Show AND MINING the office building of the nevada douglas copper company was de by fire one night last week fortunately the occupants of the upper story escaped without injury I 1 though scantily clad the success of the 1500 1 utah copper company bond issue Is made evident from the tact fact that share hold ers subscriptions to first installment of due march 2 aggregated leaving only 8 tor for an der writing syndicate the resumption of work in the butte mines means much tor for butte when hen the full force is ts back at work in the amalgamated properties 5 more men will be at work than were employed two weel s ago over 25 per month is being paid out at pearl idaho by the mines and that figure Is to be increased dur ing the summer according to the re port of a prominent mining man of that camp the sum paid out month ly at the lincoln mine alone la Is over the rumor was current last week that the interests behind the independent smelter to be erected in utah by utah and eastern capitalists were planning soon to break ground tor for the new enterprise it being stated that work is scheduled to begin by the first of april among mining men of salt lake city the opinion prevails that the farmers of sandy are out of humor with the united states company because the officials did not put up any where from to cash for the privilege of running its lead furnaces the logan mining company which owns valuable iron deposits dep obits at min bial point in cache county held an other stockholders meeting last week the result being the ousting of the old inana management gement which it is asserted tried some high finance methods a while ago renewed interest in the virgin river oil district has been aroused by the announcement that don petty of los angeles has secured the territory of the arizona utah oil company petty ra rs connected with the standard oil company which leads to the belief that the standard intends to prospect this district it is stated in eastern publications that one of the considerations leading the ohio copper company to colsum mate the mooted deal with the bing ham consolidated stockholders was the acquisition thereby of the mas cotte tunnel this tunnel leads into the ohio copper resources tapping them at depth the mohawk silver mining corn com pany of park city with a capital stock of 50 in shares worth 10 cents has filed articles ot of in corpora tion in the office of the secretary of state the company owns the queen of hill group of nine claims and the happy thought group of enree claims at park city L H sloan one of the pioneers of the virgin river nil oil district and one ot of the prime movers in the utah vir gin in oil company h has as recently pur chased an additional outfit from the oil well supply company and Is now rushing the order through to the fields to complete the well already started by his company word has reached salt lake of a strike of oil in what has been termed the goodridge oil field located about twenty five miles below bluff utah la in san juan county the new field gets its name from the main operator in the district E L L goodridge who has been drilling for oil in the inter ests of salt lake parties the governing board of the salt lake mining exchange has decided to arrange all the stocks on the board in alphabetical order heretofore there has been a distinction between developed mines and prospects the listing fees being less tor for the latter than for the former but the listing fee Is now regardless of such distinction pearl idaho twenty five miles from boise is now the third camp in the state in point of payroll and money expended tor for supplies while the coeur calenes rank first with silver city mines second pearl now holds third place with abundant promise of sustaining it butte has for a quarter of a cen tury fury held the first position in copper mining and those who are best in formed have no doubt it will continue to maintain that position indefinitely the mines are physically in better condition than ever before in the his tory of the camp reveille nevada rs Is not a new sec see by any means it was operated in the 70 s and was productive of much wealth A limited area is said to have given up a m ilion and a ter of mineral and not a hole in the district deeper than SOO teet feet was driven to turn the trick marysvale Marys vale is still pegging along slowly feeling the effects of the finan cial panic although to a much less de gree than a month or so ago the latest happening of interest is the ac by prominent salt lake mm min ing interests of the bully boy and webster milling plant A carload consignment of about forty tons of shipping ore from the property of the seven troughs mining company commonly known as the fairview mine was sent to the amel ter last week under armed guard the owners deciding to tak take any chances on losing the rich ore work on the new tunnel on the black jack property at tintic gintic has been started by the company the miners working both was wads from the shaft and from star hollow this work will not take long nor will it be expensive but the results will be of tremendous importance mp ortance to the black jack lafr I 1 |