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Show MIKES AND MINING Thoro Is more legitimate mining -go hag on In Nevada Tind more mineral In sight than over before In Uie Ida-lory Ida-lory ot tho Btate. Some lilgli grade copper sulphides thnt enmc trom a copper property on 1 Chunr creeT, near Knnau, Utah, iro being exhibited by tho fortunate discoverers. dis-coverers. The collapse or a flue lending to tho grent stack of tho WbbIioo smelter In Anaconda caused n cessation of operations oper-ations except In tho concentrator tor three days. Gunn-Thompson company Is tnklnb steps to connect Its mines In tho Rock Springs, Wyo., section with thu main railroad lino, tho separating distance dis-tance being 3Vi miles. Tho Tennbo mining district In No-vada No-vada Is located about twonty-threo miles southwest ot Ueownwo In Lnn dor county, connected with the lattei point by a good wagon road. There has been a great deal ot activity ac-tivity In tho Hullloir district or No-vada No-vada during tho pnBt fow weeks. At least a dozen deals of considerable Importance have been consummated. Over 40,000 sacks of ore aro lying nt the .Kalamazoo mine, near American Ameri-can Fork, Utah, awaiting shipment, tho roads being In such bnd condition thnt It Is Impossible to bring It to the market. A rich strlko Is reported In th. Golden Chest mlno nt Murray, Ida. Tho strlko Is Bald to havo been mndo on tho lower 2000-foot crosscut tunnel to tho west, and two veins aro repbrt-od repbrt-od to havo been opened. An account or a splendid find of copper ore In Hox Elder county, Utah, Is becoming current, nnd Just enough dctnll Is known to cnuso property hunters to blko out to determine tho situation for themselves. Incorporation papers have been filed at Augustn, Malno, for tho Hos.-ton-Idaho Mining company with a capital cap-ital of $200,000. AH tho promoters named aro residents of South Berwick, Ber-wick, Mnlne, nnd Dover, New Hampshire. Hamp-shire. From Elko'ls being surveyed a rtli road to Tuscnrorn. This roud Is to bo built, presumably, by tho Tuscnrorn Nevada Mine's company, the organization organiza-tion that has gathered In all tho famous fa-mous old bonanzas of that portion oi tho state of Nevada. It Is understood tho negotiations aro under way for a mining deal which will glvo F. Augustus Hclnze, Senator Thomas Ke'urns, J. 11. Kleth and other nssoclates complete control of tho Silver King coalition mines ana tho McGregor ground In Utah. According to statistics compiled for tho United States goologlcal survey by Edward W. Parker, coal mining expert In charge, tho total production of coal In tho United States In 190C was 414,039,581 short tons of 2000 pounds, valued at $512,(510,744. A circular has been Issued 'by tho exccutlvo board of tho Westorn Federation Fed-eration of Miners, now In session In Denver, directing union minors and thoso In sympathy with them to ro-muln ro-muln away, from Illsbeo, Ariz., us a strlko has been ordered In that camp. Tho Yorlngton Copper company, operating a splendid group iu tho Ycrlngton district, has nt last started start-ed upon the Interesting work of going go-ing to depths with Its new equipment upon tho rich ore chuto recently encountered en-countered In tho main or now shaft. There is considerable Interest In the Rankin mining district, situated on tho east side of Cuddy mountain, eight miles northwest of Cambridge, Idaho. Development thoro Is but slight, but there appear to be outcropping out-cropping veins of quartz, bearing gola and copper, within a granite country rock. Ono of the interesting facts presented pre-sented In tin? statistics of coal production pro-duction last year la that West Virginia Vir-ginia has supplanted Illinois us the second coal producing state, West Virginia showing a total output Oi 42,270,485 short tons, while the pro-ductlon pro-ductlon of Illinois was 41,197,435 short tons. Word comes from Now York that tho .Meerschaum company of America has Just finished an examination of 300 acres ot Its Now Mexico meerschaum meer-schaum deposits, with the result that two true llssuie veins woro uncovered uncov-ered more than 1200 fcot In length. Tho meerschaum Is stated to be of magnificent quality. Tho Heath district, In Idaho, will be quite active this season, Halt a dozen properties there havo been opened to quite un extent by menus ot adits and crosscuts, tho slopo or tho mouutnln being such us to enable en-able tho miners to open tho veins ot oro without the necessity of Kinking shafts, as a rule. Tho Raid Hutto Mining Co. has rosumed dividends and bus declared a quarterly dividend ot 2 per cent, payable July 1. Thoro nro (150 stockholders, stock-holders, tho largo majority or whom aro Now Knglaudcrs. To date tho company has pahl 11,350,000 in dividends, divi-dends, 4 The Independence mlno on Smith crock, 35 miles southeast from Wnt ren, Idaho, Is controlled by Topokn, Kansas, pooplo, J, S. Wamor of that place being manager. H,II. Pottoi, who Is in general chnrgo of tho property, prop-erty, states that work wll bo rcsuta id next month. |