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Show MINES AND MINING The Dnly-Judge Mining company of Tark City, Utah, last week posted Its Tegular quarterly dividend of $112,500, or 37 l-2c per share. Eastern financiers are watching tho development of Utah nnd Nevada mines closely and western mining stocks were never in hotter favor in the cast than nt prcscut. Low prices for thlrty-thrco lcadf.ig listed Boston copper stocks show a depreciation of $1 "11,342,255 In market mar-ket price as compared with the high price record of Jan. 1. The statistics collected by tho Iron Age show the output for Fcbrunry of coke and anthracite pig Iron amounted amount-ed to 2,015,008 tons, as compared with 2,205,007 gross tons In January. Indications from the achievements thus far this month aro that tho March output of pig iron and of finished fin-ished products of tho larger producer will exceed tho banner record of October Oc-tober Inst. Tho sheet and tin plnte mills aro running under tremendous pressure. There is- some talk of advances In prices, but It Is well understood that tho leading Interest Is opposed to any such action. The establishment of tho Schwab smelter at Ash Meadows, though thirty miles from Beatty, will be a help to this camp because (t will bo tho natural distributing center for the supplies used by tho smelter. Assays received by the officials of the Lakeside Copper company last week show $12 In gold, 2.:i ounces In silver and 28.9 per cent In copper. Tho property is located near Promontory Promon-tory point, a short dlstnnco from Ogden. Og-den. Big deals and big strikes nre of almost al-most dally occurrence in tho now camp of Mlzpah, midway between, Ely and Cobre and four miles from tho lino of tho Nevada Northern railroad, which connects Ely with the outside world. Tho new mill of tho Jennie Gold Mining company is ncaring completion comple-tion rapidly, and the management expects, ex-pects, in case railroad delays do not' prevent, that this plant will bo In full operation by the last of tho present month. A five-drill Rand compressor plant, with a full complement of drills, electric elec-tric motor and a wholo lot o othci machinery, wns loaded , Monday at Salt Lake for shipment to tho properties prop-erties of tho Mason Vnlloy company nt Yerington. Pino Grove district, In Beaver county, Utah, is becoming active In a manner befitting its merits, tho Sun Mining company being tho last company com-pany owning property thero to get to work upon tho samo in tho most earnest fashion. Clarence MFndden, an uttorney, rnrmerly of Salt Lake, has sold to Allen Adnms.'or Atlantic City, N. J., a group of six clnlms running high In lend and silver, for a consideration of $C,000. The clnlms are In Steptoo creek, Nevada. In tho Wood liver section of Idaho tho Quincy, Junior, company has been working on the Red Elephant. A now deposit of flue galena oro four feet thick has been opened. Tho Croesus has ii mine and mill, and Is doing some good work. Tho Eureka and Bullion also aro being operated In a small way. Tho Muldoon district of Idaho, which has been closed down for years, has been revived by Chicago capitalists, capital-ists, who last fall started In on the Hello of the Mountains, the Muldoon and tho Mutual, and havo been working work-ing steadily all winter. They nre taking tak-ing out some nico galena and carbon-uto carbon-uto ore. Tho Insplatlon mlno at Globe, Arizona, Ari-zona, has been sold to tho Lewlsohn Interests for approximately $3,000,000. constituting tho largest deal ovor made In the Globo district. The Gen-oral Gen-oral Development company, Adolph Lewlsohn, president, and J. Parke Channlng, consulting engineer, is tho purchaser. For a consideration that Is known to run well above $100,000, Dr. W. S. Phillips of Chicago and E. S. Hoyt of Tonopah have purchased from Mc-Cormlck Mc-Cormlck &. Schwab tho townslto of Beatty and tho Montgomery hotol property. This menus that all tho unoccupied Iota In Bentty aro turned over to Phillips and Hoyt. Wild excitement has broken loose oh a result of the discovery of mammoth mam-moth ledges of rich copper ore live or six miles north and a little west of Acme, a small station on the Colorado Colo-rado & Carson railroad, and directly cast of the south 'end of Walker lako Nevada. A prominent mine ownor says: "Stories of high-grading were grpssl) misrepresented In the Goldfleld art! clcs, for it is probablo that not more than 100 men wero employed whert specimen oro could bo carried away and these are by no means al; thieves." Judgo Knappon of tho Unltei! States circuit court, at Grand Rapids Mich., has issued a restraining ordei forbidding tho stockholders of the Calumet nnd Hecla Mining company from holding a meeting for tho purpose pur-pose of voting proxies In the Osceola company. |