Show MINES AND MINING the ipava coalition oil bonoan co noan filed flied articles atti aj cles with the county clerk ol 01 salt lake county last wee the new company will exploit claims in wayna wayne cou ity S E D bell who Is au said to represent the standard oil company is reported to have secured options ou on 15 acres of oil lands in the vicinity ty 0 I 1 byron wyoming A vein 30 10 feet wide which pans plenty of free gold clear across has hag just been crosscut by W 11 horner and associates in property adjoining the auburn mine in chatey chafey camp recent developments in the famor old ophir mining district of utan would indicate that ophir Is destined to be the next camp of the state to become rejuvenated and successful in an ore producing way with the coming of spring after a winter that is without parallel for its heavy snowfalls the international smelting refining company has set in full motion again its big smelting project in tooele thoele valley it Is announced that james breen a close business associate of F A heinze has been making an In tion of pioche properties and the AUD tup position Is that the miners smelting i company Is planning to enter that field for the first time since december 1907 the daly west mining company of park city utah has found itself in shape for dividend consideration and the directors of the company mt m 4 t on march 15 and decided to apost 30 cents a shaie shale the copper mines of the country are not curtailing to any considerable ex tent should a demand for copper spring up and be maintained the mines could not increase production 10 pounds a month above the present rate of production members of the various committees of the american mining congress to serve the ensuing year were named at a conference of the executive corn com cittee recently held in denver captain duncan macvichie MacVl chie of salt lake is the vice president for utah harry D brown a well known broker of los angeles Is missing and a felony warrant tor for his arrest Is in the hands of the city detectives brown drown s liabilities are said to amoun amount t to nearly 00 with his assets but a small proportion of that sum the production of copper in the tile united states mexico and canada for the month of february shows a falling off of 9 po ands compared with the high production months of novem her ber and december and a falling off oft of 6 pounds from january the engineers who will control the work rr in the alaskan gold fields tor for the yukon company have completed all ah arrangements to go into the frozen north and start the plants in opera tion three weeks earlier than has been done in any previous season the official report of the nevada con consolidated copper company shows large production during the first three months of this year says a new york dispatch rhe fhe original in stalla tion Is now in full operation and last month 60 tons of 2 2 10 per cent ore were placed in the steptoe 6 srael mel ter the mining world of chicago believes that it has found a by which the warring factors in the tead lead tariff matter can be brought to a safe and sane atre agreement ement and in s so 0 d do 0 ing shows that it Is not only the east era ern consumer or manufacturer who wants free lead but the smelting in teresta as well the new mill at marshall lake idaho has s arted up and is doing fine nork vork the mill 1 has two batteries ot of three stamps each each stamp Is 1250 1 pounds and the capacity of the mill is thirty tons in twenty tour four hours two and two wilfley tables are used in concentrating and are working fine discovery of a new ore body of ex e beeding richness has been made on the combination no 1 of the condoll dated at goldfield it Is the most im lin find made in this camp tor for a year it Is in ground that has hitherto been unexplored and the trend of the ore body is toward the old kalfus lease on the mohawk on the river within thirty five live miles of nyssa ore indications point to a highly mineralized section only au awaiting alting development that coal exists in paying quantities has been demonstrated within twenty seven miles of town Q a good vein has b been beell encountered on which development work Is now being prosecuted the annual report of the united states steel corporation was made pubic c march 17 and showed that for the year ending december 31 1908 gross receipts of were earned a decrease of from the preceding year the net earnings of the corporation were 91 a decrease of 69 from the year of 1907 A cross cut on the foot level ot of the idaho gem mine driven feet it ao 10 vein matter with no wall yet has served to convince the man argement that it Is on the top of an ail enormous body of ore the mine la Is west of st charles in bear lake county A strike of exceedingly rich gold ore has been made in the gyp cortez ground in washakie Wash akle according to a report which comes from the camp the strike was made at shallow depth and it Is said that there Is a good streak of ore which appears to be nearly halt half gold two gold strikes reported to be e the biggest ever made in arizona one at salome and the other at bouse douse have caused excitement throughout the ter r t ry an and al all of the western part from phoenix to the river Is filling with prospectors the ore is reported to be phenomenally rich |