Show MINES AND MINING the davis kearns brokerage com comi i pany of salt lake city was forced to suspend last week as the result ot of overloading on stocks that had gone down in price it now seems that a smelter is as tor for the spring mountain dis brict leahi county idaho capitalists dom ioni pittsburg having become become inter ested in the project theold the old reliable daly west at park city la Is to resume operations some few men have already been hired and by the first ol 01 july this great producer will be again in the heavy ore shipping column the gold production of 0 the world in 1905 was and in 1906 an increase of 0 22 or six per cent in 1907 the yield wae wag an increase of 4 or one per cent the annual consumption of gold in the industrial arts ot of the world Is surprisingly singly large and cannot be acau bately determined but from the best available data it appears to be in the neighborhood of the week ending june 13 proved to be b a most satisfactory week from the point of business transacted on the salt lake mining exchange the number of shares dealt in was 1393 1 the selling value of which was experienced miners just returned from the new mining discoveries on hornet creek about twenty miles northwest of council idaho report it one of the richest strikes in the state assays show values of from 6 to 63 to the ton of free gold the frye sandifer lessees have in augu rated an imports t deep mining project at their n new ew shaft recently started on oil the mazuma hills vein on the ground at seven troughs nevada the shaft Is to be sunk to feet deep as fast as possible the metallic mineral deposits ol 01 mohave county arizona were known as long ago as the early sixties when rich gold ore was discovered in what has since been called the moss mine about tour four miles northwest of gold road near the old camp mohave trail there Is a definite rumor in mining milling circles that the amalgamated copper interests will soon be in control of the utah copper nevada Consoli consolidate dat ed and cumberland dEly ely companies through transfer of stock in these corn com panties now held by the A prominent salt lake mining man after a trip to nevada Is quoted aa as saying I 1 don dont t want to be counted s a knocker tor for any mining region but every time I 1 go away from home I 1 I 1 become more and more convinced that there Is no such mineral country anywhere as we have right here in utah from the canadian border to nex ico there Is not a more promising mining camp than pearl idaho which has larger bodies of ore running from 8 to 40 per ton in gold and silver than can be found in nearly any min ing camp in the whole western min ing region and show a continuation with depth the imlay mining company shipped a car of fine ore from humboldt sta tion nevada to the ogden tinel tet last week and developments at the mine have been very satisfactory tot fol the past month assays of ore at the mine show that the ore Is growing more valuable as the south drift la to sent into the hill at a cost ot of fa 2 the telluride power company has completed the first unit ot of its gigantic hydroelectric hydro electric electrio PO power plant on bear river near grace in this county says the poe a tello idaho tribune and the tremendous resources of 0 the plant will be called on to supply power to mines in idaho and utah another carload of exceedingly rich lead silver ore from the utah mine comp company anys a fish springs property was s sold 0 1 d in S salt a lt L lake ak e last w week ee k u under n d e r c controls 0 u s showing h 0 win g 1 53 ounces nce s si sliver lve r a and n d 43 per cent lead there was thirty e eight ight and one halt half tons in the lot and the smelter issued a check tor for ia 51 in payment tor for it A wonderful mineralized ledge la Is attracting considerable attention among mining men in the boise basin this ledge with its prominent surface outcrop of quartz can be traced for hundreds of feet across the me kinley and great divide properties at jupiter mountain assays recently obtained show values that run into the high figures the lie news comes from great falls mont that the electrolytic smelter of the boston montana one of the amalgamated copper companies will be closed down for two months dur ing which time the boston montana mine in butte will remain closed un less ess arrangements can be made to han die dle the ore of the company at ana conda five thousand men are at fectea by the shutdown shut down the new compressor plant and pow er drills at the indian queen corn pany a property in beaver deaver county went nto into commission last week and the work of pushing the tunnel will now be e accomplished at a much faster clip than was possible by the old style method of drilling within a radius of halt half a mile there are now three oil wells producing la in the virgin river oil fields in washing ton county utah two of the wells are controlled by the virgin river oil comp company aily and the third Is the new well just brought in by the virgin oil company twenty five students of the utah university have pitched their tents near the yankee mine in east tin tic they will spend several weeks studying the mines and workings of the new smelter of sors T C french and F J pack hairo ha charge of the party |