| Show MINES AND MINING the boston news bureau figures that utah will be copper at the rate of pounds per an num within three lears r A lot of ore has been started trofin the sunn side mine ot roosevelt to be taken to portland tor treatment in the garvin cyanide machine during the past week on the 8 lake mining exchange a total of shares of stock changed hands the selling value be ng gradually and surely the nevada northern railroad Is covering the dis tance from bobre on the southern pacific to the big copper camp of ely A steady shipper of gold ore to th salt lake market Is the gold quartz mining company operating twenty five miles from Beo on the south ern pacific road west of ogden favorable action was taken last week b the salt lake stock exchange listing committee on the application of the mining company of thunder mountain for the listing of its stock the nevada fairview mining corn pany an organization of prominent salt lake investors who were early upon the ground at fairview last week made the last payment upon the warren group of properties there Is a prospect of a copper out put in utah by the close of 1908 at the rate of pounds per annum and within three years pounds per annum or at the present rate of copper production in arizona that the very surface of the yering ton copper company s possessions la capable of producing enormous copper values Is more than shown by the quality of samples that have been sent from this property to salt lake city from recent transactions made in eldorado canon properties it Is believed by many mining men in south era nevada that senator W A clark of montana has either purchased out right or obtained a controlling interest in the famous wall street quaker city and mines in that district As far as Is known the record for ore shipments from the alta district during the present resurrection period was broken on wednesday of last week when there arrived at the salt lake samplers from this district ninety five tons of ore all of it being hauled from the properties to sandy by team A strike has been made in the gen eral connor property in the gold mountain district in utah that Is creating not a erttle excitement at camp the property Is being operated under bond by charles guy lewis and F gillian with the latter ta charge and reports border on the sensational the foundation tor the first 3 ton unit of the boston consolidated company s 6 ton milling plant at galfield gal field are finished and engineer A J bettles states that he Is now ready for the structural steel when the raising of this will begin he states Is up to the steel company which should begin its deliveries during the next few days H A kearns ona of the heavy stockholders in the jenny property of gold springs has returned from an inspection visit to this iron county proposition in which salt lakers are interested the highest values ob talked in gold and silver by mr kearns amounted to 68 50 and the lowest 8 85 W G dahlson who has been per placer ming 11 idaho to some ahme sent pounds grayel tested by the department ot 1 to determine its mineral con tent and the report shows it to be worth 25 01 per ton the gravel was run over a welfley table and 98 per cent 0 ane gold was held in the con oric cole who has been mining eighty miles up the middle fork ot boise river says he has every reason to believe that he has located a ledge for which he and others have been searching for three years the vein he says Is over five feet and assays recently made show values from 2 98 to 40 per ton rapid progress Is being made in the construction of the 1000 ton smelting plant of the balabala Bal aMala corn pany now being built at coram cal all the steel construction Is under contract to be delivered and erected by september and it Is the expects alon of the management to have this plant in operation by january 1 the siegel consolidated company owning the cream of the siegel mining district of nevada Is moving its re sources to the salt lahe market at the rate of two cars per week the ore being sent to the smelters aver ages 70 per ton the new tonopah stock exchange recently organized was formally opened on the and started with heavy trading for the first day min ing stocks to the value of 10 changed hands the new venture Is backed by the leading mining men in the district it Is not unlikely that there will be more mining b to be transacted in the goldfield district around labor day than at any other period of that camp s history and a general exodus of experts Is looked tor at a date agreeable to the arrival on the scene by the day mentioned M J alexander a well known resi dent of round mountain uncovered c big ledge of cinnabar ten miles eat of that camp last week he staked several claims and will shortly mence development nork on theia this Is the find of cin made within in acks |
