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Show MINES AND MINING Mlzpah is wild over tho discovery of H wlro gold ore upon tho Jumbo claim H ot T. F. Baulgan and Phil Brady. The Round Mountain, Nevada, stock H exchange wns formally opened on tho H 9th, tho event being followed by a bin H banquet, H Two companies havo been organized H at Sprlngvlllo, Utah, to opcrato mines in the Leo district In tho Bullfrog H country. Springvllle people control 'H both companies. H Tho Chicago-Utah Copper Mining company of Salt Lake, which owns 'H claims in the Morgan mining district, H Morgan county, Utah, has Aled artl- H clcs ot Incorporation. H The Black Dolly Fire Clay company ot Salt. Lake, which owns claims near H Pleasant Green nnd proposes to es- H tnbltsh n pottery In Snlt Lake City, H lias (lied articles of Incorporation. f They havo now a four and one-halt- ,H foot vein of coal at tho Boren mlno on H Trapper creek, In Idaho, from which H thoy are taking a very good quality of coal. One streak ot It Is of the very host Application for the appointment ot a receiver for the St. Joe Mining cam-pany, cam-pany, which owns claims in tho West Mountain district near Bingham, was mado In a suit filed In tho Snlt Lake courts laBt week. A few months ago D. S. Lautcrback, of New York Bwnppcd 42,000 Bhares of Jumbo Extension (of Qoldfleld, Nov.), for an equal numbor of Atlanta shares, losing, by present reckonings about $75,000 on tho trado. A correspondent writing from State-lino State-lino Bays that ono of the richest strike in tho history of Statellno or Bouth-ern Bouth-ern Utah has just beon mado in the tunnel being driven on the Liberty property by John Erlckson of State- fl No other state of the Union Is con-' trlbutlng moro to the wolfaro and ad-vancement ad-vancement ot Nevada's mining lndtiA-try lndtiA-try than Utah, and especially in the camps containing copper resources are Salt Lakers actlvo to a most liberal fl Professor Aughoy, of the United States geological survey, says: "1 expoct a boom in tho Lee-Echo (Ne- vada) district during tho coming spring and summer, ao tho mines will all be opened during that tlmo, and it is safe to say, that there will bo oven moro rich strlkos recorded than ''jH thero were at Rbyoltte.'' A number ot parties have outfitted 'H at Idaho Falls recently for prospect-lng prospect-lng In the Birch Creek country. Not all aro from Idaho Falls, a number having -come by trnln and outfitted at 'H Idaho Falls. There aro many more H who aro delaying until spring In order il to look the ground over without the lH hindrance of snow. Should anyone doubt tho ralnernllzn-tlon ralnernllzn-tlon of the district ot Statellne, that 'M Ideal section that can be claimed J with equal right by both the stntes of Utah and Nevada, he would be con- M vlnccd In short order by gazing upon a small chunk of oro from the Big Fourteen property, which plainly v shows rich In gold nnd sllvor. The value of the recont ore strike in the Pot Wrestler mine ot tho Dollar-hldo Dollar-hldo Mining company at Halley, Idaho, Is shown by two assays made last 'H wook. Ono of tho assays shows 47C ounces of silver, 3G per cent ot lead, and a couple of dollars of gold per ton; and tho other 135 ounces ot stl- ver, and G per cent ot lead per ton, Tho Leo district, in Novnda, Is char-acterlzod. char-acterlzod. by an Immense bed ot quartzlto from north to south for ap-proximately ap-proximately fourteen mllos and from ono to two miles In breadth. In color tho quartz is from light brown to black and Its consistency runs from sugary to compact. Bands ot light brown and yollowish sandstone occur In the- 'H vein nnd run parallol to It. A striko and a stampedo ot the male population of Lovelock, Nevada, to the hills at 12 o'clock at night may result In tho founding of a rich now mining district south nnd cnBt of Vernon and tho Seven Troughs mining district. Twcty-four hours each day are do-voted do-voted to tho work of Installing the fl now mnchluery being rcelved by tho Lower Mammoth Mining compnny at Tlntlc. Two years ago Albert S. Watson, PI president of the Jumbo Extension, at i;V3! Goldllold, Nov., which Is Incorporated aisS' at 1,250,000 shares, sold 100,000 shares ' M.v'M at 8 cents, nnd a little later another 100,000 at 10 cents. Ho nccopted $18,- fot-000 fot-000 for securities that aro worth on .iWpl the market about $000,000 today. ' JJ 'fir Tho reason for tho present extrnor- S ujjj dlnary prlco for copper is easily deter- M '3 mined. Tho production of North Amer- lea In 1900 was only 3.2 per cent in W ,S; excess of the production In 1905, whllu 'Jjl W consumption Increasod at a consider- . -Wfl ably greater rato says tho Engineer- 1 1 ' ing and Mining Journal. ' , 111 The owners of the Myrtlo mine at ' ' i. f" Pearl, Idaho, aro Jubilant over tho 'Vj i rapid development of that property t '.'f$3 '( and the splendid showing ot values. 'IfSf- & At a dopth of 55 feet values were ' jSJi found to bo $12.50 per ton in a two-foot. . iv ledge, and the concentrates ,run' $102.30. V.jJ The famous Ludwig mine Is bejiij? ii undor examination these 0ayn by the . ,ZjM experts of tho prospective purchasers, 'tlH Walter Fitch ot Salt Lako, J. It. Fin- 'M lay, a noted mining geologist and ex- , "; pert ot New York, assisted by J. C. ' Gorreo. This property lias boou boud- t H ed for $1,000,000 ctuih, jn ' m |