| Show MINES AND MINING I 1 nine seta sets of leasers are opera operatic tint on the gold crown vein at gold ciral nevada which crops for 2 feet through the company s lons child cole co the salt laka lake brokers are getting out a new map of 0 the park city utah district which they declare will be up to date in ev ery cry particular thirty thousand miners employed in the pittsburg pa district resumed work last week in accordance with the agreement reached at the toledo joint conference salt lake city has at last received a patent to its asphaltum mine at thistle utah the mine was pur chased by the last municipal adminis for 6 the shenango She valley steel plant operated at newcastle pa by the carnegie steel company resumed operations last week with a full force about 1200 1 men are affected the president of the university of idaho is looking for a graduate who Is capable of holding the chair of as professor of mining and met allergy at a salary of 1800 1 a year the virgin city oil district Is sit bated in ill the southwestern corner ot of utah near the eastern boundary of the basin ranges the region Is drained by virgin river and its trib trill reports from silver city idaho concerning the potosi mine are very encouraging the statement being made that over 20 tons of ore are in sight bight and the ledge Is constantly improving development work Is being vigor bously prosecuted in the common wealth mine in the mountains near milford the shaft Is now down feet and the indications are bright tor for the future of the mine the shipment of gold from the united states to europe has begun much to the satisfaction of the mining raining men of the west when uncle sam can spare gold for europe better times are in view for the miners the ISi pissIng mines company has issued its annual report covering the period from february 1 1907 to december 11 1907 which shows a total income tor for that period of 1320 and net profits of among the improvements that are in contemplation for the ohio ken tucky tacky mines in nevada Is a smelter plant which u will III be construct ed at Dulli onville the company hav ing plenty of ground and water for an ideal site the recent big strike made by leas era ers in the golden treasure property at seven troughs nevada has been hailed bailed with joy by the owners mostly utah men who expect to begin devel on a large scale as soon as the leases expires the news comes from ely that at the recent trial run of the first sec see afon of the big mcgill plant every thing worked much better than had been expected the plant is to be placed in regular commission during the coming month A butte dispatch says butte butto coalition has opened a large body of copper glance in the mine on the 1700 1 toot foot level it Is from two to our feet wide and feet long and estimated at 1000 1 teet feet high engi estimate that this body of ore will have a gross value of nearly 30 fully two hundred people went from ely to witness the concentrating of the first copper ores at mcgill from the big mines many had never seen ore treated in this manner before while many more went tor for the pur pose of satisfying themselves as to the complete success of the latest ma chinery in handling robinson ores the news comes from newhouse utah that conditions are much im ini proved at the mines they are add ing to the ore reserves at the mine each month and are making headway in opening up new ground th it is ex pecked to add to the wealth of the property A bar of gold bullion worth about 1000 1 was shipped from the wheeler mine at yerington nevada last week the bar being the result of a two welts run at the comp company anys s little mill following a closedown close down for a month owing to the breaking of some of the machinery A As a result of a combination of cir cum curn stances the lincoln mining corn com pany operating at pearl idaho has gone into the hands of receivers the property Is evidently a good one but for a year or so the management haa has had lots of trouble through lack of electric power the estimated total world prodie tion of quicksilver for 1907 was 96 flasks which was the smallest amount reported tor for a number of ye years ars with the exception of 1905 of this s amount the united states produced 20 flasks which was 5 flasks less than in 1906 at cuprite seventeen miles from goldfield native sulphur from 85 to 90 per cent pure has been discovered in an enormous deposit within a mile of the railroad the big goldfield chlorination ri mill will use the stuff in the future instead of importing refined sulphur from los angeles A mining boom such as character iced the thunder mountain and but falo hump districts Is on in the pout mile attie district in central idaho caused by the reported discovery of a solid ledge of ore fourteen feet wide full of gold prospectors are rushing into the district by the hundreds development work Is being done in all quarters in the mines in the vicin ity of milford utah all signs pointing to a great awakening in the district while very little shipping is in progress at present it Is predicted that soon th ore will be flowing toward the at a lively rate |
