Show MINES AND MINING from i resent ind there 13 boon to be considerable increased ac in the duck creek district in the vicinity of the steptoe smelter the total stock sales of the salt lake mining exchange for the past week amounted to shares the market value 0 which was for the first half of the year the total production of iron in germany was 6 tons against 6 tons last year the reduction was less than 5 per cent during the year 1907 there were received into the yerington district a total of 69 pounds of freight while 9 pounds were shipped from the district to outside points eighteen inches of shipping ore has been encountered in the face of the tunnel at a depth of 80 feet in the martin and gourdier lease on the ma zuma hills estate says the seven troughs miner A strike that Is as rich as any of the fabulous ones in the early days at goldfield and with rock so rich it would be superfluous to assay it has been made at gold beef nine miles bauth of tonopah it Is announced that eastern capital Is becoming interested in the seven devil s district in northern idaho and as a result a season of development and production Is expected that will ultimately mean a boom for that district last week a narrow vein of galena was encountered in the mountain dell mine in american fork canyon utah the owners feeling highly elated be eleving the vein will widen and become richer as development work progresses the situation in the german iron trade continues most unsatisfactory and the controversy over the abolition of the duties on ude iron and steel and scraps has tended to increase the discontent and uncertainty in all sec alons of the trade As the result of the explosion of a boiler at the ralle gold mines near charlotte tenn superintendent was instantly killed and three other men seriously injured the cause of the explosion which demol dished the stamping mill Is not known the original lease on the D amond queen is to the aront with the big gast strike yet says the bullfrog Bull trog n ner samples from the shell that seemed to lie between the spar and tl e ore ran 80 80 and one from the 01 e as it was taken out and dumped into the ore bin ran 40 to the ton in gold the cactus in beaver county utah is now p bitting out about pounds of copper per month but the management says it will not be long before the company will be treating 1 tons of ore per day at its con and putting out the largest production of copper in the history of the mine A meeting of the stockholders of the king david mining company was beld in provo last week at which jesse knight and david evans the stockholders sold them selves shares of the company s treasury stock at par 50 cents a bhare thus placing in the treasury a working fund of some idea of the development work being done in jut one mine in the yerington district can be had when h is known that the nevada douglas mine is doing nothing but develop ment work Is doing no sloping and yet they are shipping 60 tons of high grade copper ore to the smelter at salt lake city every week the steptoe smelting company which is owned by and treats the ore of the nevada consolidated and cun berland ely is already putting out at the rate of pounds of copper annually operations to date have demonstrated that nevada con soll dated will secure a recovery of 70 per cent of all the copper in its 2 to 2 per cent ore the company which owns the mint and lucky boy mining claims near horseshoe bend has secured a lease 0 the osborne ore crushing mill and will operate it for several months in order to test the ore in the lucky boy mine says the emmett idaho index salt lakers are planning to secure the headquarters of the mining congress now located in den ver this would mean it the plans prove successful the erection of a mining temple in salt lake city and the centering in zion ot a great in austry from bodi camp north of tonopah nevada comes word that preparations for the building of a smelter by the lodi mines company Is already baua ing considerable new mining activity in that and neighboring districts the plant is to be of tons daily capacity the utah apex mine at bingham has resumed production from 30 to 40 tons a day are being shipped to the smelter the product coming from the bodies of high grade lead ore opened during the last few months of non production the ore carries about 45 per cent lead the news comes from goldfield that hutchison Hut chinon the metallurgist who aund a process for the success ful treatment of concentrates without roasting has received notification from the patent office at washington ait a caveat has been granted him on the process dividends disbursed by the mines and leases of goldfield during seven months s nee january 1 total close to one million dollars this during dull times in the camp and cove ing a period of forty three days when the tig producers were d e because ot unsettled labor troubles new strikes are being made and buildings are going up all over the seven troughs district in nevada in mazuma Is being built a 25 ho tel and a 40 room lodging house ten tenement houses are under construe ion at seven troughs and many buildings ot atess importance the buckskin mining district is bated on scotch creek the center ol 01 which is about ten miles in a north easterly direction from weiser idaho but little depth has ye been attained on any of these claims but an aver ago of all e assays taken froia the show a value of 20 50 |