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Show MINES AND MINING The aggregate market value of Uos-ton's Uos-ton's coppor chares at yesterday's (October (Oc-tober 10) low quotations was $010,045,-770 $010,045,-770 less than It was nlno or ten months ago, says Uio Uoston Joilrnal. Mining men will do well to keep an oyo on tho Marshall lako section, Idaho, in addition to the richness oi Its ore, It Is free milling nnd can bo worked cheaply. Timber nnd wntor for all purposes Is convenient. Advices from lloston are to tho effect ef-fect that a prominent copper producer win Is In close touch with the situation says Calumet & Hccla Is shlpp'ng copper cop-per to Europo In largo quantities In anticipation of a big buying movement. Excitement Is running high over u report of tho richest strlko over mado In tho Goldlleld district. Tho strlko was made In tho Frisco Goldflcld mlno, two nnd n hair miles south of tho city, and tho oro Is raid to assay $150,000 to tho ton. V H. Clark of tho Nevada Hills has nnothor bonanza at Round Mountain, thirty miles north of Manhattan, tho Sphinx. It Is strictly a gold property, and absolutely free milling, nnd a mill is to bo Installed at once to manufacture manufac-ture gold bricks, acids, aqua regla, or alkaline solutions-. It enn bo drawn into flno wire, having a tensile Btrength greater than sot! stoel.' Tnntalum Is now employea principally as a lllament In an electric incandescent lamp, which was put on tho American market In 190G. Tho Amalgamated Copper company on tho 14th declared a quarterly dividend divi-dend of 1 per cent, as compared with n dividend of 2 per cent, for the last previous year. This makes tho annual dividend rate 4 per cent, as compared with 8 per cont tho' previous year. According to advices from Goldflcld, a shoot of rich ore has Just been encountered en-countered on tho third levol of tho Ilea Top mine In n drift which was stnrted south In tho big vein on a seam of good ore. Samples of tho new find resemble re-semble tho high grado of tho Mohawk. Thoro Is a disposition In cortaln mining min-ing circles to contest tho legality of tho law passed by tho last loglslaturo regarding tho special mlno corporation tax. It Is claimed by companies owning own-ing properties, but not now operating tho same, that their organizations aro subjected wrongfully to double taxation. taxa-tion. Pessimism on coppor, both as to tho metal nnd to tho different corporation stocks based on that great commodity, is apparently on tho Increase, notwithstanding notwith-standing that sentiment has ben continuously con-tinuously ndverao to copper for many monthB. Thu coppor metal markev shows no signs whatovcr of Improvement. Improve-ment. The capacity of tho Sunnyslde mill at Jtound Mountain has been mora than doubled within tho last month nnd thu dally run is somuthlng like forty tons, with a proportlonato largei output In bullion. On tho 250-foot lovel a lino body of very rich oro has been opened up which shows freo gold plainly. The Ubehebo district, to tho north of Death valley, Is to havo n railroad. Tho road will run through Willow Springs wash to Sand springs and will bo accessible to all tho mines on the Bouth side of Gold mountain. It will nlBO bo within striking distance of Tulo canyon, Hevcnuo and tho old Uncle Un-cle Sam mine. During 1007, nccordlng to statements emanating from Wnll streot, twenty-seven twenty-seven railroads Havo depreciated $801, 310,720, and twenty-three Industrial! depreciated to tho extent of $343,705,-018. $343,705,-018. Tho lloston Nows Ilureau now Btates that during tho samo period forty-six copper companies have depreciated de-preciated $520,000,000. Some remarkably rich oro hns recently re-cently been discovered In tho Dead-wood Dead-wood Basin district or Idaho, assays showing as high ns $121 In gold and sliver, tho veins being large ones. Specimens of tho ore show rich In lead and stiver, somo of It containing almost al-most nattvo lead. Tho claim Is 90 miles from Boise, 40 rrora Placervlllo and 22 rrom Knox. A. Friedman, tho "father of tho Soven TroughH district" In Nevada, 1b to build a mill of ten or twenty st-mps in Seven Troughs canyon. The construction con-struction of tho mill will ho pushed with all possible vigor. Sufficient water o.r i i)iprntlon of such a plant has been developed, and the development or Ue district will be materially aided upon Its completion. One of tho most Important strikes made In the (loldflrld district during tho past six months developed a few days aeo on the Victor, adjoining the Gold Bar on tho east and tho Hat, one or the Blue Bull company's claims, on tho west, tho oro running $G0 to th tou. One thousand tons of oro averaging $100 per ton Is tho shipping record of tho Montgoinory Shoshone for tho month of September. This means a valuation of $100,000 In a single month and If the same shipments are maintained main-tained an annual valuation of $1,200,- ooo. Tho Llttlo Florenco Mining company com-pany hns found tho extension of tho rich lead beyond tho fault Una on the 400-foot lavol, adding thereby an or chute 100 feet In lougth and 250 feet vortlcallv to the already large wealth of gold blocked out, says the Goldlleld Chronicle. Tho Independence mlno, noar Ketchum, Is now connected with Hal-Icy Hal-Icy by telephone. The lino Is four miles long from the mlno boarding house to tho lane near Ketchum, and Is of Rtundnrd quality and hus long distance connections. It cost about SS0 a mile. |