Show MINES AND MINING the quincy junior of 0 halley idaho has a record for producing worth of ore and at depths not ex beeding feet on any part of the group the ores carry silver and lead word from the bullfrog district of nevada Is to the effect that the bull frog gold bar company will h have ave its new milling plant all ready for opera tion by the middle of the current month A couple of denver men have in vented a machine that will perhaps become very valuable to placer min era ers it Is an arrangement by which they say all of the gold in fit sand gravel s saved the treasury department on de comber ath purchased ounces of silver at 68 29 cents per fine ounce of asis ounces Is to oe bellve delivered red in san francisco a denver and in philadelphia it Is being talked around that mine owners of utah will have to get acl together and build works that will make them independent of the present smelting concerns or accept long time contracts at greatly increased rates the quincy junior mining mill ing conil company pan y at halley idaho has closed down the mill tor for the winter but development ent work in the mine it self will not be allowed to pause dur ing the coming months of mill inac the reports of a combination of smelting interests in utah and colorado tor for the purpose ot of advancing smelting charges and especially on ores from goldfield mr solomon guggenheim Gugg avers are without foun dation about men are now on the pay rolls of the con mercur at mercur utah and they are producing such results that local circles expect a resumption of dividends before the year 1908 the new slimes plant Is treating tons of ore per day there are several properties neat boise where an abundance of ore may be had that carries gold values rang ing fiam 6 to 8 per ton anat can be treated at a good profit by the cyan ide process and a cyanide plant Is to be erected in la the near future the production of quicksilver in the united states in 1906 was 26 flasks ot of seventy five pounds each valued at as compared with 30 flasks valued at 1103 in 1905 a decrease in quantity ot of flasks and in value of without waiting tor for action on the part ot of the nevada consolidated Conoll dated corn com pany the powers in the cumberland ely company have decided that there shall ba be no further delays in hurry ing to completion the great milling and smelting works at mcgill nev A definite plan 0 of reorganization ol 01 the Bala kalala copper company has not riot been decided upon although the new york management of the corn com pany has submitted a tentative plan to some ot of the larger boston inter later ests whereby a third will be oi gan iced and through this vehicle an as ses ot of 2 per share Is proposed bro posed three mining companies operating in the coeur dalene district in northern idaho east of spokane dis tributes tri buted among their stockholder during november dividends to the amount of 0 making the total disbursement to date in 1907 1967 1 and 31 since the dincov ery of the mines with demand for the metal at a standstill prices for copper have eased off from last week weeks s figures the domestic consumers refuse to nibble even though such tempting prices as 13 18 1 8 cents are quoted with the result that the foreigners are pick ing up copper here and there at ad vant ageous prices As a ll of the precious met als nevada occupies a high place among the states and territories of the union in value of gold product the state Is outranked only by colorado alaska and california while its silver output gives it fifth place col orado montana utah and idaho tak ing precedence all of the mines of the anaconda company the butte boston corn com pany and the washoe parrot and trenton companies will be closed and the opera operations eions of the amalgamated copper company confined to the properties of the boston montana corn com pany which embraces the largest mines in the butte district the directors of the amalgamated copper company have voted to con dinue curtailing the output of copper from the he mines of the company as near as possible on a parity with the present basis of consumption it was also decided to authorize the ing officers to close or continue in operation such mines and smelters as they deem best three mills in the bullfrog dis brict of nevada produced during november the handsome total of worth of bullion the leader being the famous montgomery shoshone company the other two mills were the bonnie clare and the keane won der the goldfield mine owners association has given notice to the miners union declaring that by reason of the strike all former agreements are can caled this Is regarded as evidence of a fight to the end that the mines will only be opened on an open op ensho basis the directors of the newhouse New housa mines smelter company have deterred deferred action on the quarterly divi bend last july the initial quarterly dividend of 50 60 cents per hare bare waa wag declared the full force oi of men inen Is expected to be put back to work shortly |