Show MINES AND i the swansea mining company has paid in dividends to date the rel I 1 leiwant at bullion idaho Is working 20 men and it 1 sent a good lot ot mineral to macket active development work on the ked copper mines at irish moun tain a few lastant farm ikiko nev will be commenced at once an old producer of rich ore in heaver county now showing signs 0 being one of the liveliest kinds ot producing mines Is the atlas group an artesian well Is being sunk in the flat about a mile and a halt north ot the old town 0 greenwater Green water and they are down to the foot mark in the solid A syndicate of logan mining men has purchased a conti oiling interest in the mabel gold mining comi any with properties in the lalack horse mining district the dollarhyde company opera alons at the head of arm springs creek in idaho h ive closed for the w anter pending the installation ot ad milling facilities the idaho consolidated mining corn pany Is budding a new shaft house and hoist on the relief which ad joins the minnie moore at II alley idaho and will binl 1000 feet the yerington central co per pany adjoining the great ludwig and the douglas properties at yer will soon ie in the limelight as a producer of the red metal during the year there have been shipped about cars of mineral from the mines of abod aher district in idaho and several more will be before the close of the year indications are that utah condoll dated mining company will abandon its highland boy smelter near mur ray building an entirely new plant at some point where there will bo no damage from smelter smoke old montezuma famed for years as a silver camp producing ore aa rich as the comstock in the early days promises to develop into a copper bo nanza thus adding another producer of the red metal to nevada s alls A deal is now in may result in making lly gold camp mark L requa having begun negotiations tor the peacock group of gold claims and adjoining proper ties six miles from I 1 ly across the steptoe valley A mining engineer who inspects 1 the properties of the deck tunnel and colorado companies at last week says that these are destine 1 to lead the camp and impart agn ater con in the development of tho co diva lime belt the croesus mine tl ree and a t alt miles west of idaho in the dio rite formation was shartel ui a aiple 0 months ago with a forca of 25 men and its 10 stamp mill has peen in steady operation over a me nth with good results the larose mine whose staci Is selling at a price which gives 1 valuation of seven and a halt nail lions has the only shaft 0 any depth in the cobalt district and it 1 down only feet it shove that tie values continue to that depth at least A ilch strike has been made on the st ives at goldfield nevada it 1 owned by a company of the same name and it joins the jimlo on the east it Is over a mile south and east of the only mohawk it has been a shipper for the last three ears at the nay aug mine on deep cheek in idaho a arev of 25 men Is at work developing and sloping ore several carloads of high grade ore has been shipped the past season bince august a second new oie shoot has been discovered that Is entirely independent of the other resources of the mine the utah mine of fish springs last week emphasized its right to be considered one of utah s most generous mining organizations by declaring the regular dividend of three cents per share and a christmas dl videna of five cents a share this makes a total for the present month of 8 some little excitement was caused in utah mining circles last week by the report that the la plata minin kompany had struck it at last the kompany has done nearly 2 feet of tunneling and the report is that it has recently encountered a big ore body one can hardly conceive of a silver mine valued at thirty millions of dol lars which has neither shaft nor tun nel but that la true of the the veins so tar have all been ex posed by open cuts one of these however Is feet long and from 18 to 25 feet deep charles fundberg Kun dberg manager of the imperial mining company s mines at cherry creek nev one of the can non mines association was in salt lake city last week to purchase an eighty horse power engine a five drill air compressor an 1 a forty alve horse power hoist seven troughs nev has entered an era of activity 1 in the annals of nevada mining as the re suit of a series of strikes and dis closures near the grass roots and da in a score of claims that have aroused the whole neighboring country out of its long sleep S F palmer superintendent of the vulture company of wonder nevada Is enthusiastic oer the prospects in the churchill county camp one out cropping ledge shows from one to three feet ot pay rock for a distance of feet that runs in silver and gold from alm to a ton railroad communication 1 nonoi ah and manhattan Is now an as tact A company his been formed and officers and directors have been elected A party of five engineers left millers on horseback to look over smoky valley for the purpose of electing the most advantageous route |