Show MINES AND MINING the price of lead took a climb 1 week and was up to 4 12 twelve cars ot ore were shipped irom pioche during the past week during the year 1907 the mines of utah distributed dividends totaling in the neighborhood of 8 in spite of the slump in the price of lead last fall the net profits of the five big mines in the coeur calenes amounted in 1907 to according to what seems perfectly reliable information ane output of the bullfrog nevada district tor the month of april was above the seven troughs kindergarten company s new fifty ton milling plant rs practically completed and it Is an bounced will be in good working or der before the close of the present week the mining camp of phonolite in nevada which Is receiving much at these days as a result of the recent discovery of rich ores in the paymaster mine Is located about ten miles from lodi some of the ore in the his tory of nevada a state known tor its rich mines has recently been en countered in the paymaster mine at phonolite nevada some of the ore carries over 55 in this property in gold to the ton the decree of the united states court in the smelter smoke suits beems to be entirely satisfactory to the salt lake valley smelters here after the smelters will be given a chance to make settlement before the farmers can bring suit in a report submitted by vice pres ident barbour to the Bala kalala corn pany it Is estimated that it will cost in the neighborhood of 40 to complete the work on the smelting plant but it will take two or three months before it is completed ore Is being sacked tor shipment from the initial strike in the bull val ley district of southern utah that Is expected to startle the natives when it Is thrown upon the market some ot the most optimistic contend that this ore will assay 25 to the ton the reports of two coeur dalene mines for 1907 the federal mining smelting company and the bunker hill and sullivan show a decrease in net profits this decrease was caused by the heavy slump in lead and the subsequent curtailment of production the grasella ll chemical company s new zinc mill at park city is doing splendid work on the zinc middling product the daly judge corn pany s mill and Is meeting every ex the plant has a capacity of tons a day there being plenty of material on hand tor constant work the biggest strike in goldfield within the past year was made on may 4 when at a depth of feet in tae main workings of the mohawk mine of the consolidated mines corn pany thirteen feet of ore running straight across worth 62 a ton and with no hanging wall in sight was uncovered A dispatch received in reno from rawhide nevada announces that the richest strike in the worlds history las been made in the kearns no 2 lease on the rawhide queen at a depth of feet in a cross cut the ore Is ald to be more than halt gold nothing like it ever having been seep in nevada it Is reported that robert bell state mine inspector tor idaho in tends to retire from that position at the close of his present term of office the engineering and mining journal gives mr bell a good deal of de served praise in a recent issue and expresses the hope that he will con t nue in the work while the camp of rosebud ne vada Is not making of a stir in the mining world these days the news comes from that camp that de elopement elop ment work is being vigorously prosecuted on a number of the prop arties and that some discoveries are likely to be an bounced most any day it is announced that P ragan operating a lease on the mazuma hills mining company s ground at mazuma nevada last week dis one entire shift for high grading it Is estimated that 1000 pounds of ore averaging 30 per pound was stolen batore discovery was made of the operations in 1907 there were twenty four min ing companies in utah that regularly paid dividends to the stockholders owing to a series of setbacks tc chich the industry has been subject ed the mines will not pay nearly ss well this year as last but they are lust as rich as ever and time will remedy present conditions A dispatch announces that there Is no longer any question that the american smelting and the american smelters securities corn banies will not renew their selling contract with the united metals corn pany at the end of this month and that the entire output will be bandied by the american smelters securities company the engineering and mining jour nal gravely announces that at the present time there is an apparent tendency on the part of miners who went to nevada on the outbreak of the excitement at tonopah and later to return to california in search of mines fhe report for the month of april oil miller in charge of the unit ed states assay office at helena shows an increase in montana re or 42 over the correspond ing month of last year the receipt lor the two years are and respectively A helena dispatch announces that uncle billy park a well known mon tana pioneer and for whom one ot butte s principal streets is named as well as park city utah has made a rich strike in georgia gulch mad son county montana assays showing in gold and ounces silver the gross production of the five leading mining com of the loeur d abenes for the year 1907 amounted to 14 and a total of was paid out tor labor i transportation installation and main cenance of machinery the profit was less than in former years |