| Show MINES AND MINING ore shipments over the tonopah railroad for the pat week weel as re ported by the western ore wg ang company aggregated 2 tons charles M schwab the mining magnate and steel king has been ex amiling the mines of the bullfrog district in which he is interested personally the foreign visible supply of cop per on the as reported from boston was tons a decrease of 1355 1 tons during the first half halt ot of the month there is much excitement in car hn nevada over the discovery of rich placer gold in the lynn district twenty five miles from there and a phenomenal rush Is on the record of ore production of the mines of park city for the week just ended is as follows daly judge I 1 silver king daly west ontario to tal tonnage 3 the report of john D ryan prest dent of the anaconda copper mining kompany suba submitted bitted to stockholders shows that the corporation tor for the year that ended december 61 31 1906 earned arned V a profit of 8 the old camp of sprucemont Spruce mont nevada whose mines have been worked for more than a third of a century with profit to their owners but has lain la in dormant the past two years is again in the list of producing camps within the last few months the duck creek bead section of white pine county nevada has presented euch such an attractive opening for the P prospector ro that hardly an inch of un occupied ground remains for those who are to come april copper production of the united states canada and mexico is estimated at 96 pounds against pounds in march and 85 in february the april reduction is due largely to la bor troubles notably in arizona the red metals company ing within a m ie of schurz in the wall er indian reservation country nevada has had the first feet of its tunnel completed the face now being feet from the portal A contract has just been awarded for feet more of tunneling it is stated in what apparently is authoritative circles that as soon as the salt lake route completes its branch line from caliente Cal lente to pioche it will begin immediately upon the proposed line to the deep creek creel sec see tion of utah and ely nevada this will be cheering news to the miners of that section it is reported from park city that the miners union is considering the advisability of rescinding the order against men working on the drain tunnel of the ontario for less than 5 a shift it is said that a number of the miners now consider that it would be all right to permit work there at the old scale of 4 50 another mining company has just been launched in springville Spring ville utah the company Is known as the eva mining company and its property Is located in the mount nebo mining district the property has been worked on at different times for sev eral years past and considerable development work has been done advices from lovelock nev are to the effect that to the many prom ising discoveries made in humboldt county during the past year another has been added A strike recently made in the trinity range twelve miles northeast of lovelock is de scribed as being one of the richest and most extensive of the season development work Is now progress ing on the mountain view mine at pine idaho the mine was closed down for a time in the winter but work Is now being pushed vigorously they hope to be able to start their mill during the summer but at pres ent are devoting their attention to tracing out the course of the ore shoots A meeting of the stockholders in the silver pick triangle mining corn com pany Is being held in goldfield to in quire into alleged fraudulent dealings of the promoters patrick elliott and camp it Is claimed that shares of the treasury stock was sold at 10 cents and that virtually none 0 of f the proceeds has gone into devel george wingfield te quoted as say ing that the goldfield consolidated mines company bould in every proba ability not pay any dividends during the year 1907 nor will any high grade ore be shipped to the smelter at salt lake mr air wingfield said that the company was going to breci its own reduction plant in goldfield at a cost of between anc an and that the mill wa woula 1 I have a capacity of from to I 1 tons per day with the breaking up of winget wintel weather the welmer weimer copper corn com pany operating a splendid property in idaho has commenced shipments shir ments A car of ore shipped to salt lake last week consisted of forty nine ton and the check called for the sum oi 0 the price of silver like the price of cheat beet beef and wool Is a factor 1 in ahe prosper ty of nevada the ad ance in the metal from 47 cents jer ounce the lowest recorded in january 1903 to 71 cents per ounce 1906 has installed new life into th the old silver producing bisti distinct lets ajl |
