Show AROUND THE MINES that F A heinze Is not the direct ing power behind the ohio copper i compan company Is the statement given by a director ot of that company to the bos dos ton levs bureau the old geyser marion mill at mer cur tir utah was destroyed by fire last week the mill had not been in op oration tor for ten years but there was some material in it ot 01 value mining conditions in the boise basin in idaho are getting better rapid ly and the various properties are en a new era of prosperity which means much to that district recent shipments of first class lead ore from the utah apex mine in B ng ham sent directly to the smelter have averaged in gross value better than 22 a ton with a tendency of the lai lat ter los to run higher allegheny district sierra county california is attracting the attention of the mining world from the fact that a number of very important disclose ures have been made in that section within the past five or six months mouth s it is the intention of the company owning the edna mine 20 miles north of idaho city to install 4 a 60 plant for the treatment of their ore the plant will embrace stamps tube mill and filter press and a cyaniding pro cess that the recent find of high grade silver lead ore in the consolidated andes claim at park city is of con sid erable importance to the silver king xing Coall coalition tion mines company was shown shonn by the active demand for the stock twenty years of patient prospect ing has revealed the ledge on the jack walte waite property near murray ida where large quantities of ga lena ore and boul boulders aers carrying shipping lead and silver were in the gulch so near the surface that the action ol 01 the water would have dis closed them in the course ot of time A company has recently been indor borated for the purpose of mining and marketing black marble and onyx in the rough or polished as re quiren the quarries are situated ome some two miles northwest of pelican point on the west side of utah lake ind and less than a mile from the san pedro railroad the steamer st croix arrived at seattle from nome on july 22 with in gold dust and bars on the way down the st croix stopped at cordova and the passengers were taken takei up the copper river on a special train forty nine miles to the camp where a 3 cantilever bridge Is under construction across the river production will be resumed umea at once from the victor shaft of the C 0 D consolidated at goldfeld the extraction of ore was suspended while this shaft was being sunk from the to the foot level where the ore has been exposed again and a good tonnage of pay ore Is assured this ore carries a high percentage of copper and is shipped to the smelters ot of utah the fourth unit of the steptoe val ley smelter at mcgill nevada Is now in it may be some little time before machinery Is thoroughly broken in in and running smoothly it will handle however from 1000 to 1200 1 tons of ore per day from the start and in connection with the other three unit units will create a steady demand for fully 7 tons of tore bre per day scores of prospectors are engaged in milling mining on the mountains in the vicinity of the horst powell and handspike copper properties on the little north aorl in the coeur daleanes dAI dA lenes enes since the idavoy idaho northern railroad began making for a branch line up the little north river every toot foot of mining ground has been located within ten days accord ing to advices from the north in two of the wells which are drilled in the virgin oil field those of the interstate oil company are excellent indications it Is said that oil Is about to be encountered in the second oil sand overlying that sand is a foot stratum of hard limestone the first shipment of high grade ore from the original strike at Dl lendale netted the owners a trifle more than 4 a ton according to the tono pah pall sun the consignment corn com pilled five tons of rock the total sum received having been something over 20 A report of the receiver of the idaho smelting refining company owning the panhandle smelter at pon deray idaho shows that the concern Ms has total liabilities exclusive of capt tal stock to the amount of 22 and that its total resources are the belmont mine near Marys marksville ville mont which has produced upwards of 2 in gold has been purchased from the Long maids of I hel lel ena by colonel thomas cruse a helena banker the price was not mide made public but it Is said to involve a large sum the first load of concentrates from the new mill of the muldoon mine which was reopened by R T tustin three years ago was brought to the railroad at halley idaho last week this silver lead property is producing 20 tons of concentrates every worb corb ing day of 18 hours perhaps the fastest work in the his tory of modern mil construction was accomplished in the erection of the fourth unit of the concentrator at me gill by the hughes construction Construct ton corn com pany the work was commenced on 1 the of april and was practically practical 11 Y completed on july 19 |