Show MINES AND MINING horace J stevens of houghton mich a copper expert predicts a higher price for copper and believes that the metal will go to 16 or 17 cents several of the utah mining companies have been notified that on account of the moving of the beet crop and requirements for handling coal their allowance of cars tor carrying ores must be curtailed A power plant for 1 alta district Is about to be built by a syndicate of alta operators it Is to be built on little cottonwood creek about two miles below alta and will develop from to horsepower R H thomas president of the new york stock exchange has appointed a committee of five members of the ex change to investigate the heavy baled of stock on august 22 when it Is al lebed matched sales were made the board of governors of the salt lake stock and mining exchange has formally launched the campaign for a new building on the lot presented by samuel newhouse to the exchange by naming a finance and building corn there are some valuable placer claims being worked in the caribou country near idaho falls idaho the carribon Carri boo country has in its day been one of the great gold producing sections of the west some 13 being taken out treasury stock of the min ing company the latest gintic tintic prop in which the knights are in te rested was thrown upon the market last week shades at 15 cenat being snapped up by an eager public in short order jack davis was the first goldfield man to reach the new gold find near indian creek davis bays that the big ledge in which the values are found cuts the formation of a quartz mountain and resembles delamar nev the local mining outlook has never been so good in twenty years saya the halley idaho times many of the mines that were then closed are reopened and the others will doubt less soon be unless some unforeseen cause intervenes the uncle sam consolidated min ing company has recently cleared at the united states smelter a shipment of three small carloads of ore which will net the company approximately the ore bringing a little bet ter than a ton A discover has recently been made on elk creek 14 miles northeast ot idaho city idaho that gives promise of becoming a very valuable mine the ledge Is three or four feet wide about 10 inches of it being hard quartz that will mill at least 70 a ton the alpha shaft of the giroux con soll dated at ely nevada has reached the 1 toot point and the work of cutting a large station there has been begun the expected flow of water has not yet been encountered the miners are still digging in the big body of ore than contains 17 per cent copper A dispatch from idaho city idaho bays it Is reported that leo ernah has made a valuable quartz dis covery on the south side of mores creek opposite twelve mile creek he la the discoverer of the famous hay fork mines and the new discovery Is about two miles southwest of these mines the grutt hill mint lease at haw hide nev is receiving returns from the rich ore sent to mill and smelter one shipment putting the lease on vel vet for 80 tons of ore the leasers received a draft for and from two bars of bullion the result of a mill run at the gates plant 4 a total of 29 twelve miners will put to work soon in the tunnel of the goldbug one of the group ot quaita claims on hay fork bonded to montana and ada county men by leo and antone says the idaho city world this tunnel will be driven to the switzerland which Is believed to be on the same vein the gold development company ot utah Is just inaugurating in the marysvale Marys vale district the greatest cam of development ever tak en in southern utah it expects to expend inside of the next eighteen months from to in power plant tramway lines and in opening its extensive gold properties A conference dealing with mining conditions existing in the united states and the great number of fatalities tali ties resulting from mine accidents Is being held in pittsburg A thorough investigation of recent recent mine disasters at mo W va jacobs creek pa and fayette city pa will be made the abandoned mine at hanna wyo where seventy miners met death will also be visited and about eight weeks will be spent in the investigation in this country the silver king gold and copper mining company which has been working several men tor over a year on their group of claims four miles from mackay idaho are at present sacking ore from their no 3 claim which will net them a handsome profit the new england gold copper mining company of bingham is mak ing preparations to resume operations on a large scale wires are being strung to convey power for compres sor and hoist and it is said that a large force of men will soon be em aloyed the comparison of the good I 1 springs nev and joplin mo ore shows the value of the rock as raised to the surface to be 21 a ton at good si rings and 3 60 a ton at joplin the net value of the ore f b at lola kansas good springs 9 and jop in that the project of building a amel ter at las vegas or some other con point on the salt lake route has by no means been abandoned Is indicated by the fact that during the last few days experts have been mak ing an examination of the famous groom lead mine A message from chaffey nevada Is to the effect that E S chafey owner has ord td a gasoline hoist for the black hole mine the principal bonanza producer eding this month at the rate of 1 tons worth per ton he will have a station at the 60 toot level and drift both ways |