Show MINES S AND MINING I 1 rich in the seven troughs district are occurring so frequently of late that they are becoming corn com mon there are few nevada camps camp it if my any at all that can show so many working and shipping properties as the camp of good springs it Is announced by the managers of the utah coal companies that preparations are being made to avert SL R repetition of the coal famine of last winter dugway needs water and it needs a railroad nothing else is retarding the gifth of what should be one of he banner lead and copper producing sections of all the state of utah the report that the united states smelting refining and mining corn cam pany has been forced to abandon all the old mexico mining field is absolutely untrue and is 1001 ed upon as a joke of some would be humorist word has been received in ahyo itte lite from the Pana mints that an assay from the eddy discovery shows 1000 1 ore A rush is on for the new camp and it is predicted predicted predict ea it will prove the sensation of the summer while all the men who can be ob bained are being put to dvork at the coal mines at rock springs wyo the daily output is only about sufficient to meet the daily demands no coal Is being produced for the railroads tor for storage purposes at mountain home idaho last week eek deputy united states marshal bryan sold the property of the crown point mining company to satisfy a judgment of 11 85 granted in fa vor of B P hutchinson by the fed eral court last march the welmer weimer copper property in idaho contains a ledge of copper ore that tha t will average 6 per cent copper the mine is opened by adits adias and open cuts and sixteen cars of ore in all have been shipped which brought about 3 per car there Is a mine in active opera tion not far from salt lake that produces 40 per cent copper and runs 20 ounces in silver to the ton it Is situated in morgan county about seven miles southeast of morgan city and Is owned and operated by the chicago Chicag utah copper mining corn cam pany the ontario group near ketchum idaho has recently been sold tor for a large sum the ontario an old pro ducer yielded fielded over paying 45 per ton for smelting charges oa on lead silver ore closed down with the slump in after aas a complete mill for concentrate concen trat atter protracted negotiations the mine operators have at last secured right fright rate concessions from the salt lake route and it is generally con ceded that the denver deliver rio grande III follow suit the concession la Is that in future rates will be based on he net valuation of tonnage instead of the gross as heretofore three rich es in as mani man dif erent ferent mines were made in the pearl fear amp in idaho last week the rich est find reported Is in the whitman where an eighteen inch vein 0 of f or ore e as assaying abing aying to the ton was another strike of an eighteen toot foot ledge with values of 37 to the ton was also made goldfield is getting back into her old time production form there were 1 2991 tons of high grade ore marketed during this last week its mate value being or nearly halt half a million there were 1712 tons shipped to the smelters tons handled by the nevada goldfield reduction Ke works and tons treat ed at the combination mill it is reported that the honerine company at stockton utah is mak ing arrangements to sink from to ta feet lower than the present tun nel level local circles expect that the honerine at depth will open up some very rich copper ores fort hall mine near tear pocatello idaho has been opened by a crosscut cross cul tunnel which has been driven 4 feet cutting the first yein at 2 feet from the portal and other veins were intersected at points farther in it is a copper gold silver proposition the mining district recen recently aly brought into existence by the dincov ry of rich gold bearing quartz by scott hickey in the range some sama fifty miles from manhattan ha been named mayne after C E mayne manhattan manhattans s foremost minin man the moonlight mine located ten miles northeast of pocatello idaho 1 Is developed by over 2 feet fett ol 01 worl mostly adits adias and cross crosscuts cuts and ana has a contact vein between a por par phyra toot wall and a conglomerate hanging wall the ore goes 8 pei P ez cent copper the big mill at the montgomery shoshone at rhyolite nevada is au acidly nearing completion but it will probably be the middle of aug august I 1 st before the plant will be in operation the electrical machinery has been hipped from pittsburg and arrive shortly the may coinage of the united states mints amounted to 8 of which 7 was gold 1016 1 silver and nickel there was also coined 1 78 8 pesos u 30 20 20 centavos and GG 68 10 centavos for the philippines and 1 50 ceu tavos tor for mexico ii u aistis |