Show f I 1 f j MINES AND MINING the closing of february marked tl e addition of another dividend pay tog mine to bullfrog s list the gold bar it is announced from boston that the annual meeting of the utah con dated company will be held on april 21 the treasury department last wee purchased noes of silver tor delivery at denver and san francisco t 55 66 cents per fine ounce there are persistent rumors ot a possible resumption of mining opera t ong at the anaconda m ne and ably at the north butte and butte coalition mines at butte perhaps no district has been born in nevada during the resurrection period of mining that has had such i hard fight to fame as rawhide the camp is over a year old and the boom has just started the sixty two n lie transmission line that Is to carry electric power from the beaver county power company s plant to the cactus mines and mills of the new house company is now nearing completion the mines of the boundary district of british columbia during the year aw produced 30 pounds of copper at a cost ranging from 4 cents at the granby to 14 cents at the domin on mines about the only argument one hears against the use of silver now a days adys mining science Is that it is too heavy and clumsy tor common u e that a pod ettell of silver pull the clothes out of place today silver is selling at about 13 cents per ounce less than it d d a bear ago when trade expansion required a larger supply of small coin and when the more important buyers who ship to the far east were in need of the metal advices from iron county aie to the effect that a remarkably heavy fall of snow has occurred there and the re suit will oe that freight ng from lund cintr the virgin river oil coun try will be retarded for perhaps awen ty days the graehl mining and milling company of city has filed a certified copy of its articles of incur por atlon in the office of the secretary of state the company is capitalized tor and owns nine claims near brigham city on account of the labor troubles at goldfield the production of its m nes continues to be nominal the corn b nation mill i educed during the last week in february tons and the kinkead mill tons of an aagre gate value of about at the yama smelter bigham an average of about tons of ore a say is now be ng reduced to base bul lion and this Is being shipped to the refineries at crome N J for refining gradually the smelt ng are being brought up to their highest point of efficiency new rollers and screens are being installed in the shoshone mill the beatty miner work in the mine has not abated the fact that the ore chute has been entered on the foot level of the mine and the ore found to be richer than in the levels above places the shoshone Shoo hone on a pa with the best mines in the state daniel guggenheim Gugg president of the american smelting refining company says copper in my judg ment has taken the place lor meri held by steel and iron as the index of business conditions the metal felt the reaction last year months in ad vace of steel and general tile enterprises indications point to a turn upward in the tide sarah E kareck has fil an action V macsherry in the aird D strict court to recover 2 and interest from january 23 1905 amounting in all to 2 33 which she paid to the defendant tor 4 shares of stock in the sierra nevada exploration company ore buyers in the salt lake valley are now prepared to take all the ore they can get it Is said but operator are apparently iino hurry to resume production so long as the metal mar ket remains at its present stage and yet metals are not so low as the were four years ago A mining cor oration capitalized at 13 with shares at one cent each has been organized in ogden the name of the rare metals mining company it is the purpose of the company to develop its property in the weber mining district in debei county at an early date the enormous sales of copper for export amounting in february to considerably over pounds has called forth statements to the et feet that the american consumer had much to learn from his foreign corn in the matter of low cost copp r es thus far in february the united states metals sell ng company h sold 89 pounds of copper the bulk of it to england and germany these sales have cleaned up the sur plus supplies of copper held by th concerns which sell through the unit ed metals selling company A prominent and reliable mining man after a visit to rawhide nevada says never in my mining expert ence have I 1 seen as much free gold and gold that is gold as the camp of eawh de show ed to me he pred acts that the rawhide boon will eclipse anything eve seen in nevada dark miller lessee of the ophir mine at stateline Stat eline i increasing his working force to ten men and is ex tr acting a very fine quality of gold and silver 01 e owing to the heavy fall of snow and the freez ng up of the water supply shipments of ore from the ne is being delayed A temporary res raining order has been issued by judge marsh 11 in the united states court in a case involve ing valuable mining cla in beaver county in which the commonwealth mining company is in arestel the case is one involving alleged breach of agreement between partners the state coal mine inspector has submitted to governor cutler a report 0 the invest gat on into the causes of the on at the black dragon mine owned by the gilson asphaltum compan at dragon uintah county february 12 the report falls to state the cause of the explosion |