Show MINES AND MINING I 1 the black pearl at pearl idaho added two stamps to its battery last week meek which makes six in all that are dropping the dewey demey and lucky ridge leas ers at pearl idaho are working double shifts making good progress on their crosscut cross cut tunnels the seattle post after receiving reports from all points in the north estimates the gold output ol 01 the coming season for alaska at 96 6 the heaviest business in the history of the salt lake liming mining exchange was recorded on june 5 D iring the day shares m a ere traded in at a price aggregating fla the black pearl mine at pearl idaho Is operating an eight stamp cyanide process mill on their property which has a capacity of fifty tons a day and employs about thirty five men news from buffalo hump Is that there is unusual activity in the camp this spring tiie del rio mine Is on one e of the most promising the miners miner s have recently about eight feet of good ore twentynine twenty nine gold silver and lead properties having outstanding standing tout 94 in stock declared dividends of 3 for the five months this year rear making a total of 74 tince lince organization the harmony anthracite coal corn com pany has just been organized by a los angeles syndicate the company will be active in southern utah the new company Is capitalized for one million shares at 1 a share new machinery Is being installed at the utah mill at garfield just as fast as it arrives from the east the lat eat est machinery received Is in the line of chilian mills the apparatus has a capacity of tons twenty men will be employed at the mount marshall mine in the mar shall lake district of idaho this sum mer J E 11 stewart manger of the property has been busy the last or two arranging tor for supplies and ma chinery the hecla mine of beaver county 1 Is expected to begin shipments to the united states smelting and refining company by july I 1 the ore carries lead gold and silver gold occurs in such proportions that it is the most valuable of the metals found in ore the hecla checkmate mining corn com pany of pearl idaho is opening up an extension of the whitman mine which is conceded to be one of the best pay ing properties in the district if not in the state these claims join and the whitman Is opened up to the end line in an address at tha the chamber of commerce luncheon in goldfield J P loftus one of the biggest and most conservative mine owners and oper acors in the district of goldfield said that in the four and a halt half y ears since the district began to produce it has produced 20 in gold or 4 annually there Is much excitement at cobre nevada over the discovery of high grade silver and copper ore about twelve nilles miles east of cobre in the lo 10 ray mining district A ledge of the red and white metals ten feat wide carrying 17 per cent copper and ounces silver has been uncovered at a depth of twenty five feet out of the income tor for the next six months the directors of the pittsburg silver peak mine deem it imperative ly necessary to expend about 90 tor for additions to the pumping plant houses for the workmen and additional equipment for the silver peak rail road for the month of april the sil ver peak reports a profit of 45 the courts hae haie confirmed the sale of the sevier consolidated gold sil ver and prospecting company the property sold last week by the re beiver for to W H ler of richfield the company ovea owes over a quarter of a million dollars it is understood that mr represents the creditors of the company com pany development work being done in virg n ground of the horn silver in beaver county utah is showing up excellent copper indications although the horn silver is the oldest mine in the district and has been in contina ous operation for about forty years the ground to the north of the pal workings has never been devel aped the annual report of the amalga mated copper company says the corn com paules owned wholly or in part by the amalgamated copper company pro deuced in the calendar year 1907 from their own and custom ores about pounds of refined copper of which amount the amalgamated cop per company received the benefit from about pounds the case of the western loan and savings company of utah vs the butte and boston consolidated min ing company of butte involving the question whether ore reducing works can be held responsible for the gollu tion of water and the consequent dam age to land below belom mas as deeded by the supreme court of the united states last week meek favorable to the former corn com pany the convention of the deputy min eral surveyors which had been planned by surveyor general utter to be held in boise on july I 1 may not be held there and it is possible it will be held at wallace instead at the request of a number of those in te rested at the daisy mine at neal idaho electric power has been introduced the current being furnished by a boise company it was connected up last week and the machinery is work ing very smoothly it thus being dem dent that the power problem there is solved |