Show MINES AND MINING one day last week a bid of 1500 1 was nias made for a seat upon the salt lake mining alining stock exchange most of the utah mines closed down on the ath and ath for the usual fo irth of july rest an unusual interest in mining properties in the mountains south odbur of bur ley idaho has been noticed during the past three weeks about a dozen cozen men are being em ern aloyed at the he cadora mine near al bion idaho and a large quantity ot of high grade ore ia being taken out A number of quartz locations have been made recently in boulder can yon you on dairld creel in idaho and a number of the locators believe they the have fortunes in sight the luman copper mine near ther diemont county wyoming that was recently sold to senator W A clark for 1500 1 is now being systematically developed mineral paint will probably be one of the productions of cassia county idaho in the near future two loca eions were made recently one of and the other of acres officials of the B itte mining corn canles centering in the east estimate that the june production of the butte mines will show how a falling off of 26 pounds of copper as compared with june last year fifteen hundred tons of ore a day are now being treated at the new plant of the utah copper company at garfield by the end of the week an other section of the great mill will be placed in commission the shaft house of the strong mine at leslie fourteen miles east of lara mie wyo was totally destroyed by fire on the 2nd the shaft was near ly feet deep and all the foisting hoisting machinery was destroyed or damaged beginning early this tall fall the largest and most modern gold reduction plant in nevada and probably in the world mil will be in operation at blair in the silver peak district about twenty five miles northwest of goldfield in Es meralda county in spite of fire and its attending drawbacks the utah mine of fish springs continues to reward the ef forts torts of the management with so gen erous a hand that no decrease in the usefulness of the organization has been experienced the gold mountain consolidated company has placed the third shift a at t work in both mine and mill this or owns the annie laurie the kimberly and the mammoth groups at gold mountain and moie mole men are in demand for the first halt half of the current year the dividend payments reported to the mining world by eighty eight gold silver lead copper zinc and quid quiel iver mines in the united states in eluding alaska territory having an outstanding capitalization of amounted to the huge sum of 38 the rumor from new york that the guggenheim interests are after the control of all of the balaklava Balak lala properties in california has called attention anew to the recently or guggenheim company in the east cast with a capitalization sufficient to take in many of the great mines of the west the extensive plant of the hanna pah mine located about twentythree twenty three miles from tonopah nev was entirely destroyed by fire on july 2 the principal owners of the mine are sam uel newhouse of salt lake and A J bettles the well known cyanide man mail the fire consumed all the build ings and descended into the shaft A private wire from cobalt says that the mining company now under the newhouse management has found another very rich vein four inches wide on no this is adjacent to the temis kami hudson bay and onen proper ties this mal es the second vein struck in two weeks the skaggs property in the dolly varden district in nevada which was sold about nine months ago to a bos ton firm is ig proving far rl richer c her than was first thought the mines are being worl ed and are pay pacing ing their own way at the present time the price the property sold for was the last payment having just been made word from the camp of seven troughs nevada Is to the effect that the seven troughs mining company at last has caught the thieves wh have been stealing high grade gold ore from the fairview group of this utah proportion A woman the wife of a miner has been arrested along with her husband and they are bow now in jail at winnemucca the great smelter trust head by simon senator elect from colorado has fallen under the ban bail of the federal authorities and experts ire conducting an In tion to determine whether it is a corn i in violation of law upon which it Is expected to base a suit for dissolution of the corporation and possibly criminal proceedings on the evidence being accumulated there are not a few problems in economic geology that are as yet un solved and are open tor for speculation one of these is the occurrence of jur preg nations of copper in purely rocks unconnected with any visible or probable volcanic source or manifestation president and general manager george L hyde of the eva mining company has just returned from the eva mine in the mt AIL nebo district and reports the property in very nery fine condition ondi tion they have run a tunnel feet connecting with their shaft at a depth of feet auja |