Show MINES AND ton reduction ia be to at the monarch pline at at lanta la idaho i tf the thunder pearl min ing company Ts taking out a patent on its claims nineteen in number A force of forty miners Is now em aloyed blocking out ore in the sunny side mine in the thunder mountain district the directors of the mint on the purchased aces pt sil ives at 67 cents an ounce to be de silvered at new orleans the price paid the previous week was 66 62 cents success of the most generous pro portions la attending the efforts ot the gri W company upon the idaho possessions on the balse river about seventy five miles northwest ot boise it Is reported that an important has been made in a property belonging to charles neff mr me bride and others near he dewey mine at roosevelt the claim Is south and west ot the because ot abe recent heavy storms all the ore traffic from american fork canyon has been suspended the road Is washed out la such a bad condition that it will require some time to repair it for the resumption ot ore freight ing the directors of the consolidated mercur company have declared a div idena of 25 with this payment the consolidated mercur company will have distributed to the fortunate stockholders 0 the company the sum ot 3 97 it Is claimed that the antimony mines of utah are greater than any in the entire country and this phase of the mineral industry of utah Is as suming proportions equal to the lm i of the valuable mineral con talked within utah hills fire ot unknown origin started in the plant of the national smelting company at rapid city S D and owing to the lack of water spread to adjoining property loss about partly covered by insurance the total value of the plant Is dr oscar eckstein professor of chemistry at the university of chica go and dr wilfred G fralick of new york city two noted scientists and mining experts are on a prospecting trip in the hills near boie and it Is reported that they are prosecuting their work in the interest of big east ern capitalists A carload of very rich copper ore carrying a little better than 41 per cent was sent out recently by F J brinton one of the leasers at the eu reka hill this Is no do abt the beat copper ore that has been sent out from gintic tintic in years and the carload of ore will bring in the neighborhood of the actual mining and sacking ot ore has begun at the rich seven broughs strike says the I 1 evelock nevada tribune the seam of ex rich ore is widening with every foot gained in depth while sur rounding this streak Is sev eral inches of ore that will go from 1 to 5 D P the well known min ing engineer and manager of the fris contact and lulu companies prop artles at beaver in beaver county utah returned from his three months trip abroad last week during his ab sence mr Hohl fing attended the inter national gathering ot mining engi at london A mining suit that promises inter esting developments has been filed at carson city nevada by the bombina i tion mining company the mo hawk mining kompany alleging that the latter company Is working on the ore within tour feet of the alon line which ore apexes on the combination claims president don maguire of the kapoi leon machera maghera copper mining corn pany whose mines are located at the foot ot mt monte cristo about five miles north ot ogden has just sue ceedee in getting sufficient miners to double crew the work he Is daiv ing a deep tunnel and the work has been delayed owing to a scarcity of suitable labor among the more recent excite ments in nevada is that over the dis co veries said to have been made of placer gold in a dry lake near the stonewall mountain for years this dry lake has been traveled by pros and investors especially dur ing the past two years and their only thought upon finding the dry lake be neath their feet was to get away from it as fast as possible A ton milling plant Is to be erected on the south africa property about a mile from idaho city the grade ore in this property Is put conservatively at 3 a ton and ot this kind of ore it is estimated there Is 1 in bight work Is being vigorously prosecuted in getting the water out of the potosi mine at silver city idaho consider able old junk including two ore buck ets an ore car the fly wheel of an engine and an old boiler cap have been taken out ot the shaft fred kratzer and charles me kinnis ha e taken a to ir months op alon on the rex mine in the coeur d abenes their bond gives control of the mine on the aisis of about for the property it 1 believed that they represent F augustus heinze of butte the first automobile that has ever succeeded in pass ng through and into the clifton mining district accod planed this fait last week the mai chine carried capt duncan macvichie and judge john A street both of whom ire interested in the famous gold hill prep arty |