| Show MINES HINES AND MINING the utah mine contributed to the grand total ot of posted dividends tor for the past week by posting the usual dividend of 3 cents per share or 3 in all A company known as the dietrich milling company and arid composed ot of utahna has a lease ease upon the old comstock dumps at virginia city nevada and affairs have just ben shaped correctly lor for an era of pros jesse knight of provo intends to become a coal operator and railroad man he has acquired coal lands in county utah and within a few months will begin the construction of a railroad to the coal measures which I 1 ie e owns after a period of nearly fifteen year of inactivity the detroit min ing district which lies about thirty miles northwest from oasis utah is again about to take on new life the formation of the detroit district is a counterpart of gintic tintic reports are current that F augus heinze Is connected with the new miners smelting company just ancor borated in maine with 10 capital the new company it Is un der stood will build a 3 ton smelt er in the salt I 1 al at e valley great excitement exists at centen n al at V coming oming a lead of gold oie bear r g sa miles that rt n as high as 1000 1 to the ton having been discovered west cf that place the lead can be batol fol levied tor for seven miles and in places the ein Is feet wide A trench burteen fur t birteen teen feet deep show shows s rich ore to the bo bottom tto I 1 lew new lort woman who rho is prospect ins ing la in evada nevada has determined to be comfortable and to do so adopted male attire overalls shirt and t large straw hat A woman with nerve enough to suffer the privations of a year among the mountains and deserts of nevada certainly deserves to dischi er a bonanza the iron age says our monthly blast furnace arnace statistics show that the production in june was 2 tons against 2 tons in may july smarts with twelve more stacks in blast than were in operation on the first day of june and the outlook Is that the production will be well maintained mal since the first of june th the e ameri amerl 1 can smelting refining company has cut the price of lead 55 cents per pounds that is the company has lowered the settling basis with the producer that much yet there is nothing to show that the metal Is any more plentiful than it was a month or six in months months ago and water are the two things most needed in the lee ie ne vada district but these are coining coming it Is stated that a twelve inch luch pipe pip line will be run into the camp by rhyolite capitalists and that a spur track from the main line of the borax into the town and to the mines in all probability business will rill be very quiet in owyhee owahee county idaho after july 20 the miners at silve city and de lamar have made a demand on the trade trad e dollar and de lamar mining companies for an increase of 20 cents a day after july 20 the owners declare the limit has been reached in wages preparations are now being made at the honeine at stockton utah for or the sinking of a toot foot shaft be low the train tunnel level and ground will probably be broken within a few days this shaft Is to be equipped with hoist pumps etc and every necessary precaution dill rill be taken to fee gee that nothing hinders the work once it is under way it is now planned by the balabala Bal aUala to begin breaking ore in august to laidve lave a supply for beginning opera eions of the smelter by september I 1 when it is expected to be ready to t eat both balaklava Balak lala and trinity ore rhe tramway will be completed by that time and manager brown of the trinity la Is said to have his property in n shape to immediately begin prodie bior north orth and east of north platte river I 1 east central wyoming Is a broad low domal mountain mass with i maximi in height of abo it b tee feet above sea level which Is known knon as the hartville le uplift and which is elm sim ilar flar in many respects to the black hills hilis of south dakota throughout this entire area copper Is so widely dis tributes tri buted that although no large deposit has let et been discovered val valuable bable beds of ore may at any time be found from all indications and ac according cordin to the statements of some of the mo reliable mine owners and residents 01 01 julian and the back country mining districts an assayer and chemist named howard has invented a new process for extracting gold from gold bearing rock or quartz which see seems ins destined to absolutely revolutionize quartz mining making mines which have heretofore been considered worth less and blaed out of immense value and increasing the value of all ore by fabulous percentages says the san diego union union the secoma mines company of salt lake filed articles of incorporation with the county clerk last week reek the capital stoel is with shares at a par alue of 1 each the corn com pan owns a number of claims in the licin mining district box elder county considerable excitement was caused at american aorl last weel over the reported strike in the golden cup mining claim at the head of fort canyon above alpine it Is claimed a large body of ore has been that assays la in lead silver and gold |