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Show MINES AND MINING Tho now stamp mill for tho Old Abo mlno nt Silver City, Idaho, Is being Installed. A rich strlko has been mndo by tho Gold Bar company of Bullfrog, ten Inches of ore running $1,000 to the ton having been encountered. It Is announced that by Jan, 1 construction con-struction work will be under way on Senator W. A. Clark's railroad Into t'ju Deep Creek mining district, The Nelson Queen Consolidated company of Park City Is getting out n large shipment of copper, silver, lend and gold ore for the Salt Luke market. mar-ket. The new ore bodies In the Talisman mine, near Mllford, Utah, are growing In Importance, new machinery is being be-ing Installed, about $:100,000 worth of ore Is blocked nut, and shipments- will begin soon. Prospector nnd others In Ely wero paid $0". 000 In cash In one day lust week by G. L. Rlckard in closing some mining deals for the United Ely Copper Cop-per company, tho mining corporation recently organized by Mr. Rlckard and associates. During tho Inst thirty .days forty carloads, or approximately 2,200 tous, ot concentrates from tho Cactus property prop-erty In Beuvcr county, have uocu dumped Into the bins nt the Garfield plant of tho American Smelting & Running Ru-nning company. Tho Utah Development company, operating the Red Wing property, has started several outfits hauling ores to tho Bingham custom mill, and from 700 to 1000 tons, taken out during tho past thirty days, aro now moving towards thu market. A now ore body 1 as been opened up on tho 300-foot level below the tunnel In the Columbus Consolidated of Alta, Utah. It Is located about 300 feel In n northwesterly direction from tho copper ore bodies nnd thu values nro principally in silver and lead. J. R. Van Fleot, tho civil and mechanical me-chanical engineer who laid out and platted tho now smelter town of Gnr-Held, Gnr-Held, has been employed by tho Rook-lldgo Rook-lldgo syndicate to go to the Rosebud district, Nevada, and lay out nnd survey sur-vey the new towuslto of Powhatan. Tho owners of tho Silver Flat mlno In Deer Creek, Utah, have made an Important strlko In their property, having encountered u good sized vein which runs nenrly eight per cent molybdenum. They are endeavoring to get nn order for n shipment ot It at present, und feel that they huvo a big thing. Tho Mammoth Copper company, vp-crating vp-crating lnrgo possessions in tho Battle Lake district of Wyoming, Is opening up ono of tho coming properties of that State, and with tho coming ot spring tho company will mako renewed re-newed efforts to disclose Its resources nt grcator depths than any hcretoforo attained, Rhyollte, Novnda, has tho happy faculty fac-ulty of leaving u good Impression upon nil visitors. It Is u busy and fortune-making fortune-making community, typically Illustrative Illustrat-ive ot how a much-exploited mining region re-gion rises to tho emergency and produces pro-duces results far beyond the dreams of tho most optimistic, In tjhe format-Ivo format-Ivo period. Ed Hoffman, tho expert miner who has brought the Curlsn up to Its present pres-ent state ot development, and who has mndo a record as' superintendent of that property nnd tho Sliver Shield, at Bingham, of which ho may well feel proud, has resigned Jogo to Nevada to manage tho Sullivan properties In Manhattan district. Former Governor W.. J. McConnell ot Idaho bus secured some valuablo mines on Champagne' creek, u tributary tribu-tary of Lost river. He has somo properties prop-erties belonging to what is known ns tho Ella group and has largo bodies of ore devolopcd. A mill is in operation nnd shipments of concentrates aro being be-ing made. The ore carries silver, lead and zinc. After two weeks ot a buttlo between would-bo purchasers to secure tho property and complications that for a tlmo threatened to tie tho ground up In litigation and prevent operation by anybody, Salt Uiko und Ely parties hnvo finally gotten together and taken tak-en over tho Savage nnd Steele group of claims In Nevada's booming camp of copper. Two Idaho men nro In chargo of tho great NIplsstng mlno in tho Cobalt district dis-trict In Ontario. W. L. Linney, nt ono time connected with tho Checkmate at Pearl, Is superintendent and Dick Richardson, who formerly operated In the Black Warrior district. Is chief foreman. That property, at tho price of tho stock, has n valuation of $40,000,000. During tho past week tho CarlBa company has sent Into tho smelters ot tho United States company approximately approxi-mately 400 tons of ore, tho grade ot which will comparo favorably with tho best that has boon shipped from that property in quantity for many a long year. Whllo n number of mining men still claim to oxperlonco great dllllculty In Kecurlng adequato labor for both Utah and Nevada mines, It is- stated by a largo employor of men that tho labor shortage will bo n thing of the past In Utnh beforo tho end of tho presort mouth |
