Show MINES AND MINING HINING it la is predicted by many that the sierra mining district will be one of the busiest sections in northern ne e vada manager H S giles of the giles mining comp company anlys s properties in te to big cottonwood district states that the season seasons s work on the strike made last fall will begin at once during the winter work was confined to ad avancing the long tunnel the strike made by E S chafey on the dun glen mine in sierra district only twenty miles southwest of win and only a few miles from the railroad is proving to be one ot of the richest strikes made in the state according to the humboldt star the ohio kentucky company oper abing at pioche has just completed he the purchase 0 o of the eight claims be longing to the nevada pioche corn com pany for 55 and through the deal secures holdings that are to prove invaluable to the purchasers june was a tremendous month mouth for the salt lake mining exchange the trading surpassing anything ever ex 1 erlen ced by the exchange during the month a grand total of 4 shares of mining stock sold on the poor f the sales amounting to the cash valuation of 2 05 samuel newhouse has sent a letter to the officers of the salt lake stock bunin minin exchange asking that a committee be appointed to confer i ith him on his return from the east on the subject of the new ex change building proposition that has been under consideration tor for some time the kinsley mine of nevada Is still pegging away on an ore body which will range from two to five feet in width the ore will average close to 75 per ton and as soon as ent tonnage is accumulated the man na gement will make arrangements for teams to haul the rock to the rail road tracks rich gold bearing quartz has been found within fifty miles ot of rock errings br rings wyoming according to the assayers reports one of the samples ran up to 1243 to the ton while other samples sent in went less than 1 but all carried a trace of gold the find has caused considerable ex cit ement in that section the enlargement of the ery cry shoshone mill at rhyolite Rby olite for the treatment of tonopah extension Dx tension ores s again being considered by the schwab interests while definite plans have not been announced it Is understood that the scheme Is to in stall etall twenty five stamps and add addi lional cyanide tanks and equipment an increase of about 50 per cent in the capacity of the garfield plant la Is contemplated and when it Is conald consid ered that its ore supply is practically inexhaustible there Is excellent war rant for the belief that within two years the utah copper company will be producing the red metal at a rate well up to pounds per an num the june copper production of the butte district will be little more than 13 pounds operations for the month average lesa than 50 per cent of df normal on account of flood dam age to railroad and wreck of portion of the boston and montana smelter at great falls none of the mines aver aged more than days during the month mouth child cole co the well known salt lake brokerage firm has just issued a splendid up to date map ot of 1 he park city mining reg on which includes about everything there is li in the uintah blue ledge and a e creek districts which surround parl city as well as the american aorl and ond big and little cottonwood or alta region and districts james C donnell general manager of the ohio oil company has issued a request that oil drillers of the coun try curtail their production until a market can be had tor for the purpose ol 01 the supply of oil he says it is im possible los 1 sible to build for the Iro I 1 reduction and there Is being pro laced dally daily in the illinois oil field alane more than barrels it Is the intention of the utah cop I 1 ier er company management to inaus quarterly dividends depte september aber ea Q at the he rate of 2 annually the company now has 1 cash on hand and it Ito outputting copper at the rate of 50 pounds yearly mak aig ir g it fifth in the united states in coper prod action application ha hag been made to I 1 st the stock on the paris bourse it Is announced that the old silver king mine at park city will be run ring at full capacity within a few feny days for some time past the corn com pany gradually has been adding to its working force and a cm force of men is now at wo k underground work on the bull valley mine is le reported ported as Wro progressing gressing favorably aho latest advices obtainable state that the shaft Is down seventy five feet with a soft ganue gan ue seven feet the values for seven feet are eald said to make an average of about per ton the utah copper production for the month of may of something over 4 pounds is by far the la ia gest for any like period since the initial ore shipments of the company to the garfield concentrator this ra e of output is approximately 50 rounds per annum operations have resumed on the sidewinder property at Stat stateline eline the property has been productive of some 30 gold and silver ore and Is likel to open up something heavy beier in the vicinity of the fancy ores of rice mountain and near tb the big fourteen Fou iteen discoveries |