Show MINES AND MINING wah ija in the seven troughs d strict has just completed a ru i of nty five ton through the kindergarten mill which brought them 7 making an average 0 ove to the ton there is considerable interest being manifested in the range of moun bains immediately east of mazuma nevada where there ire a number 0 properties where silver and lead pros pacts are said to exist ten years ago the rank of the cop per producing districts ol 01 the country and their yields in pounds were as follows montana mien igan arizona california 21 29 2 9 colorado 10 80 utah 5 utah consolidated has declared the s al quarterly dividend of 60 cents a share payable april 15 to stock of record march 30 transfer books to close march 30 3 p m and reopen april 21 the annual meeting of the company will be held april 15 we have three feet of ore which pans per ton in gold was the me aage received in salt lake last week by M dudley and II 11 the principal owners of the philadelphia western mining prop erty of the hilltop nevada district the february statement of the copper producers association shows that the stock of marl eatable copper of all kinds on hand at all points in the united states march 1 amounted to pounds an increase ol 01 ia as compared with febra ary 1 A strike ol 01 native bismuth is the latest tor deep creek driving a shaft which was expected to cut out a body of lead ore the miners em plowed by the clifton copper belt mining company made a strike ot what is said to be 90 per cent bis muth following closely on the news that the lost packer management was developing ve a banner amount of rich orea on the foot level of this idaho property iro perty comes the word that the ore has now been encountered in the foot level and it is richer than ever the copper production in arizona last month w as 6 pounds the copper queen led with pounds the calumet and arizona and superior bu of made 4 oiin po ads and senator dark s united verde mines gave forth almost 3 coi pounds the recent strength and activity in ray consolidated is based upon the increase in the company s ore reserves and the tact that the ha den stone syndicate has taken up the 1 of bonds upon which it had an option and the company Is now ell financed J R welmer of salt lake city who took a bond for the laurel hill group in the elk city ida district last summer has started a crew at work the claims were located by aake prichard one of the te v sur livors of the early placer fineis and at one time were worked on a corn ively large scale lack of water has compelled a sus pension of operations at the daly west M ning company s m aling plant at park city the lakes on and above bonanza flat from which a supply of water is obtained are said to be so filled with snow and ice that there is nothing of a fluid nature lett to run through the pipes the output of copper from the mines of utah for the month of feb auary amounted to 7 pounds this is a reduction of compared with january but compares with about 5 dounda ln feb auary a year ago the greater pro portion of the output was the product from the garfield smelter the annual report ot the pittsburg silver peak gold mining company operating at blair nev announces that during the past year tons of ore were treated in the company s mill the bullion receipts amounted to 44 while the operating ex benses were 82 making the net earnings the boston sunshine milling plant at mercur is about ready tor opera tion and is probably in comm ss o 0 by this time the last piece of machinery arriving the later part of last week the mill will have a daily capacity of tons and Is said to be modern in every particular there are more men at work in the beven troughs district of nevada than at any time in the camps bis tory no sooner does work cease on one property than several others start up there are seven active ties in the vernon end working their full quota of men A fifty ton carload of ore that will r in better than a ton in gold ha just been shipped from the buz zard mine twelve miles south of battle mountain nevada the buz zard is a prospect that was ed up a few months ago by a syndicate of salt lake mm ng men years ago mark twain lived in humboldt county nev near the point where several capitalists are bringing to life a new town in honor of te famous humorist they have named the new mining town twain and they expect it to be as successful as was mark twain it is reported on good authority that a deal haa practically been colsum mated whereby matt haveck and as so clates leading goldfield and ski doo operators will shortly operate the pompeii and le roy mines located three miles north of searchlight says the te daily bulletin that the final trying out of the karns tunneling machine corn pany s eight foot machine was emi bently satisfactory and that it would soon be started upon the first corn mercial work ever attempted with a rotary tunneling machine is the word received from boulder colo assay returns received last week from samples ot the new eight foot streak of ore opened in the copper acres mine near battle mountain net showed values of 20 14 per cent copper and 33 5 ounces n silver this is the h chest value in silver eier ob twined from copper acres ore the columbus consolidated mining company of aita is rapidly betting in shape for increased production the tramway is again working well and a lare reserve ot shipping re sources haa been blocked out in the new ore body at this time the in ae Is lendins sen dins out one carload a day |