Show T irl T MINES JINES AND MINING mizpah is wild over the discovery ot of wire gold or upon the jumbo claim of T F banigan and phil brady the roand mountain nevada stock exchange was formally opened on the ath the event being fol followed loved by a big banquet two companies haie hane been organized zed at Spring springville ville utah to operate mines in the lee district in the bullfrog country Spring springville ville control both companies the chicago Chicag utah copper mining company of salt lake which owns claims in the morgan mining district morgan county utah has filed art arti cles of incorporation the black dolly fire clay company of salt lake which owns claims near pleasant green and proposes to es cablish a pottery in salt lake cit has filed articles of incorporation 1 ahey I hey have now a tour four and one halt half foot vein of coal at the boren mine on trapper TI apper creek in idaho from which they are taking a very good quality of coal one etreal of it is of the very best grade application for the appointment of a receiver for the st joe mining corn com pany which owns claims in the west mountain district near bingham was made in a suit filed in the salt lake courts last week A few months ago D S laute lauterback aback of new lork swapped shares of jumbo extension of goldfield nei for an equal number of atlanta shares losing by present reckonings about 75 on the trade A correspondent writing from state line says that one of the richest strikes in the history of stateline Stat eline or south era utah has just been made in the tunnel being driven on the liberty property by john erickson of state line no other state of the union is con more to the welfare and ad van cement of nevada nevadas s mining indue indu try than utah and especially in the camps containing copper resources are salt lakers active to a most liberal extent professor aughey of the united states geological survey saya says I 1 expect a boom in the lee echo ne vada district during the coming spring and summer as the mines mines will all be opened during that time and it Is safe to say that there will be even more rich strikes recorded than there were at rhyolite Rh olite A number of have outfitted at idaho palls falls lecent ly tor prospect ing in the birch creek country not all are from idaho falla a number having come by train and outfitted at idaho falls there are many more who are delaying I 1 spring in order to look the ground over without the hindrance of snow should anone an one doubt doubt the tion of the district of stateline Stat eline that ideal section that can be claimed with equal right by both the states of 0 utah and nevada he would be con vinced in short cider older by gazing upon ubon a small chunk of ore from the big fourteen property which plainly shows rich in gold and silver the value of the recent ore strike in the pot wrestler mine of the dollar hide mining company at halley idaho Is shown hown by two assays made last week one of the assays shows ounces of silver 36 per cent of lead and a couple of dollars of gold per ton and the other ounces of sil yer ver and 6 per cent of lead per ton the lee district in nevada is char by an immense bed of quartzite from north to south for ap proximately fourteen miles and from one to two miles in breadth in color the quartz is from light brown to black and its consistency runs from sugary to compact bands of light brown and yellowish sandstone occur in the vein and run parallel to it A strike and a stampede stamped 6 of the male population of lovelock nevada to the hills at 12 0 clock at night may result in ili the founding of a rich new mining district south and east cast of vernon and the seven troughs mining district twety tour hours each day are de voted to the work of installing the tile new machinery being received by the lower mammoth mining company at two years ago albert S watson president of the jumbo extension at goldfield nev which is incorporated at 1250 1 shares sold shares at 8 cents and a little later another at 10 cents he accepted 18 for securities that are worth on the market about GOO today the re son for the present di binary nary price tor for copper is easily deter mined the production of north amer ica in 1906 N was as only 3 32 2 per cent in excess of the production in 1905 while consumption increased at a consider ably greater aratea rate says bays the engineer ing and mining journal the owners of the myrtle mine at pearl idaho are jubilant over the rap d development of that property and the splendid showing of values at a depth of 55 feet values were found to be 12 50 per ton in a two foot toot ledge and the concentrates run 30 the famous ludwig mine is being under examination these days by the expert of the prospective purchasers walter fitch of salt lake J R fin lay a noted min ng geologist and ex pert of new york assisted by J C gorree this property has been benj ed for 1000 00 caja cash A i |