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Show MINES AND MINING Coal having been -received In quantity quan-tity to Jnstlfy It, -operations ut the .Nowhonso Mines '& Smelters Cactus bonanza were resumed full handed last week. The largo quantity of sll -cr produced In Utah each year Is non.ly nil taken from ores carrying load and copper and forms an Important Item In the successful working of such ores, The Manhattan Bmnclin has cut Into In-to four feet or oro at the 200-foot level that goes $200 to tho (on. This con-1 firms tho previous high estimates put on this property by mining experts. Tho directors of tho Auacoudn Cop-pur Cop-pur company have declared a quattur-ly quattur-ly dividend of $1.75 per shnre. The dividend declared Is an Increase of 5 cents a shnre over the dividend last paid. A crying need of the Pearl mining district In Idaho, Is a connection with the electric road so the concentrates could be shipped out under more ! vornble conditions and supplies and timbers taken In. A strike has Just been made In the St. Joo company's property at 11 1 tig-ham, tig-ham, which Is causing moro elation In the ranks of the uinuagement -than any other sort of a Christmas present could possibly have done. There Is nothing In the past history of tho mining industry of the United States that Is moro remarkable than tho record that hus been made In Nevada Ne-vada during the past two or three yenrs, and Is now being made. The directors of tho Cumberland-Ely Cumberland-Ely Copper company havo voted to Issue to stockholders of record December De-cember 28, 100,000 new shares In tho ratio of one new share for every ten shares held, nt $12.50 per sharo. A new strlko on tho Nevada Hills at Fairvlow shows five feet of oro that averages $400 per ton. This is in number five tunnel, which is driving under tunnel number four, nnd gives a working depth of one hundred and forty feet. More than one-half of tho silver production pro-duction of Utnh during 1905 was contained con-tained In lead ores. The principal places for mining these ores wero tho Park City (Uintah) and Tlntle districts dis-tricts of Summit and Juab counties, respectively. For the first tlmo In recent years nn output of placer gold Is to bo noted in Utah. Small amounts, howevor, nro said to have been recovered In 1904 from the gravel of Grand river, In Grand county. This district showB a noticeable output of this metal. The sensation of the Buckskin, Nevada, Ne-vada, district Is tho big strike by the Jack Hell Gold Mining company, on tho Red Top ground tho original discovery of the camp. This lease has been In operation for some tlmo, and has had all kinds of handicaps. The Salt Lako Real Estato association associa-tion has decided to devoto a considerable consider-able portion of its spaco in its publicity pub-licity rooms to an exhibition ot Nevada Neva-da ores, and tho secretary has been instructed to write to mining companies com-panies and boards of trade In all of the Nevada camps, requesting that specimens bo sent for exhibit. During tho year 1905, copper amounting amount-ing to 59,273,192 fine pounds was taken from Utah mines, Salt Lako County lading with 40,290,744; Juab bolng second, with 13,405,500; Beaver third, 3,555,918; Tooelo, 1,095,386; Summit, 544,982. and Box Elder, Millard, Mil-lard, Morgan, Piute and WaBatah cntmtlen producing a total ot 380,602 flno pounds. Tho annual report of tho Boston Consolidated Mining company, covering cover-ing tho fiscal year ending September 30, lias been Issued In pamphlet form nud shows that during tho period stated stat-ed $482,307 was received from oro sales; $1,097 from rentals; making n totnl of $183,101. Tho expenses amounted to $227,097, leaving a profit ot $256,309. A meeting of tho directors of tho Manhattan Doxtor Mining company wna huld In Tonopah a few days ago and u resolution wns passed dlstilb-utlug dlstilb-utlug among the stockholders of the Doxtor company nil tho stock beddings of tho Doxtor, the parent company, In tho eight subsidiary companies, amounting to a total of approximately 5,278,010 shares. "Judge .Marshall's famous Utah smelter smel-ter fumo decision, which threatens to force the removal of tho smelters In the Salt Lake valley, may provo a blessing In disguise," says (he Boston Bos-ton News Bureau. "The building of now plants mny prove of great llnnn-ctnl llnnn-ctnl benefit and the companies would uot havo considered tho question of removal had they not be so compelled by law." During 1905 tho percentage of gold produced In Utah came from tho following fol-lowing sources. Plucors .14 por cent; quartz nnd dry ores, 1.41 per cent; cynnltln mill bullion, 25.52 per cent; lead ores, 8,32 per cont; copper ores, 59.18 per cont; milling ores, 6.40 per cent. That the district of Rosebud, recently re-cently discovered In Humboldt county, win extend Inward the Seven Troughs region, and that tho latter camp will spread out toward the other, until both ure connected by a lon-i string of producing pro-ducing mines, Is the he;f of mining men. 0 |