Show MINES AND MINING over 40 worth of crude ore and vuncent rates from the columbus con soli dated aita mines has been sold the first three weeks of the present month at sydenham ontario 16 miles from kingston is located the largest mica mina in the world the product is mostly amber mica with some silver amber the highest quality mined the annual report of the ed mercur gold mines company does not make the showing that previous reports havo done though it holds out a good deal of promise tor the ear to come it Is reported that some of the rock now being encountered in the catlin mines at silver bow nevada is liter ally plastered with leaf silver and the rock is all being broken and sacked tor shipment just as it comes the sudden drop in the price of copper and the present uncertain level of the led metal have undoubtedly had a depressing effect upon many producers of the metal whose properties are still in the development stage J H barker of bancroft idaho has closed a deal by which his splendid lead silver gold property the lead cen ter located in the caribou forest re serve six miles south of soda springs will pass into the hands of a close corporation the most sensational e of cop per ore ever made in the camp of yerington nevada has just been re corded in the property of the mason valley company A is now be ing s ink on a body of black oxide ore that averages 55 per cent copper another oil e has been made in the utah fields this time at fillmore in the fillmore field the oil Is largel mixed with gas at cedar ty wells are being bored but only gas has been obtained although there are large quantities of it and strong pressure while prospecting in the wilds of tile panamint near windy gap neva da scotty s country ralph beame a halt brother of the poet prospector eddy recently found a blowout which proves to be probably one of the rich est strikes made this past summer during the recent strike of inachin ests in butte ever man employed by the butte new york remained at his post this was due to the fact that all the men employed are stockholders in the company having made their purchases with parts of their wages an amalgamated director says practically no copper Is being sold and if the first reduction to about halt our normal capacity is not enough we will order a further reduction we are hopeful of a change in the tion the case of utah colorado manes curtailment has been forced tor lack of fuel the clon smelter in sonora mexico will be ready for business by october 1 with the first unit of this smelter in operation the company will treat tons of ore a day at the maximum cost of 12 a ton or tor 75 tons a year the ore is valued at 37 40 per ton in copper old and silver work ds started recently on the new building of the hanson consoli dated silver mines at port arthur canada which is to contain 30 adal stamps bringing the to tal of the mill up to 50 stamps it Is the announced purpose of the manage ment to keep adding stamps until are in operation in the property of the utah yering ton company which Is located east of the mason valley mines the workmen are now opening up a five foot ledge that is from those being de by most of the yerington corn panics in the character of its ore as it carries well in lead and silver in addition to copper and gold official reports filed in the office of nixon at goldfield fully substantiate it is claimed the import ance of the silver gold strike on the eagle at fairview george wingfield says permanency with depth Is proved by the fact that the ore Is straight sulphide with no symptoms of exida tion not to mention otier signs beyond all doubt the yerington copper shaft has penetrated into the real sulphide zone thus demonstrating the extence of the same at somewhat more shallow depth than was by the management the work ing first str ick ore on the and now at a vertical depth of feet the entire bottom Is in the sulphides sulp hides ol 01 the red the ore production of butte has been cut from 2600 tons to tons the berkeley diamond bell belmont and clear ant of the amalgamated are down superintendent gillies states that the boston and montana may be further reduced the amount of tonnage under the reduced force has not been estimated the falling off will be large the copper mountain minei owned by the guggenheims and located six miles south of tecoma station on the southern pacific and in nevada is connected with the main line with a road to ir and a half miles lo 10 ig and of standard ga ige and producing five cars of copper ore a day A quartz mine claim in the trans vaal is feet long on the line of strike of the ledge and feet wide the government claim license to be paid continuously is 1 pel claim per month in addition to thio the govern ment takes 10 per cent of the net pro fit on the gold produced A fitt toot business location in the town of yerington cevada that lid have been pin chased a few months ago for oa 00 is now worth 1500 BE fore another year la avei the camp will have its railroad and a smelter will have to be constructed to meet the demands of the mines the lead market is similarly affect ed as is the copper the ameri an smelting and refining company ha reduce 1 the price one half cent a pound and there are intimations that a further reduction may follow also the consumption of lead has fallen off and a reduction in price has followed the consolidated mines company of goldfield has announced a dividend of 10 cents per share payable oct lo 10 tt ere are issued 3 shares of staci and will be a monthly distribution of is at the rate of 12 per cent pel sear on the par value of the stocal |