Show MINES A AND MINING T awhile the new nevada gold camp has been connected with the outside world orld by telegraph the granby copper company in canada Is again operating to almost full capacity but the other boondry smelters are still closed down in december all the boondry smelters were nere hut down wonder and fairview blomi boomi booming ng mining towns a year ear ago are deserted today A hundred or moie practically all the towns con talked started across the hills last NN eek tor for rawhide the estimated production of copper in january was 2 pounds in ex cess of the december production but 18 pounds behind january last year 5 ear and 30 pounds less than the normal monthly output one thousand miners employed by the crerar clinch coal company of chicago went on strike at duquoin ill last week the trouble originated over the price of 0 powder which the operators have been selling to the miners the boston news bureau figures the production of copper in the united states mexico and canada for the month of january at 65 pounds comparing with 84 pound in january 1907 and 97 pounds in january 1906 rawhide fever is fast causing the depopulation of the town of ely so far as idle men are concerned every man who is not working and many who aie ate determining to size up the new camp for himself to cee just what there is to I 1 it j its ore shipments le in pounds for th the e weel a eel ending february 15 from park chiy were as follows daly judge 1 silver king total pounds the total shipments tor for the month from the S iver lver king were 12 40 pounds A circular has been issued in which it is stated that the mills will be norl worling ing full capacity by june 1 and tl at the utah copper company is then assured IS production of 55 per annum at a cost of 8 cents a pound including all refining transportation and sell ng charges ot of the refined output it Is planned to have hane the milling plant at magill nevada handling not less than 10 tons of ore a day be tore fore the end of the y vear ear and include ing the crude ore from the veteran mine and other sources the smelting works will be reducing to bullion pos sibly 5 tons of copper bearing pro duct that the rumored developments of 0 the giroux consolidated copper corn pany will be carried out their plans including building additional concen facilities installing a long pipe line line for securing water tor for it opening theli townsite project in the sa early spring is the latest reports from ely nevada the climax of the boom at raw hide nevada came last friday with the announcement that balloon and grutt hills are practically a solid mass of free milling gold ore the townsite is located on the two richest c aims in the district and lot owners have transformed their dwellings into mining claims clarence eddy who has been mak ing tests to verity verify his theory that the sunken bed of death valley alley contains sufficient clent value in precious metals to make it all a dredging proposition has received returns of an analysis made in oakland cal resulting in 2 30 gold and silver per cubic yard and values in alum num the first 2 ton unit of the con cent rating mill at magill nevada Is practically finished and work vork Is being crowded on four more sections all of which will be ready W tt go into commis sion by the time the first 1500 1 ton unit of the great smelter works is ready to receive ore about the end of june or early in july thomas F keeley the millionaire chicago operator made final payment last week in the sum of 50 for the mcgarry group of twenty four lode and one placer iron cia claims ims in the iron springs distinct iron county the total sum paid tor for the property was this undoubtedly means blast furnaces and mills for this dis brict at the meeting of the directors of the nevada utah mines and smelters e corporation orpo r aaion held in portland me on the it was voted by ers t to c take back shares of the stock issued to an individual who can not pay for them president learnard says important negotiations are now pending of great ultimate benefit to stockholders james F P burns defendant in the famous suit brought by james doyle and involving a claim tor for stock in the portland gold mining company amounting to nearly one million dol del lars has filed a motion in the di court at council bluff iowa for a change of venue ahe doyle burns case has been twice tried before a jury the verdict in the first trial hav ing been for doyle and in the second and last trial for burns before the jury trials doyle took judgment by de fault for over the news comes from magill ne vada that the great stretch of steel trestle on the road that connects the min mines es of ely with the big wg milling and smelting works of the nevada cons consol 0 lk dated and cumberland ely companies has been finished and the double track laid A report has been received from the nevada douglas mines at yerington nev that a large new body of sul P bhide hide ore averaging 7 per cent cop eel per has been encountered in the toot foot level ore is being taken out on the foot level which ave averages 25 05 per cent copper |