct weiser idaho capital ests are prospecting for coal on cove creek about 12 miles from the city they have very promising indication 0 a large bed of lignite at the depth of 14 feet they struck a ledge of aboul 12 feet of peculiar looking stone which coal experts state is coal blossom which they claim lies over the coal bed from the run over on horse hill in the yankee fork mining dis brict of idaho comes the news that a mining engineer last week took one pound of dirt from a rick streak and panned 5 worth of the yellow metal making the ore worth about 10 per ton the richest part of the vein Is from six to eight inches wide but the vein proper Is a wider one of the largest deals ever made in wayne county utah was made at loa recently by thomas baker J A smith L M chaffin and N L shet field the deal Is tor a number of oil claims located near it avas passed over from these parties to a los angeles company through its agent nat levy the consideration Is during the month of october the production of copper in the united states mexico and canada fell off 31 36 pounds as compared with oc tober 1906 a drop of over 30 per cent ten months of the present calendar year have now passed and the prodoc alon of copper on the american conti nent has shown a decrease of 93 pounds the lead king mining milling company which Is mining in the hills right back of the nevada dated company s smelter town at me gill nev was in the marked last week with the second carload of lead ore from that property the lot of approximately twenty five tons was sold on controls assaying 73 5 per cent lead and 3 ounces silver per ton both the dingham consolidated heinze Heln ze and the consolidated companies are planning to erect new smelters on the shores of great salt lake plans in the former case are already finished and plans in the lat ter case will be finished before christ mas it is reported in goldfield that sen ator nixon and george wingfield have given an option on their stock in the consolidated mines company amount ing to 2 shares to barney baruch and other wealthy new york operators and that as been paid on the deal manager grant snyder of the cliff mining company s properties at ophir utah states that 1 tons ot ore were marketed during the past month while an entirely new ore body tarther west in the property than was ever previously prospected has been tapped another gold quartz discovery is re ported in the hills east of mccammon idaho the exact location of the new find is being kept a secret until the grouted is staked off it lg said that at least twenty claims will be located in that territory as soon as the loca alon 1 n ade 1 |