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Show MINES AND MMMr The rpaBt weoK's shipments 'of h'lRh-grado h'lRh-grado ore from 'Goldfleld aggregated 873 tons. Tho 'Golilon Sunbeam 'company, 'operating 'op-erating In tho CuBter, Idaho, 'section, has purchased a compressor '-which will be installed at once. Three of 'Tlntlc'B lilg mines posted dividends last 'week, 'the -Colorado -and tho Beck tunnel paying to the stockholders stock-holders (40,000 each, wlillo -the Grand Centrnl distributed (10,000. George Wlngflcld, ot Goldfleld, hnB received a telegram from his foreman fore-man at tho Three-Queens nilne, 'California, 'Cali-fornia, saying that n single shot had broken down $00,000 worth of ioro. A statement of tho profltB of the Hercules mine for 1900 has been filed with the county assessor, showing the profits to have been (787,534.19 ns compared with (375,348.90 for 1905. Tho discovery of Important phosphate phos-phate deposits over n considerable area In southeastern Idaho, southwestern south-western Wyoming, nnd northeastern Utah has opened up a now Industry In tho west. A canvass of the leading coppor producers pro-ducers reveals tho fact that the demand de-mand Is running ahead of tho vlBlblo supply nnd that they aro stronger In their belief that thero will bo no price concessions. In tho French Gulch section ot Montana, where tho gold was first discovered and washed out In thai state, extensive placer operations nr still In progress, and is paying bis; money to the operators. A prominent Cnllfornlan, who ho drilled oil wells In flvo states, declares de-clares tho Virgin Itlver oil region to possess tho greatest oil Indications he over witnessed In nny field from California Cali-fornia to West Virginia. Good reports are still coming In from tho Swan Hilda Extension mine In tho Loo district, Nevada. Tho directors di-rectors of the company mot hero a day or so ngo and raised tho prlco ot treasury stock to 10 cents. A good copper mlno In tho Lisbon valley, San Juan county, Utah, is to begin shipping nt onco. Up to tho present tlmo not a pound of oro has been shipped, the amount extracted (about 1,000 tons) being piled on tho dump. In well-informed copper clroles it Is generally conceded that Amalgamated Amalgamat-ed copper will earn (28,000,000 this year on its product of 2,000,000 pounds of copper on the basis of 24 cents motal, which would bo a trifle over 18 per cent on tho stock. The California correspondent of a Boston financial agoncy wires that tho Balakala company now has 350 men at work there, 175 on smelter construction construc-tion and 150 at tho mlno. Work at both places- has been retarded owing to weather conditions. Owing to inability to arrive nt a satisfactory sat-isfactory and an nmtcablo settlement af tho wngo controversy between tho strikers nnd tho company, the American Ameri-can Smoltlng nnd Refining company has announced that the plant nt Murray Mur-ray will bo closed down indefinitely. Tho Bunker Hill & Sullivan Mining & Concentrating company, operating a silver-lead mine nt Wardnor, Idaho, has declared a dividend, No. 11C, amoutlng to (180,000. This Is tho company's com-pany's regular monthly dividend nnd brings tho total amount ot dividends paid since January 1 to (900,000, and tho total to date, (8,70(1,000. A wonderful Btrlko hns been mndo in Willow Creek mines about flvo miles southwest of Grecnwater. The first discovery of linpottnnco wns in the Baltic. Tho shaft hnd been sunk but eighteen feet when tho minors pone-tratod pone-tratod the Iron capping nnd encountered encoun-tered a rich coppor sulphide running high In both gold nnd sliver. Half a dozen veins of coppor ore, running from throo feet In width to nine feet wldo, havo been uncovored on n coppor proposition In Moxlco recently re-cently ncqulred by Nevnda capitalists Averago samples from theso veins run "J1.C2 per cent copper, while picked samples nm from 70 to 82 per cent copper, with good values In gold. Tho Tonopnh Mining company of Novndn reports operations for tho yeni ondod February 20, as follows: Total production, (1,049,892. Not earnings, (1,107,719. Total net, (1,485.620. Do-duct Do-duct for exploration, otc., (11,923. Not Income, (1,173,590. Add profits, sale Tonopnh & Goldllold railroad bonds, (33,850. Surplus for year, (1,507.140. A thousand foot beneath tho surface ot tho ground nt Dotrolt, Mich., Is a solid bod of salt four hundred feet thick. Tho tapping of this groat body of salt Is ono of Detroit's comparatively compara-tively new Industries, but It Is now employing thousands of men who do-pond do-pond ror their dally toll and dally wages on tho manipulating of thin salt. A City of Moxlco special says that tho United States Smelting company has purchased tho San Pedro nnd othor mines in tho stato of Chihuahua from tho Nnlcn Mining company, for (0,500,000 gold. Boston officials deny any Intention of purchasing tho property. prop-erty. Tho largest and heaviest casting ever made In Utah was poured at tho works of tho Salt Lako Engineering works last week. It consisted of a now flywheel for tho wrecked 175-horsepower 175-horsepower Corliss onglno nt tho Hon-orlno Hon-orlno company's concentrating mill at Stockton. |