Show I 1 V 1 1 MINES NINES AND MINING approximately 7 men are ain played in the mines ot of idaho the total dividends paid by idaho mines for the year 1906 is cutely 7 the dreamland in the rosebud see tion of nevada Is in tour four feet of ore ora that will average per ton parties returning from the east de dare clare that no state is better regarded by capitalists for legitimate mining InNest investments ments than utah lumber costs anywhere r from agoto TOO to 5 a thousand delivered at the mine tn in the ely nevada district and in many instances it cannot be pu purchased even at that what gives many indications of be ing a rich copper region has been dis covered a few miles northwest of the town of schwab near what Is known as cow creek in california an unfavorable water season as well as diminished activity in deep gold mining in owyhee owahee county re deuced the gold production in idaho in 1905 by about to 1075 the mining district ot of good springs nev while giving very little news of results to the outside world Is 1 registering achievements ot of merit that cannot but impress the average seeker after results one curious fact is that only two ol 01 the six blasting accidents in idaho last year occurred in the coeur d abenes which uses 80 to 85 per cent of all the pow loader der used in the state and one of these was in a prospect hole only twenty feet deep superintendent james E beveridge of the emma copper company has notified th the salt lake offices of the corn COM thit pany that the drift has gone into the recently encountered ore body tor for a total distance or of forty feet and the ore is growing richer with each shot the property is located in alta dis brict utah J W burnham manager ot of the southern pacific company operating the property in the sierra madre dis brict near ogden says that while the company owns a copper mine of asplen ild did proportions the management Is showing up gold values that make of the he property a proposition of addition al interest in the lee and echo districts of 4 inyo county california are to be found conditions existing that seldom attach anywhere else on the globe the veins are wonderfully well de fined in both sections while the surface showings as a rule are not so great even shallow depth has shown splendid ore bodies in the very complete review by the state mine inspector of the great min ing section of the coeur abenes d ft it Is shown that this district last year produced 98 per cent of the lead 87 per cent of the silver 55 per cent ol 01 the copper 95 per cent of the zinc and 5 per cent of the gold and all the antimony of the state of idaho there were seventeen fatal acci acel dents in the mines of idaho in 1906 as compared with twenty in 1905 ten in 1904 and twenty in 1903 six of this years accidents were from elpio slona four from falling ground tour four from down chutes and fill holes and one each from handling timber tramway and a fall from stag ing following the consolidation of the principal producing mines in the gold field district it is announced that a new combine has just been formed over other producing mines and a few of the largest producing leases now operating in the several proven sections of the district the new company will have a capital of A deal was closed last week that gives to salt lake one of the biggest mines in the Yer inton district the 1000 1 option on the famous lud wig mine that was held by joseph E calne caine and max junghandel the latter of tonopah was purchased from them by frank J hagenbarth at an ad vance that gives the vendors a good round sum within two years ely will be pro more tonnage than butte Is a nevada mining operators slon sion A single claim in the heart of butte today will bring anywhere from a quarter to a million dollars lust just on account of its location and upon which there may not be a single speck of visible copper what will ely lip in two years or lessa the committee representing the farmers of salt lahe lake valley who ob tamed injunctions against the opera tion of the various smelting plants on account of the damage done by fumes and gases to vegetation officially an bounces that an agreement has been made with the american smelting refining company that will permit the operation of at the works in the future from the manner in which seven troughs stock Is passing hands on the stock exchange these days it is evident that salt lahe lake Is s very much interested in this company and the district la in which the property Is located the rosebud district in nevada Is experiencing the boom expected after the severe winter weather dis appeared and people are going into the tho camp continually there are about people in the town and per haps in the district |