| Show MINES AND MINING the organ bation of a stock company at weiser idaho is in progress it be mg the intention to bore for oil in that vicinity the rumor aiom park city to the ef feet that the daly J idge company wo ild do e its mine down within a few days has no foundation in fact the nevada dredge company s dredge and property pio perty at oroville Oi oville cal was burned last weel causing a loss of 1 the fire started in the transformer if the united states is to produce enough nickel cobalt and tin for its own consumption new deposits must be discovered for those now known while individually lich cannot supply the entire demand during the past month the two mills of the utah copier company reduced approximately tons ot ore to a high grade concentrate and there Is every probability that that figure will be eclipsed during the present month the output of the mines and leases of the goldfeld district for the week ending october 12 was tons having an estimated value of this is something like tons more than the outa t for the preceding weel one of the rare metals is used principal for bar lening steel especially in connection with chrom aum ium this rare metal is to be fo ind in benall q in utah and colo aado as well as in some of the south western states four utah mines posted dividends last week that will call for the check ing it of 04 they were colo rado SO beck tunnel con 20 grand central 12 and utah of fish snair gs 2 rich returns were received last weel aiom assays of rock sent from the keystone mine a property almost within the city limits of welser idaho A baker city assayer found that the rock carried to the ton and the boise assayer found the average cost of copper prodoc tion from butte mines under the restricted strict ed output is today not less thai 12 cents per pound at lake the cost will probably average close to 10 cents the cost of calumet arizona is only 5 71 cents considerable excitement was devel aped in logan utah mining circles last week by reports concerning a re cent and in blacksmith fork canyon by captain mihey and H J smith two ogden prospecto to s the discovery is said to be an extremely rich one two of the largest up to date and modern quartz mills in the state with a daily capacity of reducing tons of ore are now in course of for the big mines of the mon arch and bagdad chase mining corn canles in the atlanta district of idaho the record of helena mont pub lashes a stor to the effect that numer ous montana and washington in vectors have been milsted to the ex tent of more than a third of a dollars through the discovery that tain placer mines near I 1 anders wyo had been salted and that the property in question is worthless it is learned that during the net few days there will be a number 01 experts in utah who rei resent great london operators who tickle the fields of the world in competition with the standard oil company but who haat not bacon e very aggressive in amen can as yet their coming looks good for tha utah I 1 fields george W boggs one of the lessees and general manager of the old pea cock mine in the seven devils dis tact states he has twenty one men employed at the mine is taking u from the new strike and has a number of teams hauling ore from the dump to council where it is shipped to the sumpter smelter N barnsdale of pittsburg the owner of the monarch group ot mines at atlanta idaho has expended nearly a million dollars in developing and blocking out the ore bodies of the mon arch mine alone beo e even placing a mill on the property this alone as s ires us of hla confidence of the great possibilities of the camp there arc millions of tons of ore of commercial value blocked out in tte n ines of the atlanta district idaho ind the future of the camp has alwa s been dependent on the successful working of these ores which in past has been a tallu on account of the great loss ca ased by not having the i roper process to treat the ores through a compromise reached out of court civil actions involving pending in the courts of los an geles boston D aluth ana tombstone ariz have been ended ahe actions invoked large amounts 01 stock in rich coppel properties nota the cananda cananea central mines corn pany and the greene cananda cananea copper company the minerva mine in the atlanta district idaho for the past two years has been i ro ducin stead ly and haa bod es of ore in reserve t is stated the company will enlarge the present aft stamp mill which is not of sufficient size to reduce the vast bodies cf ore in sight aiom to fo has been i bunde 1 i monthly by the present 10 stamp mill the stockholders of the bilie pock mining at a meet ng held in nampa idaho last week decided to increase the capital stock of that cor por atlon from tu 2 and made arrangements for push ng the at the mine st than ever A day aid night shift are now en aloyed at the mint mine in the beail district of idaho and the tunnel is 10 v la 1 feet accord n to measure ments the ve n should be reached at 1 feet the vein Is twenty feel wide on ohp surface and is a true as ure ever since gold was discovered in the mill race at coloma placer county has been classed as one of the leading mining counties of california the production in the anty from thi eo irce of mining which is 1 as drift linins is approximately 70 the n ost important change in the order of the coal prodoc n states re from cond alons which existed fn 1906 was the replacement reila cement of illinois ly west VI ginia as the second state in rank F r seve al years the prodoc hon of W e t virginia has been creep ing up on that of |