Show MINES AND MINING yerington Is said to be proving its claim to the largest mineral area of any of the mining camps of nevada the star crescent oil company at virgin city has drilled down feet and have a flow of gas the drill Is 1 still going down an oil strike has been made near goodrich san juan county oil was found at a depth of feet and stands feet deep in the well the united states smelting reffa ing mining company last week de dared a 50 cent dividend on its corn com mon men stock and 1 per cent on its pre feared stock development work Is to be re burned in the gold eagle mine at neal idaho it is the intention to thoroughly explore the property and to that end work will be pushed vig porously the elk coal company whose prop erty is located about six miles from bemmerer Rem wyoming Is 1 planning to begin marketing coal from its mines in the near future the property is said to be a big one the camp of rhyolite nevada is wild over ladd mountain discoveries men are sacking ore on holt and lemie lemle leases running 1 a pound an eight inch streak on holts Is aver aging to the ton the new york times says the demand for copper has so increased that copper producing companies have sold ahead to the extent of pounds this marks a vast improve ment in the copper trade good values have been found in the celtic mine according to the boise statesman the vein recently un covered is eight feet in width and an average sample of the entire eight feet shows a value of 17 in gold the boise ore testing company has completed its plant A small test was made on some ore from the lubkin property pounds being put through this ore was low grade as saying 3 50 a ton an extraction of 94 per cent was effected cumberland ely interests have re bently summarized all of the samples ever taken in its veteran workings they find that the average of the as says is 3 39 ta per cent copper this in eludes many samples taken in drifts which extended beyond the limits ol 01 the ore body and contained almost no copper the gold mines of the transvaal produced in 1907 worta of gold which with the exception of 5 was obtained along the reef upon which is situated the city of johannesburg this information comes to the state department from the united states consul at victoria S auth africa the litigation affecting the drome dary hump mining company at fair view nevada haa hab been dismissed giving the company an absolute clear title the company shaft is down feet and will be continued to the foot level before crosscutting Is be gun it is equipped with a 40 horse power hoisting plant A report covering the operations ot of the carisa mining company in the tin tic district during the year 1907 has been sent out to shareholders from the eastern offices of that corporation the net during the period amounted to 7 representing the proceeds from 7 tons of ore shipped to the smelters attorney thomas J barry of bos BOB ton representing dissatisfied stock holders of the bingham consolidated mining company has issued a cincu lar letter to all stockholders of the company in which he says I 1 have no rian plan at present to propose my object is to organize all dissatisfied stock holders and to endeavor to obtain what nhat rightfully belongs to us representatives of most of the large steel companies of the united baates met in new yort t last week to discuss trade conditions and prices of 0 iron and steel the necessity of an understand ng as to the prices of pig iron is said to be one of the causes of the meeting it is announced there will be no change in the price of steel several sensational strikes have been made recently in the new gold felds in upper bull valley about forty five miles north of st george utah some of the d venes veries are showing up ore worth 5 a ton chile ft hile surface showings sho everywhere in the district are very promising pron ising hundreds of men have gone into the district in the past fortnight work is to be resumed on the old sunshine gold 11 ning company s property at mercur the sunshine is an ultra gold proposition and in the early days was one of the lead ing mines of the district its ores be ing high grade bad management caused a shut down the people who are to take hold of the mine now confidently expect to make the prop erty earn dividends in a short time it is announced that there Is a great deal of excitement over the gold circle camp in nevada and that throe three automobile lines are plying be tween the railroad station at gol conda and gold circle and tour four stage I 1 nes are also doing business between these two point A dispatch from modena utah says that an important gold strike is re ported to have been made on the pul put sifer farnsworth group in bull valley free gold in a gangue of ferric ma tenal principally of the nature of 11 bonite and in spots assaying over 1000 1 per ton Is the report within the last month or six weeks several of the better managed copper companies hae haie either reduced or discontinued their dividends divi lends temporarily not tor for the reason that there was not enough money in the treasury but because t detal market has been unsettled atai ata i |