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Show MINES AND MINING A number of tho Deep Creek mines Intend commencing shipment of ore to Snlt Lako smelters at once. From all reports Chorry Creek, Nevada, Ne-vada, Is having tho most comforting kind of boom 'that could bo desired. Tho directors of tho Utnh.MIno oi Fish Springs met Inst week, and posted post-ed tho usual dividend of threo cents a Bharo, or $3,000. Tho establishment and successful operation of tho new Utnh smiJtcr nenr Ogden has given great Impetus to subsidiary Industries. A rich find of hlgh-grado galena uid tin has been made in the Ulack mountain moun-tain roglon on the. waters of IPppor Wind river In Wyoming. A new law In Utah now Is th.t mining min-ing companies mnst havo on hand cmcrcenny mcvllc'liies. stretch-crs and such things Hir injured mo.. Tho spur track to tho Mjntgomory Shoshono mine '1ms been completed and tho shlpmeM of tho $1,000,000 dump to s Vie Sat ako -smelters hns begun. Henry 11. '"Morton nisr?l company, of London, 'cstlranto the production of copper throur.hout tbrj world In 190C at 711jG7f 'tons, against 082,125. In 1905, mid fit'1,000 tbi- year before. The. treasury dfg'mrtmcnt on tho 12th purchased 2W.000 ounces of sliver sli-ver 'nt W.0C2 ceifts per fine ounce; 100 'nunw.'s to bi to San Francisco nni tho 'YcmnlndrT to Now Orleans. -3uclc'eggctt, irvno of tho prominent and iraccosKful mine operators of Itnttv. Montana. Is now In Boston for a conforenco with eastern stockhold-'vs stockhold-'vs of tho nawen and Dutto nnd Ely xiirihrg companies. Tho men employed at tho Ontario mine at Park City went on strlko on tho 11th, because of tho attempted criftircomcnt of a new rule which re quires them to entor and lcavo the nitno on their own time. "The entire cnpltal stock of the New-house New-house Mines and Smelters company (has just been added to tho unlisted '"department of tho New York stock roxchange. Tho company's March ;output of rflncd copper was 900,000 pounds. Tho spring report of tho committee of the Rhyollte Board of Trade shows tho mining Industry of tho Leo district dis-trict to bo booming In a surprising manner. lcss than a year ugo the entire en-tire district could havo been tied tip for $10,000. Tho Crown Point Consolidated Mining Min-ing company, with headquartors at Provo, filed articles of Incorporation with the secretary of state of Utah last week. The now company has a capital of $100,000 In a million shares of 10 cents each. Oro shipments from Park City for the week aggregated 2.513,840 pounds, ns follows: Daly Judge, 828,000 pounds; Middlings, 525,000; Silver King, 841,840; Daly West. 800.000; Ontario, On-tario, 209,000; Daly. 100.000; New York, 48,000; total, 2,512,840. Much excitement Is- occasioned by tho report of a rich strlko at Mlzpah, Nevada. Ore has been found nt the surfaco which runs ns high as $7,000 to the ton In gold, silver nnd copper. This ore curries as high as 1,900 ounces in silver to the ton. Soonor than ono thinks, smelters will bo operated in Alaska, and then tho world will again ho astonished by tho news from there. As It Is now, tho ore must bo tnken to Everett or Tacoma, 1200 miles by sea and 300 by 'railroad, a distance of 1500 miles. It hns Just doveloped that In addition ad-dition to tho 100,000 shares of new 'Ualaklala stack recently offered to stockholders at $10 per sharo nnd underwritten un-derwritten nt 9 through lladon, 8tono & Co., 25,000 shares were also Issued to them at tho same price. Tho directors of tho Swan-Hllder Mining company met In Sprlngvllle last wodk and raised the price of the treasury stock 5 cents. Tho advance Is the result of tho recent strlko on the Leo-Echo claim In Novnda, which Is known in that state as Mormon P.oy. Tho Brilliant shnft of tho Ely Consolidated Con-solidated company nt Ely, Nevada, is now lining pounded down through oro that Is averaging 3 per cent cop-por. cop-por. Tho shaft Is ovor 475 feot deep nnd every foot of tho dlstnnco from tho 400-foot mark has shown copper values ranging from 1 to ns high as 14 per cent. All of the miners employed In tho McDonnld-Ely mine, at Ely, Nuvado. havo struck for higher wages, and their demands have been refused by tho mnnngemont of tho mlno. Thoro Is a romoto possibility that a general strlko, affecting tho entire district, may bo called to enforco tho demands of theso minors, hut this Is not considered con-sidered likely. During tho first qimrtor of tho current cur-rent year thq record high prices for copper havo resulted In tho payment of $21,097,351 lu dividends by twenty-flyo twenty-flyo companies which uro directly Interested In-terested in mining or aro largo shareholders share-holders In tho United States and Mexico. Tho shaft on tho Western Utnh Coppor company's Gold Hill mines, in tho Clifton district, Deep Crook, Is now Hearing tho 300-foot mark below tho tunnel lovel, and by tlio first of tho coming month the work of exploration explor-ation and development at that depth will begin. |