Show MINES AND MINING the little beaver deaver company started ts mill to grinding out gold bullion att its mine in beaver c county en on monday morning mornin the amount or of business done OB on the salt lake mining stock exchange during the month ol 01 april was a lit tie tle over one million dollars 2 shares of 0 stock changing hands the long task of draining the ontario mine at park city is 1 nearing the end and it Is expected that it will be only a short time now until the men are exploring the 1500 1 level at the annual meeting held last we week ea at butte of the boston 8 mo mon tana co consolidated copper silver mining company stockholders the old ow board ot of directors was again chosen during the month ol 01 april the ore and bullion settlements in the salt lake market as reported by nick co amounted to 1284 1 1 which Is about more than the record tor for march A 10 token issued by the cincin nati mining company in 1849 was sold at auction in london last week and purchased tor for an american at 2 there Is only one other bimi simi lar token extant wagons are now being taken through the enow snow right tight into the town of alta according to the latest reports from that camp the snow 1 Is disappearing more rapidly this spring than tor for many seasons past after more than a y year ea r of difficult ties at the mine and mill of the con soll soli dated mercur company at mer cur utah the company J is Js s now pound ing away to splendid purpose dur ing march the output of gold bullion was valued at 77 leading authorities assert that the consumption of copper in this country has increased from 15 pounds per month last october or november to 30 00 pounds A normal month ly consumption in prosperous times la is from 35 00 to 50 the senate committee on minea mines and mining has reported favorably the bill to endow schools of mines oa on departments of mining in state edu rational cat lonal ional institutions the bill la Is similar to the one reported favorably from the bouse house mining committee orders were placed last week tor for a car of lumber and mining timber in the northwest by the seven troughs eclipse mining company this Is the second step taken by this seven troughs company tor for beginning the plan of driving a new shaft to depths A A series of big discoveries on the snow squall claims belonging to 1 1 I H williams and frank crumpacker has suddenly turned the attention ot of the seven troughs district to victor canyon between burnt canyon and farrell at the north end of the dis brict two feet of 50 ore has been encountered S S Rosen stamm who Is associate 1 I ed in business with adolph lewissohn says that in his opinion the time tor for low priced copper has gonel by the improvements that are una un der contemplation by the pennsylva nia and other railway systems caal cani not but help improve the copper situ atlon he pays says A boston dispatch says the reasons for the recent break in montgomery shoshone stock Is the tact fact that devel of the last six months have been peen disappointing and the reports show that much ol 01 0 the ore la is below commercial value that the mine s future will depend largely upon tu fu ture development the production of copper for april in the butte district Is estimated in excess of 25 pounds north butte buttes s share was 3 pounds butte coalition produced from the mine alone 2 ana condas production Is in excess of 7 pounds and boston montana nearly 8 pounds the news comes from butte that orders anve ave been issued to nearly all shift bosses of amalgamated and pre pra to north butte and butte coalition to mine less first class ore i in some mines the miners have beani taken off first class entirely the presumption is that the companies find they can make money under pres ent economies on lower grade ore A well known utah mining opera tor for speaking of the confidence dence he has in the future of rawhide nevada I 1 says he has recently expended 30 in cash in the camp both in the ac and development of proper ties within the boundaries of the dis 1 brict the new mining camp of bull val ley in southern utah Is thirty five miles from acoma on the salt lake route and about the same distance from st george the ore bodies are from three to tour four feet in thickness and assays of gold to the ton are not lot uncommon results from the first cleanup at the celtic mill at boise are highly satisfactory to the management this cleanup clean up was made on monday of last week after 75 tons of ore were put through A total of in gold was secured an average of a little more than 14 a ton the latest discovery of importance Import anca in the gold circle district Is the find in lease no 20 on the gold crown town group of fourteen inches of ore which will average 1200 1 to the ton in gold and silver this lease prom aises to become one ot of the big show places of the gold circle district another spectacular leasing proposition at goldfield the little florence has reached the end ot of its active life the company was in operation less than days yet it has paid out the sum of in the shape of divi bends and Is now tied up in the treasury on account of litigation |