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Show MINES AND MINING The Daly-West, Park City, Utah, will pay $108,000 to shareholders on December 15, making $432,000 for tho year in dividends from this rich property, prop-erty, Tho automobile lias finally conquered con-quered tho great desert regions of Nevada. Ne-vada. It has run out the burro and the wagon train and Ih today master of the situation, Tho tunnel on tho Switzerland, In the Hay Fork district of Idaho, is now In about 05 feci. Tho lodge Is six feet wide and the ore will mill about $20 a ton. Mclburn Sholl, the mining engineer, en-gineer, has returned to Salt lakc from an extended trip Into the Alaska country beyond Nome. Ho has been out In tho. Interests of New York and London mining men. An Idaho mining man, speaking ot tho mining situation in Nevada, says; "Nevada will produce moro gold than Alaska during tho coming year. Ely and Grceuwnter will be greater copper camps than Butte has over been." The Do Lamar Mining Co., Ltd., of De Lamar, Idaho, has raised thu wages of the miners 25 conts per day. It will be recalled that this company was one of the first In the state to grant tho eight-hour day. Nothing less than $75 ore counts at all In the Goldflold country nnd thero has novcr been a blank hole dug. It costs $65 a ton to get the stuff out of thero and the banks are literally filled with gold ore sacked for shipment ship-ment An open cut ot 26 feet long has been run on the ledge in the Hummingbird, Hum-mingbird, In tho Hay Fork district, of Idaho. Tho voln at tne surface Is two lnchos wldo nnd In tho bottom of tho cut Is 0 Inches and will average $2,500 a ton. Small specimens have been taken out of this vein that aro one-third gold. An industry thnt is new to southern Idaho, Is the mining and Bhlpplng of phosphates, large beds having been opened within 12 or 15 miles of Mont-peller Mont-peller by a San Francisco company. The phosphates are mined and shipped to San Francisco and thero treated and shipped to tho orient. The Pino Creek mines of Idaho, are working and producing good values. The U. P. mine Is working a Ave-stamp Ave-stamp mill on gold ore and has flvo feet exposed In the lower tunnel. An ore body has been opened up on six dtffernt lvols and It Is likly the mill's capacity will bo Increased, us there Is over 200,000 tonB In sight Tho Blackbird district In Idaho .Is attracting considerable attention on account of deposits ot cobalt and nickel which are much In demand In tho manufacture of steel. At tho pro sont time some steel men from the east aro Investigating this deposit and It Is understood thoy are likely tr purchase somo of the mines. The Capper Queen mlno at Salmon City, Idaho, Is working 30 men and has a five-stamp mill with concentrators. concen-trators. This Is owned by u Duluth corporation and a big mine Is being dovolopcd. The ore extracted Is being be-ing Bhlpped but no stoplng Is being dono. One car load shipped ran 43 per cent copper and 1.64 ounces In gold. A. W. Hoger, president of tho Old Abe company; owners ot the famous South Africa property near Idaho City, Idaho, reports thoy wero delayed In gottlng their mill In, owing to tho fact that part of It was three months on tho road. Though it was shipped from Denver, It was three months In reaching Boise, Consequently they will not be able to start up until spring. For fifty-eight Ioiib of ore from the E. & F. company's properties, out of Ploche, Nov., Colonel A. C. Ellis lasts week pulled down a check from the smelting company for a few cents Urns than-$3,890, or nt the raio of $07.17 per ton. Thu first real step toward providing tho Tlntlc mining district with an Independent In-dependent smelter of generous capacity, ca-pacity, was taken last we-ck, when articles ar-ticles of Incorporation wero filed. Salt Lake, Ogden mid Prove men aro behind be-hind tho undertaking. Mnnagor O. Wolsor, of the rocently organized Whlto Pine Mining & Milling Mill-ing company's properties, twenty-five miles north of Ely, Novndu. was In Salt Ijike last week, securing equipment for tho reconstruction nnd remodoljng of the mill on the property Captain Joseph R. De Lamar, of Wall street and Nevada, Is defendant In a suit before Judg Seuwell. of Han Francisco thnt may cost him half of tho many millions taken from tho Jim Crow and Monitor groups, which ! mode tho Ferguson district, Nevada, I famous. i The government last week resumed the purchase of silver, accepting bids for 2,000 ounces at 08.009 cents per fine ounce. This Is moro than !l'i cents an ounce lower than the offer lugs which were made at tho time purchases were suspended nearly 4 weeks- ago. Tho Parndlso mine, In Humboldt county, Nevada, Iuih a record of several sev-eral millions production. That will be only u fraction of what It should pro-duco pro-duco In the future, now that It has passed into hands which will operato tho mlno on the scale Justified by Its wonderful ore showing, |