Show MINES HEM AND 31 MINING INING arom present ind there la 14 soon to be considerable increased activity in the duck creek district in the vicinity of 0 the steptoe smelter the total stock sales of 0 the gall sah lake mining exchange for the past week amounted to shares the market value of 0 which waa was 54 for the first half of the year the total production of iron in germany was 6 tons against 6 tons last year the reduction was less than 5 per cent 11 during the year 1907 there were re calved into the yerington district a total of pounds of freight while 9 pounds were shipped from the district to ou on side points eighteen inches of shipping ore has been encountered in the face of the tunnel at a depth of 80 feet in the martin and gourdley Gourd ler lease on the ma ala zuma hills estate says the seven troughs miner A strike that 1 to as rich as an any ot of the fabulous ones in the baj earl days lays at goldfield and with rock so rich it would be superfluous to assay it has been made at gold reef nine miles south of tonopah itis it Is announced that eastern capital Is becoming interested in the seven devil devils s district districts in northern idaho and as a result a season of development and production is expected that will ultimately mean a boom for that district last week a narrow vein of galena galeria was encountered in the mountain dell mine in american fork canyon utah the owners feeling highly elated be eleving the vein will widen and b become richer as development work progresses the situation in the german iron trade continues most unsatisfactory and the controversy over the abolition of the duties on crude iron and steel and scraps has tended to increase the discontent and uncertainty in all sec see eions of the trade As the result of the explosion of a bailer boiler at the ralle gold mines near charlotte tenn superintendent was instantly killed and three other men seriously injured the cause of the explosion which demol dished the stamping mill Is not known the original lease on the D amond queen is to the front with the big gest strike yet says the bullfrog n iner samples the shell that deemed deemed to lie ile between the spar and the ore ran 0 80 and one from the tie as it nas mas taken out and dumped into the ore bin ran 40 to the ton IL gold the cactus in beaver deaver county utah is now putting out about pounds of copper per month but the management says it will not be long before the company will be treating 1000 I 1 tons of ore per day at its con cen and putting out the largest pi pio of copper in the history of the mine A meeting of the stockholders of tle king david mining company was held in provo last week at which jesse knight and david evan the I 1 principal rin cipal stockholders sold them mcives shares of the company s treasury stock at par 50 cents a share thus placing in the treasury trea siry a 1 fund of 50 some idea of the development work being done in just one mine in the yerington district can be had when li it Is 19 known that the nevada douglas mine Is doing nothing but develop ment work is doing no sloping and et they are shipping 60 tons of high grade copper ore to the smelter at salt lake city every week the steptoe smelting company which Is owned by and treats the ore of the nevada consolidated and cun berland berlan dEly ely Is already putting out at the rate of 10 pounds of cop per annually operations to date hae haie demonstrated that nevada con soli dated will secure a recovery of 70 per cent of all the copper in ila its 2 to 2 per cent ore the company whIch owns the mint and lucky do boy mining claims near horseshoe bend has secured a lease of the osborne ore crushing mill and will operate it for several months in order to test the ore in the lucky boy mine says the emmett idaho index salt lal ers are planning to secure the headquarters of the american mining congress now located in den ver this would mean if the plans prove successful the erection of a mining temple in salt lake city and the centering in zion or of a great in austry F from j lodi camp north of tonopah ma ne nevada va comes word that preparations lor tor the building of a smelter by the locia lodi mines company Is already caus ing considerable n new ew mining activity in that and neighboring districts district a the plant is to be of tons dally daily capacity the utah apex mine at has resumed production from 30 to 40 tons a day are being shipped to the smelter the product coming from the bodies of high grade lead ore opened during the last few months of non pi the ore carries about 45 per cent lead the news comes from goldfield that A C hutchinson the metallurgist who found a process tor for the success ful treatment of concentrates without roasting has received notification from the patent office at wash agton that a caveat has been granted him on the process dividends disbursed by the mines and leases of goldfield during efen eren months since january 1 total close to one million dollars this during dull duli times in the camp and covering a period of forty three days when the aig producers were idle because of I 1 II 11 I 1 battled labor troubles |