Show MINES AND MINING the camp of gold circle nevada la Is going to have a modern waterworks system reports of the moat most encouraging nature continue to come from the on tario at park city the water Is being lowered at the rate of five feet a day the directors of the anaconda cop per mining company have declared a quarterly dividend of 60 50 cents per share thia this Is 1 unchanged from the last quarter the joint convention of the michi gan coal operators and miners agreed that the general scale of wages of the last year shall continue in effect until march 1909 the miners will continue at work the yerington nevada district generally Is improving wonderfully and the sort of development work being done in several different mines Is ot of the most permanent character that could be adopted A prominent reno outfit Is going to erect a custom mill at gold circle nevada and they have already filed on the waters of koch rock creek with tho the intention of installing an electrical plant to furnish power to the district charles strong of arizona and H J robinson of los angeles are to build a customs stamp mill at leak stalk cal to treat ores from search I 1 hart and other districts tribu tary to the salt lake and santa fe route the american smelting refining g plant at east helena mont which a few months ago suspended nearly all operations because of depression in metal markets last week reinstated sixty former employed emp loyes and started an other furnace the jumbo mine at gold springs Is to be operated with an augmented force in a few weeks and a vigorous plan of development Is to be rated the jumbo Is generally con one of the coming big things of the district leasers on the ripsaw mine at gold circle have opened up a vein nine feet wide two feet of which will run over to the ton by men who know the district it Is claimed that a good ledge of 20 ore Is the equlla lent ot of owning a mint another strike has been made in the frieberg nevada district south and east of the wyoming and the bl DI metallic properties four feet of 50 ore has been encountered at shallow depth and the belief Is expressed that the find is going to develop into something of more than ordinary im the seven troughs daisy mining comp company ny the boilermaker Boller maker mining company sweeney egan of the big D and the proprietors of the A annie nuie and bosle claims almost el 61 report big strikes on their estates within a mile of ver non nevada on the south end of the mineral belt A quicksilver mine has been ds covered in panther gulch deer creek idaho by john zacheri who has tapped the vein in a tunnel some feet in the mountain the find has treated created no end of interest in idaho and a few days clays ago mr zacheri re fused 10 tor for a ten days option on the property the goldfield news Is ont with a strong appeal to the mine owners of goldfield in which it asks that leas ers be given better terms in that great I 1 gold camp the news deplores the tact fact that goldfield has gone from the busy camp of 15 people to one of 8 and to the verge of being a company camp scamp since conditions have become more favorable tor for mining within the twenty mile limit of the southern pa railroad a great deal of country in nevada that has been passed up for years Is now receiving attention and strikes are being made at greater or less distances from the railroad lines all the time the new discovery in bull valley utah has apparently the simplest merit of extraordinary richness as far as developed what it will develop into is the absorbing question in view of its pitch and inde te extent ow ing to the rich float found in the vicin ity it Is confidently belie believed that it will develop into a dividend paying district salt lake officials of the seven troughs eclipse mining company have just received some specimens of 0 ore characteristic of the rock now be ing opened in this salt lake proposal tion at depth the rock Is very rich in gold being both the sulphide and oxidized ores since the report of begole mines syndicate was written advices have been received from president begole now at goldfield saying the smelters are offering to treat 1000 1 tons of ore on dump at 15 per ton this is 10 per ton less than treatment charges of december last decline in price of utah copper re bently Is due to reports that a combi nation of leading copper companies in utah and nevada has been postponed an interest identified with the corn com pany says negotiations are progress ing and that the merger will go through without fail fall the contract has been let tor for fur ther development work on the char lotte gulch group of claims in the grimes crimes pass district of idaho in which chicago capitalists are inter ested the indications are that the property will be developed into a pay ing gold proposition with the payment on april 4 of alvid end no the bunker hill dullivan mining concentrating company the mines of which are at wardner idaho in the coeur calenes has paid to its stockholders 10 the dividends dald since january total |