Show MINES AND MINING 01 the horld s gold mines hah hapl al controls ga per cent and 0 the world finest iron mines brition cup ital has po ver over ga per cent the F smelter at garfield has been remodeled to burn oil instead of coal and a n aber of other improve bents made and work has been re burned M ny of and best payin mines in the united states are con trolled in great britain and not les than 93 per cent 0 the net lionts go to london at the present aate of mineral pro eight years gros returns ROT id give a sum of money sufficient for bu ing all the electric ra inroads ol 01 ohp natili at their highest va itt ions the salt lake papers announce that mother strong eastern o 0 is to invade the utah smelting fralo n en aho vho have formed a company cap i at 0 o being back of ire project A strike has been made on the foat level of the peacock copper con sol dated company spro perty in ban f ranc d strict beaver county 3 says showing vil es of GS 7 per cent 98 5 ounces in and 1 W in gold the production of copper from prop arties owned by domestic share hold is gong on at the volaire of 1 50 pounds per annum con is lagging behind at about the rate that ruled at the opening ot the year it appears that utah la to have an oil boom this time it is wane county which will be th I 1 wae of operations and from all pe arances there will be a gibat amount of work done there d ieng the present year the coal miners of western canada ho have been in sess on at mac leod alberta have begun drawing up new agreement to s to the operators the old agreement ex pires april 1 prospects of a are the new york central railroad an i bounced list weel that it had ar ranged to buy tons of steel rails for 1909 delivery the order includes tons already remaining tons will be del vered between now and august 1 the shipment of twenty tons front he PI western which was barted from this place last week netted the owners a little over per ton says the battle mo tev herald this Is most latter ing and demonstrates the tact that this property pro party will become a great liro ducer developments ot high grade ore in the mine of the copper acres corn any near battle mountain come so kiick and fast that the management elf can scarcely pel eve all that ahey hid cate the latest is the open ing of eight feet of rich leol ing sul I 1 hides in a crosscut from a only G feet deep As a result of the recent drop in the price of copper the cactus mine and mill of beaver count has been closed down temporarily A force ot thirty men has been retained in devel work and d nig the shut bov n the capacity of the plant will ba ir creased from tons a day to about 1200 tons a da the anaconda mine one ol 01 the ann cipal holdings of the anaconda cop 1 er mining company has been closed down for an indefinite period on ac count of increased volume otga sea arom the fire raging in th lower work is some ore Is being taken from 1 elow the 1 foot le el through the st lawrence shaft superintendent of the gras beli zinc plant informs the park city record that the most satisfactory re are now being obtained the lant is simply working perfectly and v athin the past to ir weeks the output as increased from 35 to 40 tons to ba and 70 tons and it is expected to increase the output the monster independent iron and deteel companies of the pittsburg dis brict the jones laughling Lough ling steel nd the midland steel companies rep resenting les enting in all more than 0 have decided to stand pat on ages in spite of the tact that one t the big independent companies has declarer a flat 10 per cent reduction ioa from 1879 until 1889 out mineral production doubled in the following de cades the ameial yields more than doubled thirty ears ago this coun try was second in mineral production great britain being first on account I 1 of her iron ores and coal now j country is far in the lead in mineral production ohp production of the unit ed has increased aa 1879 no other industry 0 the coun try has made anything like this prag ress in thirty years while in th matter of net profits from the capital unvested the mineral industries make the railroad and banking businesses seem poor fields for investments millions of tons of we sus of being handled entirely by gravity is the situation at the ohio copi er company s mine with its ore body proven to the tunnel level tha size of the proven ore budy being feet wide teet long and leet deep A ef pa di announces that both the and their em llomis af the coal road ol 01 this field are working quietly but with apparent toward the briais in their which Is sure to lome w ith e expiration of the bori mg agreement in operating twenty eight days the little huntington mill on the george english lease on the fine gold beven troughs property tour clean ps were made aggregating 4 of b alion about tons of ore were handled Theles sees are well pleased with results at adepts of feet in the sky ark shaft of the utah united copper company in beaver county a strike I 1 as been made that promises to develop into something entirely out ot the ord nary assays show the presence of 1 20 in gold 2 4 sliver and 11 8 per cent copper two splendid strikes in the boston pioche mine which is controlled the scott mines company were re ported last week yet they were not unexpected by the management says the pioche record one ot the ex postures was made on the and the other on the toot ie el |