Show MINES AND MINING the july production of the uncle sam sara company was approximately aa 23 the mill of the silver peak av al calda mining company at blair ne vada is now in commission it is asserted that leasers in the seven troughs brou trou as district are making maling a big thing out ou t 0 of their leases and the entire district is on the eve of 0 a boom the sum 0 of has recently been raised with which to continue the development of the oil lands owned by the standard reserve corn com pany in uintah county wyoming it is announced that a deal has been practically closed and terms agreed alpon that will soon result in the consolidation of the west quincy and thompson mining companies properties at park city st deorge Is at fever heat over the oil boom people are coming and go ing continually millio narles capitalists ests clerks diners miners and laborer laborers of all kinds have dropped eiery everything thing and made a rus rusi 1 to the oil regions last wee a force of men was put to work on the water mater system for ma zuma nevada engineer mills has made a preliminary survey and finds that the distance from the springs near the head of burnt canyon to ma zuma Is five miles pearl 0 district in idaho Is becoming a very active camp six org aulza eions are now working upon ores while at least twenty more are dill gently operating their possessions with j every confidence of striking the cov e eted ted chutes in good time oil has been in the mcleod well two miles west of heno reno nevada 0 on n the truckee river every vacant 13 spot pot on five sections has been filed on and several derricks have been c contracted for the oil Is of a light sp specific gravity with a paraffin base the virgen oil company of st george washington county filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state last week the concern is to engage in the oil bust ness in the newly discovered fields in southern utah and Is the first ancor potation por atlon since the discovery of field all trouble in the seven troughs mining district has been settled by the mine owners agreeing to pay union miners 5 instead of 4 for eight hours the miners have been on strike for more than a month and in that time nearly every mine in the seven troughs district has been closed down it does not often happen that a min in ing so fortunate as to be begin gis opera tion su pon a sim elm with shipping ore from the same to the market that how ever is the initial record of the utah indian peak mining company located about thirty miles west of lund in the needle range of 0 mountains f chaotic conditions still character ize the market tor for copper there Is absolutely no sign of any large buying movement for future delivery and the consumers on sumers large and small alike are still feeling their way along cautious ly and buying only from day to day in sufficient quantities to k keep beep their plants employed on such orders as are received the average petroleum of the world gives off about 3 per cent of 0 gaso line some of the ohio colorado pennsylvania and kentucky hen tucky petroleum give off much than that but the of california texas kan sas louisiana illinois indiana okia okla homa indian territory west vir ginia tennessee and kentuck y do not materially help the illuminating oil world the new methods employed at the consolidated mercur company s big works at mercur are turning out and meeting every expectation and prom ise of the managed management ent As the mer cur ores contain a little gold that it Is impossible to recover by any pro cess it Is thought that the present method of handling the rock will prove as nearly perfect as it Is pos gible to devise there 4 still a golden harvest to be gathered from the gravels of the ion dike valleys the government has just completed an examination and survey of gold bearing gravels ot of both high and low grades it la is estimated B that in the neighborhood where gold Is known to exist and from wilch gold to the value of has been taken by crude placer methods there remaina 1 53 20 which may mav 1 re covered at a profit by hydraulic min lag ing dredging and other advanced methods of gold recovery the famous litigation over the property of the mining corn com pany was settled last week at mexico city when the supreme court decided in favor of the ICI tigre mining corn com pany as against B F graham and the En sanada mining company the lit ignation began in july when the graham interests secured the property by force and has since run through all the courts of sonora several time and been before the supreme court of mexico five times the property Is valued at 5 the blair press expresses the ion that the great gold milling ilant of the pittsburg sliver gold mining milling company which is to treat the mountain of gold ore developed in the famous old blair mines will be ready to begin grinding out bullion early in september the golden cycle mining company comp ailys s million dollar reduction plant located tn n the foothills south of co orado oralo city aty colo was practically destroyer dest royel by fire on the fth the atre in the roasting rooms and ral idly 1 pread to other buildings which ryer an in area of 0 ten acres |