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Show MINES AND MINING' The organization, of a stock company H nt Welser, Idaho, Is In progress, It he- H lug the Intention to bore for oil In H The rumor from Pnrk City to tho ef- H fret that the Daly Judge company H would close Its mine down within n H few days has no foundation In fact. H Tho Nevada Dredge company's H dredge and property at Orovlllc, Cal., H was burned last week, causing a loss tH of $1,000,000. The nro started In tho If the United States Is to produce H enough nickel, cobalt, and tin for Its H own consumption, new deposits must H bo discovered, for those now known, H while Individually rich, cannot supply H the entire demand. During the pnst month the two mills of the Utnh Copper compnny roducod H approximately 100,000 tons of ore to a H high-grade concentrate, nnd thoro Is H every probability that that figure will J be eclipsed during the present month. J Tho output of tho mines nnd loases of the (loldflcld district for the week ending October 12 was .1877 ',4 tons, having an estimated value ot $382,350. This is something like 100 tons moro fl than the output for the preceding; Vanadium, one of the rare metals. J Is used principally tor hardening steel, especially In connection with chrom- J lum. This rare metal Is' to bo found In smnll quantities In Utnh and Colo- J rndo, as well ns In some of tho south western states. Four Utah mine's posted dividend Inst week that will call for the check-Ing check-Ing out or $94,500. They were: Colo-rndo, Colo-rndo, $fl0,000; Hock Tunnel Con., $20,-000: $20,-000: ('.rand Ontral, $12,500, and Utah, or Fish Springs, $2,000. Rich returns wero received last week from assays of rock sent from tho Keystone mine, a property almost within tho city limits of Welser, Idaho. A Uakcr City assayer found that thn rock carried $174 to tho ton, and tho Uolso assayer found $108. Tho average cost of copper produo-tlon produo-tlon from Ilutte mines under tho re-strlcted re-strlcted output Is today not less than 12 cents per pound. At Lake Superior tho cost will probably avorngo close to 10 cents. Tho cost of Calumet fc, Arizona Is only 5.71 cents. Consldornblc excitement wns dovol-oped dovol-oped In Logan, Utah, mlnjng circles last week by reports concerning a re-cent re-cent find In Hlncksmlth Fork canyon, by Captain Sltvcy and H. J. Smith, two Ogden prospectors. Tho discovery la said to be nn extremely rich ono. Two of, the largest up to dnto and modern qunrtz mills In tho state, with a dnlly capacity of reducing 250 tons of ore uro now In courso of com-plctlon com-plctlon for the big mines of tho Mon-arch Mon-arch and Dngdad Chase Mining com-panics, com-panics, in the Atlanta district of Idaho. The Record of Helena, Mont., pub-llshes pub-llshes n story to tho effect that numor-ous numor-ous Montana and Washington in-vestors in-vestors havo been mulcted to the ex-tent ex-tent of more than a third of a million dollars through tho dlscovory that cor-tain cor-tain placer mines near Landers, Wyo., had been salted and that tho proporty In question Is worthless. It is learned that during tho noxt few days there will ho n number ot experts in Utah who represent great London operators who tacklo the fields of tho world In competition with tho Stnndnrd Oil compnny, but who hnvu not become very aggressive In Amorl-can Amorl-can ns yet. Their coming looks good for tho Utnh oil fields. Oeorgo W. Hoggs, ono of the lessees und gcnernl manager of tho Old Pen-:oclt Pen-:oclt mlno In the Seven Dorlls- dls- HI trlct, stntcs ho hns twenty-one men employed nt tho mine, Is taking ort from the new strike and litis a number -of teams hauling ore from the dump to Council, whero It Is shipped to tho Suinptor smelter. T. N. nnrnsdnlo of Pittsburg, thn owner of tho Monarch group or mines ' nt Atlanta, Idaho, has expended nearly a million dollars In developing nnd blocking nut the ore bodies of tho Mon-nrch Mon-nrch mine alone beforo oven plnclng n mill on tho property. This nlono as-surcs as-surcs us of his confidence of tho great possibilities of tho camp. There nro millions of-tons of oro of commercial value blocked out In the mines of tho Atlanta district, Idaho. and tho future of the camp has always been dependent on tho successful working of these ores, which In th past has been a failure on nccnunt of ihe great loss caused by not having tho proper process to tient tho oros. Through a compromise reached out fl of court, civil actions Involving $500,- 3D 000, pending In the courts of Los An- HJ geles, lioston, Dnlnth, Tucson nnd RJ Tombstone. Ariz., have been endod'. tq 'I he actions Involved largo amounts or ' stock In rich copper properties, nota. III v the Cnnnnea Contrnl Mines com- jfilj pnny and tho Orceno Cnuanen Copper company. The Minerva mine, In tho Atlnntu jfti district, Idaho, for tho past two years YM has been producing steadily and ban Tffl Inexhnustlvo bodies of oio in resorvo. k r It Is stated tho company will enlarge the present 10 stnmp mill, which Is not s of sufficient size to reduce tho vnst r bodies of ore In sight. From $15,000 $"J to $20,000 has beon ioundod out WjJ monthly by tho prosont 10 stnmp mill. f.R The stockholders of tho Hluo Rock M; Mining company, at a meotlng hold In Jn Niinipa, Idaho, InBt weok, decided to llf Increase the capital stock of that cor-, 119 poration from $300,000 to $2,000,00fl rj and made arrangements for pushing fc flie work nt tho mine stronger than jw ever, H A day and night shift nro now om 9 ployed at the Mint mlno In the Poarl fl district of Idaho, und the tunnel Is now ,H In 1,050 feet. According; t measure- H ments the vein should bo reached at H 1.0S8 feet. The vojn is twenty foot wide on tho Birfaco nnd Is 'a true fls- 'B lure. |