Show r MINES AND MINING over the hill aiom P arl idaho the osborne Is turning out a lot of free milling ore most of the nuggets are as large as pin heads mining operations in the marshall lake district of idaho a e very active a large number of men being employed on various properties in that section eastern publication aie giving f eminence omi nence to the fact hat during the past month of august the mines of utah paid out in the form of dividends the splendid sum of 0 the wyoming mine beai american fork utah which has b en successfully operated for several ears past by the tyng brothers contin ucb to make reg ular shipments of about one car per day L H doolittle managed of the utah sc eastern company s dixie copper mines near shem in washington coun ty and his associates claim the dis unction of sinking the first well in the southern utah oil fields those who are in a position to know declare that the old silver king mine at park cit is a bigger and better mine today than ever in its history owing to recent sensational develop ments on the 1100 foot level the new balaklava Balak lala smelter is now making remarkable kable headway and it should blow in next bronti sometime although some say that by the time the two tran get run ning and the smelter tuned it will be 1908 before the smelter Is going phosphate rock the e el which Is limited to the manufacture of mineral fertilizers and shemica s containing phosphoric acid is found in many parts of the united states but the deposits that furnish the principal corn mercial output of the material are those of florida tennessee Ten nesbee and south carolina the new compressor and power drill plant of the cedar mining company went into regular last week with its fine steam hoisting works and new compressor com plant the mine is now splendidly equipped for development at additional depth and the better opening up f the levels al ready reached the grade of the nevada northern tracks in back of ely will soon be ready for one line of rails the lower portion Is completed and only two or three small filk are to be made back of town A viaduct Is being put in at the west end of ely so as to make it safer for travel by te ims that are hauling supplies to the mines in a few days the first tunnel ma chine ever constructed by the utah karns tunneling machine company for the mining districts of utah will be on its way aiom the hano of the manu fac this machin is destined to test the theory of the aai enter up big cottonwood and on the possessions of tae mountain lal e mining company it was announced that some time ago that the guggenheims had aban boned their san bruno smelter in call komla after having expended 1 COO apon its construction A portion of this plant has been to ely nev where it will be used in the construct on of the smelling plant of the nevada consolidated and the cum berland ely companies the mining interests around roosevelt idaho are looking more prom ising a ever before fince the boom collapsed and a er of experts sent in by various part es have ex pressed great faith in the future of the camp when it shall have ered from the injury d ne by gant statements and swindling stock games A copper mining district closely akin to that of ely nevada from the stand point of physical characteristics and I 1 within whose precincts sufficient de work has been done to dem on strate the continuity and generous distribution of ores is ahe seven dev ils section of idaho properties in that district showing copper ore that assays from 35 to 28 per cent according tp webster and other au thorit les a mine is a pit where miner als are dug says the denver mining reporter there are many other defan irions some now obsolete and auers extant but all of which are in iastan ces quite inadequate and even comprehensive an exact all inclusive definition of the term sams almost am possible as so much depends upon the point of view taken the coal production of utai which nad a decreasing tendency in 1904 and felt as did the other rocky mountain states the stimulating influence of the shortage created by the suspension of work during the spring of 1906 in the states of the mis sis sippi valley utah output in creased from 1322 short tons valued at 1 in 1905 to 1 short tons valued ai 2 in 1906 a gain of hort tons or 33 per cent in quantity and of or 34 3 per cent in alue A coena dalene dispatch to the spokane review says a discovery of gold has been made at tyson by fied W haverland of the tyson consoli dated mining mil ing company nuggets corti 35 ara being picked up as the result of the placer mining I 1 of that company loon creek the old ime and once famous placer camp of idaho has awakened from its 30 5 ar sleep and times are getting jiveh a gain f A new strike and a rich one was made last spring opposite feign on s ranch on cabin creek and it to give greater promise daily the group on wai eagle moun tain in idabo belong ng to claude walne and william al en has been bonded to a mr thoma who is depre benting a syndicate of kansas capit alises the price Is 0 per cent cash was paid down and the bond runs tor 90 days the western ore purchasing corn pany has announced that instead of re building at reno nevada whore the company s 40 plant was recently destroyed the company vill rebuild at aszen the management 1 an bounces that the new plant will be much larger than tae d A strange creature combination of eeb snake and lizzari lizz arc and frog ha ben unearthed at roosevelt idaho by a miner in the process of some assessment work he was doing near the monument mine he dug the animal saurian or whatever it is out of the rock eight feet below he surface |